Grayson County, Texas  -  Charles Stewart Durning
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Note: This obituary appeared in vol. XXI, March, 1913, p. 133 of
 "The Confederate Veteran Magazine".

 CHARLES STEWART DURNING.

     Charles S. Durning was born in Cape Girardeau County, Mo., March 
 10, 1830; and passed from this life on January 10, 1913, at his residence 
 in Van Alstyne in the eighty-third year of his life.  He went to Texas in
 1853 and located in Grayson County, where he lived, except while in the 
 Confederate army, until his death.

     At the close of the war he returned to Grayson County and at once 
 took charge of Captain Bowen's mill on Sister Grove Creek, where as manager
 he was universally popular with the customers and made the mill a success.
 He accumulated means to buy a fine tract of black land on the waters of the
 East Fork of the Trinity River.

    On November 19, 1868, he was married to Miss Hester George, who survives
 him. Comrade Durning was a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the
 Missionary Baptist Church.