{"id":219,"featured":0,"modified":"2026-04-17 19:32:48","latitude":30.981287099999999412602846859954297542572021484375,"longitude":-95.47470040000001745283952914178371429443359375,"title":"Captain Benjamin I. Harper","subtitle":"","fullsize":"https://easttexashistory.org/files/fullsize/584680a4d3120022f65aee2f2cd1c34b.jpg","address":"","all_locations":[],"zoom":8,"creator":["Texas Historical Marker"],"description":"Benjamin Ingram Harper (b. 1809) came to Texas from Virginia, and in 1833, he worked as a schoolmaster in Liberty County. He wed Evelina Vocum in 1834 and had a son. The next year, under Andrew Briscoe, he fought at the battle of Concepción and the Siege of Bexar. In 1836, commissioned as a second lieutenant, he organized a company to assist at the Alamo. They did not reach it in time but did fight at the Battle of San Jacinto. Harper became a captain and received land in Polk and Jefferson counties. He remarried to Nancy J. Reynolds and had four children. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nTradition holds that he was buried on his Walker County farm in 1863. The cemetery is now gone, but several of his descendants are buried here.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://easttexashistory.org/files/fullsize/584680a4d3120022f65aee2f2cd1c34b.jpg":{"id":1782,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"harper-benjamin.jpg","description":"","thumbnail":"https://easttexashistory.org/files/square_thumbnails/584680a4d3120022f65aee2f2cd1c34b.jpg"}}}