Miss Omi Polk and Maids, of Coleman, Texas, at Houston

Confederate Veteran
Volume 3, Number 7, Page 207
July 1895

The Veteran takes special pleasure in giving the pictures and sketches of Sponsor Miss Omi Polk and her Maids of Honor for John Pelham Camp, U. C. V., No. 76, of Coleman, Texas, at Houston.

There is no other place in our broad southland where famine has been so disastrious in the last several years, yet the patronage fo the Veteran has been larger from there in proportion than at any other place. Col. J. J. Callan has been continually zealous for the Veteran, and in return it desires to make record of the patriotism of himself and other comrades in that far away place.

The sponsor, Miss Omi Polk, is the daughter of the late Milam B. Polk, Eighth Texas Cavalry. A soldier who never missed a day's duty, was never a day on the sick report, never asked for or received a pass or furlough during the war. A faithful soldier, an honest citizen.

Miss Bessie Polk is the younger sister of the sponsor.

Miss Lomie Beaumont is the daughter of Dr. G. B. Beaumont, also of the Eighth Texas Cavalry, and the boy who conducted General Prentiss a prisoner to General Beauregard's headquarters on the evening of April 6, at Shiloh.

Misses Willie and Maud Lewis are the daughters of W. B. Lewis, who, at the age of fourteen, was a scout and guide in Walker's Division, in which two other brothers did honorable service.

All five are active members of the Camp of Daughters of the Confederacy, Auxiliary John Pelham Camp No. 76, U. C. V., Coleman, Texas.