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Fannin County
Texas

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Fannin County

Index to Locations Bonham Inglish Cemetery Bonham Willow Wild Cemetery Near Honey Grove Dial Cemetery Inglish Cemetery Bonham, Fannin County, Texas Politicians buried here:   Samuel Alexander Roberts (1809-1872) — also known as Samuel A. Roberts — of Bonham, Fannin County, Tex. Born in Putnam County, Ga., February 13, 1809. Whig. Classmate of Jefferson Davis at the U.S. Military Academy; lawyer; law partner of James W. Throckmorton and Thomas J. Brown; Texas Republic Secretary of State, 1841; delegate to Whig National Convention from Texas, 1852. Died in Bonham, Fannin County, Tex., August 18, 1872 (age 63 years, 187 days). Interment at Inglish Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Willis Roberts and Asenath (Alexander) Roberts; married to Lucinda Mary Reed.   Daniel Owen Rowlett (c.1786-1847) — also known as Daniel Rowlett — of Texas. Born in Prince Edward County, Va., about 1786. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of Texas Republic House of Representatives, 1837-38, 1839-40, 1843-44. Baptist. Member, Freemasons. Died in Fannin County, Tex., December 2, 1847 (age about 61 years). Interment at Inglish Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William Rowlett and Jemima (Owen) Rowlett; brother of Joseph Rowlett; married to Mary Anne Jones; uncle of Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895); granduncle of Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911) and Reed Owen Smoot; great-granduncle of Abraham Owen Smoot III and Isaac Albert Smoot.   Political family: Clinton-DeWitt family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians). Willow Wild Cemetery Bonham, Fannin County, Texas Politicians buried here:   Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (1882-1961) — also known as Sam Rayburn — of Bonham, Fannin County, Tex. Born in Kingston, Roane County, Tenn., January 6, 1882. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Texas state house of representatives, 1907-13; Speaker of the Texas State House of Representatives, 1911-13; U.S. Representative from Texas 4th District, 1913-61; died in office 1961; Speaker of the U.S. House, 1940-47, 1949-53, 1955-61; died in office 1961; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948 (Permanent Chair; chair, Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1956. Died of cancer, in Bonham, Fannin County, Tex., November 16, 1961 (age 79 years, 314 days). Interment at Willow Wild Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of W. M. Rayburn and Martha (Waller) Rayburn.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile   Books about Sam Rayburn: D. B. Hardeman & Donald C. Bacon, Rayburn : A Biography — Anthony Champagne, Sam Rayburn: A Bio-Bibliography — Alfred Steinberg, Sam Rayburn : a biography — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American History Dial Cemetery Near Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas Politicians buried here:   Dale Milford (1926-1997) — of Texas. Born in Texas, 1926. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Texas 24th District, 1973-79. Died of heart attack, in Howe, Grayson County, Tex., December 26, 1997 (age about 71 years). Interment at Dial Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

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