Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Huntsville Oakwood Cemetery
Private or family
graveyard
Walker County,
Oakwood
Cemetery
Huntsville, Walker County, Texas
Politicians buried
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Samuel Houston (1793-1863) —
also known as Sam Houston —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex.
Born near Lexington, Rockbridge
County, Va., March 2,
1793.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1823-27 (at-large 1823-25, 7th
District 1825-27); Governor of
Tennessee, 1827-29; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Nacogdoches, 1833;
delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Augustine,
1835; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Refugio, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; President
of the Texas Republic, 1836-38, 1841-44; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1838; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1846-59; Governor of
Texas, 1859-61.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died of pneumonia,
in Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., July 26,
1863 (age 70 years, 146
days).
Interment at Oakwood Cemetery; statue erected 1925 at Herman
Park, Houston, Tex.
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Relatives:
Father of Andrew
Jackson Houston; second great-grandfather of Jean Houston Baldwin
(who married Marion
Price Daniel); third great-grandfather of Marion
Price Daniel Jr.; cousin *** of David
Hubbard. |
|  | Political family: Daniel-Houston
family of Texas. |
|  | Houston counties in Minn., Tenn. and Tex. are
named for him. |
|  | The city
of Houston,
Texas, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ships SS Sam Houston (built 1941, at Houston,
Texas; torpedoed and sunk 1942 in the Atlantic
Ocean) and SS Sam Houston II (built 1943 at the same
shipyard; scrapped 1959) were named for
him. |
|  | Other politicians named for him: Houston
Justice
— Sam
H. Jones
— Sam
Houston Clinton, Jr.
— Sam
H. Melton, Jr.
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|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
|  | Books about Sam Houston: James L.
Haley, Sam
Houston — Marquis James, The
Raven : A Biography of Sam Houston — Randolph B.
Campbell, Sam
Houston and the American Southwest — John F. Kennedy,
Profiles
in Courage — Jean Fritz, Make
Way for Sam Houston (for young readers) |
|  | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Anthony Martin Branch (1823-1867) —
of Texas.
Born in Buckingham
County, Va., July 16,
1823.
Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1859; member of Texas
state senate, 1861; served in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; Representative
from Texas in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65.
Died of yellow
fever, in Huntsville, Walker
County, Tex., October
3, 1867 (age 44 years, 79
days).
Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.
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Henderson King Yoakum (1810-1856) —
of Tennessee.
Born September
6, 1810.
Mayor
of Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1837; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1839.
Died November
30, 1856 (age 46 years, 85
days).
Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.
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Jesse Parker (c.1776-1849) —
Born about 1776.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1832 from District of Sabine, 1832.
Died May 27,
1849 (age about 73
years).
Original interment at a private or family
graveyard, Walker County, Tex.; reinterment in 1979 at Oakwood
Cemetery.
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