Obituary

Confederate Veteran, Aged 95, Succumbs
Death wrote finis yesterday to a career which was less than five years short of the century mark when it took Louis Dooley, one of the few remaining veterans of the Civil War, who had lived in Plainview since 1918. He would have ben 96 years old on January 1.
Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at 2 o?clock at the Set Ward Baptist church and burial followed in the Plainview cemetery under the direction of the Roy G. Wood Funeral Parlor.
Mr. Dooley was born in Plainville, Georgia, on January 1, 1842. During the war between the states he joined the cavalry and for a year and a half he served the ?Stars and Bars,? seeing service in many skirmishes and battles that took place during the latter part of the war along the eastern seaboard.
He lived in Georgia until 1895 when he moved to Oklahoma and thence, in 1808, to Eastland, Texas. Ten years later he came to Plainview where his two daughters, Mrs. Lou Phillips and Mrs. Julia Davis reside. Several grandchildren and great grandchildren also survive: A son died many years ago.
Mr. Dooley died early yesterday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Davis, in Seth Ward. (Plainview Evening Herald, November 10, 1936)