Walter A. Keenan
b. October 1845
- Father: John Keenan b. say 1785, d. February 1850
- Mother: Lucinda Catherine Sessums b. 8 October 1801, d. 1873
- Walter A. Keenan was born in October 1845 in Texas.
- Leonidas C. Rountree appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Walter A. Keenan, Lucinda Catherine Sessums.
- John McKinley Rountree appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Walter A. Keenan, E. J. Rountree, Lucinda Catherine Sessums and Alice L. Keenan.
- The following appeared on 3 July 1875 in The Galveston Daily News: (Huntsville, July 2, 1875) The surviving members of the Hood Brigade present at the reunion met in the Cough House at 8 A. M.
. . . Fifth Texas -- P. J. Goree, H. G. Hame, J. W. Neighbors, L. J. Goree, Jim A. Dickie, T. A. Birdwell, T. A. Bowden, A. C. Woodall, W. G. Smith, W. R. Rome, W. J. Smither, J. G. Burden, Robert Burns, W. W. Alston, Calhoun Kearse, J. H. Parker, M. A. Lamplain A. S. Martin, E. M. Berry, James B. Assek Goree, W. P. Wilson, W. G. Coleman, Berry Hicks, W. I. Sandel, R. A. Brantley, L. A. Cox, A. M. Pinson, F. M. Polland, W. J. Towns, A. J. Decapie, W. B. Campbell, L. Gillam, R. a. Park, F. A. Charles, E. J. Adickes, Walter Keenan, C. T. Hull, R. S. Neblett, Jeff C. Hayson, Wm. T. Hill and A. T. Hill, Gen. J. B. Robertson and Capt. Thos. J. Goree, of Longstreet's staff.
. . .
Judge Benton Randolph welcomed them to the hospitalities of Huntsville in a short speech.
. . .
Norman Kittrell, Esq., of Galveston, replied on behalf of the Lone Star Rifles and did himself and his comrades credit.
General Robertson closed the speech-making, when the soldiers and ladies were invited to dinner.
The people of this vicinity had a profusion of everything good, prepared invitingly, and the guests did it ample justice. It was a good, old-fashioned out-of-doors barbecue and dinner.
The veterans will meet nowhere in the State with a heartiereception than this of to-day.
- Last Edited: 7 Mar 2008