Samuel R. Watkins. member of Leonidas Polk Bivouac, No. 3,
and W. H. Trousdale Camp, No. 495, died in the old parsonage near Zion Church,
Maury County, Tenn., on July 20, 1901. He was devoted to the association of
Confederate soldiers and to his comrades. He was born in Maury County, Tenn.,
in 1839, and in April, 1861, enlisted as private in Company H., First Tennessee
Volunteer Infantry. He was three times wounded, and was paroled April 26, 1865.
In 1882 he published "Company Aytch” (H), of the First
Tennessee Regiment, which he dedicated to the living and departed members of
the Maury County Grays of that regiment.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran,
Volume 9, Number 9, September 1901, p. 419
