Co D 2nd Ga Vol Inf ANV Pvt
The True Citizen newspaper, May 7, 1904
FAITHFUL CONFEDERATE VETERAN PASSES AWAY: And still another of the old veterans falls into his last sleep. Last Saturday, Mr. William A. Blount died very suddenly. The doctor was with him at the time and saw no immediate cause of death. In fact he was talking with him at the time discussing a remedy for what seemed an ordinary attack when he turned over and his heart was seized with paralysis and with a few gasps he was dead. His sister, Mrs. Duke had preceded him but a few days whose death we mentioned in our last issue.
He had attained the age of sixty two years, and had served in the Confederate war one of the most faithful in his company, the Burke Sharp Shooters, that famous body of young men that left Waynesboro April 19th, 1861 one hundred and twenty strong and returned from Appomattox with but a fragment in 1865. His father was Mr. Edward H. Blount and his mother, Mrs. Martha Blount, (nee Attaway) which makes him a descendant of two of Burke's old families.
Since the war he had lived a quiet farmer's life near his old home and at his death was a member of Gordon Camp of Confederate Veterans. He kept alive in his own breast faithfully the memories and traditions of the war.
His remains were interred in the new cemetery attended to their last resting place by a detail of his old comrades and many friends. The funeral services was conducted by Rev. O. J. Copeland in the impressive and beautiful ceremony of the Baptist church. He leaves a widow and four children besides many relatives and friends to mourn his death.
The True Citizen newspaper, May 7, 1904
FAITHFUL CONFEDERATE VETERAN PASSES AWAY: And still another of the old veterans falls into his last sleep. Last Saturday, Mr. William A. Blount died very suddenly. The doctor was with him at the time and saw no immediate cause of death. In fact he was talking with him at the time discussing a remedy for what seemed an ordinary attack when he turned over and his heart was seized with paralysis and with a few gasps he was dead. His sister, Mrs. Duke had preceded him but a few days whose death we mentioned in our last issue.
He had attained the age of sixty two years, and had served in the Confederate war one of the most faithful in his company, the Burke Sharp Shooters, that famous body of young men that left Waynesboro April 19th, 1861 one hundred and twenty strong and returned from Appomattox with but a fragment in 1865. His father was Mr. Edward H. Blount and his mother, Mrs. Martha Blount, (nee Attaway) which makes him a descendant of two of Burke's old families.
Since the war he had lived a quiet farmer's life near his old home and at his death was a member of Gordon Camp of Confederate Veterans. He kept alive in his own breast faithfully the memories and traditions of the war.
His remains were interred in the new cemetery attended to their last resting place by a detail of his old comrades and many friends. The funeral services was conducted by Rev. O. J. Copeland in the impressive and beautiful ceremony of the Baptist church. He leaves a widow and four children besides many relatives and friends to mourn his death.
Co D 2nd Ga Vol Inf ANV Pvt
The True Citizen newspaper, May 7, 1904
FAITHFUL CONFEDERATE VETERAN PASSES AWAY: And still another of the old veterans falls into his last sleep. Last Saturday, Mr. William A. Blount died very suddenly. The doctor was with him at the time and saw no immediate cause of death. In fact he was talking with him at the time discussing a remedy for what seemed an ordinary attack when he turned over and his heart was seized with paralysis and with a few gasps he was dead. His sister, Mrs. Duke had preceded him but a few days whose death we mentioned in our last issue.
He had attained the age of sixty two years, and had served in the Confederate war one of the most faithful in his company, the Burke Sharp Shooters, that famous body of young men that left Waynesboro April 19th, 1861 one hundred and twenty strong and returned from Appomattox with but a fragment in 1865. His father was Mr. Edward H. Blount and his mother, Mrs. Martha Blount, (nee Attaway) which makes him a descendant of two of Burke's old families.
Since the war he had lived a quiet farmer's life near his old home and at his death was a member of Gordon Camp of Confederate Veterans. He kept alive in his own breast faithfully the memories and traditions of the war.
His remains were interred in the new cemetery attended to their last resting place by a detail of his old comrades and many friends. The funeral services was conducted by Rev. O. J. Copeland in the impressive and beautiful ceremony of the Baptist church. He leaves a widow and four children besides many relatives and friends to mourn his death.
The True Citizen newspaper, May 7, 1904
FAITHFUL CONFEDERATE VETERAN PASSES AWAY: And still another of the old veterans falls into his last sleep. Last Saturday, Mr. William A. Blount died very suddenly. The doctor was with him at the time and saw no immediate cause of death. In fact he was talking with him at the time discussing a remedy for what seemed an ordinary attack when he turned over and his heart was seized with paralysis and with a few gasps he was dead. His sister, Mrs. Duke had preceded him but a few days whose death we mentioned in our last issue.
He had attained the age of sixty two years, and had served in the Confederate war one of the most faithful in his company, the Burke Sharp Shooters, that famous body of young men that left Waynesboro April 19th, 1861 one hundred and twenty strong and returned from Appomattox with but a fragment in 1865. His father was Mr. Edward H. Blount and his mother, Mrs. Martha Blount, (nee Attaway) which makes him a descendant of two of Burke's old families.
Since the war he had lived a quiet farmer's life near his old home and at his death was a member of Gordon Camp of Confederate Veterans. He kept alive in his own breast faithfully the memories and traditions of the war.
His remains were interred in the new cemetery attended to their last resting place by a detail of his old comrades and many friends. The funeral services was conducted by Rev. O. J. Copeland in the impressive and beautiful ceremony of the Baptist church. He leaves a widow and four children besides many relatives and friends to mourn his death.
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