Death
For four days he had lodged at Houston's old Capitol Hotel, the former seat of government of the Republic of Texas, when he fatally shot himself in his room after dinner on January 9, 1858. He was 59 years old. Anson Jones was buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.
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