James and Rhoda Creel Beall Winters led their large family here in 1834 from Tennessee after two older sons, Wm. Carvin and John Frelan Winters, had come to Texas in 1832 and sent back a good report. The parents moved to land between the east and west forks of the San Jacinto River, bringing 10 of their children, some in-laws, and grandchildren. A daughter, Mrs. Caroline W. Fannin, died and was buried en route on the Trinity River. James Winters, a veteran of several American wars, was 62 when he left his new home to fight for Texas in the 1835 conflict with Mexico. In the 1836 Texas War for Independence, he and his 15-year-old son Benjamin hauled supplies to the Texas army, while three sons, Wm. C., J.F., and James W. Winters, and two sons-in-law, Jackson Crouch and Charles D. Edwards, also served in that war. Members of the Winters family later helped settle Caldwell, Frio, Hays, Lavaca, Live Oak, and McMullen counties. The mill of Wm. Winters made much of the furniture for the 1857 Texas Capitol. In 1901 James W. Winters helped mark the battlefield at San Jacinto, where he had fought 65 years earlier. The elder James Winters, born in 1773, died in 1848 and is buried 2 miles south at Waverly, while Rhoda, born in 1784, died in 1859 and is buried at Oakville in Live Oak County.