J. Montogomery Caskey Dead.

Passed Away at His home in Pleasant Hill.

One by one the men who fought under Lee and Jackson for Southern rights are passing to the other shore. Mr. J. Montgomery Caskey has answered to the last roll call. He gently passed away at 3:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Furman Magill at Pleasant Hill in the seventy-fifth year of his age. He was the son of the lates James C. Caskey and his wife, Elizabeth (Montgomery) Caskey, and was born just three miles east of the town of Lancaster. His whole life was spent on the farm in this county except the four years of the War Between the States, in which he was an active participant. At the breaking out of the war he volunteered in the Lancaster Grays, commanded by Capt. John D. Wylie, the first company to go to the front from the county. Later on he became a part of the 6th Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, commanded by Col. John White, serving with conspicuous gallantry until the close of the war. He took an active part in the redemption of the state from negro rule. Mr. Caskey served several terms as county corner and was a delegate to several congressional conventions.

Mr. Caskey was a quiet, unassuming man, but one who could be depended upon to do his duty at all hazards. Shortly after the war he became a member of the A.R.P. church and continued so until his death. He was twice married. His first wife was Miss Sallie Jones, who lived about one year. He was again married to Miss Elizabeth Marshall, who survives him with an only child, Mrs. Furman Magill. He is also survived by three brothers, Messrs. Wylie Q. Caskey, J. Davis Caskey of this ounty, and Mr. Thomas H. Caskey of Georgia, and two sisters, Miss Jane Caskey, of the county, and Mrs. Clementine Stover of Georgia.

The remains were interred at the old Salem grave yard near Pleasant Hill this morning at 11 o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Boyce of the A.R.P. church officiating.

(The Lancaster News - Friday November 5, 1915 - Page 5)