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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Martha Jane Majors: Birth: 11 JUL 1854 in Butler County, Alabama. Death: 18 NOV 1932 in Butler County, Alabama

  2. Susan Majors: Birth: 1856 in Butler County, Alabama. Death: 1863 in Butler County, Alabama

  3. Rachel Nancy Majors: Birth: 27 APR 1859 in Butler County, Alabama. Death: 14 AUG 1896 in Butler County, Alabama

  4. Shadrick Benjamin Majors: Birth: 22 OCT 1862 in Butler County, Alabama. Death: 02 JUN 1938 in Butler County, Alabama

  5. James Andrew Jackson Majors: Birth: 26 MAY 1866 in Butler County, Alabama. Death: 19 OCT 1944 in Butler County, Alabama

  6. Evaline Majors: Birth: 13 MAR 1868 in Butler County, Alabama. Death: 15 FEB 1935 in Butler County, Alabama

  7. Emaline Majors: Birth: 31 MAR 1868 in MT Olive, Butler, Alabama, USA. Death: 25 MAY 1931 in Butler, Alabama, USA

  8. Jesse Harris Majors: Birth: 14 JUL 1870 in Butler County, Alabama. Death: 28 MAY 1911 in Butler County, Alabama

  9. J David Majors: Birth: 06 SEP 1873 in Butler County, Alabama. Death: 09 MAR 1942 in Butler County, Alabama

  10. George Walter Majors: Birth: 19 NOV 1875 in Butler County, Alabama. Death: 07 FEB 1954 in Butler County, Alabama


Sources
1. Title:   Genealogy of Elaine Hendricks
Author:   Elaine Hall Hendricks
Publication:   Name: Nov 1950 - June 2007; Location: Dadeville, Alabama; Date: July 1997;
2. Title:   Genealogical Import

Notes
a. Note:   Benjamin Majors enlisted in the civil war in Butler County onSeptember4, 1862. He was a private in Company B, 17th AlabamaInfantry Regimentas was his brother James. He was captured nearNashville TennesseeonDecember 15, 1864 and sent to Camp Douglas,Chicago, Illinois to beprocessed and sent to Military Prison inLouisville, Kentucky. HisAlabama Civil War military records statethat he applied for apensionfor going blind as the result of a musketball to the headduring theBattle at Kennesaw Mountain. However,modern science hasproved that blindness was inherited in the Majorsfamily and heprobably would have gone blind during his lifetimeregardless of thehead injury. The inherited gene for blindness thatis prevalent in theMajors family is called "Sticklers Syndrome" andis being extensivelystudied by Dr. Scotty Parma, a descendant ofBenjamin Majors.

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