The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, July 1916 - April, 1917 Page: 206

                                
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly

A monument in honor of General H. B. Granbury was unveiled
at Granbury, Texas, September 14, 1916. It was erected by the
Daughters of the Confederacy, and stands on the courthouse
square.
Mrs. A. J. Hamilton, widow of Ex-governor Hamilton, died at
her home in Austin, April 25, 1916. Mrs. Hamilton was born in
Georgia in 1828; was married September 3, 1843, in Alabama;
came to Texas in 1846, residing first at La Grange, and since the
spring of 1849 at Austin.
On August 10, 1916, 1Mrs. W. A. Callaway, for many years on
the staff of the Dallas News, died at Dallas. "Mrs. Callaway
has been active in social betterment work in this State for twenty-
five years. Her time, her pen and her brain have ever been ready
to further the efforts of those who have strived to make the world
a better place in which to live."
Davis Foute Eagleton, for many years a professor in Austin
College, Sherman, and compiler and editor of Writers and Writ-
ings of Texas, died June 9, 1916.
Jonathan Lane, a prominent lawyer of the Houston bar, died
May 27, 1916. A sketch of him appears in Who's Who in America,
1914-1915.
William  Williston Heartsill, author and printer of that odd
little volume, Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate
Army    . . . Or Camp Life, Day by Day, of the W. P. Lane
Rangers, died at Waco, July 27, 1916.
George Douglas Neal, lieutenant-governor of Texas, 1903-1907,
died at his home in Navasota, July 13, 1916. A sketch of Lieu-
tenant-Governor Neal appears in Raines' Year Book for Texas, II,
188-89.
Cecil A. Lyon, for eighteen years member of the Republican
State executive committee, brigadier general of the Texas National

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