James Merriman Jackson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Liberty Co, Texas
• Census: 1860, Chambers Co, Texas
• Census: 1870, Chambers Co, Texas
• Census: 1880, Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas
• Census: 1959, Chambers Co, Texas; tax roll

Notes:

JACKSON, JAMES (1822-1895). James Jackson, pioneer cattleman and founder of the JHK Ranch in Chambers County, the son of Sarah (Merriman) and Humphrey Jackson,qv was born on Vermillion Bayou in Vermillion Parish, Louisiana, on February 15, 1822. In September 1823 the family moved to an area east of the San Jacinto River in what would later be Harris County. The Jacksons appear on the 1826 census of the Atascosito District. James was orphaned by the deaths of his parents; his mother died in 1824 and his father in 1836. He was married on December 23, 1847, to Sarah White, daughter of pioneer Chambers County cattleman James Taylor White.

They settled first in a crude log cabin on the banks of Double Bayou. Jackson built a second cabin a mile from the first and replaced it over the years by two other much larger structures. His final home, a spacious two-story structure, burned in 1917. The couple had eleven children.Jackson held a number of county offices after the organization of Chambers County in 1858: chief justice, 1862-65; county judge, 1876; sheriff, 1868; county commissioner, 1858-62 and 1880-82; and justice of the peace, 1871-76. Like most Texans of his day, he was devoted to the Democratic party. His principal avocation was cattle ranching, which he began as early as 1842 with a herd of 175 cattle. He appears on the tax rolls of Chambers County as one of its wealthiest citizens, both before and after the Civil War. The JHK Ranch had grown to 26,000 acres by the time of Jackson's death. About 1877 Jackson became the first cattleman in Chambers County to fence any appreciable amount of pastureland. His first fence was constructed of planks nailed to cypress posts, but by 1882 he had switched to wire fencing, which he was also the first in the county to use; he enclosed most of his ranch with the new material.

Jackson died on June 5, 1895, and is buried in Jackson Cemetery at Double Bayou, Chambers County.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jewel Horace Harry, A History of Chambers County (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1940; rpt., Dallas: Taylor, 1981).
Ralph Semmes Jackson, Home on the Double Bayou: Memories of an East Texas Ranch (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961).

Kevin Ladd

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I486

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findagrave:
When living in current day eastern Harris County, he recalls having heard the canon on April 21, 1836 at San Jacinto.Refer to "Home of the Double Bayou" for J. Frank Dobie endorsement of the book written on this man's family.
James was a son of Humphrey Jackson, one of Austin's 300 families who settled in Texas in the 1820's. James was married to Sarah Cade White.
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from adam edwards
James Jackson bought much of the John Dick property at Lone Oak Bayou, near Smith point, following the death of Dick's son, Benjamin. See Benjamin Dick, 1855-1884





Census:
James 28 LA
Sarah 18 TX
Sarah A, 9/12 TX

(Living next door to brother John)
Jackson, John, 30
Sarah, 29
Joney, 5
Letitia, 3
Stearns, Washington, 15, laborer
Jackson, Rufus, 2
Wallis, Solomon, 22, TX, stockman
Wallis, Daniel, 15, TX, stockman
Jeanburn, Leopold, 45, France, blacksmith
Allen, Thomas, 41, Scotland, ship carpenter


Census:
Jackson, James, 38, LA
Sarah, 28, TX
Humphrey T, 8
Mary P, 6
Alice L, 4
Robert, 1
A.B. 16, male*

adam edwards
* who is this A B Jackson? (from
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(note: ss --
AB Jackson is probably nephew, son of Hugh Jackson. Hugh Jackson is probably brother to James.
1850, Sep 25 - Liberty Co, Texas
Hugh Jackson 33 (1817) surveyor 300 LA
Elizabeth S. 27 (1823) MD
Alexander B. 6 (1844) TX
James S. 4 (1846) TX
John H. 2 (1848) TX



Census:
1870; Census Place: Subdivision 17, Chambers, Texas; Roll M593_1578; Page: 149; Image: 301.

