Francis, George, Home (Dublin Plantation)

Prairie Lea

Designations: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Location: from Prairie Lea (Caldwell County) take SH 80 south to County Road 116 (Lower Bridge Road) about 3 miles to Cottonwood Creek Road. Continue 1 mile down Cottonwood Creek Road to house on right, on top of hill.

Marker Text:
Built by George Francis, who was in 1st Regiment, Volunteers, and in Co. A, 2nd Regiment, Texas Cavalry, during the 1836 Texas War for Independence. In 1848 he brought his wife, Margaret Ann Rector Francis, to Texas, and in 1849 erected this house on York's Creek. At this point is crossing used by San Antonio-to-Bastrop Mail Route of 1870. The six Confederate sons of George Francis, going from this house to the Civil War, were: Edward, Color Sergeant, 4th Texas Infantry, killed at Chickamauga; George, a surgeon, who died in service at Galveston; John, in the Charles DeMorse Regiment, Texas Cavalry; Joseph, with Sibley's Brigade, which fought 1862 in New Mexico; Pendleton, in Co. A, 4th Regiment, Texas Cavalry, who died in 1864 Battle of Mansfield; Wesley, in Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1968