Mrs. Angelina Bell Peyton Eberly

Before the cannon, she was already the keeper of Austin's best-known house. On October 18, 1839, she served dinner to President Mirabeau B. Lamar and his cabinet, and President Sam Houston chose to live in her house rather than in the president's home. After her second husband died in 1841, she stayed in the hotel trade. In April 1846 she leased Edward Clegg's Tavern House in Lavaca, and by 1851 she was running a hotel in Indianola. She died there in 1860. Her grandson, Peyton Bell Lytle, inherited an estate appraised at $50,000.

What the plaque says

Mrs. Angelina Bell Peyton Eberly (about 1800 - March 15, 1860) A Tennessean, Angelina Peyton came to Texas in 1822. With her husband, J. C. Peyton, she operated an inn in San Felipe, capital of the Austin colony. Peyton died in 1834; in 1836 the widow married Jacob Eberly. She and Eberly had a hotel in Austin by 1842, when Angelina Eberly discovered men secretly removing records from the capital. Firing a cannon, she started the "Archives War", and rescued the original records of the Republic of Texas. Later she lived at Indianola. Her burial place and marker (3/4 mile NW) were destroyed in a flood in 1875. Recorded - 1978

Where it stands

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