A NATIVE OF KENTUCKY, WALTER
URIE EARLY (1868-1 939) MOVED TO
BROWNWOOD IN 1893, HE BECAME A
RESPECTED LOCAL ATTORNEY AND IN
1895 WAS ELECTED CITY ATTORNEY.
HE WAS COUNTY ATTORNEY FROM
1900 TO 1906,AND SERVED AS DISTRICT
ATTORNEY FROM 1906 TO 1930.  A
LEADER IN NUMEROUS CIVIC GROUPS,
HE DONATED LAND EAST OF BROWN-
WOOD TO THE JONES CHAPEL RURAL
SCHOOL DISTRICT IN 1929.  THE SCHOOL
BUILT THERE WAS NAMED EARLY IN
1930, AS WAS THE COMMUNITY WHEN
THE CITIZENS VOTED TO INCORPORATE
IN 1951.  WALTER EARLY DIED IN 1939
AND WAS BURIED IN BROWNWOOD'S
GREENLEAF CEMETERY.
(1994)