Obituary

R.W. (Uncle Bob) Lemond, Last Hale County Confederate Vet, Died At His Home Last Night; Funeral Is Today
Special to The Herald
Hale Center, Nov. 25?Robert West Lemond, 94-year-old Texan, died here at his home Monday night following an illness of several years. Last rites will be held this afternoon at 4 o?clock in the home for the pioneer Plains resident and prominent Texas Masonic leader. The Rev. Donald Harris, Presbyterian minister of Jacksonville, will deliver the funeral address. He formerly was pastor of Littlefield and Hale Center churches, of which the deceased had been a member for more than 50 years. Lemons Funeral Home of Plainview will direct the funeral.
?Uncle Bob,? as he was affectionately know by hundreds in the Panhandle, was the last surviving Confederate soldier in Hale County. He was past grand patron of the Order of the Eastern Star in Texas. He had been a Mason 72 years. He was the chairman of the first board of trustees for the Eastern Star in Texas, which built the Ophans? Home in Arlington. Among his services in civic life was assisting in organizing first bank in Hale Center in 1907, and serving as president of the Hale Center school board 16 years. He served as mayor of Hale Center several terms.
In the Civil War, he saw service with Ford?s brigade, and alater with Company E of the first regiment of Benevide?s Texas cavalry. He fought in the battle of Pansho Palmetta. He ended the war as a corporal. In 1938 he was accompanied by a son, Howard, to the last great re-union of Confederate and Union army veterans held in Gettysburg, where he miraculously recovered from a severe case of pneumonia under the care of skilled army doctors in a sanitarium there.
He was born in Tippah County, Mississippi, March 21, 1847, and with his parents, came to Texa at the age of 3, in 1850, to Gonzales county. He Married Mrs. Mattie J. (Price) Spath in 1874, there. She passed away four years later shortly after they moved to Coleman county. Their childre are Mrs. Cornelia Lemond Claxton of Dallas and Robert West Lemond, Jr. of California, both living, and another daughter, Mrs. Kate H. Lemond-McWhorter, of Lubbock, now deceased.
July 17, 1883, he we Miss Lena Hale in Honeywell, Tenn. who survives him, and their children are Walter T. Lemond of Littlefield, and W. Howard Lemond, of Hale Center.
?Uncle Bob? came to the plains in 1892, buying a four-section ranch in the northwest corner of Lubbock county. In 1898 he came to Hale County, locating near the two pioneer towns of the county, Epworth and Hale City, later combined to from Hale Center.