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Submitted: 2/25/13 • Approved: 7/24/18 • Last Updated: 7/28/21 • R838612-G838611-S3
William
QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT
Company B 34 Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
September 23, 1833 - August 26, 1930
*Obituary
Benton County Record & Democrat & Sun
Thursday, September 4, 1930
LEWIS, Wm. M. - Wm. M. Lewis, 96, pioneer resident of Arkansas and oldest living Mason in Arkansas, possibly in the United States, died at his home in Siloam Springs August 26. Funeral services were held for him Wednesday and burial made in Oak Hill cemetery. Mr. Lewis had been a Mason for 72 years, born at Fayetteville in 1833, he was a Confederate soldier during the Civil war. Surviving are his wife and two daughters, Mrs. W.O. Reed and Miss Garnet Lewis.
*Obituary
State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives
William M. Lewis filed Veteran Application #23422 with the Confederate Pension Board of Washington County for a Confederate pension and it was received as allowed August 16, 1916 at the State, citing service with Company B, 34th Arkansas Infantry from 1862 thru 1865. Mr. Lewis died August 26, 1930. His widow, Mrs. Mary E. Lewis filed Widow Application #23422 and it was allowed by the State Confederate Pension Board September 8, 1930.
Mary
1850 - 1948
Plot: Section 17
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