Dempsey James Burton was my Great-great grandfather. He is presently buried at Shiloh Cemetery outside Troy, Texas under a CSA tombstone bearing the 1st Texas Cavalry Division mark. Per stories handed down through the family, he was arrested on the same day of the killing of an individual in Crockett and placed in the local log jail. He and his brother had joined the Confederate Army the same day and the killing took place in the streets as he attempted to break up a fight between his brother and the other individual who had been drinking. According to the stories, he pushed the knife weilding man away three times receiving cuts and finally pulled and used his pistol to dispatch the assailant. That night, fraternal brothers along with his actual brother pulled down one wall of the jail and he and his brother went straight way to the Army. The brother died from a fever during the war and was buried in Houston. D.J. returned from Louisiana after the war and went on an extended trip through east and north Texas by mule. He eventually settled in Bell County, was one of the foundig members of the Confederate Veteran's Camps in Belton and died in 1899 from a fever. During his post war years, he was an apothocarie (sic) and country doctor.