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McFadden Metts Riser

Obituary of John W. Riser, Manning, South Carolina.

Another of the comrades in gray answered the last roll call when John W. Riser died on September 10, 1922, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. James McD. McFadden, at Manning, S. C. He was born October 16, 1838, in Newberry County, S. C. He married Miss Laura N. Metts, who preceeded him to the grave; and he is survived by six children.

Mr. Riser was a soldier of the Confederacy, enlisting with Gregg's 1st S. C. Regiment in January, 1861, serving six months. He then enlisted in Kershaw's 2d South Carolina Regiment, in which he served until the end of the war. He was in some of the hardest-fought battles of the war, among them being the battles of Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Richmond, and others. Although in the thickest of these battles, he was never wounded. He was a consistent Chrisitan, a member of the Pendleton Street Baptist Church at Greenville, S. C.


SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, December, 1922.


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