John Ingram

The Handbook of Texas says Ingram reached the Brazos in December 1821 with Thomas J. Williams's party and, when his guardian in Arkansas would not let him go back, ran away to live with William Rabb's family in Austin's colony. He fought at Gonzales and at the siege of Bexar, and on March 21, 1836, he and three other volunteers guarded the Atascosito Crossing of the Colorado, Ingram leading them by night. At San Jacinto he was a private in Company H of Burleson's regiment. He later farmed above La Grange and died while visiting Fort Concho.

What the plaque says

A San Jacinto veteran, born in Kentucky, March 10, 1808. Died in San Angelo, February, 1896.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Concho River Walk — 1.1 mi
  Four miles of lit trails along the North Concho through downtown San Angelo, rebuilt after voters taxed themselves in 2004, with gardens, sculpture, a river stage and stocked trout.
• Fort Concho National Historic Landmark — 1.4 mi
  The stone post at the forks of the Concho, headquarters of the Tenth Cavalry from 1875 to 1882, saved by a woman with a museum and now a city-run landmark of 23 original buildings.
• San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts — 1.4 mi
  A free art museum on the Concho beside Fort Concho, founded in the fort's 1868 quartermaster building and known nationally for its biennial ceramics competition.
• Miss Hattie's Bordello Museum — 1.6 mi
  The upstairs rooms on Concho Avenue where a brothel ran from 1902 until the Texas Rangers closed it in 1952, shown on short guided tours with most of the furnishings original.

More markers nearby

• The Tenth Cavalry — 1.4 mi
• Fort Concho — 1.4 mi
• John Yellott Rust — 1.6 mi
• Tom Green, Confederate General — 1.6 mi