John Montgomery

John Montgomery's 1957 stone names the company he fought in at San Jacinto, and its captain had a long Texas career. James Gillaspie, born in Virginia in 1805, reached Texas in 1835, enlisted at Nacogdoches in January 1836 and on April 8 took command of the Sixth Company, Second Regiment of Texas Volunteers. He later raised companies for the Mexican War and the Civil War and ran the state penitentiary at Huntsville from 1850 to 1858 and again in 1867, dying that October. His Huntsville monument lists the men he commanded.

What the plaque says

John Montgomery Native of Alabama. Came to Texas in 1830 with his brother Andrew. Participated in the Battle of San Jacinto as a member of Captain James Gillaspie's Company. Erected by the State of Texas 1957. [supplemental plate covers "with his brother Andrew"]

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site — 9.4 mi
  A cedar-log dogtrot cabin of 1834 on the road through Anderson that grew into a seventeen-room inn and post office for travelers of the Republic, kept by one family until 1976.
• Navasota — 10 mi
  A railroad and cotton town where the La Bahia Road crossed the Navasota River, scarred by an 1865 explosion and yellow fever, and the home ground of the songster Mance Lipscomb.
• Star of the Republic Museum — 14 mi
  A star-shaped museum of the Republic of Texas years, 1836 to 1846, built at Washington-on-the-Brazos after a Brenham campaign and opened on March 1, 1970.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site — 14 mi
  The townsite on the Brazos where delegates met in a cold, unfinished hall in March 1836 to declare Texas independent, with Independence Hall rebuilt and Anson Jones's Barrington farm worked as in 1850.

More markers nearby

• Andrew Jackson Montgomery — steps away
• The Stoneham Cemetery — steps away
• Stoneham Methodist Church — 1.4 mi
• Education in Plantersville — 4.0 mi