This is not exactly an obit, but I found it very interesting. Source: Confederate Veteran, Vol XXI, may 1913, No. 5, page 237 Made a Uniform in One Day C.O. Spencer of 694 Beale Avenue, Memphis Tenn, writes: "My mother was a Southern woman, Mrs. W. A. Ayres, who lived a mile from Salem, Miss. One day during the war there came to our house a Confederate soldier who was badly in need of a uniform and who had only time to stay with us overnight. My mother sent a negro man six miles to the house of a relative and had two sheep driven up from the pasture and sheared, one black and one white to make the gray mixture. The wool was then picked, washed, carded, spun, woven, cut out, and sewed into garments, and by nine o'clock the next morning was on Captain Marr's back instead of of the backs of the sheep, a beautiful gray uniform!"