Beckham County, OK - Obits: John William Zollman, 1923
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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ZOLLMAN, JOHN WILLIAM
(7 Jun 1923, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. Pearl Zollman returned last week from Lexington, Va., where she had
been called by the illness of her father, who passed away soon after her
arrival there.  She brought home a copy of the Rockridge County News,
printed at Lexington, in which the following obituary, which the many
friends of Mrs. Zollman will be interested in reading:
John William Zollman, who as a Confederate veteran thrice wounded in
battle, did long and valued service for the Confederacy, died quietly
Saturday, March 28, 1923, at his home four miles west of Lexington, it is
related that morning for the first time in several score of years had he
failed to rise from his slumbers and take up daily duties.  His life was
as quiet, eliminating his four years as a soldier, as was his death.  He
was a man of even temperament and gentle life, faithful, industrious,
thrifty, he died on paternal acres where he was born and had lived all his
days.  He was as good a citizen as he had been a good soldier, a man of
simple taste and simple life; a member of Lee-Jackson Camp of Confederate
Veterans, and one whose familiar form even after he passed the four score
mark, was rarely absent from its reunions and celebrations.  He entered
the Confederate army at the opening of the war as an original member of a
Rockridge company mustered into service as Company E, Fifty-second
Virginia infantry.  His company participated with Jackson's army in the
battles of Cross Keys and Gaines Mill and other engagements.  In both of
the battles named he was wounded.  Returning to the army, after recovering
from the wound at Gaines Mill in 1862, he became a member of Rockridge's
earliest cavalry company, the First Dragoons, Company C, First Virginia
cavalry which followed Fitz Lee and Stuart.  He suffered a third wound at
Cannon's farm in 1864.  He carried a bullet in his body to his grave.
Mr. Zollman was a son of Henry Zollman, his mother was Miss Shafer.  He
was born Nov. 3, 1839.  he married Oct. 14, 1868, Edmonia T. Ackerly of
Rockridge who preceded him to the grave more than twenty years ago. Of
this union six children were born and all are now living, and all were
present at his funeral:  Lena M., wife of the late C. Burns Zollman of
Walton, Ind.; Pearl Elvira (the youngest), wife of the late Charles
Zollman of Oklahoma City, Okla.; Jessie Lee, wife of Robert Irvine; John
Henry; Ida, wife of Poague Smith, and William, all of this county.
Mr. Zollman was a communicant of Oxford Presbyterian church.  He was
buried Tuesday afternoon in the family burial ground on his farm, where
lies the bodies of his wife, his parents.  His pastor, Rev. N. A. Parker
of Oxford church officiated.

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