Captain Henderson In Charge Of Cahaba Prison

In these memoirs of Cahaba a prominent place should be given to Captain (later Colonel) Howard A. M. Henderson. Colonel Henderson entered the Confederate service, from Kentucky, as a captain of the Colonel Clay Cadets. For a time he was in field service, then was sent to take charge of the prison at Cahaba.

River At The Prison At Cahaba In Alabama

Here [at Cahaba] he was promoted, and appointed Assistant Commissioner for the Exchange of Prisoners of War, and assigned to duty for the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. He had charge of the prisoners at Opelika, Macon, Cahaba, Selma, Meridian, and Enterprise, Miss. The relations of Henderson with the officers of the Union Army, as an officer connected with the exchange of prisoners, were often intimate and cordial, and by many of the non-commissioned officers and privates he is remembered with kindly wishes.   [Source]

From Henderson's Civil War File at Fold3.com:

General Gaines' Letter

Headquarters

Augusta, Georgia

20 August 1819

To Major James E. Dinkins...
Tensaw, A. T.

Source

"...at which time he is directed to hand you his sword and be in arrest."

Colonel William King of the Fourth Regiment....court martial....

Also see my War of 1812 Chronicles blog post, Neil Cameron, Deserter.

Died At The Battle Of Gettysburg

Michigan Probate Records...Wayne Probate packets 1879...:

Image 897

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File 9279

John P. Thelen, who died at the battle of Gettysburg

Died: 4 July 1863

(Father died in 1874)

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Source-Last Name Listed

An 1844 Guide Book To West Point

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In the cemetery:

"We notice here a beautiful column in memory of Lt. Col. Alexander R. Thompson--a victim in the Florida war. The delicate sculpture particularly attracts our attention."

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See papers for three generations of Thompsons at the University of Michigan's Clements Library.

Brandenburg And Horace Bell

"His [Horace Bell's] adventures in the role of an overlander to California during the gold rush...; a filibusterer with William Walker in Nicaragua; a participant in abolitionist activities in Kentucky...spy in Cuba...compose a tale of a life that is as strange as fiction." [Source]

29 Oct 1858 Chicago Tribune

There is a story of how the Bells were distressed over the slave trade just across the border line of their state [Indiana], and that they won the ill will of the slave-traders by their denunciation of the Dred Scott decision and fugitive slave law.

A letter was sent to Horace Bell that he would be shot the moment he set foot on Kentucky soil. This message, however, had little effect on tho young man... .

Harrison County, Indiana, Map - LOC 
Also See Brandenburgh

The authorities of Kentucky knew something of the man who had made this threat, and they took the precaution of ordering to Brandenburg a battalion of militia. The commander of that battalion, however, had served under Horace Bell at Nicaragua, and was not anxious to take up arms against his former commander, so he was not over-vigilant in watching for any outbreak that might be expected. [Source]

Boiler Explodes At Detroit

Source - Fold3
Atlanta Constitution
7 November 1895

"One Of Them Put A Live Man In A Coffin - A Fireman Kicks It Open"

At 9 o'clock...steam boilers connect with the Journal plant...40 West Larned Street...

Samuel T. Baldwin, Mexican War Soldier

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File #1518

Samuel T. Baldwin

Affidavit for bounty land (Jackson Co., Michigan, Document)

"  "  Henry Bunnell and Waterman Baldwin, Witnesses

Image 642

Coversheet [Image 640]

Estate Year: 1848

Private Co. G

1st Regiment Michigan Volunteers

*Under Captain Daniel Hicks

Mexican War

Elizabeth Baldwin, mother

Samuel left no widow, children, or father living

*Captain Daniel Hicks (Fold3)

Archie Lloyd Backus, WWI Veteran

World War I "Census" - At The Archives of Michigan (from what I remember, participation in this endeavor was voluntary and the results were compiled on index cards).

Backus, Archie Lloyd

1230 W. Hancock, Detroit

Wayne Co.

Source - Fold3

Benjamin Gould Of Company F

Benjamin F. Gould's estate information found in the Alpha Index for the Wayne County, Michigan, Probate Court:

Image 4775

Gould, Benjamin F.

Probate File# 1521

Musician In Co. F, 2nd Reg, Commanded by Col. Riley

Died 1847 in Perote, Mexico

Married 3 March 1846 in Detroit

Michigan Probate Records, 1797-1973  Wayne Probate packets 1848-1849...:

Probate File #1521

Benjamin F. Gould

Image 660 affidavits for bounty land

*Image 659 military service

Image 654 coversheet

From Fold3:

Source

*Benjamin F. and Laura [Erning?] Gould had no children.

