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Ellis County
Texas

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Ellis County

Index to Locations Private or family graveyards Ennis Myrtle Cemetery Waxahachie Waxahachie City Cemetery Private or family graveyard Ellis County, Texas Politicians formerly buried here:   Edward H. Tarrant (1799-1858) — of Texas. Born in South Carolina, 1799. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of Texas Republic House of Representatives, 1837; delegate to Texas state constitutional convention, 1845; general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas, 1847; member of Texas state house of representatives, 1849-53. Member, Freemasons. Died near Weatherford, Parker County, Tex., August 2, 1858 (age about 59 years). Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Parker County, Tex.; subsequent interment in 1859 at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1928 at Pioneer Rest Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tex.   Tarrant County, Tex. is named for him. Myrtle Cemetery Ennis, Ellis County, Texas Politicians buried here:   Charles Henderson Yoakum (1849-1909) — also known as C. H. Yoakum — of Emory, Rains County, Tex.; Greenville, Hunt County, Tex.; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Born in Tehuacana, Lincoln County (now Limestone County), Tex., July 10, 1849. Lawyer; Rains County Prosecuting Attorney, 1876; District Attorney 8th District, 1886-90; member of Texas state senate 5th District, 1893-94; U.S. Representative from Texas 3rd District, 1895-97. Died, from a stroke of apoplexy, in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Tex., January 1, 1909 (age 59 years, 175 days). Interment at Myrtle Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article Waxahachie City Cemetery Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas Politicians buried here:   Anson Rainey (1848-1922) — of Waxahachie, Ellis County, Tex.; Dallas, Dallas County, Tex. Born in El Dorado, Union County, Ark., March 1, 1848. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer; member of Texas state senate, 1881-82; district judge in Texas, 1885-93; Judge, Texas Court of Appeals, 1893. Disciples of Christ. Member, Freemasons. Died in Hinsdale, DuPage County, Ill., August 6, 1922 (age 74 years, 158 days). Interment at Waxahachie City Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Christopher Columbus Rainey and Nancy Blake (Baker) Rainey; married, February 17, 1874, to Frances Irene 'Fannie' Meriwether (first cousin twice removed of David Meriwether (1755-1822) and James Meriwether (1755-1817); second cousin once removed of James Meriwether (1788-1852), David Meriwether (1800-1893) and James Archibald Meriwether; third cousin of Reuben Handy Meriwether).   Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph family; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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