Lowndes-Montgomery County AlArchives Obituaries.....Pierce, William Henry October 19 1920
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Confederate VETERAN, 1921
William H. Pierce
     Gently drifting down life's stream until life was obscured in the shadow 
of the great beyond was the greatly lamented end of our true and noble friend, 
William H. Pierce, of Benton, Alabama.  In 1861 he was at the age that so many 
young men of the South enlisted for the Confederacy and made the typical 
Confederate soldier, buoyant with life and enthusiasm.  While only a boy he 
was ambitious and enthusiastic to be a soldier, and in that he was admirably 
successful.  He passed through the four years of the bloody sixties; and 
though severely wounded three different times, he was fortunate enough each 
time to recover and hasten back to the front and duty.  Under Gen. Stonewall 
Jackson, whom he so admired and whose memory was ever bright in his thoughts, 
he followed wherever his chieftain ordered.  His record as a soldier was 
unspotted, and many of his comrades called him "the ever-ready Pierce, for 
duty faithful and untiring."
     Comrade Pierce was born in Montgomery, Ala. on August 21, 1842, and 
passed away on October 19, 1920, at his residence, near Benton, Ala.  He was 
married on September 17, 1867, at Collirene, Ala. to Miss Florence Dunklin, 
who, with four daughters and one son, survives him.
	"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
	All that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
	Alike awaits the inevitable hour,
	The path of glory leads but to the grave."
     A more conscientious and unassuming man is seldom found.  He was a loyal 
subscriber to the VETERAN and loved to read the reminiscences of his 
comrades.  After a long life of seventy-eight years, this noble man has passed 
to the reward that awaits him.

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