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James J. was a son of Joseph Alsup and Barbara Culpepper. He married Elizabeth Cherry, 3 Sep 1857, Benton Co, Tennessee, 3 children, 2 lived to be adults. He served in Civil War, Private, Co. B, 4th Regt. Missouri Infantry, Confederate Army. He died in a railroad accident at Duck Hill Station when 2 trains collided head-on, along with 34 or 35 other Confederate soldiers. All were buried in a mass grave along the railroad tracks, with only their blankets for a casket. For 127 years those valiant soldiers had lay in an unmarked and virtually unknown grave. On September 8, 1990 a Memorial Cemetery was formally dedicated at Duck Hill and stones placed for the known.
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[Biographical information was provided by Martha Reid 19 UDC and RC Rebel.]
The following was added via a page merger:
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James J. was a son of Joseph Alsup and Barbara Culpepper. He married Elizabeth Cherry, 3 Sep 1857, Benton Co, Tennessee, 3 children, 2 lived to be adults. He served in Civil War, Private, Co. B, 4th Regt. Missouri Infantry, Confederate Army. He died in a railroad accident at Duck Hill Station when 2 trains collided head-on, along with 34 or 35 other Confederate soldiers. All were buried in a mass grave along the railroad tracks, with only their blankets for a casket. For 127 years those valiant soldiers had lay in an unmarked and virtually unknown grave. On September 8, 1990 a Memorial Cemetery was formally dedicated at Duck Hill and stones placed for the known.
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[Biographical information was provided by Martha Reid 19 UDC and RC Rebel.]
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