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| | "Uncle" Jack Rowe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Indeed, Uncle Jack is not only known, by everybody, but is known to fame as well; for he enjoys the unique distinction of having found the body of Capt. John Q. Marr, the first man killed in the Civil War in actual battle. |
 | | It was not long before "Uncle" Jack discovered his dead body lying in some tall grass just back of where the M.E. Church, South, now stands. |
 | | It must not be inferred, however, that he is constitutionally tired, for he has not a lazy bone in his body; He is a worthy old man, of the old school of colored people now so rapidly disappearing from view, and, before the war, belonged to Mr. |
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