Oconee County GaArchives Obituaries.....W. E.  Elder February 19 1909
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The Banner

The Banner, Friday morning, February 19, 1909

MR. W. E. ELDER
HAS PASSED AWAY

Died Monday at his Home in Oconee County.  Was Brave and Loyal Soldier.

Mr. W. E. Elder, a prominent citizen of Oconee County, died at his home in that 
county on Monday.  Mr. Elder was sixty-eight years of age, and had remained 
single during his life.  He was a Confederate soldier, serving in the 44th 
Georgia regiment and a more loyal soldier never served the Confederacy.  He 
followed Lee from Seven Pines to Appomattox and at the close of the war 
barefooted he walked from Virginia to his home in Oconee County.  Without a 
penny to start life with he engaged in farming and by close attention to 
business he met with success and at the time of his death was one of the well 
to do farmers of that county.  He leaves a mother, who is now in her eighty-
seventh year, besides a large number of relatives, Messrs. A. G. and G. P. 
Elder, of this city being nephews.





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