Find A Grave - Travis County

Allison, Wilmer b. December 8, 1904 d. April 20, 1977
Professional Tennis Player. He won the Wimbledon doubles title in 1929 and 1930 with partner John Van Ryn. They are considered by many tennis historians to be the best doubles combination of the period. He achieved the number one ranking in the United States in 1934 and 1935.
Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Section 2, Lot 801 (Caswell Lot)
GPS coordinates: 30.1656303, -97.4352036 (hddd.dddd)
Austin, Stephen Fuller b. November 3, 1793 d. December 27, 1836
Father of Texas. When he was seven years old the family moved from his father's lead mines in Virginia to southeastern Missouri. He was educated in Connecticut and at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. After returning to Missouri he gradually assumed management of his father's lead business while holding military and public positions in Missouri and Arkansas. He subsequently studied law in New Orleans. He reached San Antonio, Texas late in 1821 after his father's death. His father...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
GPS coordinates: 30.2653198, -97.7271423 (hddd.dddd)
Bell, Peter Hansbrough b. May 12, 1812 d. March 8, 1898
US Governor. US Congressman. Born in Virginia, Bell moved to Texas in 1836 where he had a distinguished military career. He was a Captain of the Texas Volunteer Rangers during the Mexican War (1845-1846). By 1849, he had achieved the rank of Colonel of a Texan volunteer regiment. From 1849 to 1853, Bell was the governor of Texas. He served as a U.S. Representative from Texas from 1853 to 1857. After leaving office, he moved to Littleton, North Carolina where he died and was buried in Halifax...[Read More] (Bio by: Evening Blues)
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Section: Section C2, Row: M Number:8
BEVO
The mascot of the University of Texas Longhorns, is itself a descendant of the wild cattle that once roamed the plains from Mexico to Kansas. This has not always been the case, but the majority of the BEVOs have been Longhorn steers. Legend says that "BEVO," came from a brand that read "13-0". The 13 was turned into a "B," the hyphen became an "E," and then they inserted the "V" before the "0."
University of Texas, Austin, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Bishop, Curtis Kent b. November 10, 1912 d. March 17, 1967
Author. He was a widely recognized writer penning books about sports and life in the old west. Born in Bolivar, Tennessee he moved to Texas as a boy where at the age of sixteen he began his professional writing career working for an Austin newspaper. During World War II he worked for the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service in Latin America and in the Pacific. After the war he became a popluar author with six of his books being made into movies. Some of his more popular books were "Dribble Up"...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Bryan, Guy b. January 12, 1821 d. June 4, 1901
US Congressman.
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Republic Hill Section 1 Row J Plot 19
GPS coordinates: 30.1591492, -97.4362335 (hddd.dddd)
Buchel, August b. October 8, 1813 d. April 11, 1864
Civil War Confederate Army Officer. This native of Guntersblum, Hesse, Germany fought under six flags during his military career. At the age of eighteen he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in Germany, before joining the French Foreign Legion where he fought in the Carlist War in Spain. In 1838 Spain's Queen Maria Christina decorated and knighted the young soldier for his bravery during the war. From there, he moved east to become an instructor for the Turkish army. While there he...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Republic Hill Section 1, Row M, Plot 19
GPS coordinates: 30.2652893, -97.7272415 (hddd.dddd)
Burleson, Albert Sidney b. June 7, 1863 d. November 24, 1937
US Congressman, Presidential Cabinet Secretary. He was elected as a Democrat to represent Texas' 9th and 10th Congressional Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1899 until his resignation in 1913 to accept the appointment of United States Postmaster General. He served as Postmaster General during the administrations of President Woodrow Wilson, serving from 1913 to 1921.
Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Burleson, Edward b. December 15, 1798 d. December 26, 1851
Texas Republic Vice-President.
