Toombs County GaArchives News.....Outlaw, J.  A.  Last CSA Vet 98 yrs 1945
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Savannah Morning News 1945
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS
Sunday, May 27, 1945, page 4

Toomb's Last Vetran Celebrates at 98 Years
     VIDALIA, Ga., May 26,----  J. A. Outlaw,
last veteran of the Confederate Army living in
Toombs County, set up another birthday 
anniversary this week and enjoyed a celebration
organized by relatives and friends held at his
home near Lyons and attended by more than 100
well-wishers. The county's last veteran of the
late unpleasantness between the states was
reported in fair health on his 98th birthday.
He was able to attend the picnic-style dinner
served outside in the grove. Two of his six
children attended.
     For nearly a decade, only two Confederate
veterans have been on the official roll at the
office of the Ordinary, the two including the
late Uncle Dick Johnson who died last year
and was buried near his old home in the 
Happy Hollow community, and Mr. Outlaw.
     After War Between the States hostilities
had ended, Mr. Outlaw returned to this section,
making his home along the Ohoopee river,
hunting, trapping and fishing. About five years 
ago, then 93, he bought a place and settled 
down but found farm work confining and when
manpower shortage set in earnestly, he sold
out and moved to near Lyons where he now
makes his home. 

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