son of Isham Shell - Matilda Greer Forrester

Veteran CSA Co. "H" 8th Alabama Cavalry

A special tribute was paid to Dr. C.C. Shell, a pioneer physician, a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, and a Confederate soldier in the graveside service at Highland cemetery for Stamford's oldest man. Dr. Shell, 94, died at the family home on West Oliver street last Friday, 31 December 1937. Service was held at the Shell home by Rev. E.A. Reed, pastor of St. John's Methodist church of which Dr. Shell was a member. Physicians of the city formed an honorary escort. The casket was draped with the old Confederate flag which had been used in the funeral service for every Confederate veteran of the Joe Sayers camp, organized in Stamford in 1907, and the flag was buried with the body of Dr. Shell, the final member of the camp, as Dick Rowland sounded "Taps" on the bugle. The first part of the graveside service was conducted by members of the Odd Fellows lodge of Stamford, honoring the man who had been a member of the Odd Fellows organization for nearly 75 years. A three gun salute was fired by members of the National Guard unit after the lodge service.

Dr. Shell enlisted in the Southern army but never fought since he was captured shortly after he enlisted and was kept as a prisoner at Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island during most of the duration of the war. He came to Texas in 1865, settling near Waco. He was married at Mexia on 10 June 1886, to Miss Eureka Germany, who survives him. He studied medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans and at the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky in 1901 and was actively engaged as a physician until about 11 years ago.

Survived: his wife, 5 daughters - Mrs. Greer Kincannon and Mrs. Charles Tucker of Dallas; Mrs. Norma McAdoo of San Antonio, Mrs. Jim Pickering, and Mrs. Allen Shields of Victoria; 3 sons - Jules Shell of Stamford, Carey Shell of Gainesville, Arvin Shell of Clinton, OK; 13 grandchildren; 1 great-grandson.

The Stamford American
January 7, 1938