Electus T. Echols

One of his sons, Obie, was born in 1896 (Birth certificate: Obie Echols). This retroactive birth certificate lists his son's name as simply "Obie Echols"; however, Janice Echols Gorman believes his middle name may be a misspelling of "Holloway". A middle initial of "H" is provided in a "Echols, Obie, H." census record in the 1930 United States Federal Census for a man in Arkansas with parents born in Alabama (1930 Federal Census, Arkansas).

Source: ancestry.com

Citation:

Arkansas State Archives; Little Rock, AR, USA; Inmates in the Arkansas Confederate Home; Name Range: Eanes-Few; Box Number: 10

This may refer to Electus, the son of John Washington Echols.

VETERAN'S APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE ARKANSAS CONFEDERATE HOME

Facts as to Residence, Family, War Service, Physical Condition, and Finances

RESIDENCE:

Name Electus T. Echols

County Montgomery

Postoffice Glenwood

Native State Alabama

Resident of Arkansas 43 years

FAMILY:

IF wife living? No

How many sons, if any? 3

Their names and addresses: J.T.Echols, Amity, E.H.Echols, Glenwood, O.H.Echols, Dierks, Ark.

How many daughters, if any? 1

Their names and addresses: Mollie Mathews, Roseboro, Ark.

WAR SERVICE:

Cavalry, Infantry, or Artillery? Infantry

Regiment number 29th. Alabama

Name of Colonel Conley

Company letter B

Name of Captain Dew

Enlisted when? 1861 Where? Mobile

How did you cease service? Captured and in prison in Chicago, Ill. and turned loose

Every captured? yes If so, when and where? Dont remember place

Ever in war prison? yes If so, where? Camp Douglas

Were you ever wounded? no

Age, and date of last birthday 85 Jan-6-1930

FINANCIAL CONDITION:

How much cash? $200.00 What is the value of property, if any? 5000.00

Have you made conveyance of property to children or others to come within indigency qualification? If so, describe same No

Do you draw a pension? Yes

(Signed) E T Echols

Subscribed to before undersigned Steward [?] this 29 day of November 192[3?]

Homer [?] Steward

PHYSICAL CONDITION:

PHYSICIAN'S CERTIFICATE

Full statement as to both physical and mental condition of applicant: General Health good, Mental condition reasonably good

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1. PLACE OF DEATH

County Pulaski

Township Big Rock

Inc. Town or City Little Rock

1. FULL NAME Electus T. Echols

(a) Residence: No. Ark. Confederate Home

PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS

1. SEX

Male

1. COLOR OR RACE

White-Amer.

1. Single, Married, Widowed, or Divorced (write the word)

Widowed

5a. If married, widowed, divorced, HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of

do not know

1. DATE OF BIRTH

Jan. 6, 1845

1. AGE

91 Years

5 Months

OCCUPATION

Retired

1. BIRTHPLACE

Alabama

1. NAME OF FATHER

Do not know.

[…]

1. MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER

Do not know

[…]

1. DATE OF DEATH

June 9th, 1935

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WAR DEPARTMENT

THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE

IN REPLY REFER TO O.R.D.

WASHINGTON December 5, 1930.

Respectfully returned to

Mr. Homer Freeling,

Steward, Confederate Home,

Little Rock,

Arkansas.

The name Electus T. Echols or E. T. Echols has not been found on the muster rolls of Co. B, 29th. Alabama Inf., C.S.A., which cover in part the period from Sept. 22, 1861 to August 30, 1863, not has any record been found of his service, capture or parole as of that organization.

The name E. _ Echols, Private, Co. B, 29th. Alabama Inf., C.S.A., appears on a List of casualties in the 29th. Ala. Regt. in the engagement at (Nashville, Tenn.,) Dec. 15 and 16, 1864. List not dated.

Dated & place of enlistment not shown.

Remarks: Missing.

No other record found.

G. H. Bridges

Major General,

The Adjutant General.

By T.e.

The failure to find a Co. B, 29th Alabama Inf document for Electus is interesting, especially since this is the exactly company and regiment that Samuel M. Echols is confirmed to have served in.

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December-1-1930

The Adjutant General War Department,

Confederate Division,

Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you please give me what the records show of the service of Electus T. Echols or E.T. Echols, Who enlisted from Alabama, served in the infantry, Co. B. 29th, Alabama Inf. he said he enlisted in 1861 at Mobile, name of Col. was Conley and Capt. Dew. Captured in placed in prison at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. where he was turned loose.

Yours very truly,

Homer Freeling,

Steward.

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July 30, 1933

To Whom It May Concern:

This is to certify that Mr. E. T. Echols is hereby granted a thirty-day furlough from the Arkansas Confederate Home.

Signed:

ARKANSAS CONFEDERATE HOME

Superintendent

HMS:ZH

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December-1-1930

Hon. J. Oscar Humphreys,

Auditor of State,

State Capital,

Little Rock, Ark.,

Dear Sir:

This is to certify that Mr. Electus T. or E. T. Echols of Glenwood, Ark. has this day entered the Arkansas Confederate Home. You will therefore remove his name from the Pension Rolls. I dont know whether he was drawing from Montgomery or Pike County.

Yours very truly,

Homer Freeling,

Steward.

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Original of letter inquiring to CSA service of E. T. Echols.

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DATE June 10, '36

Received of ARK. CONFEDERATE HOME:

$33.50 Thirty three + 50/100 DOLLARS

For this money belonged to E. T. Echols & is to be used for his funeral expense.

Signed:

Obie Echols

[J?] [?] Echols

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ELECTUS T. ECHOLS

Electus T. Echols, 91, died at the Arkansas Confederate Home at 8:35 p.m. Tuesday. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mollie Matthews of Roseboro, Pike county; three sons, J. T. Echols of Amity, Clark county, E. H. Echols of Glenwood, Pike county and O. H. Echols of Dierks, Howard county. The body is at the R. F. Drummond & Co. parlors pending funeral arrangements.