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Uvalde County
Texas

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Uvalde County

Index to Locations Montell Montell Cemetery Uvalde Hillcrest Cemetery Uvalde Uvalde Cemetery Montell Cemetery Montell, Uvalde County, Texas Politicians buried here:   John Robert Baylor (1822-1894) — of Texas. Born in Paris, Bourbon County, Ky., July 20, 1822. Member of Texas state legislature, 1853; delegate to Texas secession convention, 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65. Died in Montell, Uvalde County, Tex., February 6, 1894 (age 71 years, 201 days). Interment at Montell Cemetery. Hillcrest Cemetery Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas Politicians buried here:   Yale Leland Kerby (1925-2013) — of Lenawee County, Mich.; Uvalde, Uvalde County, Tex. Born in Corunna, Shiawassee County, Mich., April 11, 1925. Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; lawyer; candidate for Michigan state senate 19th District, 1948; district judge in Michigan, 1969-78; candidate in primary for Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals 2nd District, 1974. Member, American Legion; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Kiwanis; Freemasons. Died in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Tex., July 31, 2013 (age 88 years, 111 days). Interment at Hillcrest Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Yale Harrington Kerby and Eltha Kerby; married, June 30, 1956, to Grace Gail Cutler. Uvalde Cemetery Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas Politicians buried here: John Nance Garner (1868-1967) — also known as "Cactus Jack" — of Uvalde, Uvalde County, Tex. Born near Detroit, Red River County, Tex., November 22, 1868. Democrat. Lawyer; Uvalde County Judge, 1893-96; member of Texas state house of representatives, 1898-1902; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1900, 1904, 1916 (member, Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1924; U.S. Representative from Texas 15th District, 1903-33; Speaker of the U.S. House, 1931-33; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1932; Vice President of the United States, 1933-41; member of Democratic National Committee from Texas, 1939; Vice-Chair of Democratic National Committee, 1939. Died, from a coronary occlusion, in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Tex., November 7, 1967 (age 98 years, 350 days). Interment at Uvalde Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of John Nance Garner (1844-1919) and Sarah Jane (Guest) Garner; married, November 25, 1895, to Ettie Garner.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Books about John Nance Garner: O. C. Fisher, Cactus Jack : A Biography of John Nance Garner (for young readers) — Maurine Walpole Liles, The Boy of Blossom Prairie Who Became Vice-President (for young readers)   Image source: New York Red Book 1936   Ettie Garner (1869-1948) — also known as Mariette Elizabeth Rheiner — Born in Sabinal, Uvalde County, Tex., July 17, 1869. Democrat. Second Lady of the United States, 1933-41. Female. Swiss ancestry. Died, from Parkinson's disease, in Uvalde, Uvalde County, Tex., September 17, 1948 (age 79 years, 62 days). Interment at Uvalde Cemetery.   Relatives: Daughter of Johann Peter Rheiner and Mary Elizabeth (Watson) Rheiner; married, November 25, 1895, to John Nance Garner.   Ettie R. Garner Hall, at Southwest Texas Junior College, Uvalde, Texas, is named for her.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Jake Schwartz — of Uvalde, Uvalde County, Tex. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940. Interment at Uvalde Cemetery.

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