Chris Emmett, a native Texan, became interested in Shanghai Pierce as a young man, when he witnessed great cattle drives of the Pierce herds. Part rascal, part gentleman, part poseur, part just himself—of all the colorful Texas figures following the Civil War none was as loud, garish, and funny as Shanghai Pierce, who left Rhode Island penniless and became one of the Big Pasture Men of southern Texas. In he married Hattie James.
In the early s he commissioned sculptor Frank Teich to create a marble statue of himself. A 6'5" likeness was eventually placed atop a ten-foot granite pilaster which was itself mounted on a ten-foot piece of gray granite. The structure later marked his grave. On December 26, , he died from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was buried in Hawley Cemetery near Bay City. After his death the Pierce estate imported Brahman cattle from India which furnished Texas with the base stock from which large herds of Brahmans have grown.
Galveston Daily News , December 26, Houston Post , November 28, , March 26, Grimes as a ranch hand. By shrewdness, hard work, and rugged determination he became an authority on cattle while working for Grimes.
After serving in the Confederate Army, he returned to Texas and formed a partnership with his brother, Jonathan. They had two children; a daughter, Mary Francis, and a son who died at the age of four months. Fannie died shortly after the death of their son and Mr. Pierce sold out in and moved to Kansas City. He lived there about eighteen months. He returned to Texas and started buying up land in Wharton and Matagorda counties to build the ranch that at one time would consist of one half million acres.
He formed the Pierce-Sullivan Pasture Company and sent thousands of cattle to the markets in the north. Pierce, one of Texas' most famous pioneers and cattlemen, died at her apartment in Chicago Sunday night after a prolonged illness, a dispatch to the Chronicle stated Monday. Pierce, who was known throughout the Southwest as "Shanghai" Pierce, came to Texas in He died 22 years ago.
His home was at Pierce, Texas, founded by him, a short distance west of Wharton. She was married in Texas and later moved to Kansas City with her husband, who died in She is survived by her daughters, Mrs.
Laurence H. Armour and Mrs. The funeral was to have been held Monday from St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Kansas City. Withers - Hawley Cemetery. Death of Henry M. Henry M. Withers, an attorney, 63 years old, died at o'clock last night at his home, Warwick boulevard.
Heart disease was the cause of his death. Henry Malcolm Withers was born in Warrenton, Va. He was the son of General Pickett Withers and a descendant of a family that came to Virginia in from England. When 14 years old he left home and served in the Confederate army. After the war he was graduated from the University of Virginia.
In he came to Kansas City and engaged in the practice of law. He served one term and part of another as county attorney and one term as city attorney. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress last August. Withers was a Mason and a member of the Country club. His wife was Mary Pierce, a daughter of A.
Pierce of Pierce, Tex. Pierce Withers, 53, former Wharton county rancher and Houston oil man, died Sunday afternoon in Chicago where he had been living for the past two years. A native of Kansas City, Mr. Withers had made his home in Texas for several years, moving to Chicago because of ill health. Withers, a grandson of A. Pierce, is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Lawrence Armour and Mrs. Clive Runnells, and three nephews of Chicago.
Palacios Beacon? Runnells was born March 5, in Chicago, Illinois. Upon completion of Yale, Mr. Runnells worked for the Pullman Company. This became a full time occupation of which he was very proud and for which he had a passionate love.
Runnells was active with civic and charitable organizations. His wife, Louise Gale Runnells, preceded him in death on January 22, The family will receive friends and relatives from 4 until 6 p. Wednesday, December 10, at Taylor Bros. Funeral Home in Bay City, Texas. Funeral service will be at 2 p. Thursday, December 11, at St. Marks Episcopal Church with the Rev.
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