CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: CAPTAIN DUNOVANT - Houston, TX 

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24 October 2001 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

CAPTAIN DUNOVANT

The Texas Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, bows in 
deepest sorrow in sympathy with our president, Miss Adelia A. Dunovant, 
in the loss of her brother, Captain William Dunovant, who died in 
Houston, Texas, August 12, 1902.  Words are a poor, feeble thing at 
such a time, when the heart is torn, and the mind vivid with fond 
remembrance, but many hearts beat today in tender consolation for 
the dear sister, who has given up her only brother.  The two were 
mutually dependent for happiness and love and their home life so 
congenial and complete.  Together they indulged the same tastes, 
the same ideas, the same unfaltering love for truth, and devotion 
unsurpassed for the South and its true history.  A Confederate 
soldier of the staunchest type, fearless, vigorous and everlastingly 
convinced of the rights of his beloved South, and this kind we can 
ill afford to part with.  Intelligent sympathy with the joys and 
sorrows of human life is one of the works of true greatness of the 
soul.  And since we must bow to Divine decree in the removal of this 
man, soldier, citizen and friend, be it Resolved, 

1.  That Ennis Chapter extends loving sympathy to our State president, 
    Miss Adelia A. Dunovant, in her irreparable loss.

2.  We realize that the State has lost a worthy citizen, the South a 
    loyal son, and the Daughters of the Confederacy a true friend, who 
    gave generous sympathy and interest to our efforts and work and 
    advocated our principles.
 
3.  Though human hearts will ache, and eyes will weep in longing and 
    loneliness because we cannot reach where God holds our loved ones, 
    and touch their hands, and no message ever comes to us from the 
    happy dead, we know that God, in his infinite love and mercy, will 
    comfort and sustain our worthy president in this dark hour, and make 
    bearable this awful grief.  This expression of sympathy and regard 
    will become part of the record of this chapter.   

                                      Miss Katie Daffan.