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February 20, 1941 HASKEW BALL IS SOLE CONFEDERATE VET IN RUSSELL CO.
Of the 1,450 men that Russell county furnished to the War Between the States only one of them is alive today, according to A. C. Ball, of Honaker.
The lone surviving Russell county Civil war vet is Haskew Ball, of Honaker, who celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday on August 28, 1940.
Mr. Ball walks about his house and lawn without the aid of a cane, and reads books, magazines and newspapers without the aid of glasses.
He volunteered for the last three years of the war, having been under the age at the beginning. He also taught for two years during the early parts of the war.
Friends of the aged veteran say that from all indications he will live to be a hundred.
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