Bryan Daily Eagle, 27 June 1927, pg1
Early Arrivals for Annual Reunion
John H. Roberts of Acadia, president of Hood's Texas Brigade, arrived today and while here attending
the reunion is a guest in the home of Hon. And Mrs. W. S. Barron.
Among the early arrivals for Hood's Texas and Green's Brigades reunion, Miss Katie Daffan of Ennis,
life secretary Hood's Texas Brigade, Mrs. Libbie Wade Cameron, life secretary Green's Brigade, Col.
And Mrs. H. C. Wright, Austin, chaplain Green's Brigade, grand son and grand daughter Jane and George
Watkins, Mrs. Ellen Berry, Mrs. Jno. Berry, LaGrange, Col. J. O. Bradfield, chaplain Hood's Texas
Brigade, Judge W. H. Browning, life commander Green's Brigade, Captain E. W. B. Leach, San Antonio,
Hood's Brigade, Mrs. Wm. Edgewirth Muse, Dallas, first vice-president Texas Division U. D. C., Mrs.
Forrest Farley Austin, president Texas Division United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Captain J. E. Mathis of Reliance is among the early arrivals for the reunion of Hood's Texas Brigade
and Green's Brigade. Capt. Mathis served in the 10th Battalion of the Georgia Artillery. He is 89
years young. He came to Brazos county 49 years ago and bought the place he now loves on and has been
living on it continuously since that day. After 61 years of happy married life he lost his wife six
years ago. While here for the reunion with his son Jim Mathis.
Captain E. W. B. Leach of San Antonio arrived Saturday for the reunion. He is a guest in the home of
his friends Mr. and Mrs. Jno A. Boriskie and a roommate of his friend James Briggs of Fort Worth.
Capt. Leach stopped over in Austin enroute [sic] to bryan [sic] for a few days visit to the
Confederate Home. While there he witnessed the marriage of R. P. H. Calhoun age 92, and Mrs. Annie
Elizabeth Pollard age 81. Calhoun is from the Men's Confederate Home and Mrs. Pollard from the
Women's Confederate Home. "The couple left immediately on a honeymoon trip to San Antonio," Capt.
Leach said.
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Bryan Daily Eagle, 29 June 1927, pg1
The official registers kept separate by the two Brigades showed the following members present:
Green's Brigade: R. B. Wood, Co. G, 7th Texas Cavalry, Richards; Sam Lindley, Co. G, 7th Texas,
Navasota; S. E. Selman, Co. K, 4th Texas, Terrell; C. Y. Carroll, Co. K 2nd Texas, El Campo; M. R.
Phillips, J. B. Likins Regiment, Bryan; W. B. Williams, Co. A 4th Texas, Madisonville; W. D. Olney,
Co. G, 5th Texas Cavalry, Confederate Home, Austin; Crawford Lane, Val Verde Battery, Palestine;
Judge W. H. Browning, McNalley Scouts, Lampasas, Co. H; C. Wright, Austin, chaplain of the Brigade;
W. Criswell, Co. K 7th Texas Cavalry, Confederate Home, Austin; F. K. Goree, Midway.
Hood's Texas Brigade: Capt. John H. Roberts, Co. E, 1st Texas Regiment, Arcadia; James Briggs, Fort
Worth, Co. M 1st Texas, and chaplani [sic] of Hood's Brigade; E. W. B. Leach, San Antonio, Co. L 1st
Terry's Rangers; J. J. Pressley, Caldwell, Co. E 38th Alabama; J. K. P. Hanna, Calvert, Co. G 4th
Texas; A. H. Polly, Confederate Home, Austin, Co. G 33rd Texas cavalry; M. J. Fre_, Brenham, 4th
Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade; J. W. Dallas, 4th Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade.
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Bryan Daily Eagle, 29 June 1927, pg1
Confederate Veterans Are Royally Entertained By Lions' Club Here
The following were present: F. D. Fuller, Mrs. Forrest H. Farley, Pres. Tex. Div. U. D. C., W. E.
Selman, Thos. Gordon Watts, John H. Roberts, Arcadia, Katie Daffan, Mrs. J. F. Berry, Mrs. Ellen
Berry, M. R. Phillips, James Briggs, W. B. Free, F. H. Goree Jr., P. K. Goree, Co. H 5th Tex. Reg.,
Hood's Brigade, Mrs. P. K. Goree Sr, W. T. Carrington, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dallas, W. B. Williams,
Mrs. R. E. Powell, J. J. Pressley, John Landers, R. L. Midkiff, Bedias, Tex., J. W. Brosig, Navasota,
D. E. Millen, Bryan U. C. V., Mrs. Albert Buchanan, Gen. R. D. Chapman, Houston, Tex., Mrs. Wm.
Edgeworth, Muse, 1st Vice-President U. D. C., Glen Rose, Tex., Geo. H. Watkins, Austin, Tex., Eleanor
Jane Watkins, Austin, Tex., Mrs. Henry Clay Wright, Austin, Texas, H. C. Wright, Austin, Texas,
A. G. Bryan, Houston, Texas, Mrs. A. Y. Bryan, Houston, Texas, Austin Bryan, Houston, Texas, J. K. P.
Hanna, Calvert, L. H. Barry, Navasota, S. W. Lindsay, R. V. Woods, W. E. Davis, Bassett Lowell,
Carmen Lavender, H. B. Lavender, J. G. McDonald, Mrs. J. Wallace Brosig, Navasota, Grimes Co., Mrs.
B. B. Knolle, Vice-President Texas U. D. C., Houston, Mrs. F. I. Neville, Houston, Miss Miami Barry,
Navasota, A. H. Polley, Austin, Texas, R. E. Lovejoy, J. H. Sheffield, Mrs. F. D. Fuller, Mrs. Ebbie
Garvin, Mrs. L. G. Wood, Jno. L. Ashford, J. Coulter Smith, Mrs. L. C. Lichenstein, General J. C.
Foster, Mrs. J. C. Foster, R. C. Franks, Ross M. Sherwood, Willard Chambers, Tom G. Suber, J. H.
Bolton, C. M. Halsell, Harry S. Edge, G. L. Crawford, R. V. Armstrong, H. H. Young, W. E. Neeley, Al
F. Ainsworth, J. E. Mathis, W. D. Oney, F. S. Garrett, C. G. Carroll, D. B. Gregory, J. O. Bradfield,
Co. C 1st Texas, W. H. Browning, Mrs. C. C. Cameron, Dallas, J. E. Hensarling, Harry Durham, M. M.
Erskine, Bob Irvine, S. E. Eberstadt, Mrs. Roy Danforth, two negro soldiers.
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