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JASPER,
TEXAS
Jasper County Seat,
East Texas
US 190 & 96, and State Hwy 63
15 miles W of Newton
28 miles W of Louisiana
67 miles N of Beaumont
55 miles SE of Lufkin
74 miles SE of Nacogdoches
Population: 8,247 (2000) 7,160 (1990)
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The
County was named for American Revolutionary hero Sgt. William Jasper*.
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Area Attractions
Martin Dies, Jr. State Park
RR 4 Box 274 Jasper, Texas 75951
(409) 384-5231
Jasper History -
Jasper
" ... was settled around 1824 by John Bevil. Thirty families
occupied the settlement as early as 1830, when it was known as Snow
River or Bevil's Settlement. In 1835 it was renamed for William Jasper,
a hero of the American Revolution. Jasper became the county seat in
1844..." - See Handbook of Texas Online.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/JJ/hfj2.html
Jasper Chronicles
Jasper
and Newton Counties, Beyond the Sabine
Courtroom
Storytellers by Bob Bowman
Because they've seen the best and worst of humanity, lawyers are
among our best storytellers. Courtroom stories of Jasper's Joe Tonahill
and Lufkin's J.J. Collins.
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Jasper Information
Jasper Chamber
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246 E Milam Jasper, Texas 75951
(409) 384-2762
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*JASPER,
William. c.1750-1779. Rev. hero. S.C. Of obscure parentage, but
apparently from the vicinity of Georgetown, S. C., he enlisted on
7 July '75 in Francis Marion's Co. for service in Wm. Moultrie's
Regt. During the defense of Charleston in 1776 he braved enemy artillery
to replace the flag that had been shot from the parapet of Ft. Sullivan
(later Ft. Moultrie). Given a sword by Gov. Rutledge, he declined
a commission on the ground of being ignorant. As a roving scout
under Moultrie, Marion and Lincoln, successively, he gathered valuable
information of British activities. He was killed while planting
the colors of the 2nd S.C. on the Spring Hill redoubt in the assault
on Savannah, 9 Oct. '79. An impressive monument has been erected
at Savannah in his honor, and one of the redoubts at Ft. Moultrie
was named "Jasper Battery." (James W. Patton in Dictionary of American
Biography, quoted in Boatner's Encyclopedia of the American Revolution.)
I have found that it is much easier to find information on Sgt.
Jasper than it is on Sgt. John Newton. - Regards, R. Keith Young
Fairfax, VA
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