Civil War Marker for Franklin Hoehn Gray - Bastrop County, Texas g600 Submitted by: Tammy 4 Feb 2002 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. ==================================================================== Bastrop Advertisor 4/1945 A government marker will be placed on the grave of the late Franklin Hoehn Gray, early Bastrop pioneer who settled near Bastrop from Stuart Co, TN in 1845. He served during the Civil War in Co F Wilkes 24th TX CAV and was wounded in action. He died in Red Rock in 1914 and is buried in the Cemetery at that place where the marker will be erected. His son, J. T Gray, postmaster at Camp Woos, Real County, secured the marker through Judge R E Sparkman of Italy, Texas who has devoted seven years to locating and securing government markers for Confederate graves in TX. As a result of his work hundreds of Confederate graves throughout the state have been marked and this is one of a number for which he has secured markers in Bastrop County. In addition to marking the graves Judge Sparkman files a record of each grave marked with TX Div United Daughters of the Confederacy and they are placed in the TX Conf Historical Museum in the State Capitol Building at Austin.