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Note: Enlisted as a Sergeant 3rd Class on 23 April 1861 Enlisted in Company A, 4th Cavalry Regiment Virginia on 23 April 1861 under Gen. Jeb Stewart.. Hospitalized on 04 May 1862 at Chimborazo Hospl, Richmond, VA Returned on 14 May 1862. Gettysburg, the Wilderness and many other engagements. His obituary reads: After having exceeded the span of life more than four score and ten years, Richard Colvin died at his home in Benson Friday of infirmities incidental to old age. He was 93 years and seven months old at the time of his death and probably one of the oldest citizens of this section. Richard Howison Colvin was born in Fauquier County, Virginia on May 5, 1840. He served under General Jeb Stewart in the 4th Virginia Cavalry of the Confederate Army, and saw service in the battles of Gettysburg, the Wilderness and many other major engagements. After the close of the Civil War, Mr. Colvin migrated to the state of Texas. Here he was united in marriage in 1874 to Miss Clara Caldwell at Center Point, Texas. In 1902, with his family, he moved to Douglas, Arizona, and in 1917 he came to Benson where he has since made his home. In his early days, Mr. Colvin taught school but the greatest part of his life was spent ranching and stock raising. He leaves a wife and three sons: Ralph H. Colvin, the eldest son, is a special agent in charge of the division of investigation, U.S. Department of Justice, with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Okla. and it was his department that recently rounded up and secured the conviction of the kidnapers in the abduction of Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma oil millionaire. Another son R. A. Colvin, is a civil engineer and resides in Thomasville, N.C., while the third son, Herbert Colvin of this place, is the owner of the Red Rock ranch. Ralph Colvin of Oklahoma City and Herbert Colvin were present at the funeral which was conducted at the family home in Benson, Saturday afternoon, with interment in the Benson Cemetery. Note: In the 1880 census, Richard H. Colvin, age 40, b. Va, wife Cora [sic], age 31, b. MO, and son Ralph, age 1, b. TX, resided in Blanco Co., Pct. 3, TX. In 1900, Richard H. Colvin, b. May 1840 VA, wife Cora, b. Jan 1850 MO, son Richard A., b. Apr 1882 TX, and another son, soundex card unreadable, b. Aug 1886 TX, and Richard H.'s mother-in-law, name unreadable on the soundex card, b. 1817 TN, resided in [Lee?] Co., TX. [Some of these soundex cards are a real misery to decipher if they can even be read at all.] Further info from Carole Colvin of Tulsa, OK says that Richard Howison Colvin remained in Virginia until 1870, then went to Wyoming 1870-1872, issuing annuities to Indians; then to Texas where he taught school. About 1874 he married Clara Cleon Caldwell in Kerr Co., TX and they had 3 boys: [1] Ralph Howison Colvin b. 2 Oct 1878 Johnson City, Blanco Co., TX; [2] Richard Archie Colvin b. 1881; and [3] George Herbert Colvin b. 4 Aug 1885 in Kimble Co., TX. Ralph Howison Colvin b. 2 Oct 1878 moved in 1900 to Arizona and married 20 Nov 1913 a Tucson, AZ to Madeline Rodney Burt. In July 1921, he moved to Los Angeles, CA. His daughter, Frances Rodney Colvin, was born in Tucson, AZ on 15 Sept 1915. [The above was written by Ralph Howison Colvin.]
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