Location:  Greenleaf Cemetery, SH377 South, Brownwood
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HENRY FORD

A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA, HENRY FORD
(c.1845-1910) CAME TO TEXAS IN 1869
AND WORKED AS A COWBOY ON
SEVERAL CENTRAL TEXAS RANCHES,
HE SETTLED IN BROWNWOOD IN
1876 AND SERVED SEVERAL TERMS
AS COUNTY CLERK AND AS A CITY
COUNCILMAN.  A RESPECTED CIVIC
LEADER,HE WAS INFLUENTIAL IN
BRINGING THE SANTA FE RAILROAD TO
BROWNWOOD.  HE SUPPORTED EDUCA-
TIONAL EFFORTS IN THE CITY,AND
THROUGH HIS WORK AS A BANKER
AND BUSINESSMAN WAS INSTRU-
MENTAL IN BROWNWOOD'S GROWTH.
THREE TIMES MARRIED, HE WAS THE
FATHER OF TEN CHILDREN, FIVE OF
WHOM SURVIVED TO ADULTHOOD.
(1994)

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