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Note: Marshall and Sarah were born, raised and married in South Carolina. They married around 1831-32 in Abbeville County. Marshall was about 31 and Sarah was about 22. The first two of their children were born in South Carolina. Between 1835 and 1838 they moved from Abbeville County to Barbour County, Alabama. It was there that the other five children were born. The 1840 Census Records show a man and a woman between the ages of 60-70, living with Marshall. They were probably the parents of either Marshall or Sarah and came with them from South Carolina. In 1851 Marshall began purchasing farm land from the U.S. Government in Barbour and Dale counties. His farm was on the county line.
In the 1860 Census, this land, and all the buildings on it, was valued at $500.00. Marshall also owned personal property valued at $800.00 (livestock, wagon, guns, etc.)
At sometime between 1860-1870, Marshall died, between the ages of 60-70 years. He had been a farmer all of his life and probably died and was buried in Barbour County, Alabama. There is a possibility that he died in Clarke County, Alabama, near the town of Coffeeville. In 1870, Census Records show that Sarah and some of her children had moved across the state to Clarke County, near Mississippi. Marshall could have come with them and died there.
At this time, Sarah was living in a home with her youngest son, William, and her daughter, Caroline. Sarah was 61, William was 21 and Caaroline was 26 years old. William was listed as being a farmer and they owned $350.00 of personal property and no real estate. None of them could read or write.
Next door to Sarah, her oldest son, James Henry, lived with his family. He was 36 years old, his wife Amanda was 28 and their son, Patrick, was 8 years old. Their daughter, Marietta, was 3 years old and their son, Charley W. , was 2. Jjames Henry was listed as a farmer and owned $200.00 of personal property and no real estate. He could not read or write but his wife, Amanda, could.
Another of Sarah's sons, SECHUM MALOW and his family, lived next door to James with his family. Records show that SECHUM was 27 and his wife, SARAH ANN POOL, was 24. Also listed with them and their children was a day laborer named, James Hendson, aged 28.
SECHUM was a farmer and owned personal property valued at $300.00 and no real estate. Both he and his wife were unable to write.
Very little else is known about this group with the exception of SECHUM and his family. It is believed that William lived the remainder of his life in or around Clarke County, as did Sarah and James Henry.
The following is a newspaper article:
"This reigment was organized at Opelike in May 1862, and proceeded at one to Mississippi. It was there brigaded under Gen. Frank Gardner, with the Nineteenth, Twenty-second, Twenty-fifth, and Twenty-sixth Alabama regiments. It participated in the weary march into Kentucky, and came back with the army to Murfreesboro. The regiment took part in that battle, and with heavy loss in casualties, having gained much credit for repulsing an attack of the enemy the day before. The regiment was with the army when it fell back to the Chattanooga line, and took part in the battle of Chicamauga with a very heavy loss of men. At Mission Ridge the loss was light, and the Thirty-ninth, now under Gen. Deas of Mobile as brigade commander, wintered at Dalton. From there to Atlanta the regiment was a conspicuous actor in all the fighting of the army, suffering severely. And, when, under Gen. Hood, the fate of the Confederacy was risked on the "iron dice of battle", in the trenches of Atlanta, and at Jonesboro, the ranks of the Thirty-ninth were thinned sadly by the casualties of those desperate struggles. It marched with the army into Tennessee, and lost a number of prisoners at Nashville. Emerging from that train of disasters, the regiment rallied to the call of Gen. Johnston in the Carolinas, and took park in the operations there, though reduced to a bare skeleton. It was there consolidated with the Twenty-second and Twenty-sixth- Fiftieth Alabama, but was surrended a few days later."
Field and Staff:
Colonels: Henry D. Clayton of Barbour; promoted. Whitfield Clarke of Barbour.
Lieutenant Colonels - James T. Flewellen of Barbour; resigned. Whitfield Clarke, promoted. Lemuel Hargroves of Barbour; resigned. W.C. Clifton of Russell.
Majors: Whitfield Clarke; promoted. L. Hargroves; resigned. W.C. Clifton; promoted. J.D. Smith of Barbour; killed at Jonesboro.
Adjutants: J.M. Macon of Barbour; transferred. H.B. Tompkins of Barbour
Captains , AND COUNTIES FROM WHICH THE COMPANIES CAME:
Pike - J.W.W. Jackson; resigned. J.P. Nall; wounded; retried....Roberts; killed in North Carolina
Barbour - Lemuel Hargroves; promoted. T.J. Cox.
Barbour - Calvin McSwean; resigned. J.A. Miler
Henry - Lee A. Jennings; wounded at Murfreesbror; resigned. A.J. Cassady
Russell - W.C. Clifton; promoted
The State of Georgia - A.H. Flewellen; resigned. Willis Banks; killed near Atlanta
Henry and Barbour - T.Q. Stanford; killed at Murfreesboro; C.H. Mathews; killed at Peachtree Creek
Barbour - Joseph C. Clayton; killed at Murfreesboro. J.L. McRae
Barbour - Whitefield Clarke; promoted. J.D. Smith; promoted. William H. Dill
Barbour - J.C. Mitchell; resigned. Thomas J. Brannon
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