Hopkins Co., TX - Obit - Gen. Robert Murray Henderson
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HENDERSON, ROBERT MURRAY, GENERAL - Resolution of Respect passed by Matt
Ashcroft Camp, No. 170 U.C.V. - He passed away in this city March 14, 1909.
This camp has lost a true and tried friend. Our dead comrade was born at
Hennington, Carroll County, Tenn., February 18, 1842, and moved to Texas with
the family of his father in 1856. Among the very first to respond the call of
his country. In 1861 at Paris, Texas, he volunteered in Co. A, 9th Texas
Regiment of Infantry, and was with his command until he fell severely wounded
at the bloody battle of Shiloh, and lay upon the field until captured and made
prisoner by the enemy. As soon as he was exchanged he rejoined his command and
was made Adjutant of his regiment in which capacity he served to the close of
the war, after which he went into law office of R. and S. B. Maxley and Long.
In 1870 he came to Sulphur Springs and become one of the proprietors and
editors of the Sulphur Springs Gazette, was then connected with S.G. Tomlinson
in the land business, then banker, then United States Internal Revenue
Collector under Cleveland's first administration. In 1901 his former comrades
in arms recognizing in him his many high qualities as soldier and Christian
conferred on him the rank of brigadier general of the 4th Brigade of U.C.V.
His devoted wife, and only daughter and sons, and brothers have our kindest
sympathies. Committee: B.W. Foster, Jno. R. Fergerson, W.J. Ingram. Later
report - He was 67 years of age. Funeral services were conducted at the family
home on Church street by Rev. E. H. Casey of Greenville, formerly pastor of
the First Methodist church of this place. (S.S. Gazette)