Hancock-Bibb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lamar, Lavoscie  April 26 1911
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Atlanta Consititution, April 27, 1911
Lavoscie Lamar, Dixie Hero, Dies As "Taps" Sound For Dixie's Dead.
Macon, Ga., April 26 - "Taps" for the confederate dead had scarcely ceased in 
Macon this afternoon before Lavoscie Lamar breathed his last. As a boy of 16, 
in Cobb's brigade, stationed here, be broke through the federal lines thrown 
out by Stoneman and swarm the Ocmulgee river for six miles bearing dispatches, 
the delivery of which later accomplished the defeat of Stoneman. He was for 
years a prominent planter in Bibb county. He died at the age of 63.

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