Cobb-Fulton-Hall County GaArchives Obituaries.....Neal, Benjamin G. September 17, 1912
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Atlanta Constitution, 18 September 1912
"PEG-LEG" DIES SUDDENLY AT THE SOLDIERS' HOME.

"Peg-leg" is dead.
B. G. Neal, a confederate veteran at the Soldiers' home, better known to the 
inmates and visitors as "Peg-leg," passed away suddenly at the home Tuesday 
morning at 4 o'clock.
Mr. Neal was 78 years old.  He became an inmate of the Soldiers' home in 
November 1902.  He gained his sobriquet from the fact that he had lost one leg 
and walked with a wooden substitute.  It is said that a large number of his 
comrades never knew what his real name was.
Mr. Neal was born in Hall county, near Gainesville.  He served during the war 
of the sixties as a private in company I, Forty-second Georgia volunteers.  He 
was a true and faithful soldier.
When Mr. Neal registered at the home he gave as his sole living relative one 
sister.  Every effort to locate her has proved futile.
The funeral will be held from Poole's chapel Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.  
Interment in West View.

Additional Comments:
Online records of this company and regiment state that Benjamin G. Neal was 
born on December 27, 1834, in Cobb county, Ga.

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