Athens Weekly Review Sept. 30,1937

News Story Recalls Time When Thirteen Enlisted In Army

Thirteen citizens of Henderson county, many of them still active residents here, responded to the call for volunteers back in 1898 for service in the Spanish-American War, a story appearing in a current issue of the Tyler Courier-Times revealed. The county citizens were members of Company K which was organized at Tyler.
Their names and the occupants listed when they enrolled for army service follow:
William L. Faulk, Athens insurance agent, seargeant; Charles A. Spencer, Athens, cattleman, and
Albert E. Jones, student, were named corporals of the company; others enlisted men include, Albert F. Bass, Athens insurance agent; E. O. Hall, Athens farmer; Charles M. Hancock, Athens farmer; Tobe Johnson. Malakoff cattleman; J. H. Rice, Chandler farmer; T. B. McDonald, Athens salesman; J. W. Morrison, Athens brickman; John W. McLeod, Murchison farmer; Charles A. Green, Athens student; and Lawrence A. Rice, Chandler farmer.

Transcribed by Laura Gregory Calvin

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