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Gen. James Willie

Independence · Washington County · placed 1936

Civil War

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Washington County, Texas

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Born in Georgia Jan. 5, 1822; died in Houston, Texas 1863; Attorney General of Texas 1856-7; officer in the Confederate army.

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