James Rowe

The Handbook of Texas fills in Rowe's Revolution service. He reached Lorenzo de Zavala's colony in 1834, received a 1,085-acre Mexican grant on July 24, 1835, and married Myra Tippett that August. After news of the Alamo's fall he was elected first lieutenant under Capt. William Kimbrough, and he fought at San Jacinto in April 1836. In 1847 he received 640 acres for that service. He served on the Claims and Accounts and Engrossed Bills committees in the Fourth Legislature, from November 3, 1851, to November 7, 1853.

What the plaque says

James Rowe (March 17, 1811 - Dec. 3, 1868) Texas War for Independence soldier (1836) James Rowe had migrated from North Carolina. Prospering as a tanner, he was commissioned to help organize Panola County (1846); served as senior warden of Sam Sanford Lodge No. 149, A. F. & A. M. (1851); served in 4th Texas Legislature (1851-53); and gave the land now occupied by this cemetery. He and his wife Mira (Tippett) had eleven children. Descendants include citizens in many walks of life. (1977)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tex Ritter Museum and Texas Country Music Hall of Fame — 14 mi
  Carthage's country music museum, with Tex Ritter's boots, guitars and saddles in a room styled like a movie theater, and exhibits on other Texas stars, Jim Reeves among them.

More markers nearby

• Old Center Cemetery — steps away
• Woods New Hope Baptist Church — 3.5 mi
• Site of Town of Spivey, 1870s-1900 — 4.0 mi
• B. F. Morris and the Town of Joaquin — 8.2 mi