Jacob Standifer was born September 11, 1818 in Union County, Illinois, the third son of Anderson and Elizabeth Standifer. After his father died unexpectedly, Jacob and the rest of his family migrated to Texas in 1829. Later that year, Jacob was given a land grant in Bastrop County (then Mina Municipality) and the family settled there. In 1836, at seventeen years old, Jacob, and his brothers William and James, enlisted in the Texas militia. The brothers were assigned to Jesse Billingsley's Company of Volunteers and marched eastwards towards Harrisburg. On April 21, 1836, after the Texian soldiers discovered they were mere a few hundred yards away from the Mexican soldiers, and their leader, Santa Ana, the call to battle was given. It only took twenty minutes for them to completely turn the Mexicans, either killing them or holding them as prisoners of war. The Battle of San Jacinto ended the revolution, and once Santa Ana was found hiding in tall grass a few days later, he was forced to sign an official document recognizing Texas as a separate, independent nation. The brothers returned home. Jacob married Maria Eggleston Millican sometime before 1849 and had four sons. When she died, Jacob married Martha Childs, on June 27, 1872. He died on January 7, 1902 at his home at the age of eighty-three of unknown causes and buried in the town cemetery, where he lies today
Elgin City Cemetery
Elgin
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