Terry's Texas Rangers

Confederate Veteran
Volume 10, Number 5, Pge 208
May 1902

The survivors of Terry's Texas Rangers, in convention desiring to express their gratitude before departing for their respective homes adopted resolutions in which they say:

The limitless hospitality and attention shown us by Comrade Henry W. Graber and his estimable family was so untiring and numerous and so considerate that we find difficulty in expressing our heartfelt thanks and appreciation, we feel that we can never repay the debt and in parting can only leave sincere wishes that in the years yet in store for our esteemed comrade he and his family may be happy and prosperous.

Signed as follows:

Company A
Capt. Rufus G. King, Superintendent Confederate Home, Austin;
R. N. Beaver,Gatesville, Tex.;
C. T. Freeman, Duchess, Ky.;
J. DuBose, Rockdale, Tex.;
W. H. Jones, Marlin, Tex.;
C. M. Pearre, Guion, Tex.;
M. T. Turner, Gatesville, Tex.;
Sam Gott, Rosebud, Tex.;
Lige Davidson, Rosebud, Tex.

Company B
John D. Cochran, Cochran, Tex.;
J. M. Crain, Galveston, Tex.;
W. P. Devers, Georgetown, Tex.;
J. Perry Bryan, Quintana, Tex.;
H. W. Graber, Dallas,Tex.;
W. D. Cleveland, Houston, Tex.;
W. R. Webb, Houston, Tex.

Company C
G. W. Archer, Mexia, Tex.;
William Owens, Elgin, Tex.;
T. J. Oliver, Dallas, Tex.;
T. W. Willie, Mount Calm, Tex.;
Tom Burney, Groesbeck, Tex.;
A. M. Shannon, Galveston, Tex.

Company D
W. C. Smith, Karnes, City, Tex.;
Perry Green, Throckmorton, Tex.;
R. Stroud, Alhambra, Cal.;
George R. Allen, Childress, Tex.;
S. M. Watkins, San Marcos, Tex.;
Charles W. Stone, Lockhart, Tex.;
John M. Claiborne, Rusk;
C. G. Caldwell, Austin, Tex.;
James C. Connor, Austin Confederate Home;
T. A.W. Hill,. Smithville, Tex.;
F. H. Corbell, Colorado City, Tex.;
R. B. Shipp, Fresno, Cal.;
T. A. Hill, Weimar, Tex.;
Richard Burger, Bastrop, Tex.;
John D. Hill, Smithville, Tex.;
W. A. Standifer, Fort Worth, Tex.

Company E
G. H. Bruce, Ardmore, I. T.;
J. M. Brownson, Victoria, Tex.;
F. Noelke, Sherwood, Tex.;
C. C. Littlefield. Leesville, Tex.;
Ben Shuler, Gonzales,Tex.

Company F
F. F. Hooper, Calvert, Tex.;
J. B. Allen, Clarksville, Tex.;
J. A. Holman, Comanche, Tex.;
W. B. Simpson, Hackley. Tex.;
J. K. P. Blackburn, Lynnville, Tenn.;
Nat Holman, La Grange, Tex.;
O. W. Alexander, Wellington, Tex.;
Fritz Lindenberg, Hallettsville, Tex.

Company G
Sam Maverick, San Antonio, Tex.;
Hugh L. Talley, Goliad, Tex.;
J. T. Pryor, Belton,
Joe G. Booth, Austin, Tex.;
E. M. Phelps, Austin.

Company H
W. H. Albertson, Lake Charles, La.;
E. A. Bolmes, Austin, Tex.;
Dave Terry, Austin Confederate Home;
Duncan McArthur, Ardmore, I. T.

Company I
W. F. Holcombe, Luling, Tex.;
John N. Houston, Luling, Tex.;
W. H. Kyle, Nursery, Tex.;
J. D. Carithers, Newark, Tex.;
George W. Littlefield, Austin, Tex.;
James F. Miller, Gonzales, Tex.;
C. M. Bradshaw, Abilene, Tex.;
James H. Cobb, Gonzales, Tex.

Company K
J. H. Pinchback, Fort Sill, Ok.;
R. M. West, Courtney, Tex.;
R. L. Dunman, Coleman, Tex.;
A. W. Proctor, Whites Creek, Tenn.;
John Farmer, Houston, Tex.

Company L
J. M. Callaway, Concord. Tex,

The cordial and most earnest expressions of the Rangers to Comrade Graber were well merited. His splendid home was opened from the beginning and never closed, and none of his fifty or more guests can ever recall the Dallas reunion without delightful reminiscences of their stay at his home.

Comrade Graber had experiences after the war in resenting insults by negro soldiers whereby he had to obscure his identity for years, so that recuperation from the havoc of war was retarded much more than it was with his comrades. However his integrity and zeal overcame all obstacles and he stands at the forefront as a typical Confederate veteran.

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