Cornelius E. Devore (1820-1885)

    Cornelius Devore (De Vore), soldier at the battle of San Jacinto, son of Polly (Black) and Jesse Devore, was born in Louisiana in 1820. The Devore family moved to the Atascosito District of Texas in 1828. In 1836 Cornelius Devore served in Capt. William M. Logan's company of the Second Regiment of Texas Volunteers at the decisive battle of San Jacinto. He was subsequently awarded 320 acres of land for his service from March 6 to June 6, 1836, and 640 acres for participating at San Jacinto. After the Texas Revolution he became a prominent farmer and rancher in Liberty County. By 1862 his total estate, valued at almost $11,000, included 615 acres, three Liberty town lots, seven slaves, fifteen horses, forty cattle, and sixty sheep. Although a slave owner himself, Devore reportedly lent assistance to a group of runaway slaves who organized a Baptist church in 1864 and called him Neil Devore. He later gave two acres for a church and school near Liberty. He was a Mason, and he apparently never married. He died on July 29, 1885. Source 


City Cemetery
Liberty

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30° 03.797, -094° 48.169

William S. Clark (1798-1871)

    William Clark, Jr., legislator, soldier, merchant, and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, was born in North Carolina on April 14, 1798. He married Martha B. Wall; they had four children. In 1835 the Clarks moved from Georgia, where they had become wealthy from merchandising and farming, to Sabine County, Texas. Clark and James Gaines represented Sabine Municipality at the Convention of 1836 and signed the Declaration of Independence. After the convention Clark helped President David G. Burnet formulate a system of collecting and forwarding supplies to the army. He also served in 1836 as a member of the Board of Land Commissioners of Sabine County. He was elected to represent Sabine County in the House of the Second Congress in September 1837, but he resigned in April 1838 because of illness. Clark was still in Sabine County in April 1850 but probably moved to Nacogdoches County shortly thereafter. 

    In 1859 he purchased the Planter Hotel in Nacogdoches, which he operated until his death, on January 3, 1871. Clark was a Methodist. In 1936 the Texas Centennial Commission placed a marker at the site of the Clarks' last home and a joint monument at the graves of Clark and his wife in Oak Grove Cemetery in Nacogdoches. Clark's son, who was also known as William Clark, Jr., was elected a representative to the state legislature in 1859 and to the Secession Convention in 1861. This man's activities have sometimes been attributed to his father. Source


Oak Grove Cemetery
Nacogdoches

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31° 36.204, -094° 38.940

John Alexander Greer (1802-1855)

    John Alexander Greer, early settler, lieutenant governor, and legislator, was born in Shelbyville, Tennessee, on July 18, 1802. He moved to Texas in 1830 from Kentucky. He married Adeline Minerva Orton on May 18, 1836. Greer was a senator representing San Augustine in the Texas Congress from 1837 through 1845; he served in all but the First Congress. He was appointed secretary of the treasury by President Anson Jones in July 1845 and became lieutenant governor of the state of Texas in 1847. He held the position until 1851 and was campaigning for the governorship when he died on July 4, 1855. Greer was buried on his farm nine miles northwest of San Augustine. Source

Republic Hill
Texas State Cemetery
Austin

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30° 15.936, -097° 43.638

Kenneth Franzheim II (1925-2007)

    The youngest of three children, Kenneth Franzheim II was born in New York City, NY on Sept 12, 1925, the son of Kenneth Franzheim, one of Houston's most renowned architects, and Elizabeth Simms Franzheim. After graduating from St. Paul's School in 1943, Kenneth served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1945, and graduated from Yale University in 1948. During a successful 50 year career in the oil and gas industry, he was appointed by President Nixon as Ambassador to New Zealand, Western Samoa, Fiji, and Kingdom of Tonga from 1969 to 1972. A dedicated philanthropist, he established endowments to the University of Houston for the preservation of their rare book collection, a professorship and a fund to purchase texts in languages, literature, the arts and general humanities. He died October 29, 2007 and buried in the family plot in Glenwood Cemetery.



Section F3
Glenwood Cemetery
Houston

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29° 45.897, -095° 23.049

Cedric O. Haywood (1914-1969)

    Arranger and pianist Cedric Haywood was born in Houston on December 31, 1914. He was the son of Joseph Haywood and Matilda (Harris) Haywood. Haywood worked in his hometown with the Milt Larkin band from 1935 to 1940. This band included such important jazz figures as Illinois Jacquet and Arnett Cobb, both of whom joined the Lionel Hampton Orchestra after 1940, as did Haywood in 1941. Haywood rejoined Larkin in 1942 and in the same year performed with Sidney Bechet. He served in the army during World War II. From 1948 to 1951 he was a member of Illinois Jacquet's group, which in 1950 recorded Haywood's tune "Hot Rod." In 1952 Haywood worked with the Cal Tjader Quartet in California, and in 1955 he joined up with Kid Ory, touring Europe twice with this traditional trombonist. In the early 1960s Haywood worked with tenorist Brew Moore, after which he returned to Houston, where he led his own band from 1964 until his death. He died in Houston on September 9, 1969, and is buried in Houston National Cemetery. Source

 

Section C

Houston National Cemetery

Houston

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29° 55.809, -095° 27.040