Confederate Colonel
Granville Henderson Oury took his oath of allegiance to the United States
Government October 8th 1865 at Fort Mason, Arizona.
Granville
Henderson Oury was born March 12th 1825 in Abingdon, Virginia. The family moved in 1836 to Bowling Green,
Missouri. He studied law and was
admitted to the bar 1848, the same year he moved to San Antonio, Texas. He caught gold fever and moved in 1849 to
Marysville, California to mine. Oury
gave up mining in 1856 and moved to Tucson in the New Mexico Territory, where
he would be appointed district judge. He
was involved in the Crabb Massacre in April 1857, in which General Henry Crabb
crossed the Mexican border and he and about 100 men with him were killed.
When the
Civil War started Oury was elected to the Confederate Provisional Congress from
the Arizona Territory. At about the same
time a band of Apaches attacked the town of Tubac, Arizona, and Oury raised a
small party of Confederate militia, saving the people of the town. Oury resigned his seat in the Confederate
Congress in 1862 and joined Herbert’s Battalion of cavalry as a Captain. He was promoted to Colonel and served as a
staff officer for Confederate General Henry Hopkins Sibley in Texas and
Louisiana. When the war ended Oury took
the oath allegiance at Fort Mason in Arizona on October 8th 1865.
After the
war Oury went back to his law practice in Tucson, Arizona. He served in the Arizona Territorial
Legislature, was the Speaker of the House, and in 1869 was the Attorney General
of the Territory. Moving to Phoenix,
Arizona in 1871 he became the Maricopa County District Attorney. He would serve the state as a Democrat in the
United States House of Representatives from 1881 through 1885. Oury died January 11th 1891 in
Tucson, Arizona from throat cancer. He
is buried in the Adamsville Cemetery in Florence, Arizona.
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