Historical Marker
Site of the Town of Jonesville
Huntington vicinity, Angelina County · Texas
Erected 1936
Jonesville was named for its founder, Martin William Jones, called Gobbler, a North Carolinian born in 1784 who married Rhoda Hodges in Tennessee in 1804 and died in 1879 at ninety-five. The town never built a courthouse, and county offices were rented. The seat went to a vote in 1858. Texas Escapes reports a recorded count of 221 for Angelina, as Homer was then called, and 130 for Jonesville, with ballots reportedly burned, a fight between rival groups and forty to fifty indictments. Jonesville never grew again, and no one lives at the site now.
What the plaque says
Site of the Town of Jonesville Site of the town of Jonesville, second county seat of Angelina County, August 22, 1854 - May 19, 1858.
Where it stands
31.25728, -94.56436 · Directions
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