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Johnson reported. “He wasn’t in more than a year. He couldn’t have been much older than 16 when he got out.”
Luther’s brother, James E. Brown, also served in the Spanish-American War with the Volunteers. Another set of siblings, Thomas W. Estes, and Benjamin F. Estes, both uncles of Charles Estes and great-uncles of Piedmont District Supervisor Charles K. Estes, enlisted from the Sperryville area, Mrs. Johnsonnoted. Roscoe Bruce, father of county dog warden Jack Bruce, was another volunteer, she added.
All of Rappahannock’s veterans, all of Virginia’s survivors, of that 1898 conflict are now dead but the widow of Spanish-American soldier William Jefferson still resides in the village of Sperryville across the street from post office. “To my knowledge, Mary Jefferson is the only widow of that war living i» the entire State of Virginia,” Mrs. Johnson concluded.
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