I should also add I am very grateful that you have been doing this series on Richmond and youve done the city proud! My parents brought us to live here in the early 70s and I grew up hearing about the Old Three Hundred and Jane Long (my mother was a school nurse at the elementary school there for 25 years -- and no, that marker does NOT belong in front of the Jane Long School. That property has no bearing on where Jane Long lived.) and Mirabeau B Lamar. Quite a few of the descendents were teachers of mine, so they made VERY sure we all knew our history of the place LOL.
The marker at her homestead has been there for a long time, well before the school and all the other buildings in the area were built. That whole area was nothing but pastureland for well up into the '90s. Her great great great great grandson was Bert Winston, who had a house out on Skinner Lane that houses a lot of Jane Long's possessions. He would only stay in the house on the weekends because he felt it was haunted. He helped create a parish for the Anglican Catholic Church and the chapel that is on the site was built for their services. However, the parish has been shut down and the place is now used as a wedding venue. I used to be a member of that parish.
I should also add I am very grateful that you have been doing this series on Richmond and youve done the city proud! My parents brought us to live here in the early 70s and I grew up hearing about the Old Three Hundred and Jane Long (my mother was a school nurse at the elementary school there for 25 years -- and no, that marker does NOT belong in front of the Jane Long School. That property has no bearing on where Jane Long lived.) and Mirabeau B Lamar. Quite a few of the descendents were teachers of mine, so they made VERY sure we all knew our history of the place LOL.
The marker at her homestead has been there for a long time, well before the school and all the other buildings in the area were built. That whole area was nothing but pastureland for well up into the '90s. Her great great great great grandson was Bert Winston, who had a house out on Skinner Lane that houses a lot of Jane Long's possessions. He would only stay in the house on the weekends because he felt it was haunted. He helped create a parish for the Anglican Catholic Church and the chapel that is on the site was built for their services. However, the parish has been shut down and the place is now used as a wedding venue. I used to be a member of that parish.
God bless A L L of our Texas Independence heroes and pioneers.🇨🇱