93 Year Old Veteran Celebrates Birthday 1927, Henderson Co. TX

93 Year Old Veteran Celebrates Birthday

Athens Review
Dec 27,1927
Larue, Texas Dec 19,1927
To The Review:
If you will allow me a little space I would be glad to tell you and Review readers about
another glad day at LaRue. Monday, December 21st, by invitation, Mrs. Bristow and
I went to the home of Judge Fred and Mrs. Ayers in the little city of LaRue to partake
of a birthday dinner given in honor of the Judge's father's 93rd birthday. If space could
be allowed I could not tell of all the good things they had to eat. But suffice to say the
dinner was bountiful and the cooking was of the very best. And last, but not least, the
meal was served with old fashion southern hospitality, which cannot be improved on.
The Judge and his good wife sure do know how to entertain, they make you feel so
free and comfortable.
"Grandpa" as we call him was hardly as lively as common. He had suffered a fall just
previous to his birthday but was not seriously hurt (thanks to providence). He was able
to sit up all day and laugh and talk. Grandpa likes to tell of his varied war experiences
and I like to listen to them. Some of them are funny and some very sad. For instance,
take the battle of Lookout Mountain. The Confederates were stationed on top of the
mountain and the Yanks were drawn up at the foot of the mountain preparing to charge
the Rebs; the Rebs decided to have a little fun before the fighting started so they pried
loose several huge rocks, several tons in weight. They would start one rolling down the
mountain and watch and laugh at the Yanks stampede and it is funny yet to think how
they would scatter and run.
But when he tells you about being captured in Georgia and while enroute to the prison
camp in Ohio how that every town they passed through they were marched around over
town and attention called to the townspeople to the condition of their clothing- some bare
footed and in rags and all manner of fun was made of them and some very bitter remarks
were made about them fighting for a government that would not care for them better. When
this good old man tells of this with tears in his eyes, if your tear glands are not frozen, you will
drop a tear.
I close by wishing the Review and its readers a happy Christmas and a happy and prosperous
new year.
T. J. Bristow

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