Baylor, Eugene Wythe 27.mar.1834-8.jan.1918 USA Oklahoma Indian Territory, Fort Gibson - Virginia, Winchester1840 the family owned 11 slaves and resided in Vaughn Arkansas, 1850-1853 studied with Albert Bledsoe at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, 1854-1862 residing in New Orleans, 20.jun.1857 he was passenger on the Vanderbilt steamer in Galveston Texas, 9.apr.1858 attended a costumed ball dedicated to Mrs. Senator Gwin in Washington (all people of note were there, including Abraham Lincoln), 1861 lieutenant of the Louisiana 1st Regiment Heavy Artillery, 1865 major of the Confederate States Quartermasters Infantry Regiment at Durham North Carolina, 1872 editor for the Dallas News published by his brother-in-law John George Walker, 1880 as journalist and contributor to the Washington Post residing with his mother at the home of his sister Sophie Mary and her husband general John George Walker in Stonewall and 1900-1910 in Winchester Virginia ; son of captain James Lowes Dawson (Baltimore 3.sep.1799-13.jan.1879 Maryland, Westminster) and Sophie Elizabeth Baylor (Kentucky, Paris 1.oct.1807-14.nov.1903 Winchester) who married 17.mar.1829 in Fort Gibson, 8.jul.1844 James murdered Seaborn Hill Esq. in a fight and fled to Texas, the family followed him and lived at La Grange, 24.nov.1852 James was arrested, 1853 Sophie divorced him and renounced the name Dawson ; his sister is the novelist Frances Courtenay Baylor (Fort Gibson 20.jan.1844-15.oct.1920 Winchester) ; he was never married