Private in Company B, First Confederate Cavalry, CSA, originally known as Company B, King's First Kentucky Battalion. Member J. T. Walbert Camp # 463 United Confederate Veterans, Paducah, Kentucky.
TAPS SOUNDS FOR VETERAN OF GRAY—Old Soldier Buried Under Folds of Two Flags.—His casket draped with the stars and stripes and with the stars and bars, under which banner he fought valiantly in the "sixties," the remains of J. W. Fondaw, a confederate veteran, for whom taps sounded late Monday, were buried yesterday in Owens Chapel Cemetery, near Lowes. Death resulted from the infirmities of age.
The veteran of the "gray" had requested that the strains of "Dixie" be played at his funeral. Many friends, including a few remaining comrades of the battlefield, from the countryside surrounding Lowes, near his home, attended the funeral.
Mr. Fondaw was 80 years old and a pioneer settler in the Lowes community, moving there with his parents when a lad. At the outbreak of the War Between the States he enlisted in the ranks of the Confederacy and fought throughout the war. Returning to his home after the war he engaged in farming.
Mr. Fondaw was a member of the Christian Church at Hebron and a member of the Confederate veterans' organizations.
He is survived by his widow and three children, Mrs. John Mitchell, Boaz and Lloyd Fondaw, all of Melber; and three step children, Erie, Nellie and Queen Fondaw, all of Lowes.—PADUCAH EVENING SUN, July 18, 1923.
TAPS SOUNDS FOR VETERAN OF GRAY—Old Soldier Buried Under Folds of Two Flags.—His casket draped with the stars and stripes and with the stars and bars, under which banner he fought valiantly in the "sixties," the remains of J. W. Fondaw, a confederate veteran, for whom taps sounded late Monday, were buried yesterday in Owens Chapel Cemetery, near Lowes. Death resulted from the infirmities of age.
The veteran of the "gray" had requested that the strains of "Dixie" be played at his funeral. Many friends, including a few remaining comrades of the battlefield, from the countryside surrounding Lowes, near his home, attended the funeral.
Mr. Fondaw was 80 years old and a pioneer settler in the Lowes community, moving there with his parents when a lad. At the outbreak of the War Between the States he enlisted in the ranks of the Confederacy and fought throughout the war. Returning to his home after the war he engaged in farming.
Mr. Fondaw was a member of the Christian Church at Hebron and a member of the Confederate veterans' organizations.
He is survived by his widow and three children, Mrs. John Mitchell, Boaz and Lloyd Fondaw, all of Melber; and three step children, Erie, Nellie and Queen Fondaw, all of Lowes.—PADUCAH EVENING SUN, July 18, 1923.
Private in Company B, First Confederate Cavalry, CSA, originally known as Company B, King's First Kentucky Battalion. Member J. T. Walbert Camp # 463 United Confederate Veterans, Paducah, Kentucky.
TAPS SOUNDS FOR VETERAN OF GRAY—Old Soldier Buried Under Folds of Two Flags.—His casket draped with the stars and stripes and with the stars and bars, under which banner he fought valiantly in the "sixties," the remains of J. W. Fondaw, a confederate veteran, for whom taps sounded late Monday, were buried yesterday in Owens Chapel Cemetery, near Lowes. Death resulted from the infirmities of age.
The veteran of the "gray" had requested that the strains of "Dixie" be played at his funeral. Many friends, including a few remaining comrades of the battlefield, from the countryside surrounding Lowes, near his home, attended the funeral.
Mr. Fondaw was 80 years old and a pioneer settler in the Lowes community, moving there with his parents when a lad. At the outbreak of the War Between the States he enlisted in the ranks of the Confederacy and fought throughout the war. Returning to his home after the war he engaged in farming.
Mr. Fondaw was a member of the Christian Church at Hebron and a member of the Confederate veterans' organizations.
He is survived by his widow and three children, Mrs. John Mitchell, Boaz and Lloyd Fondaw, all of Melber; and three step children, Erie, Nellie and Queen Fondaw, all of Lowes.—PADUCAH EVENING SUN, July 18, 1923.
TAPS SOUNDS FOR VETERAN OF GRAY—Old Soldier Buried Under Folds of Two Flags.—His casket draped with the stars and stripes and with the stars and bars, under which banner he fought valiantly in the "sixties," the remains of J. W. Fondaw, a confederate veteran, for whom taps sounded late Monday, were buried yesterday in Owens Chapel Cemetery, near Lowes. Death resulted from the infirmities of age.
The veteran of the "gray" had requested that the strains of "Dixie" be played at his funeral. Many friends, including a few remaining comrades of the battlefield, from the countryside surrounding Lowes, near his home, attended the funeral.
Mr. Fondaw was 80 years old and a pioneer settler in the Lowes community, moving there with his parents when a lad. At the outbreak of the War Between the States he enlisted in the ranks of the Confederacy and fought throughout the war. Returning to his home after the war he engaged in farming.
Mr. Fondaw was a member of the Christian Church at Hebron and a member of the Confederate veterans' organizations.
He is survived by his widow and three children, Mrs. John Mitchell, Boaz and Lloyd Fondaw, all of Melber; and three step children, Erie, Nellie and Queen Fondaw, all of Lowes.—PADUCAH EVENING SUN, July 18, 1923.
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