The ranks of the men who wore the gray during the stirring days of the Sixties are rapidly growing thinner in Macon county. Last Fourth of July, when the members of the Macon U D C entertained the veterans in Franklin, there were 15 Confederate veterans, but today only 12 remain.

The Macon county veterans are as follows: John N Arnold, J L Cabe, J M Daves, J H Dewese, W M Gregory, R H Hall, W C Mason, S W Picklesimer, Sam Ramsey, T W Rhodes, W E Roper, and A M Shope.

At present there are only eight Class A widows in Macon county. They follow: Mrs Sallie L Cunningham, Mrs S J Dowdle, Mrs Mary Catherine Downs, Mrs Eliza Kelly, Mrs M A McGee, Mrs Sallie Passmore, Mrs H E Sanders and Mrs Sallie Tippett.

There are 40 Class B widows: Mrs V A Redding, Mrs Laura Rogers, Mrs Jennie Roland, Mrs M J Sanders, Mrs Jane Scroggs, Mrs L C Shields, Mrs Rebecca A Tallent, Mrs E A Wild, Mrs M E Williamson, Mrs Jane Adams, Mrs Myra Allman, Mrs Martha Brown, Mrs N E Byrd, Mrs S E Cabe, Mrs Ellen Crawford, Mrs Julia Crisp, Mrs Joana Cunningham, Mrs Addie J Daves, Mrs James B Fulcher, Mrs L T Gillespie, Mrs Betsy Jane Grant, Mrs Ella Hall, Mrs Elizabeth Haynie, Mrs M M Hicks, Mrs M M Henderson, Mrs Margaret Henry, Mrs M M Hicks, Mrs J H Higdon, Mrs Jane Justice, Mrs Margaret R Love, Mrs N C Love, Mrs Martha McCloud, Mrs Angeline McCoy, Mrs Laura B McKay, Mrs Melissa M McCoy, Mrs Sarah Moody, Mrs Rosetta Norton, Mrs J A Patterson, Mrs Sallie Pope, Mrs Mary R Ramsey and Mrs H C Wilson.