CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  S. B. Barron - Cherokee County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pages 181-182

S. B. BARRON.

S. B. Barron, of Rusk, was born in Gurlay, in the eastern portion 
of Madison county, Ala­bama, Nov. 9, 1834.  His father, Samuel B. 
Barron, a native of South Carolina, was a teacher of note.  His 
grandfather, James Barron, was of Scotch descent, and like all of 
his ancestors was a staunch Presbyterian.  The maternal grandparents  
of the subject of this sketch, Captain James Cotton and Nancy 
(John­son) Cotton were natives of North Carolina, the former being in
the battle of Guilford Court House of the American Revolu­tion, and in 
1812 was a captain under Gen. Andrew Jackson in the second war 
against England. S. B. Barron lost his par­ents early in life and lived 
in Huntsville, Ala., until 1859 when he removed to Texas and located 
in Rusk, Cherokee county.  Having studied law be was, in the summcr of 
1860, admitted to the bar by Judge Reuben A. Reeves and entered upon 
the active practice.  In 1861 he enlisted in Co. C., Third Texas 
Cavalry, and was made third sergeant. He was in the battle of Elkhorn 
Tavern, Corinth, Iuka, Hatchie Bridge, Oakland, Holly Springs and 
Davis' Mill, where he was wounded.  For courage and gallantry he was 
now promoted second lieuten­ant, and fought at Jackson, Liverpool and 
Yazoo City.  He was in the hundred days fighting in the Georgia 
campaign of 1864, and was captured at Lovejoy Station, but made his 
escape by "playing dead."  He was with Gen. Hood's army in Tennessee 
in 1864-65, under Gen. N. B. Forrest in the battle near Pulaski and 
at Sugar Creek, the last battle of the campaign.  He was detailed by 
Gen. L. S. Ross to be Judge Advocate of the permanent brigade court 
martial, and served as such with credit.  S. B. Barron was a member 
of one of the best regiments that was mustered in the service of the 
Confederate States; a regiment which, with one excep­tion now 
remembered, was given the post of honor and of danger in every 
advance and retreat by the army in which it served, and the subject 
of this sketch endured all the hardships and faced all the dangers to 
which the corn­mand was exposed.  When ordered to perform a duty 
how­ever arduous or dangerous, it was performed without hes­itation or 
murmur.  When the war ended Mr. Barron re­turned home and again took up 
the practice of law.  He has been county judge of Cherokee county, 
county clerk for many years, and has held other posts of honor and 
responsibility at the hands of the people.  On Sept. 5, 1865, he was 
married to Eugenia, daughter of Col. Jas. M. Wiggins, who died 
Oct. 23, 1882.  Their only child, Dr. Wm. P. Barron, resides in Rusk.  
Two years later he was married to Mrs. Olympia Miller (nee Scott) who 
died in 1893, leaving one child, Anna.  In Nov. 1894, he married Mrs. 
Agatha Leftwich (nee Scott) formerly of Huntsville, Ala.  Judge 
Barron is greatly esteemed by the people of Cherokee and especially so 
by his old comrades.