Mrs.
​Angelina Bell Peyton Eberly ​
(about 1800 - March 15, 1860)

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Marker Text: ​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. (1978) 

Marker No: 3508

​Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 28.533689,-96.516930

Location: ​from Port Lavaca, take FM 238 3 mile south/southwest to FM 316, follow FM 316 south about 8.75 miles