Fort Bend County
Texas
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Fort Bend County
Texas
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Fort Bend County
Index to Locations
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Thomas Barnett (1798-1843) —
of Livingston
County, Ky.; Fort Bend
County, Tex.
Born in Logan
County, Ky., January
18, 1798.
Livingston
County Sheriff, 1820; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of San Felipe de
Austin, 1835; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of San Felipe de Austin, 1836; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1840.
Died near Rosenberg, Fort Bend
County, Tex., September
20, 1843 (age 45 years, 245
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Benjamin Franklin Terry (1821-1861) —
also known as Frank Terry —
Born in Russellville, Logan
County, Ky., February
18, 1821.
Son of Joseph Royal Terry (1792-1877) and Sarah David (Smith) Terry
(1793-1837).
Planter;
in 1844, he was attacked
by two rebellious slaves with knives and axes; railroad
builder; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; colonel in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Shot
and killed in
action while leading Terry's Texas Rangers at the battle of
Woodsonville (also called Rowlett's Station), in Hart
County, Ky., December
17, 1861 (age 40 years, 302
days).
Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment
in 1880 at Glenwood
Cemetery, Houston, Tex.
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Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (1798-1859) —
also known as Mirabeau B. Lamar —
of Texas.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ga., August
16, 1798.
Member of Georgia
state senate, 1829-30; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1832, 1834; colonel in the Texas
Army during the Texas War of Independence; Texas
Republic Secretary of War, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1836-38; President
of the Texas Republic, 1838-41; colonel in the U.S. Army during
the Mexican War; member of Texas state legislature, 1847; U.S.
Minister to Costa Rica, 1858-59; Nicaragua, 1858-59.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of a heart
attack, near Richmond, Fort Bend
County, Tex., December
19, 1859 (age 61 years, 125
days).
Interment at Morton Cemetery.
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John Matthew Moore (1862-1940) —
also known as John M. Moore —
of Richmond, Fort Bend
County, Tex.
Born near Richmond, Fort Bend
County, Tex., November
18, 1862.
Democrat. Member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1896; U.S.
Representative from Texas 8th District, 1905-13; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1916.
Died February
3, 1940 (age 77 years, 77
days).
Interment at Morton Cemetery.
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Walter Moses Burton (c.1829-1913) —
also known as Walter M. Burton —
of Fort
Bend County, Tex.
Born in slavery
in North Carolina, about 1829.
Fort
Bend County Sheriff, 1869-73; member of Texas
state senate, 1874-75, 1876-82.
African
ancestry.
Died in 1913
(age about
84 years).
Interment at Morton Cemetery.
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