Daniel B. Bills was born 19 Feb 1835 in Marshall Co., TN, to Gersham and Althana Allison (Balch) Bills. By 1850, the family had moved to Marshall Co., MS. On 18 Aug 1858 Daniel married Susan Baker “Sugar” Stark in Tippah Co., MS, where they farmed before, during, and after the Civil War.
Daniel enlisted with 4 brothers and 2 nephews in Co. B. of the 37th Mississippi Infantry in Ripley, MS, on 26 February 1862. Company B was a volunteer company that consisted mostly of men from Tippah Co. The 37th was soon re-designated the 34th Mississippi Infantry to avoid confusion with another unit numbered the 37th. The 34th was attached to the Confederate Army of Tennessee and participated in more than 40 engagements during the war, beginning at the siege of Corinth in the spring of 1862 and concluding with surrender following the Battle of Bentonville, NC, in April, 1865. Daniel was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate dated 4 July 1862 following actions against the federal siege of Corinth, MS, and a retreat of his unit to Booneville and Tupelo, MS.
Daniel and Susan came to Hill Co. in the fall of 1878, probably from Tippah Co., MS, but possibly from neighboring Johnson Co., TX, where his parents and a number of siblings settled as early as 1870. Their family included 2 sons (William Enloe and Alexander) and 4 daughters (Anna, Frances, Ottie, and Johnnie). In 1886, they farmed 80 acres in the George Keesacker survey located east of Blanton.
On 29 July 1899, Daniel filed an application in Hill Co. for financial support from the State of Texas under the Indigent Soldiers and Sailors of the late Confederacy Act of 12 May 1899. His application was approved on 7 February 1900. According to “A Genealogical Dictionary of Marshall County, Tennessee” by Richard W. Sassman, published in 1992 by the Marshall County Historical Society, Daniel died in 1904. His wife, Susan B., and two daughters (Fannie Bills Bigham and Johnnie Bills Nance) also have marked graves in the Blanton Cemetery. Two other daughters (Anna Bills Porter and Ottie Bills Dykes) are probably buried in unmarked graves near or within the family plot.
Daniel enlisted with 4 brothers and 2 nephews in Co. B. of the 37th Mississippi Infantry in Ripley, MS, on 26 February 1862. Company B was a volunteer company that consisted mostly of men from Tippah Co. The 37th was soon re-designated the 34th Mississippi Infantry to avoid confusion with another unit numbered the 37th. The 34th was attached to the Confederate Army of Tennessee and participated in more than 40 engagements during the war, beginning at the siege of Corinth in the spring of 1862 and concluding with surrender following the Battle of Bentonville, NC, in April, 1865. Daniel was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate dated 4 July 1862 following actions against the federal siege of Corinth, MS, and a retreat of his unit to Booneville and Tupelo, MS.
Daniel and Susan came to Hill Co. in the fall of 1878, probably from Tippah Co., MS, but possibly from neighboring Johnson Co., TX, where his parents and a number of siblings settled as early as 1870. Their family included 2 sons (William Enloe and Alexander) and 4 daughters (Anna, Frances, Ottie, and Johnnie). In 1886, they farmed 80 acres in the George Keesacker survey located east of Blanton.
On 29 July 1899, Daniel filed an application in Hill Co. for financial support from the State of Texas under the Indigent Soldiers and Sailors of the late Confederacy Act of 12 May 1899. His application was approved on 7 February 1900. According to “A Genealogical Dictionary of Marshall County, Tennessee” by Richard W. Sassman, published in 1992 by the Marshall County Historical Society, Daniel died in 1904. His wife, Susan B., and two daughters (Fannie Bills Bigham and Johnnie Bills Nance) also have marked graves in the Blanton Cemetery. Two other daughters (Anna Bills Porter and Ottie Bills Dykes) are probably buried in unmarked graves near or within the family plot.
Daniel B. Bills was born 19 Feb 1835 in Marshall Co., TN, to Gersham and Althana Allison (Balch) Bills. By 1850, the family had moved to Marshall Co., MS. On 18 Aug 1858 Daniel married Susan Baker “Sugar” Stark in Tippah Co., MS, where they farmed before, during, and after the Civil War.
Daniel enlisted with 4 brothers and 2 nephews in Co. B. of the 37th Mississippi Infantry in Ripley, MS, on 26 February 1862. Company B was a volunteer company that consisted mostly of men from Tippah Co. The 37th was soon re-designated the 34th Mississippi Infantry to avoid confusion with another unit numbered the 37th. The 34th was attached to the Confederate Army of Tennessee and participated in more than 40 engagements during the war, beginning at the siege of Corinth in the spring of 1862 and concluding with surrender following the Battle of Bentonville, NC, in April, 1865. Daniel was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate dated 4 July 1862 following actions against the federal siege of Corinth, MS, and a retreat of his unit to Booneville and Tupelo, MS.
Daniel and Susan came to Hill Co. in the fall of 1878, probably from Tippah Co., MS, but possibly from neighboring Johnson Co., TX, where his parents and a number of siblings settled as early as 1870. Their family included 2 sons (William Enloe and Alexander) and 4 daughters (Anna, Frances, Ottie, and Johnnie). In 1886, they farmed 80 acres in the George Keesacker survey located east of Blanton.
On 29 July 1899, Daniel filed an application in Hill Co. for financial support from the State of Texas under the Indigent Soldiers and Sailors of the late Confederacy Act of 12 May 1899. His application was approved on 7 February 1900. According to “A Genealogical Dictionary of Marshall County, Tennessee” by Richard W. Sassman, published in 1992 by the Marshall County Historical Society, Daniel died in 1904. His wife, Susan B., and two daughters (Fannie Bills Bigham and Johnnie Bills Nance) also have marked graves in the Blanton Cemetery. Two other daughters (Anna Bills Porter and Ottie Bills Dykes) are probably buried in unmarked graves near or within the family plot.
Daniel enlisted with 4 brothers and 2 nephews in Co. B. of the 37th Mississippi Infantry in Ripley, MS, on 26 February 1862. Company B was a volunteer company that consisted mostly of men from Tippah Co. The 37th was soon re-designated the 34th Mississippi Infantry to avoid confusion with another unit numbered the 37th. The 34th was attached to the Confederate Army of Tennessee and participated in more than 40 engagements during the war, beginning at the siege of Corinth in the spring of 1862 and concluding with surrender following the Battle of Bentonville, NC, in April, 1865. Daniel was discharged on a surgeon’s certificate dated 4 July 1862 following actions against the federal siege of Corinth, MS, and a retreat of his unit to Booneville and Tupelo, MS.
Daniel and Susan came to Hill Co. in the fall of 1878, probably from Tippah Co., MS, but possibly from neighboring Johnson Co., TX, where his parents and a number of siblings settled as early as 1870. Their family included 2 sons (William Enloe and Alexander) and 4 daughters (Anna, Frances, Ottie, and Johnnie). In 1886, they farmed 80 acres in the George Keesacker survey located east of Blanton.
On 29 July 1899, Daniel filed an application in Hill Co. for financial support from the State of Texas under the Indigent Soldiers and Sailors of the late Confederacy Act of 12 May 1899. His application was approved on 7 February 1900. According to “A Genealogical Dictionary of Marshall County, Tennessee” by Richard W. Sassman, published in 1992 by the Marshall County Historical Society, Daniel died in 1904. His wife, Susan B., and two daughters (Fannie Bills Bigham and Johnnie Bills Nance) also have marked graves in the Blanton Cemetery. Two other daughters (Anna Bills Porter and Ottie Bills Dykes) are probably buried in unmarked graves near or within the family plot.
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1835 1904
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