Dallas Morning News
August 8, 1912
Page: 10

Old Soldiers Begin Reunion at Ennis

Parsons' Brigade Members in Annual Celebration

Program for Today Includes Automobile Ride Over City and a Big Chicken Dinner

  Ennis, Tex., Aug. 7 -- The thirty-second annual reunion of Parsons' Brigade 
Association met here today for a two day's session, with about eighty members
and visitors in attendance.  Mayor Collier, Dr. J. C. Loggins and Mrs. Clemma
Watkin delivered addresses of welcome, which were responded to by B.F. 
Marchbanks of Waxahachie, who also delivered the annual address.
  The Ennis Band is furnishing music for the reunion.  W.R. Kirkpatrick is
commander and George H. Hogan is adjutant of the association, both of them
residing at Ennis.
  An automobile ride tomorrow afternoon, a big chicken dinner and many other
forms of entertainment have been provided.  The meetings are being held in the
Christian Tabernacle.

                   Those in Attendance
  Those who had registered up to last reort, giving their name, regiment, 
company, present address and age, are as follows:
  Members -- J. E. Bonner of Whitney and J. T. Lott of Fairfield were the 
first arrivals for the reunion, coming in Tuesday night. J. D. Beauchamp, 12th,
H, Ennis, 70 years old; C.H. Kelly, 12th, H, Waxahachie, 67; Sam Uhl, , 12th, 
F, Dallas, 79; A.P. Aynure, 19th, H, Midlothian, 67; J.C. Reagor, 12th, F, 
Waxahachie, 68; J. E. Bonner, 12th, B, Whitney, 78; J.T. Lott, 12th, B, 
Fairfield, 74; T.S. Andrews, Morgan B., D, Waxahachie, 72; J.M. Sullvan, 12th, E, 
Waxahachie, 69; J.H. Newby, 19th, A, Paradise, 75; B.F. Marchbanks, 12th, E, 
Waxahachie, 722; A.M. Dechman, 19th, E, Dallas, 82; R.W. Derden, 19th, C, Ennis, 
72; W. R. Kirkpatrick, 12th, H, Ennis, 66; John Veratyden, 19th, A, Waxahachie, 
83; H. Henry, 21st, C, Ennis, 73; Capt. W.L. Coggin, Morgan R., D, Soldier's 
Home, Austin, 78; R.D. Harris, 12th, H, Ennis, 73; A. J. Mullican, Morgan B., 
D, Crisp, 72; R. J. Wright, 19th, L, Purdon, 75; J.M. Bartlett, 12th, A, Rice, 
70; W. N. Kenner, 12th, E, Corsicana, 79; J. S. Boren, 12th, H, Ennis, 65; G. A.
Owen, 12th, H, Canton, 67; J. A. Hesser, 12th, H, Ennis, 73; J. E. Kelly, 12th, 
H, 67; M. W. Ludwick, 12th, F, Midlothian, 68; E. S. New, 19th, A, Clifton, 82;
S. C. Cooper, 19th, A, Midlothian, 67; R. E. Orr, 12th, F, Red Oak, 69; Robert
Morgan, 12th, F, Midlothian, 73; P. H. Goodloe, 12th, E, Fort Worth, 75; G. H.
Cunningham, 19th, C, Waxahachie, 85; A. T. Miller, 19t, C, Waxahachie, 82.

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