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Revolutionary Patriots
MARK MANNING
 In
1971, the Mary Martin Elmore Scott Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution marked the grave of Mark Manning, Revolutionary Soldier. He
is one of 46 revolutionary soldiers buried in Texas. He is buried in
the Manning-Brimberry Cemetery, north of Huntsville. Mark Manning was
born in 1750, in Halifax County, North Carolina. He served with
General Francis Marion during the Revolution. He moved to South
Carolina and Alabama before coming to Texas. After the death of his
wife in Conecuh County, Alabama, he came to Texas to join his son,
Mark Manning, Jr. He was 97 years old by this time. His son had
received land grants for serving in the Texas Revolution. He died in
May of 1850 at the age of 100. Mark Manning left many descendants in
Walker County, Texas.
JAMES TINSLEY
Walker
County, Texas, is proud to have a second Revolutionary Soldier buried
in our county. James Tinsley was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in
1759. He served during the American Revolution from South Carolina. He
served under General Sumter and General Benjamin Lincoln. He fought
in the battles of Cowpens and King’s Mountain. About 1837, he arrived
in Texas with his second wife, Susannah Hooker Tinsley, and three
daughters. He died in 1844, and is buried in an unmarked grave on his
land grant in southeast Walker County. This original land grant was in
Montgomery County since Walker County was not organized until 1846.
His gravesite has never been located. Melissa Tinsley Bridgers,
one of James Tinsley's daughters, was a Real Daughter. She was admitted
to the DAR on April 9, 1892.
TEXAS ROLL OF PATRIOTS
 The
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 95, Huntsville, Texas, and the Capt.
John McAdams Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, placed a plaque
honoring the forty-six patriots of the American Revolution buried in
Texas in the Sam Houston Memorial Park in 1977. Because of
construction and renovations to the park grounds, the plaque was moved
to the east side of the Walker County Courthouse and rededicated in
1987. The plaque lists all the Revolutionary Soldiers buried in Texas
and reads: “In life, they served the cause of independence which gave
us the United States of America, in death, each rests in hallowed
grounds in Texas.”
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