John Cheevers

Cheevers, whose name also turns up as Chevers, was one of the Lynchburg volunteers. Louis Kemp's sketch, built from land and service records, says he signed on there in March 1836 and served until June 2, when he was discharged at La Bahia as a member of Capt. Peter B. Dexter's company. The Harrisburg board granted him a third of a league in 1838 on the strength of his 1829 arrival, and in 1839 he received 640 acres for the battle. His will of November 1844 left both certificates to Jennie Scott, wife of James Scott.

What the plaque says

John Cheevers Came to Texas in 1829. Died in Houston in 1846. Participated in the Battle of San Jacinto as a member of Captain Thomas H. McIntire's company.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 0.5 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 1.5 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.
• Emancipation Park — 1.7 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Rothko Chapel — 1.7 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.

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• William Gammell — steps away