Runnels Co., TX., Obits - Col. T.L. Odom
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Col. T.L. Odom

At the residence of his son Garland Odom, in Ballinger, Monday, 29 March
1897, 3:15 a.m., surrounded by his wife, children, grandchildren and 
friends, Comrade  Col. T.L. Odom quietly passed over. The corpse was 
taken, accompanied by relatives and a large number of friends to his 
old home, Fort Chadbourne, for interment.

Comrade Odom on 21 April 1895, applied to and joined the Henry E. 
McCulloch camp, No. 557, U.C.V., of Runnels County. In the camp record book is recorded as follows: ÒPrivate T.L. Odom, born 20 March 1824, in Conecuh county, Alabama, came to Texas, Bexar county, 1853; enlisted in the Confederate service from and in Bexar county, spring of 1863 in Captain J.O. AdamsÕ company, on detached service guarding commissary at San Antonio, Texas, and patrol duty in the vicinity of San Antonio and Fredericksburg. He remained in the service until the close of the war, and was disbanded at San Antonio.
He moved to Runnels County in 1879, located at old Fort Chadbourne,
which was in Runnels county at that time, has been married twice,
has a large family of children and was by occupation a stock raiser.

To know Comrade Odom was to love and honor him. He served his
	 country well, kindly and faithfully as a husband, father, soldier and citizen and Christian, his county as commissioner several times, and his state one term in the legislature. He now rests over the river under the grace of a crucified and risen Savior.
H.L. Pearce
Adjutant U.C.V. Camp


Runnels County Ledger
Ballenger, Runnels County, Texas
Friday, April 9, 1897