George Washington Cone was born in Georgia, possibly in Floyd County, his father John H. Cone & family were enumerated there on the 1840 census. Between 1841-1843 the family migrated to Attala County, Mississippi.
According to his Muster Rolls, George joined T. J. Love's Company (Rocky Point Rifles) Mississippi Volunteers in Rocky Point, Attala County, May 1861, which became J. M. McAfee's Company B, 2nd Mississippi Battalion on August 1, 1862. He then transferred to Co. I, 13th Mississippi Regiment. On July 2, 1863 he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg in both legs & taken captive by the enemy. He was taken to one of the Union hospitals at Gettysburg. Sometime in the course of his recovery he was transferred to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia & was retired & discharged on 5 Sept. 1864. In his pension application it states that "...his father & brother Henry visited him a few days before the Battle of Gettysburg & that he came home wounded shortly after the battle. He was still on wounded furlough at the close of the war & after being shot in both legs was too crippled to get around."
On 17 May 1865 in Attala County, Mississippi, he married Martha A. "Mattie" Williams. They probably joined the wagon train of families with his parents & family that migrated to Grimes County, Texas, leaving Kosciusko in September 1865.
Martha A. "Mattie" Williams Cone was most likely the daughter of Edward & Rebecca Williams. They were enumerated on the 1860 Attala County Census & were in Gwinnett County, Georgia in 1850. Gwinnett County adjoins the counties surrounding Atlanta, Georgia, where she states she was born, in the application for the pension of her husband, George W. Cone.
George & Mattie remained in Grimes County where he farmed for the rest of their lives. They had 4 children, but only one lived to adulthood, a son, James Marshall Cone. A daughter, Mary L. was listed on the 1880 census, but the names of the other two children are unknown.
On the mortuary warrant attached to his pension papers it states that he died in Roans Prairie at home, of valvular heart disease. It appears that no state death certificate was issued. Mattie also died at home in Roans Prairie. Although her death certificate does not give the name of her parents, her son's, James Marshall Cone's, names her as Mattie Williams.
-Judy Beach
According to his Muster Rolls, George joined T. J. Love's Company (Rocky Point Rifles) Mississippi Volunteers in Rocky Point, Attala County, May 1861, which became J. M. McAfee's Company B, 2nd Mississippi Battalion on August 1, 1862. He then transferred to Co. I, 13th Mississippi Regiment. On July 2, 1863 he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg in both legs & taken captive by the enemy. He was taken to one of the Union hospitals at Gettysburg. Sometime in the course of his recovery he was transferred to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia & was retired & discharged on 5 Sept. 1864. In his pension application it states that "...his father & brother Henry visited him a few days before the Battle of Gettysburg & that he came home wounded shortly after the battle. He was still on wounded furlough at the close of the war & after being shot in both legs was too crippled to get around."
On 17 May 1865 in Attala County, Mississippi, he married Martha A. "Mattie" Williams. They probably joined the wagon train of families with his parents & family that migrated to Grimes County, Texas, leaving Kosciusko in September 1865.
Martha A. "Mattie" Williams Cone was most likely the daughter of Edward & Rebecca Williams. They were enumerated on the 1860 Attala County Census & were in Gwinnett County, Georgia in 1850. Gwinnett County adjoins the counties surrounding Atlanta, Georgia, where she states she was born, in the application for the pension of her husband, George W. Cone.
George & Mattie remained in Grimes County where he farmed for the rest of their lives. They had 4 children, but only one lived to adulthood, a son, James Marshall Cone. A daughter, Mary L. was listed on the 1880 census, but the names of the other two children are unknown.
On the mortuary warrant attached to his pension papers it states that he died in Roans Prairie at home, of valvular heart disease. It appears that no state death certificate was issued. Mattie also died at home in Roans Prairie. Although her death certificate does not give the name of her parents, her son's, James Marshall Cone's, names her as Mattie Williams.
