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Note: Jennie L. Locke Birth Date: 18 Jan 1860 Birthplace: Arkansas Death Date: 16 Feb 1943 Death Place: ALAMEDA Mother's Maiden Name: TIMAUS (really Timanus) Father's Surname: WHITE California Death Index, 1940-1997 )Jennie L. Locke Her second husband was Mathew Locke. Matthew F. accompanied Zachery Taylor in the Mexican War. He was the first commissioner of agriculture and the first Speaker of the House in Texas and was committee secession chairman. He had to ask Sam Houston to resign as President of Texas when the legislature voted to join the Confederate States of America. Baptist Civil War Possible 4th Regiment Tennessee Infantry? Asst Surgeon Company B Prior to his sevice in Texas, he accompanied Zachory Taylor to the city of Mexico during the Mexican War.. He bound up the wounds of Jefferson Davis when he was shot in the foot by the Mexicans. He was present at Buena Vista when Santa Anna was defeated by Zachary Taylor's Army. Event: Living AFT 1865 Van Buren, AR Note: Mathew F. Locke went to Van Buren, Arkansas after the Civil war was over, and then later founded the town of Alma, Ar. Event: Associated Press, OBIT 5 JUN 1911 El Paso, El Paso Co, Texas Note: " Matthew F. Locke, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Texas Legislature in 1856 and 1858, chairman of the Secession Convention which deposed Governor Sam Houston and declared secession from the Union, chairman of the committee which notified Houston of his deposition, and later a Colonel in the Confederate Army, died suddenly last night in this city, at his home, at the age of 87. " Locke served as a Confederate Colonel in the 10th Texas Cavalry and fought in the battle of Stones River near the town of Murfreesburo, Tennessee.
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