Pike County GaArchives News.....Pike’s Old Vets Draw Their Pension February 1 1901
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net October 18, 2003, 11:20 pm

The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia

Ordinary Means has been quite busy this week handing out and sending out checks 
for the old soldiers and soldiers widows.

Nearly $8000 will be paid to soldiers and their widows.

There are sixty-two old vets that get sixty dollars each, thirty seven widows 
who draw sixty dollars each and 29 vets who get fifty dollars each, two who get 
thirty dollars each, one that gets ten dollars and one that gets five dollars.

Uncle Jessie Adams was in the city Tuesday and drew his pension. He was all 
smiles with his whiskers plaited as tight as the Chinese pig tail. He bought 
him a new pair of boots and is now ready to do anybody’s ditching that will pay 
him for the same. He says that he never saw but one man that could beat him 
ditching and he was an Irishman who could do more work in soft dirt than 
himself but when it came to rough work, he couldn’t beat him.

(Transcribed 10/11/03 Lynn Cunningham)

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