Whetstone Memorial

Peter Whetstone's own end is missing from the memorial. The Handbook of Texas says he was born in Indiana in 1790, married Dicey Webster in Arkansas in 1816 and received a Harrison County grant on February 12, 1838. Col. Oliver T. Boulware killed him outside a store on the Marshall square on November 13, 1843, during the Regulator-Moderator War, in which Whetstone was a Moderator. An obituary placed his death at his house instead. His grave is unmarked, and tradition puts it on Southwest Road near his home site west of town. Dicey was appointed administrator of his estate.

What the plaque says

Whetstone Memorial In memory of Peter Whetstone and Dicey Whetstone, pioneer settlers in Harrison County. Donors in 1843 of the site of the City of Marshall, a part of the Peter Whetstone headright granted in 1838 by the Republic of Texas.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Harrison County Historical Museum — steps away
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — 0.5 mi
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 14 mi
  Wetlands and woods on part of a former ammunition plant, now a refuge for wood ducks, prothonotary warblers and alligator snapping turtles, with four easy trails and a free visitor center on a Ramsar lake.

More markers nearby

• Harrison County — steps away
• Marshall — steps away
• First Telegraph Office in Texas — steps away
• James Harper Starr — steps away