Jackson, Jas, 48, LA, stockraiser
Sarah, 38
Sarah, 19
Mary, 16
Alice, 13
Robert, 11
Humphrey, 6
John, 3
Ralph, 4/12
Edward, 8

Census:
Year: 1880; Census Place: Double Bayou, Chambers, Texas; Roll T9_1295; Family History Film: 1255295; Page: 261.4000; Enumeration District: 20; .

Jackson, James, 58, LA, stock raisin & farmer, F born Ireland, M born LA
Sarah, 48, F born VA, M born SC
Mary, 26
Robert, 21, musician
James E, 18
Humphrey H, 16
John C, 13
Raphael S, 10
Guy, 8
Eula Y, 4
Mayes, Alice J, 24 widow
Sherman, Derwood, 6, grandson
Hurd, John B, 42, MI, boarder, school teacher

James married Sarah Cade White on 23 Dec 1847 in Chambers Co, Texas. Sarah (daughter of James Taylor White and Sarah Cade) was born on 13 Jul 1832 in Chambers Co, Texas; died on 30 Apr 1917 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas; was buried in Jackson Cem, Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Dau of James Jackson and Sarah White.

Sarah married Leverett Sylvester Sherman on 29 Jan 1873 in Chambers Co, Texas. Leverett (son of Leverett R Sherman, Sr and Margaret Ness) was born in Jul 1848 in St.Louis, St. Louis Co, Missouri; died on 1 Sep 1914 in Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Anahuac Cem, Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She never married.

Alice married G.W. Mayes about 1880. G.W. was born on 14 Nov 1853; died on 25 Jan 1877 in Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Jackson Cem, Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Robert was born almost totally blind. When he was still very young a stranger drove up one day and asked to stay the night. The stranger remained at Double Bayou for the next three years. He never gave his name, though it was clear he was English. He taught the children school and taught Robert to play the violin, which became his life long pleasure:

"Never a day passed without the lively strains of Uncle Bob's violin drifting through the house. Uncle Bob had a lovable, uncomplaining disposition, and he was devoted to all the children in the family. He garnered his reward through the loyal devotion lavished on him by each and every child in the family"

- Home on the Double Bayou, by Ralph Semmes Jackson

He never married and had no children.
(from adam edwards )
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Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1900, Chambers Co (Precinct 3), Texas
• Census: 1910, Galveston, Galveston Co, Texas
• Census: 1920, Galveston, Galveston Co, Texas
• Census: 1930, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas

Notes:

Ed, the sixth child, was a fun loving, adventurous youngster with an uncanny talent for craftmanship and mechanics. He married Lizzie Womble and fathered five children, Maude, Sarah May, Roger, Roy and Edward. I have childhood memories of Uncle Ed when he was rice farming on the ranch and living with his family in Galveston. He would stay at the ranch several weeks and then in Galveston a week. On every trip he brought us children a present; a large sack of lemon and peppermint sticks, a keg of gingersnaps, or best of all an entire stalk of bananas. He always brought several new stories, some for the children and some exclusive tidbits to be told only behind the barn, which was the menfolk's retreat. He told his yarns with great relish and skill, sometimes laughing so hard in expectation of the point of his story that he would need to stop and catch his breath. His skill in carpentry was known and appreciated throughout the countryside and the best expression of his talent was in the numerous sturdy and graceful boats that he built to play between Double Bayou and Galveston. While rice farming he built, and used for many years, the first disk plow. Since he did not bother to have the idea patented, it soon spread far and wide and was patented by another. My best memories of Uncle Ed relate to a time shortly before his death when my brother, Guy Cade, and I visited him armed with all the latest stories we could collect. Although he was very ill at the time, he rolled with laughter at all our tales and polished the visit off by telling a few good ones himself.