Miss Carridine's Beauty Was Marred

Josephine Carradine was a daughter of the Rev. Beverly F. Carradine.  See the Richmond Family connection to Josephine's half-brother, William Reed Carradine here.

Source - Fold3($)

 Fort Wayne Sentinel 

1914 January 30-Jan-1914 (Page 9)

Cases Determined...Volume 195, By Missouri. Courts of Appeals:

Heirs Of James Hickey

Source

Oakland Co., Michigan, Probate Extracts
File #939
Hickey, James.
Will dated 26 June 1851; filed 20 Dec 1851
Died: 15 Dec 1851 at Royal Oak Twp., Oakland Co., Michigan
Admin.: Orange Niles & Manassah Hickey
Heirs: Widow, Bethia Hickey; Manassah Hickey, George Smith Hickey, Juliett Hickey*, Lorenzo Dow Hickey, John Hickey, Marietta Niles (wife of Orange Niles), children. Also: James Hickey, Jr., Humphrey Hickey, Rhoda Ann Ferguson, children.
Witnesses to will: Manassah Hickey, Amasa Flemont and Drake Hulburt.


*Juliette Hickey was enumerated as a domestic servant in 1860 in the household of Orange & Marietta Niles in Troy, MI.

The James Hickey family was listed in the Heir-Lines genealogical publication here.

Name: James Hickey

Event Type: Census

Event Year: 1850

Event Place: Royal Oak, Oakland, Michigan

Gender: Male

Age: 60

Race: White

Birth Year (Estimated): 1790

Birthplace: New York

House Number: 1019

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

James Hickey M 60 New York

Bethia Hickey F 50 New York

John Hickey M 23 New York

George Hickey M 11 Michigan

Heiress Living In Lapeer

As seen in the Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXXI, Number 80, 19 December 1903:

HEIRESS TO FORTUNE BELIEVED SHE WAS POOR 

Strange Legacy Mystery for Probate Court to Unravel

CHICAGO. Dec. 18.—Left an heiress in her infancy and only discovering the fact when she was 27 years old and married, is the experience related to Probate Judge Cutting by Mrs. Clara Lang Malcolm. In proceedings begun to ascertain what had become of an estate valued at $135,000 alleged to have been dissipated by her father and guardian, C. W. Lang, once a real estate dealer In Chicago. The court ordered a box In a safety deposit vault opened in the hope that some remnant of the property may be discovered. Mrs. Malcolm told the court that her mother [Clara Irene Day] died in 1876. Immediately afterward the little girl was sent to her father's parents in Lapeer, Mich. Occasionally, she said, her father sent her money, the largest single sum being $30, but she never knew she was an heiress until she was married last June and went to reside in Ann Arbor. Judge Cutting ordered a citation issued for the plaintiff's father to compel his appearance in court.

Note:  According to the 19th March 1905 issue of the Chicago Tribune, Dr. V. C. Price, Surety, will pay $100,000.00 to satisfy a $165,000.00 judgement against Cuthbert W. Laing in favor of his daughter. [Source - Fold3]

Name: Clara I Laing

Census  1900

Lapeer city Ward 2-3, Lapeer, Michigan

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

Alfred A Vosburgh Head M 57 New York

Grace L Vosburgh Wife  F 56 England

Ann L Vosburgh Daughter F 20 Michigan

Anna I Laing Mother-in-law F 92 England

Clara I Laing Niece F 23 Illinois

Mollie Lobstein Servant F 18 Canada Eng

Name: Clara Laing

Census  1880

Columbiaville, Lapeer, Michigan

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

David Laing Self  M 74 England

Anne Laing Wife  F 72 England

Clara Laing Granddaughter  F 4 Illinois

Nancy Johnson Other F 20 Michigan

Samuel Williams Other M 25 Georgia

John Rampier's Probate

Cross-posted at War Of 1812 Chronicles.

Image 498

Wayne County, Michigan
Probate File 141 1/2

John Rampier in the Army Register (seen at Fold3.com):

Some Business Of The Michigan Cavalry

Source

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The 2nd Regiment of the Michigan Cavalry, including 1st Lieutenant Martin L. Squier, was in Tennessee.

Captain Marshall Thacker was on general court martial service.

Another entry in reference to Hugo B. Rathburn stated "In arrest at Franklin Tenn from Dec 2/64 by order from Genl Wilson.


