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Arnold, Maj. Ripley A. b. January 17, 1817 d. September 6, 1853
US Military Figure. Founder of Fort Worth, Texas. Arnold graduated from West Point Academy in 1838, and fought in the Seminole Indian War and in the War with Mexico. He served as major under General William J. Worth and participated in the capture of Mexico City. In 1849 Major Arnold founded Camp Worth overlooking the Trinity River, naming it in honor of the recently deceased General Worth; later that year it was designated as Fort Worth, the nucleus of the present city. He was killed by Dr...[Read More] (Bio by: David R. Cheesman, Sen.)
Pioneers Rest Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
Ash, Mary (Wagner) Kay b. May 12, 1918 d. November 22, 2001
Businesswoman. As a child took care of her father who had tuberculosis while her mother worked in a restaurant. In 1939 she started selling Stanley Home Products, working for them until 1952. On Sept 13, 1963 she launched Mary Kay Cosmetics on $5000.00. In 1968 Mary Kay, Inc. went public, and in 1969 she awarded five pink Cadillacs to its top five sales directors. In 1979 one of her independent consultants surpased $1 million in commissions. By 1983 Mary Kay, Inc. sales exceeded $300 million...[Read More]
Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Plot: North Mausoleum Sec. H 2C
Assault b. March 26, 1943 d. August 2, 1971
7th Triple Crown Winner. The 1946 Triple Crown winner had jockey Warren Mehrtens in the saddle. Mehrtens at 25 had never ridden in a Derby and would never do so again. Assault won the Derby by eight lengths matching the Derby record. In the Preakness, he was favored for the first time and hung on to win by a neck. He was not favored to win the Belmont. Mehrtens with a bad start nearly falling off his mount still managed to win by three lengths. Assault was handicapped when as a colt...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
King Ranch, Kingsville, Kleberg County, Texas, USA
Ault, Douglas Reagan b. March 9, 1950 d. December 22, 2004
Major League Baseball Player. Born in Beaumont, Texas, he made his major league debut on September 9, 1976, and played his final game on October 5, 1980. At 6'3", and 200 lbs, Ault played for the Texas Rangers in 1976, and for the Toronto Blue Jays from 1977 to 1980. Known as the Blue Jays 1 day hero, Ault made history on April 7, 1977, when he hit the Toronto Blue Jays first home run in the team's win 9-5 over the Chicago White Sox. He played in 256 games, batting .236, with 17 home runs and...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
Cause of death: Suicide
Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Funeral Home, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, USA
Plot: Garden of Seasons Block J Lot 8 Space 6
Austin, Stephen Fuller [original burial site] 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)
Gulf Prairie Cemetery, Jones Creek (Brazoria County), Brazoria County, Texas, USA
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)
Avezzano, Joe b. November 17, 1943 d. April 5, 2012
College and Professional Football Coach. As the special teams coach under Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer with the Dallas Cowboys, with whom he became known for his often animated prowling of the sidelines, he played a significant role in their capturing of three Super Bowl titles (XXVII in 1993, XXVIII in 1994 and XXX in 1996). Raised in Florida where he attended Andrew Jackson High School, he played collegiate football (center position) at Florida State University. He was accomplished enough...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
McCurley Cemetery, Lewisville (Denton County), Denton County, Texas, USA
Bagby Jr., Arthur Pendleton b. May 17, 1833 d. February 21, 1921
Civil War Confederate Army Officer. The son of Alabama Senator and Governor Arthur Pendleton Bagby, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1852. After brief service in New York and Texas, he resigned from the army in 1853 to study and practice law. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was appointed Major of the 7th Texas Mounted Volunteers and rose to full Colonel in that unit by November of 1862. He participated in the Battles of Galveston, Berwick Bay, Fordoche...[Read More] (Bio by: Thomas Fisher)
Hallettsville City Cemetery, Hallettsville, Lavaca County, Texas, USA
Bailey, Johnny b. March 17, 1967 d. August 20, 2010
Professional Football Player. For six seasons (1990 to 1995), he played at the running back position in the National Football League with the Chicago Bears, Phoenix Cardinals and Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams. Born Johnny Lee Bailey, he attended Jack Yates High School (Houston), where he was a star player, and continued his athletic career playing collegiate football at Texas A&I. While with the Javelinas, Bailey emerged as one of the most accomplished players in the history of Division II...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
Houston Memorial Gardens, Pearland, Brazoria County, Texas, USA
Bailey Jr., Joseph Weldon b. December 15, 1892 d. July 17, 1943
US Congressman. Served in the US Army during World War I; US Representative from Texas 1933-35; he campaigned as a states'-rights Democrat in opposition to national government extravagance. He called the Eighteenth Amendment "a mistake" and favored its repeal. He was at odds with some of FDR's New Deal programs. Opposed to unemployment relief, refinancing of home mortgages, and others.
