John Garner

Lexington, TX

After serving in the Civil War, Alabama native R.L. Cain settled in this part of Lee County and in 1867 deeded five acres for a community cemetery, then known as Cain School Community. The settlement was renamed Adina when its post office opened, and the graveyard took the name with it; among its oldest burials is Martha Cane Slaughter, who died in 1871. In 2001 several graves — including that of William B. Craddock, a victim of the lawless violence that plagued the area in the 1870s and 1880s — were reinterred here beside relatives.

Lexington, TX

This grave marker honors William W. Hawkins, who fought at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836 — the decisive clash that won Texas its independence — and afterward served as a Texas Ranger under the Republic of Texas. The star-and-wreath emblem marks him as a veteran of that founding generation of Texas soldiers who fought and then policed a fledgling nation on the far southwestern edge of the American frontier.

Lexington, TX

Born in 1808, James Shaw fought in the Texas War for Independence and stood among the soldiers at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto. He went on to serve as a representative or senator across five congresses of the Republic of Texas, helping govern the young nation before it joined the United States. He is buried here beside his wife, Nancy Ann Shaw.

Lexington, TX

Born in Tennessee in 1811, David Ervin Lawhon learned the printing trade young and came to Nacogdoches in 1835 to answer the call for volunteers in the Texas struggle for independence. Pressed into service, he printed the "Texean and Emigrant's Guide" along with war proclamations, handbills, and patriotic songs for the revolutionary army of 1835–36. In the decades that followed he turned frontiersman, ranger captain, and judge, serving as a county chief justice during the days of the Republic before his death in 1884.