"'Died
R. V. Standifer, Esq., a merchant of Elgin, Bastrop County died at his residence there on Friday last, aged fifty years, after three months illness. When a lad deceased entered the Confederate army, enlisting in W. H. Parson's regiment, afterwards known as Parsons' Brigade, serving with it in Arkansas and Louisiana, he was severely wounded at the battle of Yellow Bayou, being shot in the left hipand leg; he lay for twenty-four hours on the field before being removed, having crawled into a ravine, to esscape being made prisoner by the enemy. For two years he was under treatment and his death now, was due to blood poisoning caused by these old wounds. After the war he married Miss Gatlin, of Bastrop County and established himself in business at Elgin, in the county, some fifteen miles fromwhere he was born.
Deceased was the son of Uncle Jimmie Standifer, now residing here, who though eighty year of age, enjoys comparatively good health. Uncle Jimmie came to Texas in 1828, lived on the frontier and from 1830 to 1846 was continually in the saddle or bivouac engaged in fighting the Indians or Mexicans. He was one of the appraisers of the property where the city of Austin now stands. Capt. W. J. Standifer states that his brother had the most perfect and systematic nursing possible, twenty-eight young men taking turns for three months in constant attendance at his bedside.
The subject of this sketch left a widow and six children aged from fourteen years to three months, who are well provided for, as he had been a successful business man. Being very popular and widely and extensively known, his funeral was largely attended, some fifteen hundred to two thousand persons being present. Hon. J. D. Sayers, acting as master of ceremonies, as he was a member of the Masonicfraternity, he was buried with the usual Masonic ceremonies. He was a public spirited citizen, whose worth was appreciated and he leaves a host of friends, who deeply sympathize with his bereaved family and relatives.'
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The obituary was copied from the Saturday, June 1, 1889 edition of THE LAMPASAS LEADER. Contribution by FAG member Sue Lilley.
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