- Ralph Semmes Jackson, 'Home on the Double Bayou'
(adam edwards )

-- email to Adam Edwards from Guy Cade Jackson 8 Nov 2007:
ED JACKSON, WHOM I SUPPOSE, IS YOUR ANCESTOR, LIVED ON THE EDGE OF THE MARSH FORMED BY LONE OKK BAYOU WHICH LAY MIDWAY FROM THE JAMES JACKSON RANCH HOUSE AND SMITH POINT AS WAS IN THE MIDST OF HIS ACREAGE (CONSIDERABLE). DADDY TOLD ME THAT ?UNCLE ED? WAS A MOST RESOURCEFUL FELLOW, WHO HOMEBUILT A CRANE WHICH TRAVELED ON A TEMPORARY SMALLGUAGE RAILROAD TRACK WITH WHICH HE BUILT THE LEVEE FOR THE ROAD FROM THE NORTH TO SMITH POINT ACROSS A NARROW PART OF THE MARSH. ROAD IS NOW FARM TO MARKET HIGHWAY 562.
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Census:
Jackson, Jas E, 38, farmer
Lizzie, 38, TX, F born SC, M born SC
Maud, 15
Boy, 10
Radqus, 6
Sarah, 2

Census:
Year: 1910; Census Place: Galveston Ward 10, Galveston, Texas; Roll: T624_1554; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 49; Image: 700.

Jackson, James E, 49, stock man
Lizzie H, 48, TX, F born TN, mother born SC
James R, 19
Sarah Mae, 12
James E Jr., 2

Census:
Jackson, Jas E, 58, stock man
Lizzie, 57, TX, F born TN, M born SC
Roger, 26
Edward, 12

Census:
Year: 1930; Census Place: San Antonio, Bexar, Texas; Roll: 2294; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 61; Image: 346.0.

Jackson, J E, 65, stockman
Elizabeth, 63, TX, F born LA, M born SC
Edward, 22, auto salesman

James married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Helen Womble on 27 Nov 1883 in Texas. Elizabeth was born on 08 Mar 1862 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas; died on 08 Jun 1939 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas; was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married May Andrews about 1888 in Chambers Co, Texas. May was born on 8 Feb 1868; died on 7 Feb 1957 in Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Jackson Cem, Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Mrs. Pearl (..) Jackson in 1900 in Chambers Co, Texas. Pearl was born in 1879 in Texas; died after 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Although Guy was the youngest boy, he ran the ranch after his father's death, and brought his bride to live at the family ranch home with his mother, three sisters, and one brother. My mother, living and bearing children in a home that was not her own, did not have an easy time during her early married like. She and my father did not have a home of their own until the brothers and sisters moved to San Antonio some years later.

I remember my father as a stern, quiet man who left the routine disciplining of the children to Mother. However, if things got out of hand it required only one word from him to straighten the children out, and I do not recall that he ever whipped one of the children to enforce his discipline. He stood tall and straight until the day of his death, and never did one word of complaint pass his lips. Although he was never openly affectionate with his children, he quietly devoted his life to their welfare. His reputation for honesty and integrity was never questioned, and he was generous to a fault in helping his neighbors who were in trouble. He had no outside diversion or interests other than his ranch and family, and on the ranch he was known as "cap" or "Mr. Guy" by all the ranch hands and neighbors. He was an excellent horseman and roper and took particular pride in his cutting horses. [sic]. In 1932, when mother's health began to fail, after the birth of Ula Jean, Dad built a home for her in San Antonio, where she could enjoy a drier climate and be closer to dr. Ralph. For a number of years Dad drove back and forth between San Antonio and the ranch, but at last had to give up and stay in San Antonio. This sedentary life did not seem to agree with him, because he did not live many years after moving to San Antonio.

- Home on the Double Bayou by Ralph Semmes Jackson.
(from Adam Edwards, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I501)

Guy married Bertha Nell Briggs in 1904 in Chambers Co, Texas. Bertha was born on 10 Oct 1881 in Wisconsin; died on 05 Jan 1960 in Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Jackson Cem, Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After his mother died, he was raised by his maternal grandparents. He is buried near his mother in Jackson Cemetery.

