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Note: John enlisted in Chambers County, Alabama May 12, 1862 in the 1st Battalion, Hilliard's Legion, Alabama Vols., A part of Hilliard's legion was consolidated to form the 60th. Alabama infantry, November 25, 1863, at this time John was placed in Co. K.. John was in the battle of Chicamauga where he was wounded. The 60th. was in the Winter Campaign of East Tennessee in 1863; at Richmond in the spring of 1863; At Drewry's Bluff; in the trenches at Petersburg for eight months; was fully engaged at White Oaks Road and at Hatchers Run. When General Lee surrendered at Appomattox the 60th. was there, however, it's doubtful that John was. He had been granted a furlow, Jan. 12, 1865 for 30 days, probably because of his father's death. He probably never returned. John died in a veterans hospital in Little Rock, of a stomach disorder caused from starvation, during the war. He and Hannah are buried in Red Hill Cemetery, near Chidester, Ark. John and Hannah left Georgia after 1870 and before 1876, stopping somewhere in Mississippi where William was born July 14, 1877. When the 1880 census was taken they were living in Howard County, Arkansas where Hannah had two brothers, Seaborn and George Mc Murrain living. By the time their daughter Tabitha married D. B. (Boon) Beelen in 1895, they were living at Sayre, Arkansas. There was a large sawmill built at Sayre when the railroad was built from Gurdon to Camden in 1885. Probably John and his family came to work at this mill. Today there is nothing at Sayre; but in 1910 the census shows 350 people living in the town of Sayre. Descendants of John and Hannah still live near Sayre. Reference: History of The 60th Alabama. Census of the Confederate Veterans of Arkansas. Gravestone at Red Hill Cemetery, Chidester, Arkansas. 1850 Census of Harris County, Georgia; 1880 Howard County, Arkansas, through 1910 Ouachita County, Arkansas.
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