-----Original Message----- From: MWal608508@aol.com <MWal608508@aol.com> To: cmccoy@frontiernet.net <cmccoy@frontiernet.net> Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 4:19 PM Subject: MONROE JOURNAL CENTENIAL EDITION SUPPLEMENT >CINDY >THIS IS AN ARTICLE FROM THE MONROE JOURNAL, PASS IT ALONG PLEASE THANKS >MARSHA > > >Supplemental Issue of the Monroe Journal, May 1, 1969, Page 5 > >Article: Capt. Riley, Born at Pineville Banker, Soldier, Philanthropist > > Captain Thomas Marcer Riley who was born in 1840 and died only a few >months before his 95th birthday used his long life and properity for the >welfare of others. Captain Riley was the eldest son of Enoch and Sophronia >Autrey Riley, was born at Pineville, and lived in the vicinity most of his >life. > As a young man he conducted an extensive mercantile business at Riley, >Ala. besides tending to large farming interests. At the time of his death he >was president of the Exchange Bank of Beatrice. > He enlisted as a soldier in the Civil war in January of 1861 in Monroe >County and served under Colonel R. E. Rhodes of the 5th Alabama Infantry. He >was wounded several times on the battle front at Seven Pines, Gettysburg, and >Bull Run. He was amoung the southern troops who were surrounded at >Appomatax. .... > ...At Capt. Riley's funeral, to comply with his pre-expresses wish, his >friends draped the casket with a Confederate flag. He was buried near the >site of the Flat Creek Baptist Church that he attended in his youth. > > >