From the Washington Post, 9 Jan 1918:
MAJ. E.W. BAYLOR DIES AT 83
Virginia Composer and Confederate Veteran Succumbs to Heart Disease.
Special to The Washington Post.
Winchester, Va., Jan. 8. – Maj. Eugene Wyth Baylor, 83, composer, Confederate veteran and journalist, was found dead from heart disease this morning in his room at Hotel Evans, where he and his sister, Mrs. Frances Courteney Baylor Barnum, had apartments. He belonged to the Baylor family of Jefferson county. Her grandfather., Judge R.E. Baylor, founded Baylor University in Texas. Maj. Baylor was with the Louisiana Tigers during the civil war. In addition to serving on staffs of several generals, he commanded a battery at Fort Jackson, La., during Admiral Farragut’s attack on the fort. He was the friend of Henry Watterson and other noted journalists, and was a composer of operatic and waltz music. He was a member of the Army of the Tennessee Association of New Orleans, Turner Ashby Camp of Confederate Veterans of Winchester, and the Order of Washington. Two sisters, Mrs. Barnum and Mrs. Sophie Walker, survive him. Capt. Philip F.M. Walker, U.S.A., retired, of Pagebrook, Clarke county, is a nephew.
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According to family records, Major Eugene Wythe Baylor was born at Fort Gibson (Oklahoma) on 27 March 1833 as Eugene Wythe Dawson. The Major and two of his sisters adopted their mother's maiden name of Baylor after the divorce of their parents.
Souces:
"The Lost Captain: J.L. Dawson of Old Fort Gibson" by James Henry Garner in Chronicles of Oklahoma
and:
"A Collection of Family Records with Biographical Sketches and other memoranda of various families and individuals bearing the name Dawson, or allied to families of that name"
Compiled by Charles C. Dawson (V.2), Albany, New York, 1874.
MAJ. E.W. BAYLOR DIES AT 83
Virginia Composer and Confederate Veteran Succumbs to Heart Disease.
Special to The Washington Post.
Winchester, Va., Jan. 8. – Maj. Eugene Wyth Baylor, 83, composer, Confederate veteran and journalist, was found dead from heart disease this morning in his room at Hotel Evans, where he and his sister, Mrs. Frances Courteney Baylor Barnum, had apartments. He belonged to the Baylor family of Jefferson county. Her grandfather., Judge R.E. Baylor, founded Baylor University in Texas. Maj. Baylor was with the Louisiana Tigers during the civil war. In addition to serving on staffs of several generals, he commanded a battery at Fort Jackson, La., during Admiral Farragut’s attack on the fort. He was the friend of Henry Watterson and other noted journalists, and was a composer of operatic and waltz music. He was a member of the Army of the Tennessee Association of New Orleans, Turner Ashby Camp of Confederate Veterans of Winchester, and the Order of Washington. Two sisters, Mrs. Barnum and Mrs. Sophie Walker, survive him. Capt. Philip F.M. Walker, U.S.A., retired, of Pagebrook, Clarke county, is a nephew.
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According to family records, Major Eugene Wythe Baylor was born at Fort Gibson (Oklahoma) on 27 March 1833 as Eugene Wythe Dawson. The Major and two of his sisters adopted their mother's maiden name of Baylor after the divorce of their parents.
Souces:
"The Lost Captain: J.L. Dawson of Old Fort Gibson" by James Henry Garner in Chronicles of Oklahoma
and:
"A Collection of Family Records with Biographical Sketches and other memoranda of various families and individuals bearing the name Dawson, or allied to families of that name"
Compiled by Charles C. Dawson (V.2), Albany, New York, 1874.
From the Washington Post, 9 Jan 1918:
MAJ. E.W. BAYLOR DIES AT 83
Virginia Composer and Confederate Veteran Succumbs to Heart Disease.
Special to The Washington Post.
Winchester, Va., Jan. 8. – Maj. Eugene Wyth Baylor, 83, composer, Confederate veteran and journalist, was found dead from heart disease this morning in his room at Hotel Evans, where he and his sister, Mrs. Frances Courteney Baylor Barnum, had apartments. He belonged to the Baylor family of Jefferson county. Her grandfather., Judge R.E. Baylor, founded Baylor University in Texas. Maj. Baylor was with the Louisiana Tigers during the civil war. In addition to serving on staffs of several generals, he commanded a battery at Fort Jackson, La., during Admiral Farragut’s attack on the fort. He was the friend of Henry Watterson and other noted journalists, and was a composer of operatic and waltz music. He was a member of the Army of the Tennessee Association of New Orleans, Turner Ashby Camp of Confederate Veterans of Winchester, and the Order of Washington. Two sisters, Mrs. Barnum and Mrs. Sophie Walker, survive him. Capt. Philip F.M. Walker, U.S.A., retired, of Pagebrook, Clarke county, is a nephew.
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According to family records, Major Eugene Wythe Baylor was born at Fort Gibson (Oklahoma) on 27 March 1833 as Eugene Wythe Dawson. The Major and two of his sisters adopted their mother's maiden name of Baylor after the divorce of their parents.
Souces:
"The Lost Captain: J.L. Dawson of Old Fort Gibson" by James Henry Garner in Chronicles of Oklahoma
and:
"A Collection of Family Records with Biographical Sketches and other memoranda of various families and individuals bearing the name Dawson, or allied to families of that name"
Compiled by Charles C. Dawson (V.2), Albany, New York, 1874.
MAJ. E.W. BAYLOR DIES AT 83
Virginia Composer and Confederate Veteran Succumbs to Heart Disease.
Special to The Washington Post.
Winchester, Va., Jan. 8. – Maj. Eugene Wyth Baylor, 83, composer, Confederate veteran and journalist, was found dead from heart disease this morning in his room at Hotel Evans, where he and his sister, Mrs. Frances Courteney Baylor Barnum, had apartments. He belonged to the Baylor family of Jefferson county. Her grandfather., Judge R.E. Baylor, founded Baylor University in Texas. Maj. Baylor was with the Louisiana Tigers during the civil war. In addition to serving on staffs of several generals, he commanded a battery at Fort Jackson, La., during Admiral Farragut’s attack on the fort. He was the friend of Henry Watterson and other noted journalists, and was a composer of operatic and waltz music. He was a member of the Army of the Tennessee Association of New Orleans, Turner Ashby Camp of Confederate Veterans of Winchester, and the Order of Washington. Two sisters, Mrs. Barnum and Mrs. Sophie Walker, survive him. Capt. Philip F.M. Walker, U.S.A., retired, of Pagebrook, Clarke county, is a nephew.
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According to family records, Major Eugene Wythe Baylor was born at Fort Gibson (Oklahoma) on 27 March 1833 as Eugene Wythe Dawson. The Major and two of his sisters adopted their mother's maiden name of Baylor after the divorce of their parents.
Souces:
"The Lost Captain: J.L. Dawson of Old Fort Gibson" by James Henry Garner in Chronicles of Oklahoma
and:
"A Collection of Family Records with Biographical Sketches and other memoranda of various families and individuals bearing the name Dawson, or allied to families of that name"
Compiled by Charles C. Dawson (V.2), Albany, New York, 1874.
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