Marshall Cemetery
Marshall, Harrison County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Incorporated Dec. 12, 1849. Resting place of many early Texas leaders and patriots: Edward Clark (1815-80), Governor of Texas, 1861; Colonel, C.S.A. Walter P. Lane (1817-92) veteran of Texas Revolution and Mexican war; Brigadier General, C.S.A. John T. Mills (1817-71), Associate Justice Supreme Court, Republic of Texas; District Judge in the state; a county is named for him. Horace Randal (1833-64), Brigadier General, C.S.A.; also honored by naming of county in his memory. Unknown soldiers who died in local hospitals, honored by an obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Incorporated in 1849, this cemetery is the resting place of a remarkable roster of early Texas leaders. Among them are Edward Clark, governor of Texas in 1861 and a Confederate colonel; Walter P. Lane, a veteran of the Texas Revolution and Mexican War who rose to Confederate general; John T. Mills, a Republic of Texas supreme court justice; and Horace Randal, a Confederate general — with two Texas counties named for men buried here. A United Daughters of the Confederacy obelisk honors unknown soldiers who died in local hospitals.
Why it matters
Few burial grounds gather so many figures who shaped Texas across the Revolution, the Mexican War, the Republic, and the Confederacy, making the cemetery a compact map of nineteenth-century Texas leadership.
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Related people
- · Edward Clark
- · Walter P. Lane
- · John T. Mills
- · Horace Randal
Related events
- · Texas Revolution
- · Mexican-American War
- · American Civil War
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