From 2003 transcription by Barbara Pruitt and Lynn Eubank, accessed online at http://www.rootsweb.com
/~alfayett/Hopewell_Cemetery.html
From suggested correction, November 2013, by Barbara Tynes Claiborne;
"Josiah H. Harper was born in Marion County, Alabama to Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Harper. He married Nancy Jane Berryhill (Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper #46850471) and they had three children: Mary Harper 1858, Thomas W Harper 1860 and Rebecca Jane Harper 1861 before he left for the war. Josiah H. Harper was a Union soldier - 1st Alabama, Co B 1st Regiment Alabama Cavalry U.S. Army. His wife Nancy Jane applied for his U.S. Civil War Pension August 27 1889, then went to Texas with her daughter Becky Jane, widow of James W. M. Dodson. (Becky later married John R. White in Texas.) Lucinda Lyle Harper, also buried in Hopewell Cemetery, was married to Josiah's brother Elisha Denton Harper. Younger brother Tennessee Polk Harper (1844-1862) was also a Union soldier and is buried in Nashville National Cemetery. Could you link Josiah H. Harper to his wife Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper in Texas so folks won't assume that Lucinda Lyle Harper was his wife?"
From suggested correction, August 2014, by Glenda Todd
Union soldier, hanged by Confederate Home Guards
Josiah Houston Harper enlisted in Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry, USA January 20, 1863, in Glendale, MS and mustered in January 22, 1863 at Corinth, MS. He was serving as a scout February 8, 1863 and mustered out January 22, 1864. He was said to have been a "Home Guard" and made shoes for the army. On a return visit to his home, he was captured and killed by the Confederate Home Guard leaving a wife and four children. Source: Southern Claims Commission, John Lyons, Case No. 20850, Marion Co., AL
In John Lyons Southern Claim, he stated the following about Josiah Harper.
The witness testifies that some prominent Union men in the area were George S. Tucker, John P. Lyle and Samuel Roberts.
"I don't know whether or not they could testify to claimants loyality." The witness states that the claimant knew she was adherent to the Union cause, "he knew it by my talk, and my acts and deeds, and by my husband being in the Union army."
Witness testifies that "the Confederate cavalry came to the house of Claimant and cursed and abused his daughters and said that they would take claimant in out of the wet and put him where the dogs wouldn't bite him, and called him a damned old Tory traitor and everything else that was mean. My husband, Josiah Harper, went into the Union army. Served out his time and came home. Claimant after my husband came home, saw him several times. My husband was at Claimants house. Claimant and him were on the best of terms up to his death. The Confederates caught him and hanged him. Claimant and his family help look for him until he was found hanging. Claimant took his wagon and stears (and) hauled him to the grave yard and helped bury him."
When Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper applied for pension she stated he died of chronic diarrhea contracted while in service. If she had stated he was killed by the home guard after the war, she probably wouldn't have drawn a pension. She stated he was discharged Jan 24, 1864 and died April 22, 1864.
/~alfayett/Hopewell_Cemetery.html
From suggested correction, November 2013, by Barbara Tynes Claiborne;
"Josiah H. Harper was born in Marion County, Alabama to Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Harper. He married Nancy Jane Berryhill (Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper #46850471) and they had three children: Mary Harper 1858, Thomas W Harper 1860 and Rebecca Jane Harper 1861 before he left for the war. Josiah H. Harper was a Union soldier - 1st Alabama, Co B 1st Regiment Alabama Cavalry U.S. Army. His wife Nancy Jane applied for his U.S. Civil War Pension August 27 1889, then went to Texas with her daughter Becky Jane, widow of James W. M. Dodson. (Becky later married John R. White in Texas.) Lucinda Lyle Harper, also buried in Hopewell Cemetery, was married to Josiah's brother Elisha Denton Harper. Younger brother Tennessee Polk Harper (1844-1862) was also a Union soldier and is buried in Nashville National Cemetery. Could you link Josiah H. Harper to his wife Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper in Texas so folks won't assume that Lucinda Lyle Harper was his wife?"
