Editing Jones Creek, Texas (section)

==History==
The [[Father of Texas]],<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/statuesofsamhous00unit/statuesofsamhous00unit_djvu.txt Full text of "Statues of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin erected in Statuary hall of the Capitol building at Washington. Proceedings in the House of Representatives on the occasion of the reception and acceptance of the statues from the state of Texas"]. Archive.org. Retrieved on October 17, 2011.</ref> Stephen F. Austin,<ref>[http://www.cets.sfasu.edu/story/markers/austin-marker.html Stephen Fuller Austin Marker] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614143127/http://www.cets.sfasu.edu/story/markers/austin-marker.html |date=June 14, 2010 }}. Cets.sfasu.edu. Retrieved on October 17, 2011.</ref> first settled in Jones Creek. His original grave resides in the [[Gulf Prairie Cemetery]]<ref>[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvgnj GULF PRAIRIE, TX | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)]. Tshaonline.org. Retrieved on October 17, 2011.</ref> located on Gulf Prairie Road<ref>texasgen.org, query "Gulf Prairie"</ref> in Jones Creek. [[Emily Austin Perry]]<ref name="tshaonline1">[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpe39 PERRY, EMILY MARGARET AUSTIN | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)]. Tshaonline.org. Retrieved on October 17, 2011.</ref> (Stephen F. Austin's sister)<ref name="blogspot1">[http://historianoftexas.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html The State Historian of Texas: May 2009]. Historianoftexas.blogspot.com (May 1, 2009). Retrieved on October 17, 2011.</ref> and her second husband, [[James Franklin Perry]]<ref name="tshaonline1"/> settled in Jones Creek too<ref name="blogspot1"/> at the now historic [[Peach Point Plantation]].<ref>[http://tsr.4101.org/markers/brazoria/78.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205042436/http://tsr.4101.org/markers/brazoria/78.html|date=December 5, 2008}}</ref> Jones Creek is named for [[Randal Jones (colonist)|Randal Jones]], a military leader of early lower Brazos Anglo colonists. Jones led the June 22, 1824,<ref name="tshaonline2">[https://tshaonline.org/daybyday/06-22-003.html Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)]. Tshaonline.org (October 17, 1935). Retrieved on October 17, 2011.</ref> attack on a group of [[Karankawa]] Indians<ref name="tshaonline2"/> on the banks of a certain small stream of water in the lower Brazos region. Afterwards this particular creek near the [[San Bernard River]] became associated with the name "Jones", and the event was noted in history as the [[The Battle of Jones Creek|Battle of Jones Creek]].<ref>[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btj01 JONES CREEK, BATTLE OF | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)]. Tshaonline.org. Retrieved on October 17, 2011.</ref> Thereafter, the area around the creek became described as Jones Creek too.

There are [[Recorded Historic Texas Landmark]]s<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.texas-settlement.org/markers/brazoria/|title =HISTORICAL MARKERS GUIDE: BRAZORIA COUNTY|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509135522/http://www.texas-settlement.org/markers/brazoria/ |archive-date=9 May 2008 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> in Jones Creek for each of the following:
* Major Reuben R. Brown
* [[Battle of Jones Creek]]
* Major Guy M. Bryan
* William Joel Bryan
* Major James Peckham Caldwell
* Ellerslie Plantation
* Gulf Prairie
* Henry William Munson
* Peach Point
* Little Old House at Peach Point
* Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan Perry
* James Franklin Perry