Biographies of Oakwood Cemetery Residents
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MAYHALL, MILDRED MARY PICKLE (1902-1987) Buried in Section 2, lot 495
Mildred Mayhall, historian, writer, and teacher, the daughter of David Jones and Birdie Mildred (Givens) Pickle, was born in Austin, Texas, on December 20, 1902. She attended Austin public schools and the National Park Seminary in Washington, D.C. She received the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas. Although trained as a historian, she taught anthropology at the University of Texas for twenty years before taking a position as a history teacher at Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin. She wrote numerous articles for various historical magazines. At Austin High School she served as faculty sponsor for the Junior Historians. She was active in the Texas State Historical Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mayhall was an amateur horticulturist who was interested in rose culture and developed several new strains of rose. Mayhall helped organize the Austin Rose Society and was an early member of the Violet Crown Garden Club. She married Temple B. Mayhall, an architect, in 1925. They had three sons, one of whom died in infancy. Mildred Mayhall was a member of the United Methodist Church of Austin. She moved to Salem, Oregon, shortly before her death on April 19, 1987. Source
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MCCALLUM, JANE LEGETTE YELVINGTON (1877-1957) Buried in Section 2, lot 827
Jane McCallum, suffragist leader and Texas secretary of state, was born to Alvaro Leonard and Mary Fullerton (LeGette) Yelvington on December 30, 1877. On October 29, 1896, she married Arthur Newell McCallum, Sr. She moved with him from La Vernia to Kenedy, then Seguin, and finally Austin, where he served as school superintendent from 1903 to 1942. The couple had a daughter and four sons. Jane McCallum first entered politics by campaigning for prohibition and woman suffrage. On October 22, 1915, the Austin Women's Suffrage Association elected her president. After suffrage was won she concentrated on political reforms. Jane McCallum was also a member of the Texas Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. In 1926 she led the Petticoat Lobbyists in campaigning for Daniel J. Moody's gubernatorial bid against Miriam A. Ferguson. Moody appointed her secretary of state in January 1927, and she retained the position 1931 to 1933. Shortly after assuming office in 1927, she discovered in a vault in the state Capitol an original copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence. She considered her role in restoring and displaying the document to be one of her important contributions to the state. In 1954 she became the first woman grand jury commissioner in Travis County. Her writings concentrated on women's issues and women leaders. Her collection of biographical sketches of early American leaders, Women Pioneers, was published in 1929, while she was serving as secretary of state. She was the first married woman at the University of Texas to join a sorority. On August 14, 1957, Jane McCallum died. Source
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MCKINNEY, THOMAS Sec 4, lot 129
Thomas McKinney is known as the Father of the Texas Navy. He was born November 1, 1801 in Kentucky. In the mid 1820s, he visited an uncle who had a trading post in the Nacogdoches area. He kept a store on the square in Nacogdoches until 1830. He was a member of “Stephen F. Austin’s Old Three Hundred”. He took trips to Saltillo, taking cotton and piece goods to trade for livestock. He also had an interest in a sawmill on the lower Trinity River and supplied the bookkeeping and commercial contact in the United States for the extensive cotton trade. In part, this trade helped finance the Texas Revolution. He had his own schooner, the ‘San Felipe” and obtained a privateering license from the Provisional government. He used his firm’s credit to buy another ship for the rebel government with which he continued to forward men and supplies to the Texas army. In 1843, he married for the 2nd time to Anna Gibbs, a native of Boston. He had no children, however as a personal friend of James Fannin who fell at Goliad, McKinney had promised Fannin to look after his family if need be. He helped to raise the two Fannin daughters. By 1850, he constructed a stone house, a gristmill, and a quarter horse racetrack in Travis County. Though a Unionist, he served the Confederacy as a special cotton agent. He was made libel for contracted debts and this, along with the defeat of the Confederacy and the freedom of about fourteen slaves crippled him financially. He died at his residence, six miles south of Austin on October 2, 1873.His plantation was located where McKinney Falls State Park was established in 1976. Source
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MOORE, EDGAR MAURICE BOWIE (1850-1887) Buried in Section 1, lot 309
Edgar Maurice Bowie Moore, The news that Maurice Moore had been killed was not a surprise to anyone who knew the man. During his residence in Travis County he had been regarded as a man quick to shoot and had more than one serious difficulty, being at one time involved in a murder case which created some excitement and a great deal of comment. He always went armed and prided himself on being a crack shot. He was said to be a domineering and of tyrannical disposition and counted but few friends in the section where he lived. Knowing him to be a man quick to quarrel, few persons cared to associate with him. Yet, he knew all the hard characters that infested the hills, a was a friend to none of them. He sometimes aided the sheriff in serving warrants in that part of the county. It was in this capacity that Moore went to the house of Wilson McNeil, subpoenaing his two sons to appear in court. By Moore's account, Mr. McNeil drew a Winchester rifle on him and ordered him off his property. Maurice then claimed to have said that he would get a warrant and come back and arrest him. Moore returned to McNeil's two days later with the warrant and accompanied by officer Sam Platt. Mr. Wilson opened his door and ordered them to halt. With his Winchester in hand, McNeil threatened to kill Moore if he came in the gallery. There was a scrambling between the men over the gun. Just then someone, from a doorway leading into another room fired a charge of buckshot, which lodged in Moore's body and killed him instantly.SAC tour
