Born in 1826 in Overton County Tennessee. Emigrated to Arkansas with his wife Permelia and family by way of Overton, Tennessee. Then to Dahlonega, Georgia. and then to Chinese Camp, California. After California, headed back east and homesteaded in Madison County, Kings River Community in Arkansas in 1857. Their group included his family of 4 …
Monthly Archives: December 2020
Joel Gilmore Wood
Joel Gilmore Wood was born in Cherokee County, Alabama on October 7, 1829, the son of William H. Wood (1806 – 1861) and Elmira Lane (1808 – 1866). January 29, 1854, he was married to Maria Evans, daughter of Jesse and Caroline (Anderson) Evans. Joel and Maria farmed in Alabama for two years after their …
Asa Washington Sams
Asa Washington Sams was born in April 1838, in Little Ivy Creek, Madison County, NC. He died on March 29, 1911, in Telluride, San Miguel County, CO and is buried in Lone Tee Cemetery, Telluride, CO. He volunteered to join the Confederate cause by enlisting on May 10th, 1862, at Marshall NC, at the age …
William Crawford Annis
William Crawford Annis was born 12 July 1840 in Iberville Parish, Louisiana to John Annis and Sarah Brister. He began working in the newspaper business in 1852, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, probably as an apprentice printer. In 1860, he was listed on the census as being a clerk living in the household of his mother. …
John C Calhoun
1st Lt Calhoun was born in Pendleton County, Virginia on March 4,1840. He was killed in action on July 6, 1863 in Williamsport Maryland by a shell fragment. He was serving under General John D Imboden and protecting the retreat from Gettysburg. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15548394/john-c.-calhoun
Josiah Washington Fulton
Josiah Washington “Fult” Fulton served in the NC 21st Infantry Division and also spent time as a POW at Point Lookout, MD. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25512769/josiah-washington-fulton
Matthew David Young
Honorably served full term of the war with the last eleven months a P O W at Camp Chase, Ohio after being wounded at Missionary Ridge.
James W. Maxwell
Served throughout the war. He saw fighting at Seven Pines, The Seven Days, Boonsboro Gap (South Mountain), Sharpsburg (Antietam), Chancellorsville, Ocean Pond (Olustee), Drewry’s Bluff, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. At Chancellorsville he was captured and sent to Camp Delaware then exchanged on 23 May 1863. He was laid to rest in the Mt. Tabor Baptist …
Russell Lassiter Brown
Russell Lassiter Brown was born in Warren County, TN in 1842. He was the 2nd child born to William Sanford Brown (1821-1908) and Nancy Dykes Brown (1821–1908). His siblings were Jackson Van Buren Brown (1840–1910), James K. Brown (1844–1918), William Almond Brown (1847–1926), Norris Burr Brown (1849–1941), Mary E Brown Hillis (1852–1898), Hezekiah Wesley Brown …