Historical Marker
James Wales Jones
Historical marker location:
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Texas
( Republic Hill)
Marker installed: 1957
Born in Georgia 1797
One of the Old Three Hundred Colonists
A Soldier in the Texas War for Independence Died 1847 His wife Hetty Stiles Jones Died 1899
Erected by the
State of Texas 1957.
The discovery of oil in 1901 near Beaumont, Texas, sparked an oil boom that transformed the state's economy and led to the rise of the modern petroleum industry.