Jones Morgan
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Jones Morgan (October 23, 1882?-August 29, 1993) said to be an African-American soldier who served in the US Army during the Spanish-American War. The ostensible last surviving US veteran of the war, Morgan served as a cook and a horse wrangler in the US 10th (or possibly 9th) Cavalry, from 1896 to 1900. He died in Richmond, Virginia at the age of 110.
Due to lack of documents (which, according to Morgan himself, were destroyed during a house fire in 1912), and the fact that he was underage during his time of service, some authorities do not recognize him as officially 110 or as the last Spanish-American War veteran, instead giving the honor to Nathan E. Cook, who was 106 when he died September 10, 1992.
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