Chambers CO. AL            L. W. Harmon Obituary
                                      
Don Clark <donlc_99@yahoo.com> 
                                      
                                      
     The following obituary is from "The LaFayette Sun", 1901:
     
     MR. HARMON, OF BEAT 4, BY MR. HEFLIN.
     
     Oh! Where is he who heard in former hours, his country's call in
     these chivalric bowers? Gone? Yes he is gone.
     From the old county of of Chambers another land mark has passed
     away from his friends and loved ones. While passing through the
     POOL Plantation near his home, Mr. WALTER HARMON fell into the icy
     arms of death and his spirit passed over the river. This old
     citizen, I am told, once filled the offices of Sheriff and Tax
     Collector of Chambers County, and when the South sent the flower of
     her manhood to battle in defense of those principles that were
     right and that can never die, in the grim front of battle-in the
     thickest of the fight, stood this then buoyant and brave son of
     Chambers. He was an ardent lover of the Confederacy and wept
     bitterly, as did thousands of other brave souls, when its star went
     down.
     Of him his old comrade, JOE CARLISLE said to me, "A braver soldier
     never shouldered a gun." He had his faults-who has not? I knew him
     and judged him to be a man of rugged honesty and good purpose.
     Let us hope in that mysterious beyond to which he has gone, he has
     found a God who has given peace to his soul. And when the last land
     mark of the Confederacy is gone may there be no comrade lost, but a
     re-united army in that land where all is peace and God is king.
     
     Note: Tombstone inscription at Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church
     Cemetery:
     
     LEONARD WALTER HARMON, March 3, 1838 - January 17, 1901
     3rd Corporal, Company "G" 37th AL Inf. Reg.