Looking for - W.A. (William Andrew) Irvine
Confederate 8th Arkansas Cavalry Co. F

The deceased was born at Irvine, in Madison County, Kentucky, May 5th 1843 and he was fifty-five years old. When a mere boy he enlisted to the Confederate army and during the civil was was an officer in Morgan’s cavalry, rising to the command of a regiment as a reward for valor in battle. After the war was over, Col. Irvine married and came west. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Pawnee County, Kansas and was interested in the founding of Larned and Pawnee Rock. He afterwards removed to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where he engaged in business for some years. Later he lived in Florida, but finally returned to Kansas and has made his home in Fort Scott for about fourteen years. During nearly all the tinge he resided in this city he was in the employment of the New York Life Insurance company as a solicitor. For the past three years he has been in Texas witting insurance for his company. He had decided to give up his work in Northern Texas and was on his way to Port Arthur when stricken with paralysis at Ennis where he was well known and greatly esteemed. He received every possible care from his friends and from the order of Knights of Pythias of which order he had been a member of for more than twenty years and his last hours were brightened by the presence of his tenderly loved wife.