Individual Details
Capt. Thomas Scurry
(15 Mar 1859 - 17 Dec 1911)
SCURRY, THOMAS (1859-1911). Thomas Scurry, businessman, soldier, and adjutant general of Texas at the turn of the century, son of Evantha (Foster) and Richardson A. Scurry, was born in Waller County, Texas, on March 15, 1859. He was employed in the wholesale business in Houston in 1876 and later worked in the general offices of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad. From 1880 to 1886 he was captain of the Houston Light Guards. Scurry established a real estate business in Dallas in 1886. During the Spanish-American War he was a major in the First Texas Volunteer Infantry. He was appointed adjutant general by Governor Charles A. Culberson on January 17, 1899, and had supervision of martial law imposed at Galveston during the flood of 1900. As adjutant general, he was instrumental in drafting a bill for reorganization of the Texas Rangers.qv In 1902 he was ordered to Brownsville by Governor Joseph D. Sayers to investigate cowboy-ranger difficulties in Cameron County. Scurry married Emma Welch Gano in Dallas in 1896. They had two children. He died in Dallas on December 17, 1911.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: C. W. Raines, Year Book for Texas (2 vols., Austin: Gammel-Statesman, 1902, 1903). Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935; rpt., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982).
Claudia Hazlewood
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Events
| Birth | 15 Mar 1859 | Walker Co., TX | |||
| Marriage | 21 Jan 1896 | Dallas, Dallas Co., TX - Emma Welch Gano | |||
| Death | 17 Dec 1911 | Heart Attack - Dallas, Dallas Co., TX | |||
| Alt name | "Tom" |
Families
| Spouse | Emma Welch Gano (1869 - 1936) |
| Child | Miriam Scurry (1897 - 1997) |
| Child | Thomas Scurry , Jr. (1898 - 1944) |
| Child | Martha Welch Scurry (1900 - 1987) |
| Child | Katherine Evantha Scurry (1902 - 1977) |
| Child | Richardson Gano Scurry (1904 - 1979) |
| Child | William Clarence Scurry , Sr. (1906 - 1964) |
| Child | Maurice McLaurin Scurry (1910 - 1974) |