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Capt James Henry “Jim” Garrison

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Capt James Henry “Jim” Garrison

Birth
Polk County, Georgia, USA
Death
7 Jul 1908 (aged 72)
Garrison, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA
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Garrison, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Cap'n Jim Garrison, founder of Garrison, Texas, was a builder from the first. While doing extensive cotton and corn farming, he began building tenant farm houses in the Caledonia vicinity. In Garrison, he went into merchandising with his cousin, Z. B. Garrison (JF 2). Branching out, he began a tie and timber business on small scale. The year he died, he handled a million and half ties "furnishing" to the Southern Pacific Railroad.

He is remembered as a man of few words, but his word was good. Capt. Jim was a Royal Arch Mason. The two sons, physically impressive in size, were just as imposing in their impact on the business and social life of the little town which their father founded. (Descendants of Caleb Garrison, Sr., And His Wife Sarah Fleming, by J. G. Ross and Quillian Garrison, p. 160)

James Henry Garrison married Mary Catherine Young on Oct. 27, 1865 in Rusk County, Texas.

Children of James and Mary Garrison:
William Young Garrison (1866 - 1918)
George Franklin Garrison (1871 - 1935)
Cap'n Jim Garrison, founder of Garrison, Texas, was a builder from the first. While doing extensive cotton and corn farming, he began building tenant farm houses in the Caledonia vicinity. In Garrison, he went into merchandising with his cousin, Z. B. Garrison (JF 2). Branching out, he began a tie and timber business on small scale. The year he died, he handled a million and half ties "furnishing" to the Southern Pacific Railroad.

He is remembered as a man of few words, but his word was good. Capt. Jim was a Royal Arch Mason. The two sons, physically impressive in size, were just as imposing in their impact on the business and social life of the little town which their father founded. (Descendants of Caleb Garrison, Sr., And His Wife Sarah Fleming, by J. G. Ross and Quillian Garrison, p. 160)

James Henry Garrison married Mary Catherine Young on Oct. 27, 1865 in Rusk County, Texas.

Children of James and Mary Garrison:
William Young Garrison (1866 - 1918)
George Franklin Garrison (1871 - 1935)

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C.S.A.; 1ST REGT. TEXAS MOUNTED VOLUNTEERS

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