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on account of polarization of tin i:iill b\ the earth's canvut.A Baltic Scarred Veteran AVlio lias • Xever Surren ill* red.*•rl* V..A. CSimon N. Cockrell was born :i; .Pe: ■:bni*^ Vm.luth* year 1*01: 1:1* far her and family moved t Hence to Ly)J Tennessee. thence to Missouri. It'IS-'$ he came as a volunteer to Texas to fight the Indians, and many were•iiair-breadth*' escapes while Hoi learning to light the wily rod man ofthe frontier. In ls3o-r. be bore a sol- -dier s part in the struggle lor Texan indt peiuleuce and when that war was over, lie still carried his rifle as a soldier and used it in obedience to orders whenever Mexican invaders pitched camp on Texas soil.In 18-lii lie entered the army luub-r | Gen. Taylor and again crossed swords | with Santa Anna's warrior?. When The battle* of San Jacinto was fought he was under order of Gen. Houston, guarding a bridge near the battle ground, acros* a small stream that emptied into the Buffalo Bayou.When the tocsin of war again sounded, *Tncle Si hastened to the front and offered hi.- services to Gen.S: rling Price as a Confederate sol-1 R flier. Having been appointed re-, lu’1 • •roiling «-ffieer by Gen. Price. he tilled that office with Zealand fidelity until the close of the war. •’Uncle ii? now ninety-three years old, but v-ni would not judge him to be over seventy. 11 is hair and long whiskers an- iron grav: l»is eyesight and hearing hav'ouly slightly failed. Being .• farmer, lu* tends, at hi? own option. a small crop every year, tpies-•ioriiiig him as to his temperament, habits.' diet, etc., lie answered:“1 have lived until within the past , w vcars. on buffalo, bear and deer meat. I hav • been a great hunter.I tire but little salt on my meat, and drink but little water. I drink no y rot: no whisky, no strong .drink ofis, any kind. 1 am not irritable, and . have been angry but lew times in my life. I think'it shortens one's life to I .••■come greatly excited or get very ] angry. I went through the last war.is a Confederate soldier, and at theclose of the war. I quit lighting, but have never surrendered. I live on Holiday (.'reek, in the northern part in' A relicr county. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, and Judge Cockrell, of Texas, are my brothers. 1 don't care to liave any part of my history pub-i lished. I ’ don't, seek notoriety.”1 Ninety-three years old! The hero of three wars' We are proud of our old comrade. His name deserves a place in the archives of Southern history. —Archer iTex.) Dispatch.v jo:XXT 7 T VI) TA X nC3bus
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Big Stone Gap Post
Big Stone Gap, Virginia, US
Thu, Jul 27, 1905
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