David Henry Hamilton

David Henry "D. H." Hamilton (August 8, 1843 – May 30, 1929) was a Texas farmer, businessman, and statesman. Hamilton volunteered to join the Texas Brigade (also known as Hood's Brigade) Company M, First Texas Volunteer Infantry, at the age of 17. After the surrender at the Appomattox Court House during the American Civil War, he returned home to Sumpter, Texas, May 25, 1865, without serious injury, and lived in Centralia and Groveton in Trinity County and Haskell in Haskell County.

After the Civil War, David Hamilton served as the Trinity County Sheriff from 1865 to 1867. He married Mary Isabell Gaston on November 8, 1867. from January 10, 1893, to January 8, 1895. He was a member of the Democratic Party. His district covered the counties of Montgomery, Trinity, and Walker.

In 1895, Hamilton and his wife sold their possessions and moved to Haskell County where he tried farming, and then was elected as County Judge. Then they moved to the city of Haskell. His wife, Mary, broke her hip and they decided to move back to Trinity County, where children John Gibson, Mary Annice and Octavia (Eddie) were living. While living in Groveton, David wrote a memoir of his Civil War experiences as a volunteer in Hood's Texas Brigade. Hamilton and his wife had eight children: John Gibson Hamilton, Mary Annice Hamilton, Maranda Alzera Hamilton, Vera Alice Hamilton, Alzara Gertrude Hamilton, Dudley Warner Hamilton, Octavia Edmonia (Eddie) Hamilton, and Allene Hamilton.

Hamilton was the great-great-grandfather of Governor of Texas Rick Perry.