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Submitted: 8/13/08 • Approved: 6/7/23 • Last Updated: 6/10/23 • R43250-G43250-S3
PRIVATE
Company E 5 Tennessee Cavalry
Civil War Confederate
April 1, 1844 - October 26, 1917
The top of his headstone has a star shaped emblem with the inscription:
CSA Veteran 1861-65.
*Obituary (News article)
Prairie Grove Herald
Thursday, January 11, 1917
CASS, William M. – Mr. William Cass, who lives southeast of town, has been very sick the past week and there is no improvement in his condition today.
*Obituary (News Article)
Prairie Grove Herald
Wednesday, October 24, 1917
Mr. Clifford Cass of Greeley, Colorado, arrived here Wednesday morning to be with his father, Mr. William Cass, who is very sick.
*Obituary
Prairie Grove Herald
Thursday, November 1, 1917
Mr. William Cass Dead – Mr. William Cass died at his home near Illinois Chapel, at an early hour Friday morning, October 26th, after an illness of ten months of leakage of the heart.
Mr. Cass was born in McMinn County, Tennessee, April 1, 1844. He moved from Tennessee to Texas, where he married Miss Martha Ates. To this union was born one child who died in infancy. He was again married to Miss Harriet Cohea, who survives him with their five sons.
At the breaking out of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate army and served until the close of the war. The second year of the war he was converted and united with the Baptist church. Mr. Cass was a man devoted to his home and its interests. He did not, however, lose interest in the welfare of his neighbors and their homes, for he was ever ready to lend a helping hand when needed and gave freely of his time and means for the betterment of those things that are of common interest to a community. He was a devout Christian, which he practiced every day of his life. His long suffering was borne with patience and submission and he expressed himself to be glad for the rest and place that the end would bring to him.
The funeral services were held from his late home Friday afternoon, Rev. John F. Parker officiating, and the burial was made in the Harrison cemetery near Illinois Chapel, in the presence of a large gathering of relatives, friends and neighbors.
Beside his wife, he is survived by five sons, three of whom, Messrs. Clifford, Maynard and Edward Cass were with him in his last illness. Messrs. William and Charles Cass of Colorado visited him during the summer and were unable to come at this time.
*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Washington County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge
*Photo taken and submitted by Debbie Jordon, August 2008.
Contributed on 8/13/08 by reachdebbie
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