Obit of Lewey, Judge Joel Edgar - McCurtain County, Oklahoma

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::Rufe Cemetery--Rufe OK

Valliant Tribune, Valliant, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, April 16, 
1920

Death of Judge Lewey

The Tribune regrets to chronicle the death of Judge Lewey of Rufe, 
who passed away last Friday, April the 9th, and the remains were laid 
to rest Saturday in the little cemetery north of Rufe.

The Judge was a confederate soldier having gone gladly as a volunteer 
under the Stars and Bars, where he served during the Civil War, under 
the glorious leadership of Lee, in a defeated cause which, however, 
shed undimmed and undying glory on all who proudly took the "Fling at 
Death" for the Southland they loved. The Judge had been in poor 
health for a year or two and his death was not unexpected.

The old gentleman was higly respected in the Rufe community where he 
had lived many years and served as Justice of the Peace for several 
terms. He leaves behind him his aged wife and his widowed daughter, 
Mrs. M.A.Parrott who is at present postmaster at Rufe.

A large concourse of his friends and neighbors followed him to his 
grave and saw him laid to sleep where all mankind finds its safest 
and surest rest. The old Judge will be missed greatly in his "little 
home town in the hills.

(Joel Edgar Lewey, b. Oct. 1848 in Walker  County, Alabama) 
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