This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Braswell, Heard, Horne, Visage Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ea.2ADI/1263 Message Board Post: The Macon Telegraph Friday morning April 21, 1939 Jacob Green Braswell , Confederate Veteran, familiarly known as "Uncle Pope", 98, died at his residence 103 Mill Avenue, at 7:45pm, yesterday after an illness of several weeks. Mr Braswell was the oldest Confederate veteran of this (Bibb) County. He was born March 10, 1814 in Warrior District, Bibb County, son of Jacob Green and Polly Raley Braswell. In June, 1862, young Braswell enlisted in the 30th (printing unclear) Infantry Volunteers, Company D, under Captain Thomas C Bartlett, James S Boynton was Major and Thomas W. Mangham was Lt. Colonel. Later, James S Boynton Lieutenant Colonel and Cicero (?) A Thorpe of Warrior District was elected Major. Lt Colonel Mangham became Colonel. When the 30thGeorgia was reorganised Hudson Whittaker (?) became Captain of Company D. DID PICKET DUTY Young Braswell was in winter quarters at Dalton, Georgia and in the spring was sent to Griswoldville to a camp of instruction, under the command of Colonel David J. Bailey. After three months of drilling, Mr Braswell was ordered to Thunderbolt, near Savannah, where he did picket duty on the islands of Whitmarsh, Dutch and Skidaway. "I never saw the like of mosquitoes" he said later. From there he went to Tennessee and took part in Franklin, Murfreesboro and Nashville. Mr Braswell was in Nashville at the time Lee surrendered and returned to Macon by way of Corinth, Mississippi. He named some of the boys in his company as Jesse Sanders, Bill Whittingham and the Champion brothers.. On Sept. 17, 1867 Mr. Braswell married Polly Heard, a neighbor in the Warrior District. Their children were Fannie, Annie (died young), Green, Virginia ( Mrs Emanuel Horne) and Lena (Mrs Hull Visage). After his marriage, Mr Braswell moved to Crawford County where he resided until 1912, when he transferred his pension address to Macon. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs Virginia Horne and J.J. Braswell of Macon. Funeral Services will be held in the chapel of Hart's Mortuary at 3 P.M. today. The Rev W. E. Sutton and the Rev. E.A. Crawford will officiate and burial will be in the Shiloh Cemetery. (the photocopy of the paper was difficult to read, apologies for any errors.)