Jesse and Rosanna Grimes
Austin, Travis County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Hon. Jesse Grimes Born Feb. 6, 1788 Died Mar. 15, 1866 A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence Member of the Congress of the Republic Died in Grimes County. A county named in his honor.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Jesse Grimes was among the delegates who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836, declaring the region free of Mexican rule, and he later served in the Congress of the Republic of Texas. Born in 1788, he lived out his years in the county that bears his name, a fixture of the generation that built a new nation on the frontier.
Why it matters
Grimes helped found the Republic of Texas, one of the boldest experiments in American westward expansion and a stepping stone to statehood.
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