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He then was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia, to attend the Non-Commissioned Officer Course (NCOC). He was in Class 4–68, where he graduated as an infantryman NCO. By June 27, 1969, was serving as a staff sergeant in Company C, 2d Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division.
James Edwin Farrar was born in LaGrange, Georgia on 8 December 1950. His parents were Edwin Herman Farrar and Vesta Eloise Foster. Jimmy Farrar started singing when he was a child, in his hometown of LaGrange, Georgia while listening to songs on the radio. Farrar remembered he had a maid who had a stack of 78 records that he listened to in his ...
Born and raised in LaGrange, Georgia, Eichelberger is a 1952 graduate of LaGrange High School, where he was known as Charlie. [6] He subsequently attended Georgia Military College and enlisted in the Army after graduating in 1955. [1] [4] Eichelberger was commissioned after completing Infantry Officers' Candidate School in January 1957.
Jarriel was born in LaGrange, Georgia, on December 29, 1934. [1] During his childhood, he and his family moved to Shreveport, Louisiana. [1] He attended the University of Houston, graduating in 1956. [1]
James Oertell Burson (October 13, 1940 – August 2, 2022) was an American football player from LaGrange, Georgia. [1] Burson played college football at Auburn and was selected in the eleventh round of the 1963 NFL draft by the St. Louis Cardinals. He was also selected by the Houston Oilers in the eighth round of the 1963 AFL Draft.
King's health began failing in the 1880s, and he died on May 28, 1885, in LaGrange. [28] King received laudatory obituaries in Georgia's major newspapers, a rarity for African Americans in former slavery states. He was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Engineers Hall of Fame at the University of Alabama.
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The youngest of eight children, Dernell was the son of lumberjack James Stenson and his wife Cora. He starred in baseball at LaGrange High School in LaGrange, Georgia, the same high school attended by MLB outfielder Mike Cameron.