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Austin war

The Angelina Eberly statue on Congress Avenue recreates a scene from the Archives War of Angelina Eberly makes me smile.

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This comic monument in Austin, Texas, offers a subtle critique not only of traditional gender norms and pioneer commemoration, but of the highly traditional.

Angelina is representative of the fiery feminine spirit who single-handedly kept the capital in Austin.

Angelina Eberly

American innkeeper and war hero

Angelina Belle Peyton Eberly (July 2, 1798 – August 15, 1860) was an innkeeper and a hero of Austin, Texas, during the Texas Archive War.

Angelina was born to John and Margaret (Hamilton) Peyton in Sumner County, Tennessee. In 1818, she married her first cousin, Jonathan C. Peyton, and moved with him to New Orleans, Louisiana. They opened an inn and tavern in San Felipe de Austin from 1825 to 1834, when Jonathan Peyton died.

Angelina continued to operate the inn and tavern until the Texas Revolution, when the town was destroyed to prevent capture by Mexican forces.

In 1836, she met and married Captain Jacob Eberly, a widower.

This statue honors a bold woman whose vigilance and short temper preserved Austin as the capital of Texas.

They lived briefly in Bastrop, Texas, and moved to Austin, in 1839, opening the Eberly House. On October 18, 1839, President Mirabeau B. Lamar and his cabinet dined in her tavern, and his successor, Sam Houston, resided at Eberly House rather than the presidential mansion.

Jacob Eberly died in 1841.