Timothy Pickering Jones

Jones entered Texas on his twenty-first birthday, November 22, 1835. His earlier life is told two ways: an obituary has him graduating from West Point about 1830 or 1831, while another account has him dismissed in November 1830 for refusing to attend classes and formations. He married Catherine Fenner in Madison County, Tennessee, in 1839, kept property there and lived between Tennessee and Texas for much of his life. He died on October 18, 1904, at the Seguin home of R. J. Burges, and a state monument was placed at his grave.

What the plaque says

Timothy Pickering Jones Star and Wreath Born November 22, 1814. Entered Texas on his birthday 1835. An officer in the Texas War for Independence 1835-36. Captain of a company in the Mexican War. Colonel Sixth Tennessee Regiment 1861. Died in Texas, October 18, 1904. Erected by the State of Texas 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 14 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.
• Gruene Historic District — 15 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.
• Palmetto State Park — 23 mi
  Dwarf palmettos, bogs and a spring-fed oxbow on the San Marcos River, with CCC stonework from the 1930s, a swamp an hour from Austin and San Antonio.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 23 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.

More markers nearby

• Claiborne West — steps away
• Riverside Cemetery — steps away
• Campbell Cabin — 0.4 mi
• Colonel John Ireland — 0.6 mi