CONFEDERATE REUNION and CONFEDERATE INFORMATION WANTED, COKE COUNTY, TX Contributed by Jo Collier 29 Noveber 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm *********************************************************************** Centennial Edition - 1889 Coke County Rustler 1904 1904 Robert Lee Observer 1984 1907 Bronte Enterprise 1984 1984 Observer/Enterprise, July 21, 1989 CONFEDERATE REUNION HELD COKE COUNTY RUSTLER, JULY 28, 1899 THE RE-UNION People from adjoining counties began to arrive last Friday noon to attend the big basket dinner and EX-Confederate Re-union of Richard Coke Camp. The celebration began Friday at dark with a dance in the Hoon Hall and a wedding soon after the dance. By 10:00 Saturday about 1500 people were on the ground some having been camped since Friday afternoon. Judge J. I. Guion of Ballinger the orator of the day, made one of his characteristic speeches which was enjoyed by about five hundred of our people then as the arbor would hold no more. Any compliments the Rustler might pay Judge Guion's address would be superfluous as he is known all over this section as one of the profound thinkers, as well as one of the best (no readable) in West Texas. The Rustler will print his excellent address. Shortly after the conclusion of Judge Guion's address, dinner was announced, and the Editor felt real bad because he could not accept all the invitations to dinner. Every body had plenty to eat and they had the good and wholesome kinds of food that keep editors and professional men fat. Numbers of our people failed to find friends enough to eat one fourth of their good dinners. There were some interesting recitations in the afternoon by the Misses Lottie Hayley and Ella Caraway and by Mrs. D. T. Averitt, and Mrs. W. L. Hayley. INFORMATION WANTED Coke County Rustler, Aug. 25, 1899 Information is wanted by Richard Coke Camp No. 600, U.C.V., Robert Lee, Texas, of all Confederates buried in Coke County, so their history may be placed of record in the records of the camp, so that their graves may be properly cared for and in future decorated as Confederates. Also of all Confederate women who lived during the stirring times of the war and of the days of reconstruction. Any comrade, relative or friend having knowledge of such deceased persons will please call H. D. Pearce Adjutant of the camp at Post Office building, Robert Lee, Texas. The following is a list of names who were of age sufficient to have had such experiences of that time. Also it is desired to secure a biographical sketch of every Confederate living in Coke County or anyone who may perchance be temporarily at Robert Lee. Bronte Cemetery: A. L. Kelly, William Mayfield, W. M. Doshier, Madison McCutchen, Fanny Wheat, William Prewitt, John Lee, and J. L. Hickman. Robert Lee Cemetery: Cook Walton, William Hardester, I. M. Bennick, Billups, Mobley, J. R. Clements, J. W. Tunnell, A. M. Waldrip, T. Latham, Mrs. H. C. Green, J. H. Burroughs, A. C. Ashley, J. S. Lowry, J. W. Murray, and J. M. Tucker. Permission granted by The Observer/Enterprise for publication in the Coke County TXGenWeb Archives.