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Submitted: 12/30/12 • Approved: 11/29/19 • Last Updated: 12/2/19 • R802357-G802357-S3
William
11 Georgia
Civil War Confederate
April 10, 1840 - November 30, 1910
*Obituary
Gentry Journal-Advance
Friday, December 2, 1910
GARRETT, William Elisha - Esq. W.E. Garrett of Springtown died at his home Wednesday Nov. 30. The funeral was held today at Springtown. Esq. Garrett was an honored member of the Masonic lodge and a large delegation of Masons from here attended the funeral. Esq. Garrett was the father of Mrs. L.N. Dodgen of Springtown and an old resident of that locality who was honored and respected by all who knew him.
*Obituary
Gentry Journal-Advance
Friday, December 9, 1910
William Elisha Garrett was born in North Carolina April 18, 1840 and died at Springtown, Ark. November 30, 1910, aged seventy years, seven months and twelve days. He was married April 6, 1871 to Mary Ellen Stark who, with two daughters, both of them married, is left to mourn his death. At the age of 21 years he enlisted in the Confederate army and continued in the service until July 1863 when he was wounded in the battle of Gettysburg, the third day's fight, in Pickett's charge, and lay on the battle field ten days, after which he was taken a prisoner to David's Island and kept for three months, living on two crackers a day. Before entering the army he had professed faith in Christ and shortly after being released from prison he united with the Baptist church, being baptised while yet unable to walk without crutches. About the year 1868 he became a member of the Springtown Baptist church (then called Big Spring Church) and continued in this church to his death. For thirty-five years he served this church as a deacon, being elected in December 1874 and ordained in Feb. 1875. He was a Free Mason and the last surviving charter member of Springtown lodge, {now Gentry lodge} which was chartered in 1869. He was one of the pioneer educators of Benton County and attended the first teachers' institute ever held in the county. His last term of school was taught about the year 1891 when failing health forced him to give up the profession. On Friday, Dec. 2, the body was laid to rest in the Springtown cemetery in the presence of a large concourse of weeping friends with the rites of the Masonic fraternity after religious services conducted by Eld. J.W. West of Gravette at the Baptist church.
Mary
May 18, 1847 - September 12, 1922
Contributed on 12/30/12 by judyfrog
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