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Hays County
Texas

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Hays County

Index to Locations

  • Private or family graveyards
  • Near Buda Cocke Family Cemetery
  • Kyle Kyle Cemetery
  • Wimberley St. Stephens Churchyard

    Private or family graveyard
    Hays County, Texas

    Cocke Family Cemetery
    Near Buda, Hays County, Texas
    Politicians buried here:
      Frederick Bird Smith Cocke (1813-1903) — of Texas. Born in Rutledge, Grainger County, Tenn., February 13, 1813. Member of Texas state house of representatives, 1861-63, 1879; delegate to Texas state constitutional convention, 1875. Died in Center Point, Kerr County, Tex., April 28, 1903 (age 90 years, 74 days). Interment at Cocke Family Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of John Alexander Cocke and Sara Stratton (Cocke) Cocke; married to Eliza Malvina Rogers; grandson of William Cocke; grandfather of William Alexander Cocke; great-granduncle of Luke Lea; first cousin of William Michael Cocke.
      Political family: Lea-Cocke family of Tennessee.

    Kyle Cemetery
    Kyle, Hays County, Texas
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
      Edward Burleson Jr. (1826-1877) — of Texas. Born in Tipton County, Tenn., November 26, 1826. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Texas state constitutional convention, 1875. Died in Austin, Travis County, Tex., May 12, 1877 (age 50 years, 167 days). Interment at Kyle Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Sarah Griffin (Owen) Burleson and Edward Burleson; married to Emma Lucy Kyle; father of Albert Sidney Burleson.
      Political family: Burleson family of Austin, Texas.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial

    St. Stephens Churchyard
    Wimberley, Hays County, Texas
    Politicians buried here:
      William Herbert Crook (1925-1997) — also known as William H. Crook — of San Marcos, Hays County, Tex. Born in Momence, Kankakee County, Ill., 1925. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; candidate for U.S. Representative from Texas, 1960; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1964; U.S. Ambassador to Australia, 1968-69. Baptist. Died in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Tex., October 29, 1997 (age about 72 years). Interment at St. Stephens Churchyard.
      See also U.S. State Dept career summary

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