70 Articles - pg. 1 2 3 4 | By Title By DateSeymour Steward - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp commander beginning in 1907. He was the brother of Alcee Stewart (Camp Commander 1924-1925) and the son of Alcee William and Elizabeth Floyd (Greene) Stewart. Stewart was born in Thomaston, Georgia, and the family moved to St. Louis in 1875. Seymour was educated at Smith’s Academy. In 1885 he began his business career with Samuel C. Davis Dry Goods Company. In 1890 he joined with Charles S. Salveter, and formed Salveter & Stewart, Dealers ...
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Thomas E. Powe - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1904. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina on January 5th 1872, and was the son of James Harrington and Josephine E. (Robbins) Powe. He was educated at the Cheraw Academy, and Harvard University. On November 10th 1910 he married Miss Grace McCulloch, daughter of Capt. Robert McCulloch (18th Virginia Infantry) of St. Louis. They had one daughter, Josephine Paxton McCulloch. In 1896 Mr. Powe was serving as assistant lumber inspector at Powe & Wa...
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Thomas Julian Skinker - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp commander in 1934. In 1934 and 1935 the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Confederate Veterans were still having joint meetings, and Commander Skinker was a prominent participant in many of their events. The St. Louis Camp #731 UCV at that time was commanded by Rev. John Claypool, and Henry V. Niemeyer was 2nd Lieutenant Commander. An interesting side note is that their Chaplain was Mrs. Hannah Shields O’Bannon. The United Daughters of the...
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Walter C. Rawls - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp commander beginning in 1942. His 1943 staff of Camp Officers included: W. Rufus Jackson, 1st Lt. Commander; Dr. drew S. Luten, 2nd Lt. Commander; William Warren, Adjutant; Alf E. Farrar, Treasurer; Thos. J. Skinker, Quartermaster; Wayne Ely, Judge Advocate; Dr. Grandison D. Royston, Surgeon; Dr. T. Wister White, Historian; and Paul Knabe, Color Sergeant. The Camp Lee/Jackson Dinner that year was held at the Forest Park Hotel on January 19th, (1943) and the prin...
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Walter H. Saunders - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as camp Commander in 1921, and again in 1930, and served as Judge Advocate-in-Chief for the national organization of the SCV. He was born in Virginia and graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law LL.B. In 1899 he moved to St. Louis and served as a corporation attorney. He had practiced law in Virginia and Louisiana for seven years prior to this. Saunders helped form the law firm of Leahy, Saunders and Walther. He and his wife, Eva Louise...
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Walter Naylor Davis - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander sometime prior to 1939. He is shown as Sergeant at Arms for Sterling Price Camp in the 1921 issue of the Confederate Veteran Magazine (p.156). Walter Davis was born in St. Louis November 29, 1876, and was the son of Judge Alexander and Alice (Edwards) Davis. Judge Alexander Davis served as a Colonel in the Fifth Division, Missouri State guard, and commanded the brigade at the battles of: Oak Hills, Lexington, and Elk Horn Tavern. He was captured...
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Water Scott Hancock - Published on March 9, 2019... The first Commander of Sterling Price Camp #145. He was born in Franklin County, Virginia on November 19th 1869, the son of Abram Booth and Martha Elizabeth (Walker) Hancock. Lt. Abram Booth Hancock served in Company “E” of the 57th Virginia Regiment CSA, and was also the grand-father of our thirty-second SCV (1933) Commander-in- Chief Walter Lee Hopkins ( Hopkin’s mother was Mary Ella Hancock) Walter Scott Hancock was educated in the public schools of...
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William Horner Cocke - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander beginning in 1910. He was born in City Point, Virginia on September 12th, 1874, and was the son of Henry Teller and Elizabeth (Horner) Cocke. He was educated in the Staunton, Virginia Public Schools, and the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Virginia. He graduated with a Degree in Civil Engineering in 1894, earning the highest honors, and was the recipient of the first “Jackson/Hope” award. He served as the Commandant of Cadets, an...
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William L. Atwood - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander from 1959 til 1962, and was the son of John Cowan and Georgie Tunstall (Baker) Atwood. His grand-father was Dr. Legrand Atwood, Confederate surgeon and later president of the St. Louis Medical Society. Dr. Atwood was also director of the State Asylum at Fulton, Missouri, and a frequent lecturer at St. Louis University. In 1892 he was mayor of Ferguson, Missouri. . Dr. Atwood died August 22nd, 1917 and is buried in Fee Fee Cemetery
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William W. Crowdus - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1955. He was born in 1899, and was married to Virginia Garrett Crowdus. He served as president of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association during the time that the St. Louis Arch was constructed.. Mr. Crowdus attended Washington University School of Law, and began his career as an attorney in 1922. He was a member of the St. Louis Bar Association, and in 1963 served as Interim United States District Attorney. In this capacity he was in...
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