Sarah married Harvey Kellis Huie, Sr. on 04 Apr 1918. Harvey was born on 14 Feb 1897 in Denton Co, Texas; died on 13 Mar 1971 in Dallas, Dallas Co, Texas; was buried in Sparksman Hillcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Jimmalou Louisa Carr on 08 Jun 1926 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas. Jimmalou was born on 18 Jul 1897 in San Saba, San Saba Co, Texas; died on 21 Aug 1892 in Anahuac, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Jackson Cem, Double Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Handbook of Texas Online


JACKSON, GUY CADE, JR. (1905-1980). Guy Cade Jackson, Jr., county judge, businessman, and conservationist, was born on June 24, 1905, at Galveston, one of seven children of Guy Cade and Berta Nell (Briggs) Jackson, and a grandson of early cattleman James Jackson. His boyhood on the J-K Ranch at Double Bayou was popularized in his brother Ralph Semmes Jackson's memoirs, Home on the Double Bayou. As a young man, Jackson briefly lived in West Texas and worked as a successful traveling salesman. He was married in 1930 to Mary Katherine Cook; they had three children. Their eldest son, Guy C. III, served as county judge in 1977-78.

Jackson was elected county commissioner in 1928 and two years later won election as one of the youngest county judges in Texas. He held this office from 1931 to 1944. In office he was instrumental in establishing the Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District. He resigned in August 1944 to become one of the new district's three commissioners. He served on the CLCND board from 1944 to 1948 and 1952 to 1960. Both as county judge and as CLCND chairman he championed development of the Trinity River watershed. He helped organize the Forward Trinity Valley Association in 1940 and the Fraternity of the White Heron in 1944, two groups that worked actively to promote these same projects. He also served as a director of the Trinity Improvement Association. These activities led Jackson to take an early role in conservation activities. In 1944 he helped to found and served as the first president of the Texas Water Conservation Association. He also helped establish the Trinity Bay Conservation District and in 1952-53 chaired a statewide study commission on water use and conservation for Governor Allan Shivers.

During the Tidelands controversy in the early 1950s, he chaired the statewide Citizens Tidelands Committee, and during the 1952 presidential campaign he was among several prominent Texas Democrats to support Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. Jackson led an effort in 1949 to establish a Chambers County Historical Society. He and his wife moved to Kerrville in 1960, when he retired from active politics and his law practice. At the time of his death there on April 24, 1980, he was serving as a director of the Upper Guadalupe River. He also operated an antique store and real estate business. He was a Methodist. He and his wife are buried in the Garden of Memories at Kerrville.


BIBLIOGRAPHY: Jewel Horace Harry, A History of Chambers County (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1940; rpt., Dallas: Taylor, 1981). Margaret S. Henson and Kevin Ladd, Chambers County: A Pictorial History (Norfolk, Virginia: Donning, 1988). Houston Post, February 13, 1955. Ralph Semmes Jackson, Home on the Double Bayou: Memories of an East Texas Ranch (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961). Miriam Partlow, Liberty, Liberty County, and the Atascosito District (Austin: Pemberton, 1974). Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Vol. 3.

Kevin Ladd

Guy married Mary Katherine Cook on 22 Mar 1930. Mary was born on 10 Mar 1905 in Texas; died on 26 Apr 1976 in Kerrville, Kerr Co, Texas; was buried in Garden of Memories, Kerrville, Kerr Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ralph was a consulting geophysicist in Beeville and the author of Home on the Double Bayou, an account of life on the JHK ranch in Chambers, TX.

A copy of the book was given to me by my granfmother on my 18th birthday.


RALPH S. JACKSON, 54, died in a Houston hospital Friday after a five day illiness. Had lived in Beeville since 1946. Was consulting geophysicist. Member board of directors of Commercial National Bank of Beeville. Wrote the book, "Home on the Double Bayou", which was the story of his life. Past president of the board of Trustees of the Beeville Board of trustees of the Beeville Independent School District, Member of the excutive board of the Alamo Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Past president of the Beeville Rotary Club. Was an elder in the First Presbyterion Church. He was a member of the committee and a driving force in the drive to secure a memorial hospital for Bee County. He was chairman of the hospital advisory committee. Survivors; wife, Mrs. Dauris Ray Jackson, Beeville; daughter, Mrs. W.D. Grandberry, Tulsa, Okla; sons, Ralph S. Jackson Jr., Beeville, James C. Jackson, Beeville; two grandchildren; brothers, Judge Guy C. Jackson Jr.; anahuac, Lt/Col Horace R. Jackson, U.S. Army in Germany; sisters, Mrs. E.C. Scott, Anahuac, Mrs. Roy Dawson, Anahuac. Funeral services 4 pm Saturday Frist Metholdist Church; Beeville, Rev. J.M. Lunsford officiating. Burial in Glenwood Cemetery under direction of the Galloway-Wilson Funeral Home, Beeville.

