closest primary defeat for an incumbent governor in United States history. Personal life and death He wed Maud Abbie Gage on October 10, 1898. Sterling died in Fort Worth on March 25, 1949, and is buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston. Three Texas schools are named after him, Sterling High School in Baytown, Sterling High School in Houston, and Ross Sterling Middle School in Humble, Texas. In addition, his grand-nephew, Ross N. Sterling, a Republican, became a United States federal judge in Texas under appointment of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford Jr. In 1925, Sterling's daughter Mildred married the prominent architect Wyatt C. Hedrick of Fort Worth. Sterling's former house, built about 1910, was moved in 1999 from 106 Westheimer Road to the intersection of Bagby and Rosalie to undergo restoration. In 2015 it opened as a bar & restaurant called Sterling House References Further reading External links http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/40032/tsl-40032.html Democratic Party governors of Texas American businesspeople in the oil industry Businesspeople from Texas Texas Oil Boom people ExxonMobil people 1875 births 1949 deaths Burials at Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas) People from Houston People from Anahuac, Texas