Washington County GaArchives News.....Colored Citizen Gets $90 Month Pension March 13, 1930
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Sandersville Progress March 13, 1930
  Uncle Joe James, a well known colored citizen of Sandersville, is now
receiving a pension of ninety dollars a month as pension from the United States
Government. Towards the close of the War Between the States, about the time that
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was on his famous march through Georgia, he ran
away from his owner and went to Savannah. A recruiting office was opened there
and he had his name entered on the roll of volunteer soldiers. Within a short
period after that event the war was ended by the surrender of Gen. Robert Edward
Lee at Appomatox, and he never saw any active service, but his name was on the
roll and when the government began paying pensions he became one of the
beneficiaries.
  He is said to be one hundred and four years old, is now blind, and the
government recently increased his pension from $72.00 to $90.00 per month, which
he will continue to receive as long as he lives. The old man was in former years
very industrious and did garden work for many of the citizens of Sandersville,
but is now too feeble to do manual labor. He has always been humble and
respectful, and is one of our best colored citizens.

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