Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Friday, December 18, 1925
Stone Mountain Memorial Coins Now On Sale
The specially minted coins of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which are to be sold to help finance the prodigous memorial to the Confederacy at Stone Mountain, Georgia, have at last reached Titus county and are to be offered to the public at once.
These coins are distinctive, owing to the fact that our Government has never before minted a coin showing a soldier in uniform or on horseback, and probably never will again. They were ordered minted without a dissenting vote by a Republican Congress, and a Republican President from New England signed the bill.
J.R. Hart has been appointed chairman for Titus county for the sale of these coins, and he has had them placed in the First National Bank, and Guaranty State Bank at this place, the Winfield National Bank and the Talco State Bank, where they can be purchased by any one who wishes them. The quota for Mt. Pleasant is 878 coins, Winfield 132 and Talco 53. These coins are of 50 cent denomination and are sold for $1.00 each.
One of these coins bears the number of 80 and the word Texas, engraved on it and this coin will be auctioned to the highest bidder soon. No other coin will bear the same number, and the purchaser will have a real souvenir for his collection.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Thursday, June 27, 1930
New Confederate Pension Law
Geo. H. Sheppard, State Comptroller and candidate for this office, was in Mt. Pleasant Thursday in the interest of his candidacy, and gave the following information concerning the new Confederate pension law:
Under the late amendment to the Confederate Pension Law, Confederate soldier pensioners who have living wives to whom they were married prior to January 1, 1900, and whose wives were not born since the year 1873, will receive payments of $50.00 per month, beginning with the month of July. Payments for the month of June will be figured under the old law from June 1st to June 19th, and under the new law from June 19th to June 30th, for the reason the amendment did not become effective until the 19th of June.
All other Confederate soldier pensioners will receive $25.00 per month, who do not come in the first class.
All widow pensioners will receive $25.00 per month.
The first monthly payment will begin with the month of June, and pensioners will receive their warrants for the month of June about July 1st.
The wife of a Confederate soldier is not eligible for a pension until she becomes the widow of such soldier, and the increase of $50.00 per month the soldier who have living wives to whom they were married prior to January 1, 1900, is not a pension to his wife, but merely an increase in the soldiers pension because he has such wife.
Titus County Tribune, Mount Pleasant, Texas
Thursday, February 3, 1944
Confederate Widow Rites At Old Union
MRS. MARY HARBOUR DIES FRIDAY A. M.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Mary W. Harbour at the Old Union Baptist Church Friday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock under the direction of her pastor, Rev. J. E. Pate, assisted by Bro. Walter Miller.
Mrs. Harbour passed away at her home Friday morning of an illness of ten day duration, at the age of 91 years and six months. She was born at Marry, La., and was one of the last surviving Confederate widows in Titus County. The deceased had resided in this one house for over 75 years.
As a child she was an eyewitness to the Battle of Pleasant Hill. Her father was Col. Abb Mitchell and fought the full four years of the Civil War and also was a Captain in the war with Mexico in 1846. He was one of Titus County's first attorneys.
She was united in marriage to Harold Harbour, a Confederate veteran from Tenn., on Nov. 18, 1874. Mrs. Harbour had been a member of the Baptist Church for 76 years. She was the mother of three sons, Wright Harbour, who died three years ago, Denver and Roger Harbour of Titus County.
Also surviving is one sister, Mrs. Ida M. Prayter of Lake Charles, La., l2 grandchildren. Two of the grandchildren are Sgt. Lige Harbour of the U. S. Tank Corps who has been in Europe for the past two years, and Corp. Morris Harbour stationed at Temple.
The pallbearers were: J. E. Wilson, Virgil Carpenter, Johnnie Bell, Gladney Riddle, Hervey Wilson, Ollie Hatfield.
