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At the last annual meeting of Camp Lomax, No. 53, U. C. V., of Montgomery, Ala., a memorial was read in tribute to the nine members who had pased over the river during 1921. These comrades had all passed threescore and ten years allotted to man; several had passed the fourscore; while one of them, the Rev. A. F. Dix, had passed his fourscore and ten years. The list follows: J. M. Boyd, private in Dawson Alabama Rangers, died January 25; W. S. Stokes, lieutenant Company K, 2nd Alabama Cavalry, died April 24; A. E. Stratton, sergeant major 13th Texas Cavalry, died April 27; W. J. Sellers, private Company K, 53d Alabama Cavalry, died July 7; J. G. Jones, private 5th Alabama Cavalry Battalion, died August 25; C. S. Johnston, lieutenant 21st Georgia Infantry, died September 21; W. W. Leak, private Company I, 3d Alabama Infantry, died October 9; Rev A. F. Dix, sergeant major 23rd Alabama Battalion, died October 25; W. H. Speigler, private Company C, 34th Alabama Infantry, died December 25.

(Committee: John Purifoy, W. B. Whiting, W. A. McBryde, George P. North, George W. Hailes.)