Confederate Biography : H. C. ERWIN,  Smith county, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 159

Henry Clay Erwin, son of Col. Thomas B. Erwin, a prominent planter, 
was born in La Fayette, Chambers county Ala., December 20, 1843, 
removing to Texas with his father's family in 1850, and locating in 
Smith county.  He early entered the Confederate service and served 
throughout the war in one of the regiments that composed Walker's 
division of the Trans-Mississippi department.  He proved himself 
to be every inch a soldier and rendered spendid service.  He died 
in Tyler, Janurary 10, 1899, and is buried in Oakwood cemetery.  
He was married in 1867 to Miss Sallie McDaniel, who survives him 
and who is a resident of Tyler.  He was a popular man and numbered 
his friends by the hundreds.