Young Perry Alsbury

Alsbury's grave has been lost under a highway. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, he came to Texas with his parents and settled in Brazoria County, rode as a spy in Henry Karnes's cavalry at San Jacinto, and was wounded at Palo Alto in the Mexican War. In 1848 he moved to the east bank of Salado Creek north of present Dittmar Road and was buried on that farm. In 1959, during construction of Interstate 10, the 1936 marker was moved to private land, and the graves now appear to lie beneath the embankment.

What the plaque says

Young Perry Alsbury San Jacinto veteran. Born in Kentucky, 1814. Died November 17, 1877. His wife Mary Rodriguez Alsbury. Born in 1832. Died in 1880.

Where it stands

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