- JCP
(from Adam Edwards -
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I17769)

Ralph married Dauris Elaine Ray about 1935. Dauris was born on 13 Oct 1913 in of, Texas; died on 03 Nov 1980 in Beeville, Bee Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacqueline married Kenneth "Speedy" G. Simmons about 1942 in Bexar Co, Texas. Kenneth was born on 20 Jul 1917 in Quincy, Adams Co, Illinois; died on 27 Oct 2008 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Anahuac Progress,


Guy C. Jackson III dies at age 77
By Kevin Ladd, Director, Wallisville Heritage Park

ANAHUAC - Public service was somehow ingrained in the DNA of Guy Cade ?Jack? Jackson III, 77, who passed away on Monday evening, February 23 at Bayside Community Hospital.

His sense of public service no doubt came largely from his father, the late Judge Guy Cade Jackson, Jr., who will long be remembered as one of the most successful leaders in the history of Chambers County. Guy Cade knew how to get things done, and he was a man who always had several causes to which he was pledged at any given time. Any major project initiated in the county during the mid-Twentieth Century somehow carried Judge Jackson?s imprint.

Jack, like his father before him, was a man who got things done or sometimes tried his best to get things done. Sometimes in pursuit of some vision, he would rub people the wrong way, but he liked the public arena and he savored causes. His obituary fills to overflowing with such projects: the Chambers County Democratic Executive Committee, the Trinity River Authority, the Chambers County Bar Association, Chambers-Liberty Counties Bar Association, Texas Water Conservation Association, the Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District and the Houston-Galveston Area Council. The list goes on and on, and includes the Masonic Lodge, the Shriners, the Methodist Church, and any number of organizations concerned with Galveston Bay, water rights, water conservation, and the like.

Everywhere one might look today in Anahuac and many points in the county, there is a story begging to be told about Jackson. Any historical marker, for instance, that was erected during the ten years he served as chairman of the Chambers County Historical Commission bears his name. The Texas Historical Commission, which oversees all such markers in the state, sort of frowned on that, but he got it done. And his name will be there for decades to come.

There is, however, a story right there in Bayside Community Hospital, where he passed away. Way back in 1984 when it seemed as if the county might close the doors on the facility, Jackson and others including Doug Cameron, Lester Martin, Rob Clapper and Sam Hill put together a working committee that created Chambers County Hospital District No. 1. Those five men became the first board of trustees for the hospital, and Jack served as board secretary for the next five years. Doug Cameron served as president. It was an organization that worked well and exceeded everyone?s expectations.

These were, of course, over and above his professional career as an attorney, a real estate broker, and chief executive officer of the Chambers County Abstract Company.

As Rev. John Black, his former pastor, said the other day at his funeral service, Jack was a man who never minced words or held back from offering his opinions. There was, therefore, a sort of iron-hammered frankness to him that did not allow for his words to be misinterpreted. Some successful politicians can speak out of both sides of their mouths or disguise the true meaning of their words through guile or subterfuge. But when he told you something, it was just him telling you what he thought, and there is much to be said for that. He lost some important elections along the way because of it, but he ended his days with very few regrets. And when you get right down to it, he was able to look back upon his life without finding much if any hypocrisy there, and that was important to Guy C. Jackson III.

He was a bear about history. His obituary will tell you that he served his country during the Korean Conflict, but he was obsessed with World War II and the Civil War, the epic struggles that came before him. He loved to speculate and probe the early history of Anahuac, especially the Mexican Period when the battles of Anahuac were played out in 1832 and 1835. In the middle of the fort was the Plaza de Malinche, named for the mistress of Hernando Cortes, conqueror of the Aztecs. She was and is still a most controversial figure in Mexican history, and he loved to talk about her and that plaza as it related to the rest of the fort. He was devoted to the history of this nation and was especially partial to the Democratic Party?s role in that story.

