William Carvin Winters

William Carvin Winters was one of three Winters brothers at San Jacinto, with James and John. All were in Captain William Ware's company, and William, a sergeant, was severely wounded; a family record puts the wound in the knee. He received 640 acres in 1838 as a San Jacinto veteran. He later moved to the Blanco River headwaters for his health. Family records list his burial near Wimberley in Hays County, which suggests the stone at Longview Cemetery in Frio County, where his wife Vina is buried, is a memorial.

What the plaque says

William Carvin Winters Came to Texas in 1834, wounded at San Jacinto, born in Tennessee in 1809, died in 1863.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Frio Pioneer Jail Museum — 17 mi
  Pearsall's 1884 county jail, the town's oldest building, used for 83 years and now a free museum with a sheriff's home downstairs and six cells above.
• Landmark Inn State Historic Site — 20 mi
  A store and stage stop at the Medina River ford in Henri Castro's Alsatian town, with a mill race under the ground and rooms you can still rent for the night.
• Atascosa County Courthouse — 23 mi
  The only surviving Mission Revival courthouse in Texas, built in 1912-13 on Jourdanton's town circle after a county seat vote that some residents still call a theft.
• Longhorn Museum — 26 mi
  Atascosa County in one roadside museum: longhorn-and-mustang ranching, a moved railroad depot and caboose, a horse-drawn hearse and the town that calls itself the birthplace of the cowboy.

More markers nearby

• William Alexander A. Wallace — 1.8 mi
• James Washington Winters — 4.8 mi
• Judge Thomas L. Devine (1820-1890) — 5.4 mi
• First Baptist Church of Devine — 5.6 mi