Wood County, Texas - Obituary - S. R. Bruce ************************************************************ Copyright © 2005 by Bunny Freeman. This copy contributed by: Bunny Freeman Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************ Confederate Veteran Magazine Vol. 8 No. 6 June 1900 The Last Roll Call At Mineola, Tex., Thursday night, May 9, the soul of S. R. Bruce bade the world good-night and went to sleep with that "great majority" who have gone before. Mr. Bruce was born in Orange County, VT., December 3, 1830, the son of David Bruce and Malinda Sturtevant. His paternal grandfather came from Scotland to America during the colonial period, and served as a colonel in the revolutionary army. Comrade Bruce resided there until 1854, when he moved to Illinois, and thence to Gonzales County, Tex., in the fall of 1859. He was residing there when the call to arms came from his adopted State, and though he was but a youth and a stranger, the sunny Southland had won his heart, and joining his destiny to hers, he volunteered as a member of the famous regiment known as Terry's Texas Rangers, and fought in the van of that band of heroes through the four years of bloody strife. While acting as adjutant to the gallant Gen. John A. Wharton at the battle of Perryville he was shot through the leg with a grapeshot and severely wounded. Recovering from this wound, he continued with his command until the fortunes of the war forced even the intrepid Terry Rangers to lay down their arms. After the war he was married in Oglethorpe, Ga., November 14, 1865, to Miss Catherine Reeves, and in 1866 moved again to Texas, and settled near where Lone Oak now stands, and remained there until 1873, when he moved to Mineola, where he resided continuously until his death. The loving appreciation of his beautiful character was shown in the tributes paid him when he had passed to his reward. He was buried under the auspices of the Masonic Fraternity. 1880 census Wood Co. has him listed as Simeon R. Page.