Winnie Davis Camp No. 108 UCV Records from Membership Register   H. D. Timmons Ent State Serv March 1861, Co E, 3rd S. C.; disch 4 March 1865. Resolution of Respect Comrade Timmons was a son of Samuel and Sarah Timmons and was born Jan. 21, 1848 at Chesterfield, S. C. and died in Waxahachie, Texas, his home town, Jan. 26, 1915 of heart failure, of which he had suffered for many years.  At time of his death he was 67 years and 5 days old - he was stricken in the city of Waxahachie and survived the attack only about one hour. Mr. Timmons was a man of fine form, and when he was young and in the pride and vigor of his manhood he must have been a handsome man.  He was of large frame graceful for one of his age - he would attract the attention of strangers and empress all that he was a manly man. It required no glass to read his character, for there was nothing small about him.  The doors of his heart were ever open to the appeals of the widows and orphans who need his help.  The records of his deeds of kindness are not written upon paper or public highways but are upon the records of the high court of the Chancery of heaven.  His heart failed him but it never failed the sorrowing ones who crossed his path of life. He was a boy soldier - enlisted in Co. E. 3 s. C. Inf. in 1864 - a 16-year-old boy too tender for the hard service of the Confederate Army, as it was then hard pressed and driven by the powerful armies of the North, and while we know little of his war life, our own experiences of those days and an observation of young soldier boys we can safely say this manly boy made a good soldier - worthy of his cause. He married Miss Ann? Murdock May 7, 1874, an Ellis Co girl who was known by two of this [committee?] when a small child.  Soon after his marriage he joined the Methodist church of which he is a zealous member during the [rest of?] his life and of which he was a "pillar of strength." He has gone from us but his works do follow him. Resolved.  That in the death of Mr. Timmons his family has lost its....support, the county a noble and useful citizen, our camp one to who it could go when in need of money? When paying his camp due he told your adjutant to always call on [him] when we wanted money for I have [illegible.] Resolved: That this tribute be spread upon our minutes and a copy for the family. T. B. Jackson, Wm. Stiles and B. F. Marchbanks, Comm. [From Confederate Veteran Magazine, Vol. VXXXIII, July 1915 as reported by the Camp Adjutant] H. D. Timmons was born at Chesterfield, S. C. January 21, 1848. He enlisted in Company E, 3rd South Carolina Infantry in 1864 at the age of sixteen years.  He died in Waxahachie.   Copyright © 2002-2016, Ellis County TXGenWeb. All Rights Reserved. This page was last modified: Thursday, 01-Jul-2021 13:19:25 MDT