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Republic Hill, Section 1, Row Q, Number 13
Carr, Waggoner b. October 1, 1918 d. February 25, 2004
Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Attorney General of Texas. JFK Assassination Figure. Born Vincent Waggoner Carr in Fairlie in Hunt County east of Dallas, his family moved to Lubbock in 1932 when the family bank in Fairlie closed. Consequently, he graduated from Lubbock High School in 1936. As a young man, he worked as a farm hand, magazine salesman and theater usher. In 1940, he completed his bachelor of business administration degree at Texas Tech University (then Texas...[Read More] (Bio by: Hallie Garrison)
Cause of death: Cancer
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Clinton, Sam Houston b. September 23, 1923 d. October 5, 2004
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Justice. He was a criminal defense attorney and he represented atheist leader Madeline Murray O'Hair and Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who allegedly shot and killed President John F. Kennedy. Mr. Clinton was able to get the guilty verdict against Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Oswald on national television, reversed on appeal based on procedural errors. Ruby meanwhile died of cancer while in prison. He served three consecutive six-year terms on the...[Read More] (Bio by: Julie Karen Hancock (Cooper) Jackson)
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Collins, Bill 'Spot' b. March 4, 1922 d. March 26, 1996
Professional football player. After graduating from G. W. Brackenridge High School in San Antonio, Texas, William Harold Collins attended the University of Texas. He played for them in 1941 and 1942. He joined the Marine Corps in 1943 and was sent to Southwestern University as part of its training program. After the war he returned to the University of Texas where he was captain of the football team in 1946. He was drafted in 1947 by the New York Yankees in the All-America Football Conference...[Read More] (Bio by: Mel Bashore)
Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Colquitt, Oscar b. December 16, 1861 d. March 8, 1940
Texas Governor. He served as Governor of Texas from 1911 to 1915. His programs included the 8-hour work day, workmen's compensation, child labor laws, and penal reform.
Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Section 4, Block 3, Lot 1051
GPS coordinates: 30.1669903, -97.4353027 (hddd.dddd)
Connally, Idanell 'Nellie' b. February 24, 1919 d. September 1, 2006
Historical Figure, Author. Former Texas First Lady from 1963-1969. Wife of Governor John Connally. Last survivor of the car that carried President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. On November 22, 1963, it was Mrs. Connally that uttered the last words the president heard, "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you," moments later those fateful...[Read More] (Bio by: David)
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Connally, John Bowden b. February 27, 1917 d. June 15, 1993
Texas Governor, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Treasury. He is mostly remembered for being in the car when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, and for being wounded in the attack. Born on a farm near Floresville, Texas, one of eight children, he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Texas (at Austin) Law School, and during World War II, served as a fighter aircraft director on Navy aircraft carriers, earning the...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Republic Hill, Section 2, Row P, Number 9
GPS coordinates: 30.2655792, -97.7272110 (hddd.dddd)
Connally, Wayne Wright [cenotaph] b. March 19, 1923 d. December 20, 2000
Texas State Representative, State Senator. The brother of former Governor and United States Treasury Secretary John Bowden Connally, Jr., and Merrill Lee Connally, Sr., a noted actor and former county judge. Born in Wilson County, Texas, to a tenant farmer and his wife, he attended schools in Floresville and San Antonio, and attended the...[Read More] (Bio by: Hallie Garrison)
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Cooke, William b. March 28, 1808 d. December 21, 1847
Republic of Texas Figure. Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, he was in the medical drug business when he moved to New Orleans and volunteered for the New Orleans Grays in 1835. He arrived with a company of the New Orleans Grays at Velasco, Texas, in October 1835, was elected 1st Lieutenant and after arrival at Bexar on November 8, 1835, was elected Captain of his company and raised volunteers. At the Siege of Bexar, he led a party that captured the post house on the main plaza, forcing the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Republic Hill Section 1 Row S Plot 7
GPS coordinates: 30.1592007, -97.4364166 (hddd.dddd)
Darden, Stephen Heard b. November 19, 1816 d. May 16, 1902
CSA Congressman. He served during the Civil War as a Representative from Texas in the Confederate Congress from 1864 until 1865.
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Republic Hill Section 1 Row V Plot 4
GPS coordinates: 30.1592007, -97.4364929 (hddd.dddd)
Davis, Edmund Jackson b. October 1, 1827 d. February 7, 1883
Civil War Union Brigadier General. Governor of Texas. Edmund Davis was born to a respected family in St Augustine, Florida. He started his education there, moving in January of 1848 with his family to the boom town of Galveston, Texas where he studied law and worked as a clerk. The following year he moved to Corpus Christi and was admitted to the bar, then transferred to Laredo where he worked as a deputy customs collector until he was elected district attorney of the Twelfth Judicial District...[Read More] (Bio by: Screwtape)
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Republic Hill, Section 1, Row Q, Number 19
GPS coordinates: 30.2654495, -97.7273026 (hddd.dddd)
DeBray, Xavier b. January 25, 1816 d. January 6, 1895
Civil War Confederate Army Officer.
Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
Plot: Sec. 1, Row M, #14
GPS coordinates: 30.2652302, -97.7272263 (hddd.dddd)

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