On December 22, 1861, Clerissa Elizabeth Smith married the 17 year-old Samuel Thompson of Calhoun County Alabama. Together they had two children. Sarahann Marena Thompson was born Nov. 15, 1862 and died July 19, 1892. She is buried in the Mount Carmel Cemetery at Eden/Pell City, AL. Samuel Thompson was born April 27, 1864 and death as Feb. 5, 1926(according to family documents/Bible records). This child's headstone at Pope's Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery has his birth as 1861.
The story passed down through the family is that Samuel Sr. went off to fight in the Civil War and while away, succumbed to a severe case of Measles and didn't make it back home to his family from the war. His burial location is unknown.
After this tragedy, G.W. Rowe, also a veteran of the Civil War, developed a close friendship with, and eventually married C. Elizabeth Thompson in Calhoun County on Aug. 24, 1869. They supposedly came on a wagon train to St. Clair County in 1870 and had their first child together on May 16, 1873.
The story passed down through the family is that Samuel Sr. went off to fight in the Civil War and while away, succumbed to a severe case of Measles and didn't make it back home to his family from the war. His burial location is unknown.
After this tragedy, G.W. Rowe, also a veteran of the Civil War, developed a close friendship with, and eventually married C. Elizabeth Thompson in Calhoun County on Aug. 24, 1869. They supposedly came on a wagon train to St. Clair County in 1870 and had their first child together on May 16, 1873.
On December 22, 1861, Clerissa Elizabeth Smith married the 17 year-old Samuel Thompson of Calhoun County Alabama. Together they had two children. Sarahann Marena Thompson was born Nov. 15, 1862 and died July 19, 1892. She is buried in the Mount Carmel Cemetery at Eden/Pell City, AL. Samuel Thompson was born April 27, 1864 and death as Feb. 5, 1926(according to family documents/Bible records). This child's headstone at Pope's Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery has his birth as 1861.
The story passed down through the family is that Samuel Sr. went off to fight in the Civil War and while away, succumbed to a severe case of Measles and didn't make it back home to his family from the war. His burial location is unknown.
After this tragedy, G.W. Rowe, also a veteran of the Civil War, developed a close friendship with, and eventually married C. Elizabeth Thompson in Calhoun County on Aug. 24, 1869. They supposedly came on a wagon train to St. Clair County in 1870 and had their first child together on May 16, 1873.
The story passed down through the family is that Samuel Sr. went off to fight in the Civil War and while away, succumbed to a severe case of Measles and didn't make it back home to his family from the war. His burial location is unknown.
After this tragedy, G.W. Rowe, also a veteran of the Civil War, developed a close friendship with, and eventually married C. Elizabeth Thompson in Calhoun County on Aug. 24, 1869. They supposedly came on a wagon train to St. Clair County in 1870 and had their first child together on May 16, 1873.
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