His second wife, Sadie Johnson, died in 1935. Then in his nineties, Mack moved in with her son from a previous marriage and his wife, Clarence and Allie Johnson. They regularly drove him to GAR meetings and Sunday services at Zion Baptist Church.
With the United States engaged in World War II, Mack was in his 100s when he climbed the stairs for the first time in years, loaded a shotgun and put on his Army jacket.
When his family members found him on a nearby porch, he was headed to an Army recruiting station.
Told that he was too old to go to war again, Mack said: "There's a lot of damn good fight in me yet!"
--Old Secesh
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