DRT chapter announces meeting

The Joshua D. Brown Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas will hold its final meeting of the season on April 24 at First United Methodist Church Kerrville at 10:00 a.m.

The featured speaker will be Eddie Seidensticker, Secretary of Kendall Soil & Water Conservation District. Mr. Seidensticker was raised on the family ranch near Waring, Texas.

Eddie will discuss the progress that has been made over the years in his presentation entitled “Restoring the San Jacinto Monument Marshes.” His family has been farming and ranching in Kendall County since 1855. After graduating from Southwest Texas State University in 1970, he worked for The Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation Service for 40 years. After several assignments all over the state, he last worked as a coastal erosion specialist in Baytown, Texas.

One of the projects Eddie worked on was the San Jacinto Battleground State Park. Over the past 187 years the area has seen many changes. The goal for the State Park is to keep the landscape in the same condition it was in 1836.

Eddie retired in 2009, and he and his wife Jackie now live on the family ranch near Waring, where he operates a small ranching/hunting operation.

The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, was the decisive battle in the Republic of Texas War for Independence from Mexico. It lasted less than 20 minutes, and the Texian army of 910 men captured Santa Anna and decimated his force of 1,200 soldiers.

Due to the excellent marksmanship of the Texians, 630 Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 taken prisoner, while only nine Texians were