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Georgia native George Lawson Bledsoe, born in 1805, was a carpenter and cotton gin builder who came to Texas in 1834. A veteran of the Texas Revolution and the Battle of San Jacinto, he received a pension for his military service and patented land grants in Brazoria, Cooke, Jack, Fannin, and Wise counties. He was married to Ellen Bowdre, who died in 1850, and they had five children. Bledsoe is buried here with his daughter Georgia and his brother-in-law, Preston E. Bowdre. Ellen Bledsoe and the couple's other four children are buried in Fannin County, probably in Bledsoe Cemetery near Dial.
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