Kent County

Andrew Kent was born in Kentucky in the late 1790s, the Handbook of Texas says, and married Elizabeth Zumwalt in Montgomery County, Missouri, in 1816. The family settled at Gonzales, where Kent farmed and may also have done carpentry. On February 23, 1836, he and his son David were mustered into the Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers. Kent rode with the company to the Alamo, arriving on March 1, while David stayed behind. The Handbook notes that some scholars doubt the Gonzales men numbered thirty-two, or that all were from Gonzales.

What the plaque says

Formed from Young and Bexar territories. Created August 21, 1876. Organized November 8, 1892. Named in honor of Andrew Kent who fell at the Alamo. Clairmont, the county seat, 1892. Jayton, since 1952. (1936)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spur-Dickens County Museum — 23 mi
  Dickens County's museum on the main block of Spur, a town born on November 1, 1909, when the first train reached the land a New York syndicate was selling off from the Spur Ranch.

More markers nearby

• Double Mountain Salt Works (on Brazos River) — steps away
• Putoff Canyon — 3.1 mi
• Peacock — 11 mi
• County Named for Confederate Hero General "Stonewall" Jackson 1824-1863 — 21 mi