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Confederate Veteran, Vol. XXVII, page 190, dated, May , 1920.
 
SAMUEL SHIRLEY entered this world on the 22d of February, 1842, and having lived worthily for almost 78 years, he was laid to rest in Concord Cemetery at Woodward, S.C. on Feb.12, 1920.

Responding to the call of his country, SAMUEL SHIRLEY entered the Confederate army on February23, 1862, as a member of Company H, under Capt. J.H. BROOKS, - South Carolina regiment. He was wounded at Drewry's Bluff and was in the brigade hospital at the close of the war. Once when Col. U.R. BROOKS was badly wounded young SHIRLEY gave him what assistance he could render. Meeting at a Reunion many years afterwards, Colonial Brooks gratefully remembered the kindness and they became great friends, keeping up correspondence until death intervened.

Returning to his home and devasted State after the surrender, MR. SHIRLEY took up farming as his life work. A momentous event in his life occurred on St. Valentine's Day of 1867., when he and MISS PEGGIE DUNBAR united their hearts as one. Now their children and children's rise up to call him blessed. He was a consistent member of the Baptist Church.

[ Miss Ella Sterling, Blackstock, S.C.]

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