Winnie Davis Camp No. 108 UCV
Deaths
[as reported in the Confederate Veteran, Vol. XI, No. 7, July 1903]
Submitted by Ruth
Walsh
Waxahachie, Texas records the deaths of three members of Camp Winnie
Davis, No. 108, UCV, who were members of Parsons' Texas Brigade.
William A. Calfee was born at Greensburg, Ky. in 1838 and in 1859 became
a resident of Waxahachie, where, in 1861 he enlisted in Company 11, Twelth
Texas Cavalry. As regimental bugler, he served throughout the entire war
on the staff of Col. W. H. Parsons.
Dr. R. P. Sweat was born in Wilson County, Tenn. in April 1830 and moved
to Waxahachie in 1852, enlisting in Co. C, Nineteenth Texas, in April 1862.
He was soon promoted to the rank of assistant surgeon of Parson's Brigade.
He died on Nov. 21, 1902, and was buried by Waxahachie Lodge No. 90, F. and
A. M. of which he was Master in 1865.
Abraham Allen Kembel was born in Warren County, Ky. in 1826, and while
yet in his prime moved to Waxahachie, where, in April 1862, he joined Company
C, Nineteenth Texas Calvary. He was soon promoted to the Quartermaster's
Department, with the rank of Captain, and served in that capacity until the
surrender in 1865. He was an able lawyer, possessing a judicial mind of unusual
ability and was noted for the clearness and incisiveness with which he presented
his case.
S. D. Davis, member of the Sam Davis Camp No. 1089 UCV, died at his home
near Milford, Tex. March 5, 1910. He was born in Talbot County Ga., December
8, 1833 and went through the war in Co. D., Cobb's Ga. Legion (calvary) in
J.E.B. Stuart's Division, Army of Northern Virginia. He married Miss Laura
Carricker in 1866, joined the Baptist Church in 1872 and came to Texas in
1883. Surviving him are his wife, four sons and three daughters.
He was a member from its organization of Sam Davis Camp and until his eyesight
failed was a reader of the Confederate Veteran. [Source: Confederate
Veteran, XVIII, No. 8, Aug. 1910]
Note: The Sam Davis Camp No. 1089 in Milford was chartered in 1898 [ Confederate Veteran Vol. VI, No. 4, April 1898]. According to Sept.
1900 issue of same publication contributions to the camp had been made by
H. B. Allen, A. J. Brown, Dr. Z. T. Bundy, C. L. Carter, W. T. M. Dickson,
W. B. Harmon, J. W. Jones, J. K. McFadden, W. J. Morgan, L. E. Powell, N.
R. Rutherford, J. M. Webb and L. C. Wright.
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