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M$)*', + T'($) P,+#%$0$*"+/) D'3,$ B%$#-%+#- S%+$/ H$,,") C+=/*1 H")*+,"#$% C+00"))"+/ M$,-', U/2'"%"/< P$*,"#- V$/ P'%*, C;$",0$/ H$,,") C+=/*1 H")*+,"#$% C+00")"+/ “A0$Q"/< G,$#'” S*$/%'1 F+/*$"/', 3$<>">', 222 3 M S N W N R KAMERON K ENT S EARLE, J.D. Marker sponsor, Kameron Searle, would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Bernice Mistrot for the many hours of help and advice that she has provided over the last two years with regard to the whole Anson Jones marker project. Searle acknowledges that he would never have completed his work on this long-overdue tribute to Anson Jones without Bernice Mistrot’s untiring assistance and encouragement. She is a true asset to the Harris County Historical Commission and all of those sincerely desiring to preserve the true history of Texas. H C H C M R C C Bernice Mistrot H C H C M Gina Bouchard M F S San Jacinto Descendants With deepest appreciation to the San Jacinto Descendants for providing the funding and support for the marker to be created and placed in Glenwood Cemetery. 222 P C Bernice Mistrot, Harris County Historical Commission Debra Blacklock Sloan, Harris County Historical Commission Kameron Kent Searle, J.D., President, Texas Heritage Society Melinda R. Cagle, Texas Heritage Society Brenda Horton, Texas Heritage Society David Martin, Texas Heritage Society Carole Lynn O’Neal, Texas Heritage Society Marisa Searle, Texas Heritage Society Pat Spackey, Texas Heritage Society Carolyn Terrell, Texas Heritage Society Loy Anderson, Glenwood Cemetery Bonnie Ambrus, Glenwood Cemetery 222 C Dr. and Mrs. Carrol Dean Cagle Mrs. Steve Horton Mrs. Jerry O’Neal Mr. and Mrs. Kameron Kent Searle Mr. and Mrs. Ted Spackey Mrs. Carolyn Terrell "e Texas Heritage Society, Inc. 222 Cover : Anson Jones. bef. "#$%. steel-engraved front-piece portrait, artist unknown. Anson Jones, Memoranda and O#cial Correspondence Relating to the Republic of Texas, Its History and Annexation. Including a Brief Autobiography of the Author. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, 1859. provided by Kameron K. Searle, J.D. 4 ANSON JONES (J ANUARY 20, 1798 - J ANUARY 9, 1858) submitted by Kameron K. Searle, J.D . Houston, Texas ( 2008) I. CONTEXT r. Anson Jones fought bravely as a private in New Orleans to Brazoria, Texas. 8 When he arrived in Dthe Battle of San Jacinto when the Texans Texas, Jones had $17.00 in his pocket. 9 In Brazoria, won their independence from Mexico. 1 Usually, Jones’ medical practice met with great /nancial that alone would have been enough for someone success. By 1834, he was earning $5,000 a year. 10 to qualify to be remembered with an o(cial Texas Anson Jones had become a Mason in Philadelphia, State Historical Marker. But, Jones did so much Pennsylvania. 11 In March 1835, near Brazoria Texas, more. As James M. Day, the great Texas historian Jones was one of six Master Masons who met under and former Director of the Texas State Archives, put the “Masonic Oak” to undertake the establishment it, “)e next decade of [Anson] Jones’ life belonged of the /rst regularly-formed Masonic lodge in to the Republic he aided in birth and buried at its Texas. 12 Application was made to the Grand Lodge demise.” 2 During that decade, Anson Jones worked of Louisiana for a dispensation to form and open tirelessly to bring about the annexation of Texas by a Masonic lodge. 13 Under a special dispensation, the United States, earning him the much-deserved Holland Lodge No. 36 was opened on December 27, title: “Architect of Annexation.” 3 1835 in Brazoria, Texas with Anson Jones presiding If this still were not enough, many of Jones’ as the Worshipful Master. 14 )e formal charter contributions to the society and culture of Texas granted to Holland Lodge #36 by the Grand Lodge continue to reverberate through time right up to the of Louisiana was delivered to Anson Jones just before present day. Often when new construction is begun the Battle of San Jacinto and was carried in his and cement is poured for a new project, people will saddlebags during the battle. 15 place their hands in the wet cement to make their Anson Jones joined the Texas Army in 1836 and mark. From the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas to served as Judge Advocate and Surgeon of the Second the Texas Medical Association, the handprints of Regiment. 16 Jones fought as a private in Sidney Anson Jones, the last president of Texas, can still be Sherman’s Second Regiment in the Battle of San seen all over the great State of Texas. Jacinto on April 21, 1836. 17 Anson Jones’ Donation Land Grant provides the following information: II. OVERVIEW “Republic of Texas. Know all men. To whom these presents shall come: )at Anson Jones having fought Anson Jones, the son of Solomon and Sarah Jones, bravely in the Battle of San Jacinto on the 20 th and was born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, 21 st of 1836 is entitled to six hundred and forty acres Massachusetts on January 20, 1798. 4 Jones studied of Donation Land, in accordance with the Act of medicine as an apprentice in Utica, New York and Congress, passed December 21, 1837.” 18 was licensed by the Oneida Medical Society in 1820. 5 Following the Battle of San Jacinto, Jones provided Later, he received his M.D. degree from Je*erson medical care to the wounded Texian soldiers in the Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in home of Vice President Lorenzo de Zavala on the March 1827. 6 other side of Bu*alo Bayou. 19 Jones did not meet with great success in his medical Jones returned to his medical practice in Brazoria practice nor in his business interests in the United following the Texas Revolution.
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