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Jacob Harmon Garner

Male 1814 - 1886  (72 years)


 

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Sabine Pass Cemetery, Garner, Jacob Harmon

Jacob Harmon Garner
"Jacob Harmon Garner, 1814 to 1887. Louisiana native, son of Bradley and Sarah Harmon Garner, settled in Jefferson, a village on Cow Bayou in present-day Orange County, Texas in 1825. In 1835 he took part in the Grass fight and siege of Bexar while serving one of two enlistments in the Texas Army for which he later received land and bounty grants. Veteran Capt. D. Garner's Co. Battle of San Antonio December 1835. Near San Jacinto in Capt. Patterson's Co. April 21, 1936. He married Matilda Hayes in 1838. A prominent citizen of Jefferson County. He served as Jefferson County Justice of the Peace in 1843. District Clerk from 1846 to 1850, Sabine Pass Alderman in 1857, and as a third Lieutenant in the Confederate Army in 1861. Sesquiqentennial of Texas statehood 1845-1995."

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A Texas veteran and torchbearer of the East Texas wilderness
By W. T. Block
http://www.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/jacob.htm


Owner of originalSherry Sharp
Date17 Apr 2010
File name100_0495.jpg
File Size179.05k
Dimensions750 x 1000
Linked toSabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas; Sabine Pass Cem, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas; Jacob Harmon Garner (Burial)

Sabine Pass Cemetery, Sabine Pass, Jefferson County, Texas, USA

Notes: Sabine Pass Cemetery, aka Pace Cemetery, located on Highway 87, or South Gulfway Drive. You can view more pictures from the Cemetery, as well as Sabine Pass in my Picasa Album.
Sabine Pass and McGaffey Cemeteries, Sabine Pass, Texas


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