The Reverend Harrison Clay Trammell was a Methodist minister on the early Texas frontier in north Texas around Cass county.
Clay served in the Confederate army, private in the 9th (Young's) Texas Infantry, Company D, however unwillingly. Clay and his brother Lafayette were compelled to serve and set off on foot to try to join up with the Union Army instead. They were arrested as spies and while being transported to a Union prison in New Orleans, they managed to escape. They later joined their Texas unit and managed to stay alive while enduring deplorable conditions all for a cause they did not believe in. At the end of the war, they managed to slip away and furtively made their way on foot back to Texas. Civic duty is important and commendable. But the CSA lost the war. Please don't glorify that nonsense here.
Clay was the fourth of seven children born to Pulaski Judge Trammell (1814-1901) and Frances Elizabeth Cox (1820-1853). He married Mary Jane "Minnie" Hampton (1846-1884) on 19 Sep 1865 in Cass county, Texas. They had eight children: Mary Frances, Eugene (stillborn), Emily Irena, Cora Nevada, Harris Asa, Josie Winnifred, Alphie Helon Trammell, and an unnamed still born babe.
Please note Houston's Hollywood cemetery bears only a marker for Clay Trammell. He was buried in the Old Velasco Cemetery in Freeport, Texas, on the banks of the Brazos River. His grave was washed away by a hurricane some years later.
Clay served in the Confederate army, private in the 9th (Young's) Texas Infantry, Company D, however unwillingly. Clay and his brother Lafayette were compelled to serve and set off on foot to try to join up with the Union Army instead. They were arrested as spies and while being transported to a Union prison in New Orleans, they managed to escape. They later joined their Texas unit and managed to stay alive while enduring deplorable conditions all for a cause they did not believe in. At the end of the war, they managed to slip away and furtively made their way on foot back to Texas. Civic duty is important and commendable. But the CSA lost the war. Please don't glorify that nonsense here.
Clay was the fourth of seven children born to Pulaski Judge Trammell (1814-1901) and Frances Elizabeth Cox (1820-1853). He married Mary Jane "Minnie" Hampton (1846-1884) on 19 Sep 1865 in Cass county, Texas. They had eight children: Mary Frances, Eugene (stillborn), Emily Irena, Cora Nevada, Harris Asa, Josie Winnifred, Alphie Helon Trammell, and an unnamed still born babe.
Please note Houston's Hollywood cemetery bears only a marker for Clay Trammell. He was buried in the Old Velasco Cemetery in Freeport, Texas, on the banks of the Brazos River. His grave was washed away by a hurricane some years later.
The Reverend Harrison Clay Trammell was a Methodist minister on the early Texas frontier in north Texas around Cass county.
Clay served in the Confederate army, private in the 9th (Young's) Texas Infantry, Company D, however unwillingly. Clay and his brother Lafayette were compelled to serve and set off on foot to try to join up with the Union Army instead. They were arrested as spies and while being transported to a Union prison in New Orleans, they managed to escape. They later joined their Texas unit and managed to stay alive while enduring deplorable conditions all for a cause they did not believe in. At the end of the war, they managed to slip away and furtively made their way on foot back to Texas. Civic duty is important and commendable. But the CSA lost the war. Please don't glorify that nonsense here.
Clay was the fourth of seven children born to Pulaski Judge Trammell (1814-1901) and Frances Elizabeth Cox (1820-1853). He married Mary Jane "Minnie" Hampton (1846-1884) on 19 Sep 1865 in Cass county, Texas. They had eight children: Mary Frances, Eugene (stillborn), Emily Irena, Cora Nevada, Harris Asa, Josie Winnifred, Alphie Helon Trammell, and an unnamed still born babe.
Please note Houston's Hollywood cemetery bears only a marker for Clay Trammell. He was buried in the Old Velasco Cemetery in Freeport, Texas, on the banks of the Brazos River. His grave was washed away by a hurricane some years later.
Clay served in the Confederate army, private in the 9th (Young's) Texas Infantry, Company D, however unwillingly. Clay and his brother Lafayette were compelled to serve and set off on foot to try to join up with the Union Army instead. They were arrested as spies and while being transported to a Union prison in New Orleans, they managed to escape. They later joined their Texas unit and managed to stay alive while enduring deplorable conditions all for a cause they did not believe in. At the end of the war, they managed to slip away and furtively made their way on foot back to Texas. Civic duty is important and commendable. But the CSA lost the war. Please don't glorify that nonsense here.
Clay was the fourth of seven children born to Pulaski Judge Trammell (1814-1901) and Frances Elizabeth Cox (1820-1853). He married Mary Jane "Minnie" Hampton (1846-1884) on 19 Sep 1865 in Cass county, Texas. They had eight children: Mary Frances, Eugene (stillborn), Emily Irena, Cora Nevada, Harris Asa, Josie Winnifred, Alphie Helon Trammell, and an unnamed still born babe.
Please note Houston's Hollywood cemetery bears only a marker for Clay Trammell. He was buried in the Old Velasco Cemetery in Freeport, Texas, on the banks of the Brazos River. His grave was washed away by a hurricane some years later.
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