Acton State Historic Site
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox historic site Acton State Historic Site, located near Acton approximately Script error: No such module "convert". east of Granbury in Hood County, Texas (United States), is the grave site of Elizabeth Patton Crockett, second wife of frontiersman and former US Representative Davy Crockett, who married him in Tennessee in 1815. Davy Crockett died at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, leaving Elizabeth widowed for the last 24 years of her life. She died January 31, 1860 at the age of 72.[1] The site also contains the graves of her son Robert and Robert's wife Matilda. A monument was erected in 1913 at Acton Cemetery over the grave of Elizabeth with money authorized by the Texas Legislature in 1911.
On January 1, 2008, Acton was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission.
The entire site is Script error: No such module "convert". wide by Script error: No such module "convert". long, or 0.006 acre (23 m²), making it Texas' smallest historic site.[2]
See also
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References
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- ↑ Christopher Long: Acton State Historic Site from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved December 23, 2008.
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External links
- Official website for Acton State Historic Site
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- Acton State Historic Site from the Handbook of Texas Online
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