Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Belton Courthouse Grounds
Belton University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Campus
Killeen Killeen City Cemetery
Temple Hillcrest Cemetery
Private or family
graveyard
Bell County, Texas
Politicians buried
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Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson (1820-1879) —
of Salado, Bell
County, Tex.
Born in Giles
County, Tenn., August
23, 1820.
Democrat. Texas
Republic Postmaster General, 1839; lawyer; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1875.
Methodist.
Died in Salado, Bell
County, Tex., October
8, 1879 (age 59 years, 46
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Courthouse
Grounds
Belton, Bell County, Texas
Politicians who have
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Peter Hansborough Bell (1812-1898) —
also known as Peter H. Bell —
of Austin, Travis
County, Tex.
Born in Spotsylvania
County, Va., May 12,
1812.
Democrat. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of
Independence; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; Governor of
Texas, 1849-53; U.S.
Representative from Texas 2nd District, 1853-57; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died in Littleton, Halifax
County, N.C., March 8,
1898 (age 85 years, 300
days).
Original interment at City
Cemetery, Littleton, N.C.; reinterment in 1930 at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.; memorial monument at Courthouse
Grounds.
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University of
Mary Hardin-Baylor Campus
(formerly Baylor Female College)
Belton, Bell County, Texas
Politicians buried
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Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor (1793-1874) —
also known as Robert E. B. Baylor —
Born in Lincoln
County, Ky., May 10,
1793.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of
Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1819-20; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1824; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 2nd District, 1829-31; judge of Texas
Republic, 1841-45; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; district judge in
Texas, 1845-60.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
One of the founders,
in 1845, of Baylor University, and of Baylor Female College (now the
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor).
Slaveowner.
Died in Gay Hill, Washington
County, Tex., January
6, 1874 (age 80 years, 241
days).
Original interment at Old
Baylor University Campus, Independence, Tex.; reinterment in 1886
at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Campus.
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Killeen City
Cemetery
Killeen, Bell County, Texas
Politicians buried
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Richard Tyler Polk (1869-1962) —
also known as R. T. 'Top' Polk —
of Killeen, Bell
County, Tex.
Born in Bell
County, Tex., October
16, 1869.
Republican. Postmaster at Killeen,
Tex., 1898-1914, 1922-34 (acting, 1922).
Died in Bell
County, Tex., June 7,
1962 (age 92 years, 234
days).
Interment at Killeen City Cemetery.
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Hillcrest
Cemetery
Temple, Bell County, Texas
Politicians buried
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George Cassety Pendleton (1845-1913) —
also known as George C. Pendleton —
of Belton, Bell
County, Tex.
Born near Viola, Warren
County, Tenn., April
23, 1845.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member
of Texas
state house of representatives 56th District, 1883-88; Speaker of
the Texas State House of Representatives, 1887-88; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1888,
1904;
Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, 1890-92; U.S.
Representative from Texas 7th District, 1893-97.
Member, Grange.
Died in Temple, Bell
County, Tex., January
19, 1913 (age 67 years, 271
days).
Interment at Hillcrest Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Edmund Gaines Pendleton and Sarah (Smartt) Pendleton; married 1870 to Helen
Frances Embree; first cousin four times removed of Edmund
Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., James
Madison, Nathaniel
Pendleton, William
Taylor Madison and Zachary
Taylor; third cousin of Charles
M. Pendleton and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Charles
Sumner Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton, Nathanael
Greene Pendleton and Coleby
Chew; fourth cousin of James
Benjamin Garnett and Hubbard
T. Smith; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Thomas Erford Losee (1867-1910) —
also known as Thomas E. Losee —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.; Temple, Bell
County, Tex.
Born in Lamar, Benton
County, Miss., June 19,
1867.
Candidate for mayor of
Dallas, Tex., 1898.
Died in Temple, Bell
County, Tex., April
15, 1910 (age 42 years, 300
days).
Interment at Hillcrest Cemetery.
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