Thomas Pliney Plaster

Plaster came to Texas in 1835 and set up a plantation near present Bedias. In April 1836 he joined Lt. Col. James C. Neill's Artillery Corps as second sergeant. After San Jacinto he was court-martialed for an offense now unknown, reprimanded before the army on parade on June 27, 1836, and dismissed, but he rejoined as a private on July 5 and by August was quartermaster of the First Cavalry Regiment. He later served as postmaster at Bedias and in the First Legislature, and was the House doorkeeper when he died.

What the plaque says

Thomas Pliney Plaster Who manned one of the Twin Sisters cannon at the Battle of San Jacinto and was a veteran of the Mexican War, 1847 Born in Tennessee June 6, 1804 Died March 27, 1861 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

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