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Terry Mason's Family History Site28,088 names. Major lines: Allen, Beck, Borden, Buck, Burden, Carpenter, Carper, Cobb, Cook, Cornell, Cowan, Daffron, Davis, Downing, Faubion, Fauntleroy, Fenter, Fishback, Foulks, Gray, Harris, Heimbach, Henn, Holland, Holtzclaw, Jackson, Jameson, Johnson, Jones, King, Lewis, Mason, Massengill, McAnnally, Moore, Morgan, Overstreet, Price, Peck, Rice, Richardson, Rogers, Samuel, Smith, Taylor, Thomas, Wade, Warren, Weeks, Webb, Wodell, Yeiser. |
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RESEARCHER: Information and DESCENDANTS provided to T.Mason 13Apr2002 and more available from Bryan Glenn <pgandbg@bellsouth.net>.
1850: living in Marshall County, MS, p 5R8
1870: living in DeSoto County, MS, p.355
Occupation: July 1870, Farmer
Property: July 1870, $8,000 R/E; $1,250 Personal
Residence: July 1870, Arkabutla, MS1873, Land: A.C. Osteen Section P4 SWq. Sec 3 T5 R8 136 Acres, v.11 #1 H. R. Osteen 1 lot, SWq. Sec 3 T5 R8 2 acres
CENSUS: 1880, Tate County, MS p. 201C
WILL: July 12, 1892, DeSoto County, Mississippi
Listed as Wesley in the 1850 census of Marshall County, MS
Listed as Wesson L. in Soul's Chapel Cemetary.
Served in the 44th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry. Regiment was organized from the 1st (Blythe's) Mississippi Infantry Battalion, which was formed late in 1861. In June, 1863, the unit was designated the 44th Regiment. Some of its members were recruited in Calhoun, De Soto, and Amite counties. The unit was active at Shiloh and Munfordville, then was assigned to J.P. Anderson's, Tucker's, and Sharp's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It served with the army of Murfreesboro, fought with Hood in Tennessee, and saw action in North Carolina. This regiment lost 4 killed and 40 wounded at Munfordville, ahd 4 killed, 31 wounded, and 17 missing at Murfreesboro, and thirty percent of the 272 engaged at Chickamauga were disabled. For a time it was consolidated with the 10th Regiment and in December, 1863, totalled 476 men and 308 arms. Only a remnant surrendered in April, 1865. Its commanding officers were Colonels A.K. Blythe and Jacob H. Sharp, Lieutenant Colonels R.G. Kelsey and James Moore, and Major John C. Thompson.
Betty Torres indicated Wilma was reared by her grandparents, Joseph Smith and Permelia Morgan until they died, then she went to live with her Uncle, Thomas Edward Morgan and wife Mollie S Harp-Morgan and children until her marriage.