From suggested correction, August 2014, by Glenda Todd
Union soldier, hanged by Confederate Home Guards
Josiah Houston Harper enlisted in Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry, USA January 20, 1863, in Glendale, MS and mustered in January 22, 1863 at Corinth, MS. He was serving as a scout February 8, 1863 and mustered out January 22, 1864. He was said to have been a "Home Guard" and made shoes for the army. On a return visit to his home, he was captured and killed by the Confederate Home Guard leaving a wife and four children. Source: Southern Claims Commission, John Lyons, Case No. 20850, Marion Co., AL
In John Lyons Southern Claim, he stated the following about Josiah Harper.
The witness testifies that some prominent Union men in the area were George S. Tucker, John P. Lyle and Samuel Roberts.
"I don't know whether or not they could testify to claimants loyality." The witness states that the claimant knew she was adherent to the Union cause, "he knew it by my talk, and my acts and deeds, and by my husband being in the Union army."
Witness testifies that "the Confederate cavalry came to the house of Claimant and cursed and abused his daughters and said that they would take claimant in out of the wet and put him where the dogs wouldn't bite him, and called him a damned old Tory traitor and everything else that was mean. My husband, Josiah Harper, went into the Union army. Served out his time and came home. Claimant after my husband came home, saw him several times. My husband was at Claimants house. Claimant and him were on the best of terms up to his death. The Confederates caught him and hanged him. Claimant and his family help look for him until he was found hanging. Claimant took his wagon and stears (and) hauled him to the grave yard and helped bury him."
When Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper applied for pension she stated he died of chronic diarrhea contracted while in service. If she had stated he was killed by the home guard after the war, she probably wouldn't have drawn a pension. She stated he was discharged Jan 24, 1864 and died April 22, 1864.
From 2003 transcription by Barbara Pruitt and Lynn Eubank, accessed online at http://www.rootsweb.com
/~alfayett/Hopewell_Cemetery.html
From suggested correction, November 2013, by Barbara Tynes Claiborne;
"Josiah H. Harper was born in Marion County, Alabama to Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Harper. He married Nancy Jane Berryhill (Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper #46850471) and they had three children: Mary Harper 1858, Thomas W Harper 1860 and Rebecca Jane Harper 1861 before he left for the war. Josiah H. Harper was a Union soldier - 1st Alabama, Co B 1st Regiment Alabama Cavalry U.S. Army. His wife Nancy Jane applied for his U.S. Civil War Pension August 27 1889, then went to Texas with her daughter Becky Jane, widow of James W. M. Dodson. (Becky later married John R. White in Texas.) Lucinda Lyle Harper, also buried in Hopewell Cemetery, was married to Josiah's brother Elisha Denton Harper. Younger brother Tennessee Polk Harper (1844-1862) was also a Union soldier and is buried in Nashville National Cemetery. Could you link Josiah H. Harper to his wife Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper in Texas so folks won't assume that Lucinda Lyle Harper was his wife?"
From suggested correction, August 2014, by Glenda Todd
Union soldier, hanged by Confederate Home Guards
Josiah Houston Harper enlisted in Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry, USA January 20, 1863, in Glendale, MS and mustered in January 22, 1863 at Corinth, MS. He was serving as a scout February 8, 1863 and mustered out January 22, 1864. He was said to have been a "Home Guard" and made shoes for the army. On a return visit to his home, he was captured and killed by the Confederate Home Guard leaving a wife and four children. Source: Southern Claims Commission, John Lyons, Case No. 20850, Marion Co., AL
In John Lyons Southern Claim, he stated the following about Josiah Harper.
The witness testifies that some prominent Union men in the area were George S. Tucker, John P. Lyle and Samuel Roberts.
