On Thursday,February 23,2012,Sylvester Magee received a monument
at Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church Cemetery in Foxworth,Mississippi in Marion County.

Sylvester Magee was born in 1841 and died in 1971 at the age of 130 years.

He was America's last slave,America's last Confederate Veteran and America's last Union Veteran.
He is mentioned in the book, "Black Confederates".

At the time of his death he was the oldest person in America.
For over forty years he was in an unmarked grave.

He was at Champions Hill and The Siege Of Vicksburg.

You can type in his name to GOOGLE search engine and view news stories and videos
about this important man in American history.