The “thin gray line” grows thinner each year, and clerk of court George P. Webb finds this year that the list of those to receive pension checks has again shortened. Something like 12 of the gallant heroes of the Civil war have passed away during the last year, while at least 13 of the widows of veterans are missing from the list. Where the list for last year comprised something like 86 names of soldiers, this year it reaches a bare 80, even with the several additions that have been made; and in the case of widows a difference of 13 is found in the 119 of last year and the 106 of this. And even some of the checks on hand will find no claimant.
From the front page of The Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Wednesday, June 16, 1926
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