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Submitted: 9/22/20 • Approved: 9/22/20 • Last Updated: 9/25/20 • R283907-G0-S3
PRIVATE US Army
Company H 10 Iowa Infantry
FIRST LIEUTENANT US Army
Company C 11 Louisiana Cola.* Infantry
Civil War Union
October 24, 1840 - June 26, 1925
Friends of J.R. Locke, long a resident of Milliken's Bend, will regret to learn of his death which
occurred June 26th. He was given burial in the Tallulah Cemetery.
Mr. Locke, who was 85 years old at the time of his death, came to Madison parish at the close of the
Civil War and has lived here ever since. He was born in Iowa and came south in the Union army, having served as a first lieutenant on a gunboat at the siege of Vicksburg. However, at the close of the war and having been discharged from the army, he never went back north to live but made the south his home and was one of its most ardent lovers.
As the minister who officiated at his burial stated that once a few years back when Mr. Locke was returning from a trip to California where his sister lives, he became ill on the train and told some gentleman who had been kind to him that he was returning to Louisiana but if he died on the way, there was a tag on him telling where to ship him to Louisiana as he had rather be buried in Louisiana than living in California.
His nearest relatives are Mrs. Ley, of Los Angeles, California, his sister; a step-daughter, Mrs. M. A. Dolan, of New Orleans, and his brother-in-law, Mr. F. L. Roe, of Omega.
He was a man of much vitality for his age, having driven his car up to a few days before his death.
*from US Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934. Difficult to decipher.
Contributed on 9/22/20 by debbraszymanski
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