Dear List......Does anyone know a good source for Confederate Veterans information? I've tried posting various places and no one ever e-mails me back with an answer.....maybe they just don't have an answer or maybe I'm still trying the wrong spots. Here is my delima: My great grandfather was in Parker Co. Texas as a boy of 15 when he became a Commanche scout about 1862......The next year he enlisted with Simm's Battalion A, Brown's Regiment, Texas Cavalry from Parker County. About 1920 he moved his family to Ada, OK and was appointed to the Board of Trustee of the Old Soldier's Home in Ardmore, OK.......this must have been in the 1930's as the OK Governor was named Marland and he did the appointment. He was also a State Confederate Pension Commissioner. When my great grandfather died,.....just two months shy of his 100th birthday, in 1947, it is reported that he was the last surviving Confederate veteran of Ponotoc County. ( Some of this information comes from a written oral history and some from obits when he died in 1947) All I am trying to do is get copies or varification of this information. I'd like to know about the Texas Cavalry unit he belonged to. I'd also like to know about his appointments to the two Confederate posts. I must be looking in all the wrong places..............my great grandfather was named William Bluford CANTWELL, b. 1847, Richland Creek, Madison Co. Ark. and d. 1947 in Ada, OK. He is buried in Ft. Smith. I could sure use some ideas.............Thanks, Sharyn c onfederate soldier in Potonoc County. I even have a very hard to read copy of a certificate I have been trying without success to find out about this Texas regiment

--- SBaker2842@aol.com wrote: .The next year he enlisted > with Simm's Battalion A, Brown's Regiment, Texas > Cavalry from Parker County. You may know this, Brown's Regt. was the 35th TX Cavalry. Maybe this will help narrow the field some? Ethel Taylor ===== <bandony@yahoo.com>, <rebelcherokee@hotmail.com> CRISP-L PRINCE-L OKKIOWA-L OKGenWeb Project, OK/ITGenweb Project - <http://rebelcherokee.tripod.com/okkiowa.html> Kiowa County, OK - <http://rebelcherokee.tripod.com/itkiowa-comanche-apache.html> Kiowa Comanche-Apache Lands <http://rebelcherokee.tripod.com/itcheyenne_arapaho.html> Cheyenne-Arapaho Lands <http://rebelcherokee.tripod.com/civilwaIT.html> Civil War In Indian Territory Personal Page - Rendezvous With Yesterday, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4231/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/