By LAUREN GROVER
Staff Writer
LATCH - A Confederate soldier from Upshur County whose remains were disrupted several times was laid to rest on Saturday, 143 years after his death.
The burial ceremony that drew nearly 300 people to Hopewell Cemetery was led by Civil War-era re-enactors and descendents of the military leader.
Col. Cullin Redwine Earp commanded the 10th Texas Cavalry C.S.A. in 1863, leading his men into at least 21 major conflicts including bloody clashes at Chickamauga, Ga., Atlanta, Ga. and Franklin, Tenn. He died, possibly of battle wounds, in 1865 in Upshur County.
"Let this remind us that we too are mortal and our bodies shall molder into dust," said Jamie Eitson, a Tyler pastor whose sobering words echoed across the quiet graveyard.
Visitors filed by Earp's closed casket on Friday. Others escorted a formal procession of Earp's horse-drawn funeral wagon on Saturday morning into downtown Gilmer where Sons of Confederate Veterans spoke of his service to America.
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