From the Fort Houston Cemetery site.
Yesterday I mentioned these two men as being buried at the soldiers' section at the Fort Houston Cemetery in Texas along with General Nathaniel Smith, War of 1812 veteran.
JOHN W. CARPENTER-- Veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto. Born Sept. 25, 1806 and died Oct. 12, 1838. Killed about four miles east of Palestine in an Indian skirmish prior to the main Battle of Kickapoo, brought back to Fort Houston Cemetery and buried there.
JAMES WILSON-- Veteran San Jacinto. Died of yellow fever in Houston September 8, 1844.
Also buried at the cemetery:
WILLIAM FROST-- The last white man killed by Indians in Anderson County. Killed near the Trinity River at West Point sometime during the latter part of February 1841. Son-in-law of pioneer Joseph Jordan, who donated the land for the town and cemetery.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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