Cemetery officials confirm the grave is unmarked. Burial on April 11, 1912.

San Angelo Genealogical & Historical Society's Survey of Fairmount Cemetery shows the grave to be unmarked.

The article above reads:

James E. Lang, Deceased, Was Musician in Taylor's Command

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The death of James E. Lang, musician in Company J., Twelfth Regiment Infantry, United States Army of the Mexican war, marked the passing away of another factor in the history of this country.
For the past twenty-five years or more the old gentleman had been a familiar figure on the streets of San Angelo. For the past few years he was dependent upon his pension of twenty dollars a month given him by the government for the services rendered on the field before Chrubusco Chapultepec, and other battles that have gone down into history. Until he became too feeble to work he plied the business of candy vending and sold taffy that he had made to the passerby on the street. Although kind hands cared for the old man in his last illness, in the home of M. Sanders, on East Beauregard street, it was pitiably that none of the old man's children could have been at his bedside. With the exception of a daughter, Mrs. Sarah Cox, who lived in Delbi, in Caldwell County, all have gone before and the older Lang was left, the last of his race.
Just a short time before his death Mr. Lang received a letter from his daughter who reviewed to him the passing of the family and invited him to come to Caldwell county and live until called to his reward. The old man was too feeble to make the trip, or else he would have gone and died surrounded by grand and great grand children.
There are but few remaining of the veterans of the war with Mexico, almost all having passed away, and of them has been written:

"On fathers eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread
And Glory guards, with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead;
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few"

The sight of James E. Lang was like turning back the pages of history and seeing again the scenes that were enacted when President James K. Polk called for men to drive the last vestige of Santa Anna and his horde from beyond the borders of the Lone Star State. Even the stick that was used by the old gentleman had its history.
It was presented to Mr. Lang by Judge Stephen Elmore about two years ago, when the judge saw the old fellow walking around using a piece of picket fence. The stick was hickory and was cut on a farm that was once owned by Andrew Jackson in Tennessee. The place where the stick was cut is now used as the Confederate veterans home, and was made by a veteran in the house. It was bought by Judge Elmore from the Tennessee veteran in Kentucky and was used by the Judge there.
When the Elmore family moved to Texas, the Judge forgot the veteran-made cane, but when the first shipment of……//Note: the remainder of the article was not found in the rest of the Sunday, April 14, 1912 newspaper or in the next 2 days of newspapers.//