Rusk County Texas Archives Photo Document.....Exchange Certificate 
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Mary Elizabeth Pounds Phillips and her husband Columbus Washington Phillips, my
great-grandfather lived in Rusk County.

John Ike Porter, wrote, "My mother said that C. W. had enough C. S. A. money in
an old trunk to wallpaper a house." John Porter's mother was my grandfather's
sister.

Columbus served in the Civil War with Captain Caleb J. Garrison's Co. D, 34th
Texas Volunteer Cavalry; also Captain Isaac Dansby Co. G., 18th Texas Volunteer
Infantry. Applied for pension 22 April 1905; disabled in service; 1864 Indigent
List, dependant; 1865 Indigent List, 2 dependents.  Pension # 11111

A copy of The Henderson Times dated May 19, 1910 with an article entitled "The
Passing of The Old Men". Quote:

"Just within the last few months the following named Rusk county citizens have
passed into the great beyond:  G.S. Strong, Sr., C.C. Philgreen, W.F. Richards,
Columbus Phillips, J.H. Dunklin, A.K. VanSickle and James Lemmon. The article
commemorates their service ending with "They were Confederates, soldiers valiant
and true to the country they loved.  They did not return when the war was over
and sit on their dismantled porches, looking gloomily our over the sea of the
destroyed South, but they went to work to rebuild it.  We are reaping the
results of their labors today.  They are gone, they will not hear the command
again to fall into line, nor to prepare for action----but when the Roll is
called up yonder, they will answer, Here!"

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