William Oliver Driver
Kentucky Post, Thursday, 19 December 1912, page 7
William O Driver, 72, a veteran of the Confederate Army, died yesterday at the home of his niece, Mrs. H S Thomas, 219 Ft Thomas av. Highlands. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2 pm. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. The Daughters of the Confederacy will hold services tonight.
Driver participated in many battles during the Civil War and was wounded several times. He was a member of Company B, First Tennessee Regiment and among his war relics which he prized highlym was a certificate of parole issued in Montgomery Ala. in May 1865, which is equivalent to discharge papers issued by the Union Army. The parole returns to Confederate soldiers, the right of suffrage. Driver was a cousin of "Fightin Bob" Taylor, former Governor of Tennessee and a relative of John Wesley James for 20 years a Congressman from the Sixth Tennessee district.
Driver's parents were among the first settlers in Nashville Tenn. He was a bachelor and lived for years with the Thomas family.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 20 December 1912, page 9
The funeral of William O Driver, veteran of the Confederate Army, was held this afternoon from the residence of his niece, Mrs. H S Martin. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery.