ALEX W ROBERTSON, CIVIL WAR VETERAN

OBITUARY 1926

Alex W Robertson, 87, veteran of the Civil War and pioneer of Denton County, died at his home, 118 Center Street, Monday morning, of pneumonia of which he had been ill for the past 10 days. He had been in poor health for some time.

Robertson was born in England on June 12, 1839, and came to this country with his parents when he was 5 years old. They settled in Louisiana but Alex Robertson came to Texas several years before the Civil war and moved to Denton County about five years before the war broke out. At the outbreak of hostilities Robertson enlisted in Gano's Brigade of the Trans-Mississippi Department and was assigned to duty in the Indian Territory.

He was with Company A, 29th Texas regiment, under the command of T.W. Daugherty, brother of Boone Daugherty of Denton.

During the third year of the war in the battle of Cabin Creek in the Cherokee Nation, Robertson was shot in the right leg and it was so badly mangled that amputation was necessary.

Robertson was a bachelor and since the war had been practicing law. At the time of his death he was adjustant of the Sul Ross Camp, U.C.V., which office he had held for several years.

Surviving are three nieces, Mrs. T.M. Teasley of Denton, Mrs. Kittie Rayborn of Chicago and Mrs. Sophie Donaldson of Los Angeles, Cal, and a nephew, John Mounts of Denton.

Funeral services are to be held at Shepard's Funeral Chapel Tuesday afternoon at 2:30, in charge of Sul Ross Camp,U.C.V. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.