Valerius Cincinnatus Giles (1842 - 1915)

Born 26 Jan 1842 in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Lucinda (Barnhart) Giles — married 1 Jan 1873 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA

Died 31 Jan 1915 at age 73 in Travis County, Texas, United States

Biography

This person was created through the import of Pioneer Stock.GED on 31 October 2010.

Burial

Burial:

Date: FEB 1915

Place: Oakwood Cemetery in Austin, Travis Co., TX. LOt 1, Sect. 249

Note

Note: @NI05080@

@NI05080@ NOTE1850 census, Travis Co., TX., Enum. Date Sept. 30, 1850, Line 18.

1860 census, Travis Co., TX., Prct. 5.

1870 census, Travis Co., TX., Austin P.O., enum. in household of Wade &Mary Henry.

1900 census, Travis Co., TX., Austin Ward-6.

1910 census, Travis Co., TX., Austin Ward-4.

"Rags And Hope: The Recollections Of Val C. Giles, Four Years WithHood's Brigade, Fourth Texas Infantry 1861-1865". Published in 1961.page 7 of the Preface.

"Valerius Cincinnatus Giles was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, onthe 26th day of January, 1842. He was the son of Edward Stanhope Gilesand Nancy Jackson Giles. When he was seven the family brought him toTexas where they settled on a farm just outside of Austin. The pioneerlife of 1849 did not offer him much in the way of formal education, buthe was a voracious and tireless reader, the son of another such. Hisfather was devoted to the classics, as witness the names of the familydogs: Brutus, Cassius, and Caesar.

Val C. was reared in the best tradition of the Old South, to which headded the adventurous spirit of the new Southwest. He never stopped hisreading and was a lifelong student of Napoleon Bonaparte whom he admiredgreatly.

At Austin, in 1873, Mr. Giles married Miss Lou Barnhart, granddaughter ofJohn W. Smith, the last man to be sent out of the Alamo for help. TheGileses had two children, Val C. Junior, who died in 1940, and AnnieBarnhart Giles, who still resides at the old Barnhart homestead near theUniversity.

Lou Barnhart Giles was as devoted to the Confederacy as was hersoldier-husband. She traveled extensively over the......."

CONFEDERATE HOME, Taken from the 1903 Austin City Directory

Extracted by Kay Dunlap Boyd

Home embraces 25 acres of land on north side of W. 6th near I. & G.N. R. R. James Q. Chenoweth, supt; Clarence H. White, quartermaster; Dr.Joseph Gilbert, surgeon; Roy L. Walker, clk. BOARD OF MANAGERS: W. H.Richardson, sr., prest; W. C. Walsh, Val C. Giles, all of Austin; E. P.Reynolds, San Marcos; A. W. McIver, Caldwell.

Giles (First_Last) V.C. Giles

Regiment Name 4 Texas Infantry

Side Confederate

Company B

Soldier's Rank_In Private

Soldier's Rank_Out Sergeant

Alternate Name

Notes

Film Number M227 roll 13

Austin, Texas Directory, 1887-92

about Val C. Giles

Name: Val C. Giles

City: Austin

State: TX

Occupation: clerk

Year: 1887, 1888

Business Name: general land office

Location 2: r. 708 W. 22d

Austin, Texas Directory, 1887-92

about Val C. Giles

Name: Val C. Giles

City: Austin

State: TX

Occupation: clerk

Year: 1889, 1890

Location 2: r. 708 W. 22d

Austin, Texas Directory, 1887-92

about Val C. Giles

Name: Val C. Giles

City: Austin

State: TX

Occupation: clerk

Year: 1891, 1892

Business Name: general land office

Location 2: r. 708 W. 22d

Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934

about Val C. Giles

Name: Val C. Giles

State Filed: Texas

Texas Death Index, 1903-2000

about Val C. Giles

Name: Val C. Giles

Death Date: 31 Jan 1915

Death County: Travis

Certificate: 2134

Sources

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLP-HKM : 23 December 2020), William Giles in household of Edwarg Giles, Travis, Texas, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).