Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan Perry

Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan Perry (HM1PBS)

Location: Jones Creek, TX 77541 Brazoria County
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N 28° 58.595', W 95° 28.38'

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(1795 - 1851)

Born near Austinville, Virginia, as was her brother Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836), Emily moved with her father Moses Austin (1761-1821) and mother Maria Brown Austin (1768-1824) to Missouri in 1798. The family operated lead mines there and founded the town of Potosi, south of St. Louis.
     Emily was sent to schools in Kentucky and New York and returned to Missouri in 1812. She married James Bryan (1788-1822) in 1813 and gave birth to five children at Hazel Run, Missouri. After James died, Emily subsisted by taking boarders and teaching school. She married James Franklin Perry (1795-1853) in 1824 in Missouri; their union produced six children.
     By the end of 1831, the Perry family—including Emily, James, four Bryan children, two Perry children, James' niece, and nine slaves—had joined Emily's brother Stephen in Texas. They settled at San Felipe and built a house at Stephen's Peach Point Plantation, providing a home and counsel for her bachelor brother.
     The Bryan and Perry offspring contributed greatly to the development of Texas. Emily's sons served as soldiers and statesmen, and preserved the Austin bloodline. Emily died at Peach Point shortly after a trip to Philadelphia, and was buried here at Gulf Prairie Cemetery.
Texas Sesquicentennial   1836-1986
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Marker Number9584
Year Placed1986
Placed ByTexas Historical Commission
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Date Added Sunday, November 15th, 2015 at 9:01pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)15R E 259035 N 3207911
Decimal Degrees28.97658333, -95.47300000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 28° 58.595', W 95° 28.38'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds28° 58' 35.7" N, 95° 28' 22.8" W
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Area Code(s)979, 281
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 183-257 Gulf Prairie, Jones Creek TX 77541, US
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