Family
Marriage:
Children:
ELLENDOR ELLEN TEASTER:
Birth: 1843.
HARMON TEASTER:
Birth: 7 MAR 1846 in WATUGA CO. N. C..
Death: 19 OCT 1905 in HARTFORD COCKE CO. TN.
SAMUEL TEASTER:
Birth: ABT 1849.
REBECCA (POLLY) TEASTER:
Birth: 16 OCT 1850.
Death: 1 JAN 1936 in FINES CREEK HAYWOOD CO. N. C.
NANCY TEASTER:
Birth: 1853.
JAMES C TEASTER:
Birth: 1855.
ELIZABETH TEASTER:
Birth: 1862.
MARY CAROLINE TEASTER:
Birth: ABT 1871.
Death: in MADISON CO. N. C.
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Note: LISTED IN 1860 FEDERAL CENSUS WATUGA CO. N. C. PAGE 797 SORRELL CREEK DISTRIC ID# NC445160447LISTED IN 1850 WATUGA CO. N. C. CENSUS AS FAMILY # 377TEASTER RANSOM 31 FARMERFANNY 26SOURCE N. C. MARRIAGE BONDS ANCESTRY.COMBRIDE FANNIE HIXGROOM RANSOM TEASTERBOND DATE 27 OCT 1841COUNTY ASHE N. C.RECORD # 02 008BONDSMAN HIRAM HIXWITNESS G. M. BINGHMANBOND # 000002275SOURCE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS ANCESTRY . COMNAME RANSOM TEASTER STATE SERVED N. C. ENLIST DATE 05 JULY 1862ENLIST RANK PRIVATE ENLIST AGE 44 ENLIST PLACE WATAUGA CO. N. C. ARMY CONFEDERACYELINDER 7 HARRISON 5SAMUEL 2RANSOM IS MY G.G. GRANDFATHERSOURCE OF FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS MR GERALD TEASTERHTTP://FREEPAGES.GENEALOGY..ROOTSWEB.COM/~TEASTER/RANSOM (1) TEASTER AWSBORN IN WATAUGA COUNTY AREA ABOUT 1819. INTHIS STORY HE WILL USUALLY BE DESIGNATED AS RANSOM (1) SO THAT HE WILL NOT BE CONFUSED WITH HIS GRAND SON RANSOM (2) TEASTER THE HUSBAND OF LAURA RUSSELL RANSOM (1) MARRIED FANNYHICKS IN ASHE COUNTY N. C. ON OCT 27 1841UNTILL RECENTLY NOT MUCH WAS KNOWN ABOUT THE LIFE OF RANSOM (1) IT WAS KNOWN HE WAS LIVING IN WATAUGA COUNTY JUST BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR . IT WAS ALSO KNOWN THAT HE DID NOT ACCOMPY HIS WIFE FANNY AND SONS HARMON AND SAMUEL (3)ON THEIR MOVE TOMADISON CO. N. C. AROUND 1870. THERE HAS BEEN A FAMILY STORY AMONG HIS DESCENDANTS THAT GRANDPAW WAS KILLED IN THE WAR (CIVIL WAR) AND WAS BURIED AROUND ATLANTA. IT WAS NEVER CERTAIN IF THIS STORY WASOR EXACTLY WHICH GRANDPAW IT REFERRED TO . WITHTHE HELP OF THE INTERNET AND THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES THIS STORY WAS FOUND TO BE TRUE AND THAT IT WAS RANSOM (1)IN RANSOMS OFFICIAL CIVIL WAR RECORD FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES HIS LAST NAME IS SPELLED BOTH TEASTER AND TESTER. THESE RECORDS ALONG WITH OTHER RECORDS TELL THE FOLLOWING STORYRANSOM JOINED THE CONFEDERATE ARMY ON JULY 7 1862 IN BOONE N. C. HE WAS ABOUT 43 YEARS OLDHE ENLISTED ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS HIS NEPHEW FINLEY TEASTER WHO WAS ABOUT 17. THEY WERE IN CO. D.58thNORTH CAROLINA INFANTRY REGIMENT . RANSOM AND FINLEYHAD OTHER RELATIVES IN D. CO. OF THE 58th N. C. THERE WERE 8 HICKS THAT BECAME PART OF THE COMPANY. FINLEYS MOTHER WAS A HICKS AND RANSOM MARRIED INTO THE HICKS FAMILY.RANSOM WAS ON ACTIVE DUTY UNTILL FEB. 11 1863 WHEN HE DESERTED. HE RETURNED BACK TO DUTY ON JUNE 19 AFTER BEING GONE 4 MONTHS. HE SERVED ON ACTIVE DUTY UNTILL SEPT. 5 OF THE SAME YEARWHEN HE AGAIN DESERTED. HIS PAY RECORD FOR THE TIMESAYS HEDROPPED FROM THE ROLLS BU WAS EXPETED TO RETURN. HE DID RETURN ON JAN 23 1864 AFTER BEING GONE ANOTHER FOUR MONTHS . DURING THIS PERIOD WHILE HE WAS AWAY HIS UNIT WAS IN THE BATTLES OF CHICAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGAWHEN HE RETURNED TO HIS UNIT IT WAS IN WINTER CAMP IN DALTON GA. AS SHERMAN AND THE UNION ARMY ADVANCED THE 58th AND RANSOM WERE PUSHED BACK TO DALLAS GA. BY WAY OF RESACA. THERE WERE SEVERAL BATTLES DURING THIS TIME . RANSOM DIED OF TYPHOIDFEVER IN THE C.S.A. FIELD HOSPITAL IN THE DALLAS GA. AREA ON JUNE 10 1864. THIS AWS TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF KENNESAW MOUNTAIN IN THAT SAME VICINITYTHERE IS NO INFORMATION ABOUT THE BURIAL PLACE . THE FAMILY STORY PICKS UP AGAIN IN THE 1870s WHEN RANSOMS WIDOW FANNY HICKS MOVED WITH SOME OF HER GROWN CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN INCLUDING RANSOM(2) TO THE FINES CREEK AND MADISON CO. N. C.AREA MAX PATCH AREA OF N. C. FROM BOONE IN WATAUGA CO. N. C.
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