Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan Perry

(1795-1851) Born near Austinville, Virginia, as was her brother Stephen Fuller Austin (1793-1836), Emily moved with her father Moses Austin (1761-1821) and mother Maria Brown Austin (1768-1824) to Missouri in 1798. The family operated lead mines there and founded the town of Potosi, south of St. Louis. Emily was sent to schools in Kentucky and New York and returned to Missouri in 1812. She married James Bryan (1788-1822) in 1813 and gave birth to five children at Hazel run, Missouri. After James died, Emily subsisted by taking boarders and teaching school. She married James Franklin Perry (1795-1853) in 1824 in Missouri; their union produced six children. By the end of 1831, the Perry family-- including Emily, James, four Bryan children, two Perry children, James' niece, and nine slaves-- had joined Emily's brother Stephen in Texas. They settled at San Felipe and built a house at Stephen's Peach Point Plantation, providing a home and counsel for her bachelor brother. The Bryan and Perry offspring contributed greatly to the development of Texas. Emily's sons served as soldiers and statesmen, and preserved the Austin bloodline. Emily died at Peach Point shortly after a trip to Philadelphia, and was buried here at Gulf Prairie Cemetery. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

Emily Margaret Brown Austin Bryan Perry is a historical marker in Jones Creek, Brazoria County, dedicated in 1986. It is one of 125 historical markers documented in Brazoria County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 223 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 28.9766, -95.4729 near Jones Creek. The nearest cataloged historic site is William Joel Bryan (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Major James Peckham Caldwell, Henry William Munson, and James Franklin Perry.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5039009584. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.