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Tfeo T«Xfti P*+ Franklin, TeniiiAn extract v1 ft' letter from Col. Me-’ Gfivock, of Franklin, Tennessee, to Miss ■ Mary Gay, of Decatur, Georgia, says:— j The work of reinterrmg the Texas dead ; ■was completed oh Monday. The work is \ well dono. The nun bur is sixty-five. 1 will give Mr. Bunting the list; he wishes to aeiul it to you anil to Texas. All the troops of Texas, one hundred and seventeen of West Tennessee, one hundred and forty of Mississippi, and one hundred and thirty of Missouri, in all four hundred and fifty have been removed. Still there are over two thousand vet to remove.Col. McGavock, of Franklin, g.ivu beautiful piece of. ground for a soldh-ir cemetery, and Miss Mary Gay, ofttebr* gin, went to Franklin in March ill uenrch for the grave other brother, Lieut, T. J. Stokes, who was a member of G run berry’s Texas brigade. Going to Nashville, she solicited contributions for the purpose of reburying tho Texians, and soon the ne-! cessary amount was obtained. Blessed, hence forth, in Texas, be Miss Mar)* Gay, 1 of Decatur, Georgia’’, and may one of the ■ most lovely counties in the State l»e mimed with her beautiful name.
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Galveston Daily News
Galveston, Texas, US
Sun, Apr 29, 1866
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