James Loraine Dallas

James Loraine Dallas was born in Pittsburgh in 1818 and came to Texas with his family in 1833, settling in Washington County, where his older brother Walter Riddle Dallas also served and fought at San Jacinto. In 1841 James married Mary Virginia Cooper, who was born in Tennessee. She died in 1875 and he in 1883, and in November 1938, during the Centennial reburials, the state moved them both from Washington County to the State Cemetery. They lie together on Republic Hill.

What the plaque says

James Loraine Dallas Served in the Army of Texas, 1836 Born in Pennsylvania Aug. 18, 1818 Died in Washington County, Texas March 18, 1883 His Wife Mary V. (Cooper) Dallas Born in Tennessee Jan. 22, 1826 Died in Washington County, Texas June 6, 1875 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

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• Robert Potter — steps away
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