Hugo Rathburn's reference card at Fold3.com:

A Girl Named Mary

From a virtual exhibit at McGill University in Montreal, Canada:

Source

"Z.B. Oakes  A Brown Girl Named Mary warranted Sound...".

Charleston, South Carolina

29 November 1856

Charles S. Desel Estate

Captain Laval Survived

Fort Pickens - Pensacola, Florida, Area

From Notices of Florida and the Campaigns. [With a map.],  By M. M. Cohen (Commander of Pioneers.)

Notices of Florida stated that Captain Laval, "This promising officer was killed in the act of storming the battery."  It seems as though, to paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of his death were greatly exaggerated.  Captain William Laval was severely injured, per the Surgeon's Affidavit (below).

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He was injured on the 7th of November 1814 being engaged in storming a fort at or near a place called Pensacola, Territory of West Florida.

Laval was a member of the 3rd Regiment of the U.S. Army and served under General Andrew Jackson.

He left the Army on 31 December 1822.

Another document in Laval's file indicated that he died 28 August 1865.  From 1861 until his death, he resided in Columbia, South Carolina.

His widow was Sarah C. Laval of Greenville, South Carolina.

Held The Fort

"...John Neville...took possession of the dilapidated fort...and held it until superseded by a Continental command."

Source

Source - Fold3

Willard Bearss In A Civil War Muster Roll

New York Civil War Muster Roll Abstract:

Source

Vinson Siblings

Illinois Probate Records, 1819-1988  Gallatin Probate records 1863-1867 vol B:

Source [Image 254]
Tuesday, August 21, 1866

In the matter of Guardian for Samuel H. Vinson, Priscilla Vinson, Martha A. Vinson, and James F. Vinson, minor heirs of Levi D.Vinson, Dec'd.

Petition of Elizabeth Painter
Said minors are entitled to pension from the U. States for service of their father against the rebellion and can only obtain it through a guardian...ordered that Lewis E. Painter be appointed guardian....

Fold3 has Elizabeth (Coats) Vinson's Widow's Pension online here (pay to view site).

Levi Vinson was a private in Company G, 7th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers (Cavalry).  He died as a POW at Andersonville, Georgia, on 19 August 1864 (or 4 September 1864).  He was captured 11 October 1863 at Colliersville, Tennessee.

Elizabeth Coats and Levi Vinson were married on 9 October 1851 in Gallatin County, Illinois.

Census 1860
Township 8 Range 10 E 3rd P M, Gallatin, Illinois, United States
Levi D Vincen M 29 Illinois
Elizabeth Vincen F 29 Illinois
Samul H Vincen M 7 Illinois
Presilla J Vincen F 4 Illinois
Martha A Vincen F 1 Illinois
Mary A Caats F 19 Illinois


Elizabeth (Coats) Vinson married Lewis E. Painter on 13 May 1866, in Gallatin County, Illinois.

Widow Certificate 66348
Elizabeth Pointer
Bells, Texas
(1912)

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"...as your second husband obtained a divorce from you on his own application."  Divorce was obtained 3 May 1880 in Walker County, Alabama.

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An affidavit stated that Lewis Pointer died about August 1905 in Winston County, Alabama (there was no public record).

Samuel H. Vinson's affidavit stated that he lived in Lamar County, Alabama.

Census 1910

Justice Precinct 3, Grayson, Texas, United States

W P Pointer Head M 37 Alabama

Julia Pointer Wife F 33 Alabama

Jesse Pointer Son M 13 Texas

Clifford Pointer Son M 11 Texas

Florence Pointer Daughter F 8 Texas

Bow Pointer Son M 6 Texas

Lonnie Pointer Son M 5 Texas

Veva Pointer Daughter F 2 Texas

Vestal Pointer Daughter F 0 Texas

Elizabeth Pointer Mother F 88 Illinois

Elizabeth (Coats) Vinson Pointer died in 1914.

James Hankins, Revolutionary War Soldier

Note: Hankins is a name I'm researching

Hankins in this family tree

Source (Fold3)

Revolutionary War 

James Hankins

East Tennessee

Drafted in Pittsylvania, Virginia

Rifle Company under Henry Burnet

James Hankins was born in Charlotte County, Virginia in 1752

Declarant remained in Virginia for a few years

Declarant moved to Washington County, Tennessee

Declarant moved to South Carolina

Declarant also moved back to Pittsylvania

Declarant then moved to what is now Roane County, Tennessee for 30 years

Declarant finally moved to McMinn County, Tennessee, where he now resides (April 1833)

Died 1840