CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: T. E. HANCOCK - Smith County, TX 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

T. E. HANCOCK

Thomas E. Hancock was born in Wilson county, Tenn., November 1, 1843, 
and died at Sylvan, Lamar county, Tex., March 1, 1907.  He enlisted 
in Company A, Whitefield’s Texas Legion, early in 1861, which became 
a part of Ross’ Texas Brigade in the Army of Tennessee, and served 
faithfully until the close of the war in 1865.  He participated in 
many hard fought battles, and after four years service returned to 
his home.  He married Miss Mary Skidmore, who, with their two sons 
and two daughters, survives him.  He was a conscientious member of 
the Methodist church, and his ambition in this life was to be helpful 
to those around him.  He was devoted to the South and his comrades, 
and was buried in a suit of gray he had kept and treasured for forty 
years.  This is a true example of the fidelity to the principles for 
which the Southland fought.