70 Articles - pg. 1 2 3 4 | By Title By DateNoble Kendall Wyatt - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander from 1978 til 1980. He was born in Charleston, West Virginia, on December 22, 1919, and was the son of William Howard and Helen Elizabeth (Hubbard) Wyatt. His mother’s grand father, John Calvin Gillespie, served in Company “F” of the 50th Virginia Infantry. John Gillespie was captured at the battle of Spottsylvania on May 12th 1864, and sent to Point Lookout Prison. He escaped on April 1, 1865 and returned home at war’s e...
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Charles Stuart Via - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander on several occasions including terms in: 1956-1958, 1965-1966, and 1975-1978. He was one of our most revered commanders and a constant contributor who was always willing to lend a hand whenever the Camp was in need of leadership. He was born in 1907 and graduated from Southwest Missouri State University in 1929. He received his Masters Degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1936, and began teaching in 1939 at Kirkwood High School. Charl...
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Seymour 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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Alcee Stewart - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander from 1924 til 1925. He was the son of Alcee William and Elizabeth Floyd (Greene) Stewart. His father, Capt. A.W. Stewart, commanded the 20th Louisiana Infantry, Company “E”, during the war, and also served on the C.S. gunboat “Livingston” at the battle of Island #10. He was wounded at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, and taken prisoner. Capt. Stewart was exchanged and later fought at the battles of Chickamauga, and Mis...
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Dr. Selden Spencer, M.D. - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1931, and served several terms. He was born in St. Louis on March 23rd 1873. He was the son of Dr. Horatio Nelson Spencer M.D. who served in the 1st Mississippi Light Artillery, General Cowan’s Brigade, Loring’s Division, Army of Tennessee C.S.A. Dr. H.N. Spencer helped found the St. Louis Medical College which later became the Medical Department of Washington University. Selden Spencer was educated at Stoddard Public School in S...
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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 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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Oliver E. Sappington - Published on March 9, 2019... Was elected Camp Commander in 1993, and as of this writing ( July 1999), is the current Commander. Commander Sappington, known to his friends as “Ollie”, is a direct descendant of John Sappington, Revolutionary War veteran and early pioneer (1805) of St. Louis County. He grew up in Richmond Heights, where he attended public schools and worshiped at Richmond Heights Presbyterian Church. Ollie holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, Bachelor of Science in Education, an...
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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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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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Gaylord Patrick O'Connor - Published on March 9, 2019... Was born on November 20th 1916, and served as Camp Commander in 1987. That same year he was elected Missouri Division commander at Jefferson City. For the first time since 1940 the State of Missouri had regained Division status when five Camps were chartered that year. This accomplishment was due mainly to the efforts of Robert L. Hawkins III, “Pat” O’Connor, and John Karel of St. Louis. Army of the Trans-Mississippi Commander Ed Cailleteau of Baton ro...
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Frederick Lawson Niemeyer - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander for Sterling Price Camp #145 in 1948. He was born in St. Louis in 1889, in the area known as the Cabanne Place District, at 5595 Bartmer. One of his neighbors was ex-Confederate Joseph Boyce, who lived at 5812 Clemens.. Governor Hamilton Gamble’s home was at the corner of Hamilton and Plymouth. Frederick’s father, Henry V. Niemeyer, was born on February 24th, 1845, and served in the 9th Virginia Infantry C.S.A. He was a member of the...
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Joseph Mullen - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1926. His staff included; Norman L. Lincoln, First Lieutenant Commander; Edward C. Fisher, Second Lieutenant Commander; William L. Ross Jr., Adjutant; J. W. Estes, Treasurer; Cortez Kitchen, Quartermaster; M. N. Davis, Historian; Chilton Atkinson, Color Sergeant; and R. B. Gibson, Chaplain. Mr. Mullen was born on April 3rd, 1875 at Norfolk, Virginia. He was the son of Joseph and Emily Nash Mulle...
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Lee Meriwether - Published on March 9, 2019... He was one of our most fascinating members . He served as Camp Commander on several occasions, the first being around 1915. In 1964 he was made” Honorary Commander” of the Camp. Lee was born during the War for Southern Independence, (December 25th, 1862), and lived to see America go through the Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, the Korean Conflict, and the beginnings of the Vietnam War. He died March 12th, 1966 at the age of 104. One of his books titled...
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Richard McCulloch - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1918, and was the son of Robert and Emma (Paxton) McCulloch. Robert McCulloch had served in the 18th Virginia Infantry at Gettysburg. Richard McCulloch was born in St. Louis on June 3rd, 1869, and educated in the public schools in St. Louis. He graduated from Washington University in 1891 as engineer of mines. He married Miss. Mary Grace Beggs, and the couple had three children; John I., Robert P. and Mary Sue (Jones). He served as chie...
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Paul Knabe - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1963. He was born in 1888, and worked as secretary of the C.V. Mosby Medical Publishing firm, til his retirement in 1955. His residence was at 8014 South Drive, Richmond Heights, Missouri. Mr. Knabe was also an elder of the Westminister Presbyterian Church. He died of a heart ailment on September 13th, 1964 at the age of 76 years, and is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Source; Missouri Historical Society, Necrology Files ...
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John Karel - Published on March 9, 2019... Commander of the Sterling Price Camp from 1988 to 1990 and member of the John S. Bowen Chapter of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars. He is best known to the St. Louis community as Director of Tower Grove Park, where he has orchestrated the historical restoration of the park to its original condition when Henry Shaw opened it in 1868.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch (June 17, 1999) wrote, "Mr. Karel, the park's director, has been an adroit co...
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Col. Daniel H. Hundley - Published on March 9, 2019... Col. Hundley began serving as Camp commander in 1967. He was born in 1901 and graduated from West Point in 1924. During World War II he served in the South Pacific, and was promoted to colonel in 1943. In 1944 he served as Chief of Staff for the 9th Army Division in Europe. He served in this position til the end of the war. During this period he was awarded: the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit (with two Oak Leaf clusters and a Bronze star), the Order of the B...
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Dr. Robert E. Lee Hughes - Published on March 9, 2019... Dr. Hughes began serving as Camp Commander in 1928. He had served in many positions within the camp, and was Camp Adjutant in 1923 under Commander Moreno. Others to serve on that staff included: Alcee Stewart, First Lieutenant Commander; Dr.Selden Spencer, Second Lieutenant Commander; W. Scott Hancock, Chaplain; and William Crowdus, Inspector. All of whom at one time also served as Camp Commanders. Dr. Hughes was the son of an old Kentucky family, and a graduate of Barnes Med...
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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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