Remembering Them Forever (RTF)!
Coombes, Zachariah Ellis
Military Information:
- Deceased
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- Civil War CSA
- CPT: Captain
- 1-Alpha List
- Confederate States Army
- Cemetery: Western Heights, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Bio:
Filling in for the Grand Master of the Masons in Texas, Zachariah laid the 12,000 pound cornerstone of the Texas State Capitol in Austin on March 2nd 1885, the 49th anniversary of Texas independence. He became Grand Master the following year.
His son William Nelson Coombes is buried here as is his first wife, Rebecca Finch Bedford Coombes. His second wife, Louise Harriett Coleman Coombes is buried in Austin.
Civil War Confederate Captain Zachariah Coombes was born in Kentucky in 1833 and came to Dallas at age 9 in 1842. He was county clerk in Dallas County and later county judge for many years. About 1870 he began active law practice and at one time represented Dallas County in the State Legislature. He died in 1895 at age 62
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