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
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