Biographies of Oakwood Cemetery Residents
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JAMES, JOHN GARLAND (1844-1930) Buried Sec 1, lot 277
John Garland James, Confederate soldier, college professor, writer, and banker, was born at Chatham, Fluvanna County, Virginia, on December 1, 1844. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute and served in the Confederate Army. In 1867 the family moved to Bastrop, Texas, where James was president of Texas Military Institute. He moved his school to Austin. About the middle of the 1870s James conceived the idea of bringing out a school reader and speaker to be made up exclusively of poems and prose by Southern authors and orators. The result was The Southern Student's Hand-Book of Selections for Reading and Oratory James became president of Texas A&M in November 1879 and held the office until he resigned on April 1, 1883. On February 6, 1883, James married Clara White (Brigham) Trowbridge. After a brief return to Austin, he lived from 1900 to 1929 in Roff, Oklahoma. After an extended illness, he died in Dallas on February 11, 1930.
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JONES, JOHN B (1834-1881) Buried Sec 1, lot 337
John B. Jones, Confederate Army officer and Texas Ranger, was born in Fairfield District, South Carolina, on December 22, 1834. The family moved to Texas in 1838 and settled in Travis County. After attending college Jones enlisted as a private in the cavalry but left the regiment to become adjutant of Joseph W. Speight's Fifteenth Texas Infantry with the rank of captain. At the war's end Jones went to Mexico hoping to locate a suitable site for an expatriate Confederate colony. "As an Indian fighter, Major Jones has acquired a reputation unsurpassed, and now that a quietus has been put upon the red man, he is devoting special attention to the rest of the outlaws and lawless characters generally among more civilized classes. In this field he has so far achieved a success no less conspicuous than on the frontier." On February 25 he married Elizabeth Holliday Anderson. He died in Austin on July 19, 1881. Source
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