Daily Southerner (Tarboro, N.C.), 28 October 1921.
William Dorsey Pender, Confederate major general, was born near Pender’s Crossroads in what is now northwest Wilson County. He died after a shrapnel wound to the thigh at Gettysburg. Almost 60 years later, his nephew James Pender was anxious to set the record straight about who had been his body servant.
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- Turner Pender — Turner Pender died 1 April 1924 in State Lunatic Asylum, Austin, Travis County, Texas. Per his death certificate, he was about 83 years old; and was born in an unknown parents in an unknown place.
- Allen Pender
- David Harris
- Rose
Turner Pender was a child of a man and woman and of the MOST HIGH regardless of others lack of regard for his existence on earth. God be with his descendants no matter where they may be found.
My statements are in reference to how his death certificate was noted.