Captain Henry W. Wade

The plaque closes by naming Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade, born in 1914, among the captain's descendants. The Handbook of Texas, which does not mention the captain, says Wade was born in Rockwall and was Dallas County district attorney from 1950 to 1986. He prosecuted Jack Ruby in 1964 and was the defendant in Roe v. Wade in 1973. It also records that two of his cases were overturned in 1989 after evidence was found to have been withheld, and that DNA evidence has since overturned at least twenty-five of his convictions.

What the plaque says

Captain Henry W. Wade (1832-1912) Served with distinction in Civil War (1861-65) as captain in Confederate army, Co. B., 6th Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade. A native of Kentucky, he came to Hunt County as a young man. In 1859 married Elizabeth J. Kuykendall and made home on 640-acre tract of which this cemetery is a part. Represented county in Texas Constitutional Convention of 1875. In private life raised and sold livestock throughout state. Descendants include noted Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade (b. 1914) (1971)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Audie Murphy / American Cotton Museum — 15 mi
  A Greenville museum of Hunt County's military heroes, including Audie Murphy, and of cotton, which keeps the engine of what it says was the world's largest inland cotton compress.
• No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum — 16 mi
  A free museum at Terrell's airport where about 2,200 RAF cadets learned to fly between 1941 and 1945, with logbooks, uniforms, letters and original training aircraft.
• Rockwall County Historical Foundation & Museum — 19 mi
  A small museum in Harry Myers Park that keeps the evidence on Rockwall's rock wall, sandstone dikes that geologists call natural and folk tales call built.

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• Quinlan — 0.7 mi
• Lake Tawakoni — 6.9 mi
• Ables Springs — 7.2 mi
• Poetry Baptist Church — 9.1 mi