Fannin County TXGenWeb
J.L. German, born May 8, 1835, in Morgan County, Missouri, died April 19, 1913 , at Whitewright, Tex. He was educated in the Missouri State University at Columbia, Mo., and taught school in Missouri from the age of sixteen. He participated in the Civil War on the side of the South as Adjutant Major under Gen.Sterling Price. He moved to Texas immediately after the war, and settled in Grayson County, where he taught school for a number of years, removing to Fannin County, on his farm near Whitewright, where he remained the remainder of his life. He was sent to the Constitutional Convention in 1876, where he assisted in making the present Constitution of Texas, He again represented his people in the Legislature. He made many speeches in Grayson and Fannin counties in behalf of prohibition; he was a stanch friend of education and was the chief founder of Grayson College. He engaged in farming and stock raising, and was a successful business man. He was a member of the Christian Church. His body was interred at Whitewright. He leaves a widow and ten children--Mrs. U.G. Phippen of Hugo, OK; Mrs. W.S. Vernon of Coweta, OK; W.P.Z. German of Muskogee, OK; J.L. German, Jr. of Dallas, Tex; Mrs. E.L. Cochren of Coweta, Ok; Mrs. J.J. Walker of Whitewright, Tex; J.T.D. German of Hugo, Ok; G.J. German of Whitewright,Tex, and Misses Lyda and Annette German of Whitewright, Tex.  |
