Alexander Elton Garrett was born in Marrowbone, Cumberland Co., KY. He had a twin brother named Olander and 12 other siblings. He was the son of Henry Clay Garrett (1845-1924) and Delilah Garmon (1849-1914) of Kentucky. He came to Montgomery County to manage a tobacco and cotton plantation for William Fielding Spiller at Esperanza ca. 1895. I was recently told the story that when he accepted the job from W. F. Spiller, he loaded his horse on one end of a boxcar, his furniture and personal belongings on the other and that is how he travelled to Montgomery County! He married W. F. Spiller's daughter, Mary Lucy Spiller, on 27 July 1904. He was a member of the San Jacinto Masonic Lodge in Willis and his picture hangs in the Lodge as a Past Master. He and wife, Mary, had three children: Irma Louise (Garrett) Terrell, Charles Fielding Garrett, and a baby who died at birth or shortly thereafter, Elizabeth Delilah. Irma Louise is buried in Danville/Shepherd Hill Cemetery next to her husband, John Butler Terrell and her parents. Elizabeth Delilah's grave is marked only by two field stones on the right side of the road, past the brick entrance. Charles Fielding Garrett died in a boating accident and he is buried in Houston, TX.