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Submitted: 11/20/09 • Approved: 10/31/13 • Last Updated: 11/3/13 • R260847-G0-S3
PRIVATE CSA
Company G 15 Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
March 1, 1819 - January 10, 1906
Age 86 Yrs 10 Ms 9 Days
*Obituary
Gentry Journal-Advance
Friday, January 12, 1906
HAMBY, W.H. - W.H. Hamby, better known as "Uncle Billy," died at his home near Lowell Wednesday, Jan. 10 of la grippe and other complications. Mr. Hamby was the grandfather of Dr. J.H. Beard of this place. He was 86 years of age and had resided on the farm where he died for nearly 50 years. He was a man of good principles and was loved and respected by the people in the community where he had lived so long.
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Wednesday, January 17, 1906
(from Lowell) Died at his home three miles west of Lowell January 10, 1906, W.H. Hamby, aged 86 years, 10 months and 10 days. "Uncle Billy," as he was familiarly known, came to this country in the early fifties and was among the first settlers of this part of the county. He was an old Confederate soldier and a member of the Missionary Baptist church. Funeral services were conducted by Dr. Greene of Lowell after which the remains were interred in the Goad Springs cemetery.
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Wednesday, January 17, 1906
(from Lowell) J.M. Hamby of the Territory arrived Thursday of last week to attend the funeral of his father. He returned home Saturday.
Source: Confederate Veterans of Benton County
Compiled by William W Degge and Dorothy R Miller
*Photographed October 20 2009 by J. Vander Ham
Contributed on 11/20/09 by wfields55
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