He was famously devoted to his own family history. He was a grandson of Berta Nell (Briggs) and Guy Cade Jackson Jr., a great-grandson of Sarah (White) and James Jackson; and a great-great-grandson of Sarah (Merriman) and Humphrey Jackson, who came to Texas with Austin?s Colony. A good dozen years ago he became enamored with the idea of tracing Humphrey?s ancestors back to whatever ancestral home they had in Ireland. He secured the services of a professional genealogist there in the Emerald Isle, who traced the family back to Ballybay in County Monaghan.

He was born on August 16, 1931 in San Antonio, the eldest child to grace the home of Judge Guy Cade Jackson, Jr. and his wife Katherine Cook Jackson. His only brother, James Robert ?Jim Bob? Jackson and his wife Erin live in Beach City. His sister, Laura Jackson Howe, died at Kerrville several years ago.

Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Linda Cummins Jackson and children Guy Robert of Anahuac; Linda Ann of Anahuac; Steven Lynn of San Antonio; grandson Aidan Patrick Jackson of San Antonio. He and Linda were married on November 24, 1961.

He was a 1948 graduate of Anahuac High School and went on to earn his BBA at Texas A&M in May 1952. He graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in , January 1958.

He was a man who was sometimes full of bluster and bravado, but he was absolutely devoted to his friends, his family, his county, his nation, his faith, his party and his causes. We were enormously lucky to have known him and much poorer without him. Our appreciation for him will only deepen as time goes by.
(from Adam Edwards - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I17796)

Notes:

Died:
Deceased Name: LAURA JACKSON HOWE

Services Friday

FREDERICKSBURG - A memorial service for Laura Jackson Howe, 60, will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Kerrville.

Laura passed away Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002, in Fredericksburg after a long illness. She was born Aug. 23, 1942, in Beaumont and was the daughter of the late Katherine Cook Jackson and Guy Cade Jackson Jr. of Kerrville. Laura was the great-great-granddaughter of two of Texas' early pioneers, Humphrey Jackson of Stephen F. Austin's original 300 Texas colonists, and Alcalde of San Jacinto and James Taylor White I, earliest Anglo cattle rancher in East Texas.

She was a graduate of Anahuac High School in 1960 and attended Stephen's College in Columbia, Mo. She was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Hill Country Cattlewomen's Association and James Taylor White I chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Laura was a past member of Anahuac Assembly of Rainbow for Girls, former Mother Advisor of Kerrville Assembly of Rainbow for Girls and 10-year member of Order of Eastern Star. She was a board member of the Kerrville Independent School District in the early 1970s.

Laura, along with her husband, owned and operated Gallops, a popular riverside café on the Guadalupe River in Hunt, as well as a successful catering business. She was an accomplished chef and cooked with Julia Child at the Aspen Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Colo., and the International Epicurean Society in San Antonio. In addition, she taught several cooking classes for Macy's in San Antonio.

She is survived by her husband of 40 years, Larry Lyle Howe of Kerrville; three daughters, Laura Katherine Howe of Kerrville, Elizabeth Howe Loggie and husband, Charles Bashum Loggie Jr., of San Antonio and Laura Petsch Lewis of Kerrville; three grandchildren, Francis Mark Howe and Katherine Cade Howe of Kerrville and Olivia Briggs Loggie of San Antonio; grandniece, Sarah Cade Jackson of Kerrville; two brothers, Guy Cade Jackson III and wife, Linda, of Anahuac and James Robert Jackson and wife, Erin, of Beach City; in addition to many nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, other relatives and friends.

Honorary pallbearers are Guy Robert Jackson, Stephen Jackson, Art Wilson, Ridge Floyd, Brent Waldoch, David Ross and Jim Weeks.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 320 St. Peter St., Kerrville, Texas 78028, and Hill Country Memorial Hospital Women's Pavilion, P.O. Box 835, Fredericksburg, Texas 78624.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Overby Funeral Home.

(from Adam Edwards - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I17798)