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Bookmark or Share- Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long - WikipediaTexas historical marker for Jane Long located at Fort Travis Seashore Park, Bolivar Point. Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long (July 23, 1798 – December 30, 1880) was a Texas pioneer. She owned boarding houses and a plantation in Texas. She is best known as the "Mother of Texas."
- Jane Long: The 'Mother of Texas' - Fort Bend MuseumOn a frigid Friday in December 1821, Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long gave birth to a baby girl on Bolivar Peninsula. Accompanied only by her five-year-old daughter and Kian, an enslaved African American woman, Jane believed that she was the first Anglo woman to give birth to a child in Texas.
- Long, Jane Herbert Wilkinson (1798–1880) - TSHAJane Herbert Wilkinson Long was called the "Mother of Texas," even during her lifetime, because of the birth of her child on Bolivar Peninsula on December 21, 1821. She was not, however, as she claimed, the first English-speaking woman to bear a child in Texas.
- Jane Long (1798-1880) - Texas ProudOrphaned at the age of fourteen and widowed at twenty-four, Jane Wilkinson Long led a long and hard life. But her independent and determined character earned for her the title “Mother of Texas.” Long was born Jane Wilkinson on July 23, 1798 in Charles County, Maryland.
- This Brave Wife and Mother Was the Betsy Ross of Texas - HistoryNetJane Long had been left alone at coastal Point Bolivar, Texas, with a 5-year-old daughter and a newborn to tend. A 12-year-old slave girl named Kian was there to help, but she too had to be fed and sheltered.
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