John Hawkins Singleton

John Hawkins Singleton settled at a spring that travelers already knew. Mammoth Springs, at the head of Waxahachie Creek in Ellis County, was a watering place on the old Dallas-to-Waco and Jefferson-to-Fort Graham roads, and Singleton received a land grant there. He had served Texas in 1836, the United States in the Mexican War and then the Confederacy, and his wife was Rebecca Ann Barker. The State of Texas reburied him in the State Cemetery in May 1937. The family's own graveyard by the spring carries a memorial placed in 1931.

What the plaque says

John Hawkins Singleton Served in the Army of Texas, 1836 The Army of the United States in the Mexican War, 1846 The Confederate Army 1861 - 1865 Born in Kentucky June 25, 1818 Died in Ellis County, Texas August 3, 1884 His Wife Rebecca Ann (Barker) Singleton Born in Tennessee October 9, 1830 Died in Ellis County, Texas May 8, 1901 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

More markers nearby

• Robert Rankin — steps away
• Judge Abner Lipscomb — steps away
• Richard Ellis — steps away
• Major William Cooke — steps away