**Robert G. Boydstun, Pvt., Co., A, 19th Reg. TX Cav. (CSA), enlisted on 15 Mar 1862 at Waxahachie, TX, age 23. Admitted to CSA Gen. Hospital at Shreveport, LA, on 13 Feb 1864, with intermitten fever and after a lingering illness in the hospital was dismissed and allowed to return to his home to Pleasant Valley, TX. He died the following year in 1868.
Robert Ground Boydstun was the son of Jacob Gardner Boydstun and Drusilla Ground (both buried at Pleasant Valley); *for his siblings, see his father's gravesite.
Robert and his brother Henry drove their' parents' wagon team to TX in 1848, from Abingdon, Knox Co., IL; the trip took 6 weeks by boat and wagon.
Robert Ground Boydstun was the son of Jacob Gardner Boydstun and Drusilla Ground (both buried at Pleasant Valley); *for his siblings, see his father's gravesite.
Robert and his brother Henry drove their' parents' wagon team to TX in 1848, from Abingdon, Knox Co., IL; the trip took 6 weeks by boat and wagon.
**Robert G. Boydstun, Pvt., Co., A, 19th Reg. TX Cav. (CSA), enlisted on 15 Mar 1862 at Waxahachie, TX, age 23. Admitted to CSA Gen. Hospital at Shreveport, LA, on 13 Feb 1864, with intermitten fever and after a lingering illness in the hospital was dismissed and allowed to return to his home to Pleasant Valley, TX. He died the following year in 1868.
Robert Ground Boydstun was the son of Jacob Gardner Boydstun and Drusilla Ground (both buried at Pleasant Valley); *for his siblings, see his father's gravesite.
Robert and his brother Henry drove their' parents' wagon team to TX in 1848, from Abingdon, Knox Co., IL; the trip took 6 weeks by boat and wagon.
Robert Ground Boydstun was the son of Jacob Gardner Boydstun and Drusilla Ground (both buried at Pleasant Valley); *for his siblings, see his father's gravesite.
Robert and his brother Henry drove their' parents' wagon team to TX in 1848, from Abingdon, Knox Co., IL; the trip took 6 weeks by boat and wagon.
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