Winnie Davis Camp No. 108 UCV Records from Membership Register   J. B. McCaul Entered State Service May 27, 1861 Pvt ?Co F, 20th Tenn Inf; entered Conf Serv May 27, 1862 Pvt Co F, 20th Tenn Inf; disch end of War May 10, 1865. On original form "Died April 7, 1911." Resolution of Respect Headquarters Camp Winnie Davis U. C. V. 108 June 3, 1911 Commander, Officers and Comrades. We your Committee appointed to draft Resolutions on the death of Comrade J. B. McCaull, beg to submit the following. Comrade McCaull was born in the town of Methesca, Williamson County Tennessee May 27, 1845. At the age of 16 entered the State service on his birth day May 27, 1861 and on May 27, 1862 one year there after, was mustered into the Confederate service as a private in Company F 20th Regiment Tenn Infantry in which capacity he served his country until the close of the War, being discharged on May 10, 1865, having served the state and Confederacy for the period of nearly four years.  We much regret the Record of this Camp fails to show the engagements he participated in during his long service, so necessary at this moment to enable us to give a complete history, such as would be a pleasure to us to record at this time and be a source of joy to his family to recount in the years to come. From information received, we find Comrade McCaull made a profession of religion and joined the Methodist church at about the age of 26 years and for 40 years served his church and Savior with fidelity and zeal to the end of life which came on the 7th day of April 1911. Comrade McCaull moved to Texas settling in Waxahachie Ellis County about 27th April 1891 and one year after was married to Miss Maggie Hines who with one son, Hugh, survive to mourn his loss. It is with great pleasure your committee states that in all the years Comrade McCaull lived among us and was associated with Camp Winnie Davis he at all times conducted himself as a man worthy of our esteem and friendship and since it has pleased the great Captain of the Universe to remove him from our ranks, we feel he has an everlasting habitation above the skies and his associates the redeemed of earth. Therefore resolved That in the death of Comrade McCaull the officers and members of Camp Winnie davis are reminded that our ranks are being thinned by the grim reaper, Death, and in a few short years all of us will have past to the great beyond and we wish to say to his bereaved companion and son that we sympathize with them in their afflictions more than words can express and to Him who "tempers the wind" to the shorn lamb, we point them as One ever willing to sustain them through every trial and every trouble. Resolved. A copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of our deceased Comrade and the minutes of this camp show on its pages a true and correct reprint of same.' Respectfully submitted: William Stiles, T. B. Jackson, H. B Wilson   Copyright © 2002-2016, Ellis County TXGenWeb. All Rights Reserved. This page was last modified: Thursday, 01-Jul-2021 13:19:07 MDT