GRANVILLE COUNTY, NC - OBITUARIES - Capt. Alex Spencer, 1905

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Oxford PubliC LedGer
Friday March 24, 1905
Captain. Alex Spencer Dead-Brave Member of Famous Granville 
Grays Passes Away at the Soldiers Home- At the Soldiers Home in 
Raleigh, Captain Alexander Farrar Spencer, of Company D,12th
North Carolina Volunteers, died at 10 minutes after 7 O’clock 
last evening. His command was the famous “Granville Grays” a 
regiment that went through the 4 years of war a way that grew 
in blood and
 in glory.

At an old age Captain Spencer heard the taps with a courage and 
confidence that was the habit of a life time passing out to leave 
one more mark on the roll of death less soldierly of the South, 
pricked with the star of sublime self-sacrifice. Captain Spencer 
was the son of Mr. Abraham Spencer, one of the earliest and 
wealthiest settlers of the town of Oxford. Capt. Spencer served 
throughout the war taking part in all the duties of his command 
till desperately wounded by a ball through the neck in

charging battery at Cedar  Creek October 19th 1864. He served as 
a private till promoted from the ranks to captain for gallantry 
on the field. The Captain from  his youth had been a man of 
almost wreckless courage. His  adventures and accidents would 
fill a volume, He was doubtless the only man in North Carolina 
who has been  twice killed by lightning and survived. Ruined 
financially by the war he has since seen many vicissitudes and 
last fall in his old age, being nearly four score, he took refuge
in  the Home which the State offers to her homeless veterans. 
Funeral services will be held at 3:30 by Rev. Dr. Marshall.

The pallbearers will be Messrs. C. W. Upchurch, Samuel Francis, 
Joseph Raniey, J. T. Weddon, R. B. Paschall, W. W. Moore, and the 
interment in the Confederate Cemetery---Sunday News and Observer. 


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