| Marker Number |
3508 |
| Atlas Number |
5057003508 |
| Marker Title |
Mrs. Angelina Bell Peyton Eberly |
| Index Entry |
Eberly, Angelina Bell Peyton, Mrs. |
| Address |
SH 316 |
| City |
Indianola |
| County |
Calhoun |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
742970 |
| UTM Northing |
3158840 |
| Subject Codes |
women, women's history topics |
| Marker Year |
1978 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
North side of SH 316, just west of Zimmerman Rd./Brighton Ave. |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
(about 1800 - March 15, 1860) A Tennessean, Angelina Peyton came to Texas in 1822. With her husband, J. C. Peyton, she operated an inn in San Felipe, capital of the Austin colony. Peyton died in 1834; in 1836 the widow married Jacob Eberly. She and Eberly had a hotel in Austin by 1842, when Angelina Eberly discovered men secretly removing records from the capital. Firing a cannon, she started the "Archives War", and rescued the original records of the Republic of Texas. Later she lived at Indianola. Her burial place and marker (3/4 mile NW) were destroyed in a flood in 1875. Recorded - 1978 |
