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INDIAN WAYRS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
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1854, when he moved with his family to Texas, an(
located six miles east of Calvert, in Robertsoi
County. Mr. Isham Harris brought with him
family of seven children, to whom four others were
afterward added. He was a man of the old-schoo:
type, plain and conservative. He was a successful
farmer, an upright and highly esteemed citizen,
and one of the founders and chief supporters of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in his locality. He
relinquished the cares of business and spent the
later years of his life in comparative retirement in
Calvert. He died full of years and good works at
his home in that place, in 1887, at sixty-eight
years of age. His wife, whose maiden name was
Frances Baxter, also a native of North Carolina,
died a year later (in 1888), at sixty-five years of
age. Of the eleven children born to them eight
are now living, of whom L. H. Parish is the oldest.
Few men in Texas have lived a more active, frugal
and industrious life than L. H. Parish. In boyhood,
as the oldest son of a pioneer farmer, he
learned some of the valuable and practical.lessons
of life.' He was a beardless youth of fifteen years
at the beginning of the late war between
the States, but was among the first who
responded to his country's call. He joined
the Confederate army as a private in the Second
Texas Infantry, Company E., and was elected Sergeant.
His regiment was called to the front and
engaged in some of the hardest fought battles of
the war, notably the battles of Shiloh, Corinth,
Chickasaw Bayou and hundreds of other minor
engagements and skirmishes incident to a four
years' service. He was at the long and fearful
siege of Vicksburg, where his division of the Confederate
army was disbanded. During his four
years of continuous service he received only a fewi slight wounds and between the ages of eighteen and
a nineteen years he returned to Texas, still full of
energy, courage and hope for the future and in the
enjoyment of comparatively good health. He
1 located at Marshall, in Harrison County, there
I engaged for five years in farming and then, in 1873,
returned to Robertson County.
Since 1882 he has been the senior partner in the
well-known firm of Parish
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Brown, John Henry. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, book, 1880~; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6725/m1/731/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.