The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-08-13
Parsons Brigade Reunion.

The survivors o. this brigade OF
Confederate veterans met last year
In Ennis and so well did the city
entertain them they met there again
this year. This brigade was made
mp Of volunteers from Central Texas
counties. Gen. Parsons was a
young lawyer in Waco when the
war broke out and he raised this
brigade from the young men then In
this frontier country and they do
say they were good fighters. Not
many now remain, only fifty-five OF
the command registering at Ennis.
Gen. Parsons still lives and is prac-
ticing law In Washington City.
His son, who resides In Louisiana,
came to the reunion of his fathers
brigade and made nice speech to
his fathers old soldiers. The Gen
eral expected to come, but business
kept him away.
Mr. ID. &. Nance, who resides at
Duneanville, Dallas county, was a
member of this brigade. / met him
at Ennis. He carries eight scars
| received in the war. During the
war there was powder mill erected
I'm Waxahachie, and one day this
mill blew up killing the fathers OF
Bob Phillips and Harry Rowan and
severely mangling Mr.. Nance. He
recovered and at the battle OF Cash
river, I'm Arkansas, In which Par
son's brigade lost many men. Mr..
| Nance was severely wounded and
brought back to Desare, Ark. There
lived In that town Mrs. Stubble-
| field, whose maiden name was Julia
Haynes, and whose father was one
| Of the first settlers In the Nash
country, Patrick Haynes by name.
Mrs. Stubblefleld was raised on On
ION creek and naturally when the
wounded men were brought back tc
Desarc, hunted out this Texan
washed his bloody shirt and helped
nurse him till he was well again
This good lady afterward married
Mr.. Brumback, Mr.. Stubbletield dy
ing during the war, and she moved
from Arkansas back to Ellis county
and was one Of the first settlers II
! Ennis where she still resides. o.
course she and Mr.. Nance lost sigh
Iof each other till this reunion a
Ennis and those who witnessed
their meeting say it was indeed al
affecting scene, 1t had been forty
years and one month since sh'
washed his bloody garments ant
lnursed him back to health and Mr.
Nance informed Mrs. Brumbacl
that he still had that shirt and tina
1t shows the bullet holes in 1t a
plain as 1t did the day she washe,
| it forty years ago.
love tn attend the reunions o
these old veterans, but was sick tn
first day and only arrived there tn
second day at II O'Clock and wit
Mr.. Yoes, of Palmer, aid Mr.. Hill
, of Garrett, In Mr.. Yoes' buggy hui
ried out to Quinn's park, mic
shady grove in the Northwestern
part of Ennis ana when we arrive
, at the grounds these veterans an
their guests were feastiug on tn
good things prepared by the goo
ladies of Ennis. Mr.. e. NJ. CLARK
that splendid clever jeweler at Bas
Bros, drug store, was one of tn
masters of ceremonies, and spyin
my tall form on the outside 500
y lushered me into the midst of the ol
] soldiers and good grub, introduce
| ME To Miss Kate Daffan, who is on
: of the most enthusiastic members {
: the organization known as Daugl
I ters of the Confederaey, After NEE
= ing her and many others ] was fed I
after by Tohe Edmondson, Be
Orr and many other of the veteran
who by the time ! arrived had o.
= youred the good things and the fa'
y is 1 needed protection before / hs
u finished and Uncle Henry Orr kin,
! ly stood them off with stick whi
5 run up the last course. p
Cohen, of Waxahaehie, said Dalls
gave the veterans buffalo and Enn