THE ET CETERA CHRONICLES - WILLIAM C. OWEN AND LEMUEL J. ROGERS - SPANISH AMERICAN VETERANS -

When William C. Owen turned 100 years of age on September 4, 1978 he became the oldest living veteran of the Spanish American War in the State of Georgia.  A resident of the V.A. Hospital in Dublin, Owen entered the Army in 1898 and served for a few months until the end of the war. Owen died on September 10, 1980 at the age of 102.  He is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama.

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National Cemetery, Chattanooga, TN

Lemuel Jefferson Rogers was born August 19, 1869 in Richmond, Indiana.  Rogers served in the United States Army for 30 years rising to the rank of Master Sergeant before his retirement on May 20, 1926.

During the Spanish American War, Rogers served in the Medical Department  under Col. Theodore Roosevelt during the Battle of San Juan Hill on July 1-3, 1898.  After the war, Rogers served as an aide at Walter Reed in Washington, D.C.. 

Lemuel Rogers died as the VA Hospital's oldest patient on June 25, 1963 at the age of 97.