DUANE
Duane's take
The official marker tells this one, and I'm just here to do it justice. Now, some stories are short on words but long on weight — and this is one of them. George Weedon.
He fought at the Battle of San Jacinto, serving in Captain William S. Fisher's Company. And in that battle, he was permanently wounded.
Not a wound he walked away from clean, not one that faded with time — permanently wounded, the record says, and that word does all the work it needs to do. He lived with what San Jacinto gave him for years after the guns went quiet, out there near old Cincinnati in Walker County, Texas. And on January 18th, 1842, George Weedon died.
The State of Texas erected this marker in 1936 — nearly a century after that day in Walker County — because some debts take time to name out loud, even when they've been owed all along.
What the marker says
Permanently wounded in in the Battle of San Jacinto while serving in Capt. William S. Fisher's Company. Died Jan. 18, 1842 near old Cincinnati in Walker County, Texas Erected by the State of Texas 1936