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At its opening on June 3, 1908, three women were admitted to the home; by 1909 it housed sixteen. The United Daughters of the Confederacy operated the home until 1911, relying solely on donations to cover expenses. A bill to confer the home to the state was vetoed by Governor Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham in 1905. In 1907 a constitutional amendment providing for state ownership of the home was rejected by Texas voters. The amendment was resubmitted to the voters in 1911 and passed by a wide margin. At the time of the transfer, the institution had eighteen residents.
Hallways that were once filled with senior women were now filled with children playing in the halls. CONFEDERATE WOMAN’S HOME The home was opened “to all wives and widows of honorably discharged Confederate soldiers who either entered the Confederate service from Texas or came to live in... The UDoTC is literally a propaganda organization for the Confederacy. Does this plaque exist to white wash the history of a propaganda arm of the Confederacy and advance their image? Texas Confederate Women's and Men's Home Historical Markers (3710 Cedar St. and 1600 W. Sixth).
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Many of these women were related to men at the Texas Confederate Home in Austin. Residents were required to be at least sixty years of age and without means of financial support. The home was initially acquired and operated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. In 1903 the organization established a Wives and Widows Home Committee, which raised funds for the home and oversaw its construction. In 1905 the organization purchased property north of Austin, and in 1906 A. The two-story facility, constructed in 1906–07, had fifteen bedrooms.
An annex was built that doubled the size and increased the capacity, and a hospital was erected in 1916. The state legislature established the board of control to operate the home in 1920, and then in 1949, responsibility transferred to the board for Texas State Hospitals and special schools. This home provided for more than 3,400 indigent wives and widows of Confederate veterans and operated until 1963, when the last residents were transferred to private nursing homes." Under the leadership of President Katie Daffan, the Texas UDC began coordination and fundraising to secure a home for needy Confederate wives and widows. Through dinners, events, concerts and individual donations, the Texas UDC purchased property and constructed a Richardson Romanesque Revival style structure. UDC chapters from all over the state donated furnishings for the home., Due to the cost to maintain the home, the UDC transferred the home to the state of Texas on Dec. 23, 1911.
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All that’s left of the old home is a historical marker on the site and the graves of some 2,000 men in East Austin. One hundred and twenty-seven years ago today, the John Bell Hood Camp of Confederate Veterans obtained a state charter to found a convalescent home for Confederate veterans in Texas. With the help of the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, funds were raised to purchase land here in Austin which became the Texas Confederate Men’s Home.
That statement starts with “AGE of Central Texas cannot stand silent in the wake of recent and continuing events indicating how far we, as a nation, still have to go in the pursuit of racial equality. In 1986, the vacant structure was purchased by AGE of Central Texas, a nonprofit organization that provides services for older adults and caregivers. Morbidly, due to the number of female residents with infirmities, both a hospital and morgue were also added to the property. Tucked away in North University, a neighborhood that sits between the University of Texas campus and Hyde Park, is a house with a historic — and haunted — past. If you would like to learn more join the original Galveston Ghost Tour click here Once referred to as the Playground of the Southwest, this 226-room hotel conjures images of Galveston’s gilded...
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The hunters believe there is a little girl who runs along the upstairs parlor and a little boy who plays downstairs, much to the chagrin of modern-day AGE employees. Although the home was originally founded by the UDC, due to primarily financial reasons, the home was turned over to the state of Texas in 1911. From 1911 through the 1940s, the home continued to serve women in Austin. Following World World II, however, the population steadily declined, and in 1963, the last three women were sent to private nursing homes and the State of Texas officially closed the doors. As a prime property for paranormal enthusiasts, this supernatural hotspot is full of phantoms.
Why doesn't this monument tell us how many laborers worked to clear the land for this building? (I don’t know what the Black Codes of the time allowed but I suspect black men did some of the labor.) Instead, it tells us about the work of an organization that supported white supremacy and the Confederacy. This building would not have stood without either contribution, but this “factually accurate” monument only memorializes the latter group.
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(approx. 0.4 miles away); Stanley and Emily Finch House (approx. 0.4 miles away); Elvira T. Manor Davis House (approx. 0.4 miles away). Join Ghost City Tours as we explore the haunted streets of Austin. Realizing they needed to recognize more diverse causes, they began to extend the AGE family. Soon they became a launching pad for nonprofits, at times housing as many as twenty-five emerging organizations at once. Only three women were living within the home less than a decade later. With no easy solution, the Confederate Women’s Home relocated the remaining women before closing their doors.
The requirements for residents to live in the Confederate Woman's Home mandated that women be 60 years or older, with limited financial resources. Their husbands or relatives had fought during the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, and as they approached old age, many found they were without money or support to live at home. To help, United Daughters of the Confederacy opened the home in 1909 to serve the aging population. Many of the women living in the home were either widows or married to men living at Texas Confederate Home, which was located at 1600 W. Battlefields, cemeteries and hospitals, as well as areas where such places once stood, are often the most haunted places of any community. Such is the case of a building along an Austin suburban street, known as the Confederate Women’s Home.
By then, they had way more rocking chairs on the front porch than butts to fill them. My dad stole a bunch of them in order to get enough good parts to make 1 good rocking chair, which sat in the corner of my nursery and then the same for my siblings. The notice invites people to read “the complete statement on racial equality,” posted at ageofcentraltx.org.
The last Confederate veteran, Walter W. Williams, was 114 years of age at a time of his death December 19, 1959. Of the three documented burials in this plot, two were later moved to family plots elsewhere and one moved to rest beside her husband in Confederate Field in the Texas State Cemetery. You can use the hashtag #HM1WOK in tweets, and any other place where you might refer to this marker, including when searching on this site. But, like the aging widows, there were some children who moved in and never moved out. Although the building has undergone major renovations during its 111-year history, it is believed that some of the original occupants remain.
In 1913 the state constructed a large two-story brick addition, designed by Page Brothers, architects, which included twenty-four new bedrooms. To accommodate the growing number of ailing patients, a brick hospital building was built in 1916, with a hospital annex added eight years later. The institution was placed under the Board of Control in 1920, and housed between eighty and 110 residents from 1920 through 1935. By the late 1930s new admissions to the home were decreasing and most of the surviving women were in poor health.
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But the Daughters couldn’t keep up with the costs and transferred the home to the state in 1911 for $1. It provided care for about 3,400 women prior to its closing in 1963 when the last three residents were moved to private nursing homes. In the early 20th century, the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy raised $12,000 and built a home for those women. The Texas Confederate Woman’s Home opened in 1908 on Austin’s Cedar Street and was available to women over age 60 who were wives or widows of honorably discharged Confederate soldiers. The first Confederate veteran to be interred here was a man named Sam Everett. One of the largest tasks facing the Cemetery Research Department is to put a story behind the names of all of the Confederate veterans buried here.
During its first two years of operation under the Hood Camp, 113 veterans were admitted to the home, and from 1887 to 1953 more than 2,000 former Confederates were housed in the facility. In 1929 there were 312 residents, but by 1936 the number had dropped to eighty. As more of the veterans died, the number of residents continued to decrease; there were thirty-eight in 1938. Thomas Riddle, the last veteran, died in 1954 at the age of 108.
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