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Submitted: 8/16/17 • Approved: 8/20/17 • Last Updated: 8/23/17 • R1190589-G0-S3
CAPTION
Company E 6 North Carolina Infantry
Civil War Confederate
December 11, 1843 - February 27, 1933
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Tuesday, February 28, 1933
CAPT. C. VANCE BURIED TODAY
Last Confederate Veteran Passes After Long Illness
Captain Charles Gaston Vance, 89 years of age, died Monday night at 10 o'clock at City Hospital where he had been taken a week ago. He was born Dec. 11, 1843 at Alta Pass, N.C., and was said to be the last living veteran who heard Gen. Bee at second Manassus say "There stands Jackson like a stone wall."
Funeral services were held this afternoon at 4 o'clock at Moore's Chapel on West Center street with Rev. Warren Johnston, Central Methodist pastor, in charge. Interment was in Evergreen cemetery.
Captain Vance was last surviving Confederate living in Fayetteville, who was a member of the Pat Cleburne Camp. He served in Co. E, Sixth North Carolina regiment, organized at Charlotte. Up to the last year or so he had attended every Confederate reunion. He was a charter member of the Southern Memorial association. After 53 years continuous service for the Frisco railroad, he was retired on pension. He was a cousin of General M. D. Vance, for many years commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Roy Hodges and Miss Virginia Vance of Fayetteville, and Mrs. Buena Vance McCune of Oklahoma, who also has been at his bedside during his last illness. Mrs Vance died a short time ago.
*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans Benton County Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge
Contributed on 8/16/17 by judyfrog
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