Sparkman Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Plot: Space 4 Lot 3 Block 19 Section E (monument Garden)
GPS coordinates: 32.5208893, -96.4673386 (hddd.dddd)
Bailey, Joseph Weldon b. October 6, 1862 d. April 13, 1929
US Congressman, US Senator. Elected to represent Texas's 5th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1891 to 1901. Also served as Presidential Elector from Mississippi in 1884 and 1888, United States Senator from Texas from 1901 to 1913, and Candidate for Governor of Texas in 1920. (Bio by: K)
Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville (Cooke County), Cooke County, Texas, USA
Baker, Cullen Montgomery b. June 22, 1835 d. January 6, 1869
Western Outlaw. He was a deserter from Morgan's Squadron, the Confederate cavalry unit shown on his grave marker. He also served with the 15th Texas Cavalry and was discharged on disability. Baker waged a one man war against Reconstruction in Arkansas and Texas following the Civil War. He murdered many freed slaves and whites whom he considered carpetbaggers and Union sympathizers. He and his band of cutthroats pillaged and killed almost at will, managing to elude Union troops sent to kill or...[Read More] (Bio by: George Bacon)
Oakwood Cemetery, Jefferson, Marion County, Texas, USA
Baker, Del b. May 3, 1892 d. September 11, 1973
Major League Baseball Player / Manager. Played Major League Baseball as a catcher for 3 seasons (1914-1916) with the Detroit Tigers. Baker became a minor league manager in 1927. He replaced Mickey Cochrane as Detroit manager in 1938 when he was a Tigers' coach. He managed the Tigers to the 1940 pennant, losing in the World Series to the Reds in seven games. He later becamse a coach with the Red Sox and was coach at Trinity College in San Antonio, Texas at the time of his death. In 172 lifetime...[Read More] (Bio by: Frank Russo)
Sunset Memorial Park, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA
Plot: Mausoleum Number 1, Crypt 403-d
Baker, Karle b. October 13, 1878 d. November 8, 1960
Poet. The 3rd person to be named a fellow to the Texas Institute of Letters. She was the daughter of Kate Florence Montgomery Wilson and William Thomas Murphey Wilson. She attended the Little Rock Academy, and Ouachita Baptist College. When she was nineteen, she enrolled at the University of Chicago where she studied under poet William Vaughn Moody and novelist Robert Herrick. For two years during the long term she taught at a girl's school in Bristol, Virginia. The final "e" in her first name...[Read More] (Bio by: flgrl)
Oak Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA
Baker, Neal b. April 30, 1904 d. January 5, 1982
Major League Baseball Player. Played 5 Games as a Pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1927, starting two of them, but winning none. They were his only appearences on the Major League level.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Plot: Block 53, Lot 107, Unit C, Space 2
Ball, Joseph D. b. January 7, 1896 d. September 24, 1938
Serial Killer. Joe Ball was a member of a prominent family of Elmendorf, Texas. After serving in France during World War I, he came home and began selling bootleg whiskey to area residents. After Prohibition ended, Ball opened a bar on Highway 181 called the Sociable Inn. He had pretty women waiting tables and soon caught five alligators and housed them in a cement pool in back of the bar. For live entertainment, Ball would entertain his customers by throwing huge chunks of meat to the gators...[Read More] (Bio by: Dennis Rice)
Cause of death: Suicide
Saint Anthonys Cemetery, Elmendorf, Bexar County, Texas, USA
Plot: Near the front gate
GPS coordinates: 29.2591305, -98.3298874 (hddd.dddd)
Ball, Thomas Henry b. January 14, 1859 d. May 7, 1944
US Congressman. Born in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas to a Methodist minister and his wife, who had moved to Texas from Virginia in 1856. Orphaned at age 6, his uncle raised him, sending him to private schools for his primary and secondary education. After graduating from Austin College in 1871, he worked as a farmhand and clerk and attended lectures at the University of Virginia, where he was elected president of the law class. He returned to Texas, was admitted to the bar in 1888, and was...[Read More] (Bio by: Hallie Garrison)
Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Ballew, Smith b. January 21, 1902 d. May 2, 1984
Singer, Actor and Bandleader. He worked with a number of bandleaders including Ted Weems, Hal Kemp, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. In 1929 he organized the Smith Ballew Orchestra, and in the same year he signed his first recording contract. He appeared in twenty four films, 1936-50 including "Under Arizona Skies" (1946) and "The Red Badge of Courage" (1951).
Laurel Land Memorial Park, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
Plot: Section 26 Lot 38
Bankhead, Dan (Daniel) Robert b. May 3, 1920 d. May 2, 1976
Major League Baseball Player. Born in Empire, Alabama, he became the first African-American pitcher in Major League Baseball history when he made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on August 26, 1947. Prior to his time in the major leagues, he was a prominent right hand pitcher in the Negro Baseball Leagues from 1940 to 1943, before serving in the US Military during World War II. Returning to baseball after the war, he was playing for the Memphis Red Sox when signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Houston National Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Plot: Section B Site 2651
Barbat, Percy b. May 23, 1882 d. June 20, 1965
Actor. Born Percy Dewitt Barbat, he was primarily a stage performer when he made his big screen debut in "Peter Pan" (1924). He also appeared in some short reel serials and in "No Man's Land" (1964). He died in San Antonio, Texas. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA
Plot: Space 6, Lot 352, Block Section 5

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