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For the dedicated Southerner in Ya'll!
Milit'ry Madness-a short list of family members that served in the military
Charles Washburn and the Indian scalpings, Proctor and Elmer in the WW's...
UPPER SANDY VALLEY
In the month of June, 1782, there lived in the village of Clarksburg, a man named Charles Washburn, who, while chopping wood in his yard, was shot by a party of Indians lurking in the vicinity. One fellow more venturesome than the others, rushed up to the dying man, cleft his skull with an axe, and, quickly scalping the body, made his escape with the bloody trophy.
Three of the Washburn brothers had formerly been killed by the savages: Isaac, who was shot on Hacker's Creek in 1778, and James and Stephen, who were waylaid, while hunting for pine knots for making shoe wax, near their home on West Fork. Stephen was shot and scalped, and James was carried off to their town, where he was put to death by cruel torture.
Charles Washburn's widow, who before her marriage was Nancy Lowther, was afterward wedded to William Carder, who was living "near below" the mouth of Hacker's Creek (as my informant expressed it) when on the 25th of July, 1794, his place was raided by the Indians. Though the savages were repulsed, they burned the house and drove off the stock. This was the last depradation committed in that section.
(From "The Pioneers of Jackson County" by John A House)
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The South shall rise again!-a short list of ancestors that served in the Civil War
Montgomery's, Tolivers, Johnsons, Duncans...and more to come!
Currently I have found 27 men from David's families who fought in the Civil War. While some of them enlisted and fought as individuals, a majority of them enlisted and fought as family units.
Probably the best example of how the Civil War affected the southern family is the Toliver(Tolliver)family. Calvin, Granville, Callaway, and John Toliver all enlisted on 27 May, 1861. All fought with Company F, 22nd North Carolina Infantry. Of those, 3 were killed. Only Calvin (who was a POW), survived.
Jesse, Jacob, Andrew, and Solomen Toliver all enlisted on 3 May, 1862. All fought with company I, 61st North Carolina Infantry. Of those 4, 1 was killed, 2 were wounded and only 1 survived the war unhurt.
Not all family members served in the same capacity. Jacob Finlay Toliver enlisted with the Caldwells in the 37th North Carolina and served as musician. Edward R Duncan was with Field's Calvery Unit. William Duncan was a quartermaster sargent. Thomas Johnson made it to Colonel. The old man of the war was Henry Washburn who served with the 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillary. Henry was 44 when he enlisted in the army!
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Family Feudin'-Southern style
Tollivers, Joseph Washburn
The picture to the right came from an old book,"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." Although a fictional book by catagory, the basis is set during the Tolliver Wars of 1884. Also known as The Rowan County Wars, it took place in Kentucky. What started as a bar brawl became a murderous rampage between the Martins and the Tollivers as explained:
"On December 2, 1884 John Martin killed Floyd Tolliver in a barroom fight.
On December 10, 1884 John Martin was assassinated at Farmers, in Rowan County while in charge of the officers of the law under a forged order to bring him from the Winchester jail in Clark Co to Morehead to stand trial.
From that time forward, open murders and secret assassinations followed in quick succession until June 22, 1887 when the people involved of one faction of marauders and murders were killed in a attempt to arrest them.
From August 1884 to June 22, 1887 there were 20 murders and assassinations in the county and sixteen persons wounded who did not die, and all of this in a county whose voting population did not at anytime exceed 1100. During this time there was not a single conviction of murder, manslaughter or wounding except for the killing of one Hughes who was not identified with either faction."
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