Another of the
comrades in gray answered the last roll call when JOHN W.
RISER died on September 10, 1922, at the home of his
daughter, MRS. JAMES McD. McFADDEN, at Manning, S.C. He was
born Oct.16, 1838, in Newberry, S.C. He married MISS LAURA
N. METTS, who preceded him to the grave and he is survived by six
children.
MR. RISER was a
soldier of the Confederacy, enlisting with Gregg's 1st South
Carolina Regiment in Januuary, 1861, serving for six
months. He then enlisted in Kershaw's 2d South Carolina
Regiment, in which he served until the end of the war. He
was in some of the hardest- fought battles of the war, among them
being the battles of Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Richmond and others. Although in
the thickest of these battles, he was never wounded. He was
a consistent Christian, a member of the Pendleton Street
Baptist church at Greenville, S.C.