Triple marker with Elizabeth Gattis Latimer and Lucinda Shelton Latimer

From HENRY RUSSELL LATIMER AND HIS DESCENDANTS, copy in the Clarksville Library:

OBIT: THE STANDARD 8 Sep 1887, page 13 column 5 -- Passed Away --
A little before 10 o'clock p.m. of Friday last, the spirit of Henry Russell Latimer, who came to the prairies near Clarksville in 1834, but was born in Carroll County, Tennessee, May 3, 1817. When the writer of this came to Clarksville in the Spring of 1842, young Latimer, two years his junior, had just returned from college at Princeton, Ky., with elevated ideas of life, fed by natural enthusiasm of temperament. He opened a law office in Clarksville, and his card as an attorney is to be found in the first issue of The Standard, made in September of that year.

December 25, 1843 he married Lucinda A. Shelton, child of Jesse Shelton, one of the earliest settlers of Lamar County, and moved to that county, of which he was soon elected Chief Justice; and in June 1845, was elected a member of the convention to prepare for annexation, a body which has not been surpassed by any deliberative body ever convened in Texas ... His elder brother, A. H. Latimer, was a member from Red River County. In 1852 or '53 he returned to Red River County, engaged in planting and took up his residence where his family now is, and where his successive children have grown up. In March, 1861 his wife died, leaving eight children, several of them small and in September of the same year he married Miss Lizzie Gattis, who survives him, and has borne him six children, one of whom is dead.

In 1868, during the Reconstruction period, he was elected to the State Senate for six years, but by a redistricting act his term expired in four years... He always took interest in the veteran association, though he seldom attended the meetings. But he remembered affectionately the old names and faces. He preserved vividly the remembrance of the events of '36. At that time, a boy of 19 years of age, he was a member of Becknell's Company from Red River County, going out at the call of Rusk for volunteers in July. He was attached to the command of Lt. Col. Stevenson of Austin County, who ranged between the main camp and the Rio Grande, doing picket duty and bringing in beeves to feed the army.

Three days before he died, his mind awakening from a temporary sleep, he asked the writer if he remembered when Karnes and Teal (who had been captured at Conception) had escaped from a Mexican prison came in? It was an illustration of how the mind reverts before death to long forgotten scenes. According to the memoranda of the writer, Karnes and Teal came into the camp of Texas early in 1837. The deceased had a strong constitutional vitality, and his friends hoped to the last for his survival. His genial social qualities made him acceptable to persons of all ages. If he had any enemies they are not known, and he had hosts of friends. He desired to live because life had not become tiresome to him, and he had hope to the last. Very gently he went away, without having suffered a pain during his long illness of about 70 days. He was carried to his family burial ground at his home to repose near the wife of his youth, and he was buried with all his living children but one, and great numbers of friends around him, who felt the deepest regret when they laid him away. The funeral services by the Rev. Mr. Ashburn were rendered at the family residence.,

From the PRIVATE DIARY OF W. M. BOWERS beginning 1872: 2 Sep 1887 --- Russ Latimer died about 9 o'clock on Friday night September 2nd. Was sick a long time. Worn out with disappointments generally.,

MARRIAGE: Henry R. Gibson married Elizabeth F. Gibson on 25 Dec 1861 in RRCo TX Book A page 130, From RRCo TX PROBATE Book N page 369 -- died in Clarksville