Angelina Bell Eberly Marker

A Tennessean, Angelina Peyton came to Texas in 1822. With her husband, J.C. Peyton, she operated an inn in San Felipe, capital (sic) of the Austin colony. Peyton died in 1834; in 1836 the widow married Jacob Eberly. She and Eberly had a hotel in Austin by 1842. When Angelina Eberly discovered men secretly removing records from the capital (sic), firing a cannon, she started the "archives war", and rescued the original records of the Republic of Texas. Later she lived at Indianola.