Marker Inscription
no information available on this marker - 9/20/83
Historical Marker
Jones, Captain Frank
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About this site
Jones, Captain Frank is a historical marker in Ysleta, El Paso County, dedicated in 1936. It is one of 94 historical markers documented in El Paso County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 140 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.7080, -106.3448 near Ysleta. The nearest cataloged historic site is San Antonio de Senecu (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Corpus Christi de la Ysleta, Oldest Mission in Texas, and Ysleta Mission.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5141008830. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
Frank Jones, captain of Company D of the Texas Rangers, was killed on June 30, 1893 in a gunfight with outlaws at Tres Jacales in the disputed river bottom near San Elizario, El Paso County. Born in Austin in 1856, he was first buried at his father-in-law's ranch, then exhumed and reinterred at Ysleta in 1936, when the state placed a historical marker at his grave.
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