"I don't know whether or not they could testify to claimants loyality." The witness states that the claimant knew she was adherent to the Union cause, "he knew it by my talk, and my acts and deeds, and by my husband being in the Union army."
Witness testifies that "the Confederate cavalry came to the house of Claimant and cursed and abused his daughters and said that they would take claimant in out of the wet and put him where the dogs wouldn't bite him, and called him a damned old Tory traitor and everything else that was mean. My husband, Josiah Harper, went into the Union army. Served out his time and came home. Claimant after my husband came home, saw him several times. My husband was at Claimants house. Claimant and him were on the best of terms up to his death. The Confederates caught him and hanged him. Claimant and his family help look for him until he was found hanging. Claimant took his wagon and stears (and) hauled him to the grave yard and helped bury him."
When Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper applied for pension she stated he died of chronic diarrhea contracted while in service. If she had stated he was killed by the home guard after the war, she probably wouldn't have drawn a pension. She stated he was discharged Jan 24, 1864 and died April 22, 1864.
/~alfayett/Hopewell_Cemetery.html
From suggested correction, November 2013, by Barbara Tynes Claiborne;
"Josiah H. Harper was born in Marion County, Alabama to Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Harper. He married Nancy Jane Berryhill (Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper #46850471) and they had three children: Mary Harper 1858, Thomas W Harper 1860 and Rebecca Jane Harper 1861 before he left for the war. Josiah H. Harper was a Union soldier - 1st Alabama, Co B 1st Regiment Alabama Cavalry U.S. Army. His wife Nancy Jane applied for his U.S. Civil War Pension August 27 1889, then went to Texas with her daughter Becky Jane, widow of James W. M. Dodson. (Becky later married John R. White in Texas.) Lucinda Lyle Harper, also buried in Hopewell Cemetery, was married to Josiah's brother Elisha Denton Harper. Younger brother Tennessee Polk Harper (1844-1862) was also a Union soldier and is buried in Nashville National Cemetery. Could you link Josiah H. Harper to his wife Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper in Texas so folks won't assume that Lucinda Lyle Harper was his wife?"
From suggested correction, August 2014, by Glenda Todd
Union soldier, hanged by Confederate Home Guards
Josiah Houston Harper enlisted in Co. B, 1st Alabama Cavalry, USA January 20, 1863, in Glendale, MS and mustered in January 22, 1863 at Corinth, MS. He was serving as a scout February 8, 1863 and mustered out January 22, 1864. He was said to have been a "Home Guard" and made shoes for the army. On a return visit to his home, he was captured and killed by the Confederate Home Guard leaving a wife and four children. Source: Southern Claims Commission, John Lyons, Case No. 20850, Marion Co., AL
In John Lyons Southern Claim, he stated the following about Josiah Harper.
The witness testifies that some prominent Union men in the area were George S. Tucker, John P. Lyle and Samuel Roberts.
"I don't know whether or not they could testify to claimants loyality." The witness states that the claimant knew she was adherent to the Union cause, "he knew it by my talk, and my acts and deeds, and by my husband being in the Union army."
Witness testifies that "the Confederate cavalry came to the house of Claimant and cursed and abused his daughters and said that they would take claimant in out of the wet and put him where the dogs wouldn't bite him, and called him a damned old Tory traitor and everything else that was mean. My husband, Josiah Harper, went into the Union army. Served out his time and came home. Claimant after my husband came home, saw him several times. My husband was at Claimants house. Claimant and him were on the best of terms up to his death. The Confederates caught him and hanged him. Claimant and his family help look for him until he was found hanging. Claimant took his wagon and stears (and) hauled him to the grave yard and helped bury him."
When Nancy Jane Berryhill Harper applied for pension she stated he died of chronic diarrhea contracted while in service. If she had stated he was killed by the home guard after the war, she probably wouldn't have drawn a pension. She stated he was discharged Jan 24, 1864 and died April 22, 1864.
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