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Some Rusk Countians Who Wore the Gray - Continued
He was detailed then in the commissary service at Macon, Ga, and surrendered at
King's Tree, South Carolina. Married Miss Nettie Glaze, in Rusk county, Texas,
December 23, 1868. Removed to Navarro county in 1872 and to Tyler in 1884. His
son, H. E. Lasseter, is a prominent young lawyer of Tyler.
ELIJAH LINDSEY
Elijah Lindsay was born in Shelby County, Ala., August 2, 1842, being the
oldest son of David H. and Nancy W. Lindsey, who settled near Henderson in Rusk
county in 1847, and the following year removed to Smith county. He enlisted in
Co. C 17th Texas Cavalry, Taylor's regiment, Polignac's division, Trans-Mississippi
department. He participated in the campaigns of the army, ever faithful to
the cause of the South. He has been prominentinbusiness as a merchant and farmer.
He has been married twice: On December 1st, 1868 he was married to Miss Sue
Roberts, a daughter of Col. Willis Roberts, and she died Nov. 22nd, 1888. In
1890 he married Miss Sallie Nunnelee of Lindale, Texas. A good man, a true
Confederate and a gentleman of the old South. Post office, Tyler, Texas.
M1 D. ECTOR
Matthew Duncan Ector of Marshall was born in Putnam county, Ga., February
28, 1822. He was educated in Center College, Kentucky. He was admitted to the
bar in 1844 and two years later was a member of the Georgia legislature. He came
to Texas in 1849, locating in Henderson, and was a prominent member of the Texas
legislature in 1855. He enlisted as a private, but was soon promoted to adjutant
of Gen. Joseph L. Hogg's brigade; was made a colonel for gallantry in the field,
and two weeks later was commissioned brigadier-general for the same reason. He
served with distinction at Chickamauga and Murfreesboro, and in the Atlanta campaign
received a wound which caused the amputation of his left leg. After the war he resumed
the practice of law, and was elected districljudge in1866, but was deposed the next
year by the Federal authorities. He removed then to Marshall, Texas, where he enjoyed
a fine law practice until in 1874 hewas again made district judge. In 1875 he was elected
one of the judges of the Court of Appeals, was chosen by his colleagues the presiding
judge and held this position until he died in Tyler, Oct. 29, 1879. Gen.
Ector was a brave soldier, learned judge and loveable man. No public man in Texas
stood higher.
JAMES FREDERICK WIGGINS
James Frederick Wiggins, son of Hundley and Nancy (Wilson) Wiggins, was born
in Shelbyville, Bedford Co., Tennessee on September 9, 1823. He left Tennessee in
1845 and arrived in San Augustine, Texas in 1854. Later he settled near Jacksonville
in Cherokee Co. and had extensive land holdings in Cherokee and Rusk counties.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Wiggins organized a company of 89 men in Cherokee
and Rusk counties. The company, mustered into service in front of the Alamo in the
spring of 1862, became Company F of the 7th Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers.
The company participated in the battles of Yellow Bayou, Galveston, and Mansfield.
Wiggins rose to the rank of captain and served for a time under General Hopkins
Sibley in New Mexico. Captured in Louisiana, Wiggins was later exchanged and returned
to his plantation home near Jacksonville. He was married first to Harriet
Payne of San Augustine, and on May 22, 1856, at Henderson, he married Josephine
Absabeth Allen Vinson. A Mason and Presbyterian, Wiggins died on September 8, 1876.
(The Wiggins biographical sketch is taken from A HISTORY OF RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS by
Dorman H. Winfrey, published in 1961 by the Texian Press. Used by permission.)
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