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Submitted: 8/12/21 • Approved: 8/19/21 • Last Updated: 8/22/21 • R446573-G0-S3
COLONEL US Army
Civil War Confederate
July 21, 1829 - March 18, 1920
Colonel Donald Chester Stith, Confederate veteran, was born in present day Smyrna, Turkey (then a part of the Ottoman Empire) on July 21, 1829, to American parents Griffin Stith and Mary Ann Wilmer. He was christened in September of 1829 at St. Peter's Episcopal in Baltimore, Maryland.
Upon his return to the United States, he graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1850, and was in the United States Army until the Civil War began. During the War, Stith served as a Colonel on the staff of General S. D. Lee of northern Virginia.
Upon coming to Texas in 1877, he settled in Johnson County where he was a teacher and an Episcopalian. On June 18, 1894, he was admitted to the Confederate Men's Home in Austin, Travis County, Texas. The Medical Board released him from the Home on May 15, 1895, but he was readmitted on November 5, 1896. Colonel Stith died March 18, 1920, at the age of 91 in Austin, Texas.
Contributed on 8/12/21 by deanakh1
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