-Judy Beach
George Washington Cone was born in Georgia, possibly in Floyd County, his father John H. Cone & family were enumerated there on the 1840 census. Between 1841-1843 the family migrated to Attala County, Mississippi.
According to his Muster Rolls, George joined T. J. Love's Company (Rocky Point Rifles) Mississippi Volunteers in Rocky Point, Attala County, May 1861, which became J. M. McAfee's Company B, 2nd Mississippi Battalion on August 1, 1862. He then transferred to Co. I, 13th Mississippi Regiment. On July 2, 1863 he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg in both legs & taken captive by the enemy. He was taken to one of the Union hospitals at Gettysburg. Sometime in the course of his recovery he was transferred to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia & was retired & discharged on 5 Sept. 1864. In his pension application it states that "...his father & brother Henry visited him a few days before the Battle of Gettysburg & that he came home wounded shortly after the battle. He was still on wounded furlough at the close of the war & after being shot in both legs was too crippled to get around."
On 17 May 1865 in Attala County, Mississippi, he married Martha A. "Mattie" Williams. They probably joined the wagon train of families with his parents & family that migrated to Grimes County, Texas, leaving Kosciusko in September 1865.
Martha A. "Mattie" Williams Cone was most likely the daughter of Edward & Rebecca Williams. They were enumerated on the 1860 Attala County Census & were in Gwinnett County, Georgia in 1850. Gwinnett County adjoins the counties surrounding Atlanta, Georgia, where she states she was born, in the application for the pension of her husband, George W. Cone.
George & Mattie remained in Grimes County where he farmed for the rest of their lives. They had 4 children, but only one lived to adulthood, a son, James Marshall Cone. A daughter, Mary L. was listed on the 1880 census, but the names of the other two children are unknown.
On the mortuary warrant attached to his pension papers it states that he died in Roans Prairie at home, of valvular heart disease. It appears that no state death certificate was issued. Mattie also died at home in Roans Prairie. Although her death certificate does not give the name of her parents, her son's, James Marshall Cone's, names her as Mattie Williams.
-Judy Beach
According to his Muster Rolls, George joined T. J. Love's Company (Rocky Point Rifles) Mississippi Volunteers in Rocky Point, Attala County, May 1861, which became J. M. McAfee's Company B, 2nd Mississippi Battalion on August 1, 1862. He then transferred to Co. I, 13th Mississippi Regiment. On July 2, 1863 he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg in both legs & taken captive by the enemy. He was taken to one of the Union hospitals at Gettysburg. Sometime in the course of his recovery he was transferred to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia & was retired & discharged on 5 Sept. 1864. In his pension application it states that "...his father & brother Henry visited him a few days before the Battle of Gettysburg & that he came home wounded shortly after the battle. He was still on wounded furlough at the close of the war & after being shot in both legs was too crippled to get around."
On 17 May 1865 in Attala County, Mississippi, he married Martha A. "Mattie" Williams. They probably joined the wagon train of families with his parents & family that migrated to Grimes County, Texas, leaving Kosciusko in September 1865.
Martha A. "Mattie" Williams Cone was most likely the daughter of Edward & Rebecca Williams. They were enumerated on the 1860 Attala County Census & were in Gwinnett County, Georgia in 1850. Gwinnett County adjoins the counties surrounding Atlanta, Georgia, where she states she was born, in the application for the pension of her husband, George W. Cone.
George & Mattie remained in Grimes County where he farmed for the rest of their lives. They had 4 children, but only one lived to adulthood, a son, James Marshall Cone. A daughter, Mary L. was listed on the 1880 census, but the names of the other two children are unknown.
On the mortuary warrant attached to his pension papers it states that he died in Roans Prairie at home, of valvular heart disease. It appears that no state death certificate was issued. Mattie also died at home in Roans Prairie. Although her death certificate does not give the name of her parents, her son's, James Marshall Cone's, names her as Mattie Williams.
-Judy Beach
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