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Sabine Pass Cemetery
Henrietta Pavita |
Jacob Harmon Garner
(1814-1887)
Louisiana native Jacob M. Garner, son of Bradley and Sarah Harmon
Garner, settled in Jefferson, a village on Cow Bayou in present-day
Orange County, Texas, in 1825. In 1835 he took part in the grass
fight and siege of Bexar while serving one of two enlistments in the
Texas Army for which he later received land and bounty grants. He
married Matilda Hayes in 1838. A prominent citizen of Jefferson
County, he served as Jefferson County Justice of the Peace in 1843,
District Clerk from 1846 to 1850, Sabine Pass Alderman in 1857, and as a
third lieutenant in the Confederate Army in 1861. |
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Jacob H. Garner
1814-1886 - Veteran Capt. D. Garner's Co. Battle of San Antonio, Dec.
1835, near San Jacinto in Capt. Patterson's Co. April 21, 1836 |
Gravesite of Jacob H. Garner and John McCall |
John McCall
Co. B, Liken's BN. Texas Inf. C.S.A. Dec. 31, 1832 - Dec 18, 1891 |
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James A. Tyree
Aug. 5, 1865 - Mar. 4, 1953
Maggie M. Tyree
May 30, 1867 - Jan. 27, 1934 |
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Photographs taken 12 April, 2009 by Carl & Carolyn Griffith unless
otherwise noted.
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