DUANE
Duane's take
The official marker tells it this way, and I'm just the one passing it along. Now, some names on the rolls of history get whole chapters written about 'em. Buildings named after 'em.
Statues. Parades. And then there are names like George Self — and friend, you'd best slow down and listen, because this one deserves every word it gets.
George Self stood with Captain Jesse Billingsley's company at the Battle of San Jacinto. April 21, 1836. You know the day — the kind of day that tilts the whole world on its axis.
And George Self was there, in the company, when it happened. That's not nothing. That's not small.
That's a man who showed up for one of the hinge moments of Texas history and did what needed doing. He lived on after San Jacinto, carried that day with him through the years, until March of 1856, when George Self died. The marker doesn't give us a speech or a legend or a tall tale.
Just the company he kept, the battle he fought, and the month he left this world. Sometimes that's the whole story. And sometimes, if you're listening right, that's enough.
What the marker says
A member of Captain Jesse Billingsley's company at the Battle of San Jacinto April 21, 1836 Died in March, 1856.