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Fayette County
Texas

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Fayette County

Index to Locations Private or family graveyards La Grange Unknown location La Grange City Cemetery La Grange La Grange Cemetery Private or family graveyards Fayette County, Texas Politicians buried here:   John Rice Jones (1792-1845) — of Texas. Born in Vincennes, Knox County, Ind., January 8, 1792. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas Republic Postmaster General, 1835-36, 1839-41. Welsh ancestry. Died in Fayette County, Tex., 1845 (age about 53 years). Interment in a private or family graveyard.   Relatives: Son of John Rice Jones (1759-1824) and Mary (Barger) Jones; brother of George Wallace Jones; married to Ruth Mary Hawkins and Sarah Fidelia Heard; uncle of John Rice Homer Scott.   Political family: Jones family of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Politicians formerly buried here:   James S. Mayfield (d. 1852) — of Texas. Texas Republic Secretary of State, 1841. Died in November, 1852. Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment at La Grange Cemetery, La Grange, Tex. Unknown Location La Grange, Fayette County, Texas Politicians buried here:   Waller Thomas Burns (1858-1917) — also known as Waller T. Burns — of Galveston, Galveston County, Tex.; Houston, Harris County, Tex. Born in La Grange, Fayette County, Tex., January 14, 1858. Member of Texas state senate 16th District, 1897-1900; U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, 1902-17; died in office 1917. Died in Laredo, Webb County, Tex., November 17, 1917 (age 59 years, 307 days). Interment somewhere. City Cemetery La Grange, Fayette County, Texas Politicians buried here:   Littleton Wilde Moore (1835-1911) — also known as Littleton W. Moore — of La Grange, Fayette County, Tex. Born in Alabama, 1835. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Texas 8th District, 1887-93. Slaveowner. Died in 1911 (age about 76 years). Interment at City Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   James Seaton Lester — of Texas. Delegate to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Mina, 1835; member of Texas Republic Senate, 1836-38, 1839-41 (District of Mina and Gonzales 1836-38, District of Fayette, Bastrop and Gonzales 1839-41). Interment at City Cemetery. La Grange Cemetery La Grange, Fayette County, Texas Politicians buried here:   James S. Mayfield (d. 1852) — of Texas. Texas Republic Secretary of State, 1841. Died in November, 1852. Original interment at a private or family graveyard, Fayette County, Tex.; reinterment at La Grange Cemetery.

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