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SOUTHERN CROSS OF HONOR PRESENTED FOUR VETERANS
The Southern Cross of Honor was presented to four of the five remaining Confederate
veterans in Bradley County Sunday after noon by members of the Benjamin F. Sweeney Chapter 2,
009 U. D. C. of this city. These awards of honor were secured through the efforts of Mrs.
Ben Martin, custodian of Crosses, and Mrs. T. B. Scobey, president of the local chapter.
Z. T. Trice, aged 85, of Banks was the first to be presented the cross. He was a
native of Choctaw County, Alabama and was a private in Company K of Capt. Joe White's Cavalry.
He had four brothers in the war. The first Yankees he ever saw were at Pollard, Ala., and he
said he fired on them, too. Mr. Trice said it was easy to get in the cavalry if one had a
horse or mule. He had a mule.
After the war Mr. Trice started west and landed in Texas. After 36 years there he
started back to Alabama and in 1908 got as far as Banks. Banks was on a boom then, he remarked
with a chuckle. Being a carpenter by trade he stayed and "built up the town" as he expressed it.
Another veteran from Choctaw County is G. W. Doggett, 88, who lives hear Banks. Mr.
Trice and Mr. Doggett lived across the creek from one another as boys 69 years ago. Although
they live about 12 miles apart now, they have not seen one another since coming to Bradley
County. Mr. Doggett was a private in Capt. Tom Price's company and had five brothers in
the war. The youngest was killed.
J. Hal Beard, 89, is the only veteran who was born and reared in Bradley County. He
was a private under Capt. Echols, and was in the last company to leave Bradley County. When
Capt. Echols was killed, Lieutenant Tom Goodwin took command. Mr. Beard fought in southern
Missouri. He lives with his daughter near the Southern Lumber Company.
P. E. McMurry, 84, the youngest of the veterans was born and reared in Wayne County,
Miss. He was a member of the Home Guard. After the war he moved to Choctaw County, Alabama,
where he was acquainted with Mr. Trice. He moved on a farm near Banks over 54 years ago.
A Cross of Honor has been secured for L. H. Adcock, a private under Capt. Sandusky,
but he is now visiting in Little Rock. His cross will be presented when he returns. A cross
had also been secured for Dixon Sloan of Marsden, who died May 24. This cross will be given
to his daughter, Mrs. A. Gorman of Marsden.
Those who presented these awards were: Mrs. Scobey, Mr. And Mrs. Lee Martin, Mrs.
Karl Neal, Mrs. N. Ruth Herring, Mrs. Carl Hollis, Mrs. John Scobey, Mrs. Mary Singer and
Mrs. G. W. Botts, Jr.
Extracted from the Eagle Democrat Bradley County, Arkansas, June 7, 1934.
CROSS OF HONOR GIVEN L. H. ADCOCK
The Benjamin F. Sweeney Chapter of the U. D. C. bestowed the Cross of Honor on L. H.
Adcock, a Confederate, Friday evening at a service held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Adcock.
Mr. Adcock, who is 87 years old, was born in Drew County and lived there until about
twenty-five years ago when he moved to Warren with his family. In 1864 he enlisted as a
private in a company of older men and boys under Captain Sandusky and Lieutenant Nelson of
Arkansas. He was honorably discharged from service in 1865.
Mrs. T. B. Scobey, president of the local chapter, was in charge of the service.
A short talk on the Cross of Honor was given by Mrs. G. W. Botts, Jr. George Wilson Tarleton
served as bearer of the flags. A tribute was paid the confederate soldiers b Rev. J. W. Mann,
Methodist pastor. Music was furnished during the evening by I. D. Beasley, Troy Goins and
Roy Goins
Mr. and Mrs. Adcock have been married for sixty-three years. Children of the immediate family
present were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Adcock and children, Ralph, Dorothy, Virginia and Charles:
Mrs. Ben Allen and daughter, Miss Eloise of Pine Bluff; and Frank Adcock with his son and wife,
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Adcock, and infant daughter. Thirty-five friends attended.
Following the service, iced watermelons were served.
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