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Dr John F Williams

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Dr John F Williams Veteran

Birth
Mississippi, USA
Death
15 Feb 1862 (aged 23)
Stewart County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 44
Memorial ID
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1859 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from: MS;
preceptor: Dr. Robert Emmett Lanier)
10/22/1860 - Practiced medicine, Noxubee Co., MS (lived with the family of H .B. Clark;
indexed in the 1860 U. S. Census as "John T. Clark")
05/25/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., Capt. J. W. Benoit's Co., 14th MS Infantry, Camp
Baldwin, Corinth, MS [Note: This company subsequently became Co., K,
14th MS Infantry.]
06/30/1861 - Pvt., Co., K, 14th MS Infantry
12/31/1862 - Hospital Steward, 14th MS Infantry
02/00/1862 - Hospital Steward, 14th MS Infantry
02/15/1862 - Killed in action, Fort Donelson, TN (buried: Friendship Cemetery,
Columbus, Lowndes Co., MS; FindAGrave #12915701) [Note: The part of
Friendship Cemetery where Dr. Williams is buried was originally the
Confederate section of The Odd Fellows Cemetery. The Odd Fellows
Cemetery was acquired by the city of Columbus and is now part of
Friendship Cemetery.]
Larry Hammack and Michael Angelo provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F. T. & Koste, J. L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
01/25/2020. Unpublished database.
1859 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from: MS;
preceptor: Dr. Robert Emmett Lanier)
10/22/1860 - Practiced medicine, Noxubee Co., MS (lived with the family of H .B. Clark;
indexed in the 1860 U. S. Census as "John T. Clark")
05/25/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., Capt. J. W. Benoit's Co., 14th MS Infantry, Camp
Baldwin, Corinth, MS [Note: This company subsequently became Co., K,
14th MS Infantry.]
06/30/1861 - Pvt., Co., K, 14th MS Infantry
12/31/1862 - Hospital Steward, 14th MS Infantry
02/00/1862 - Hospital Steward, 14th MS Infantry
02/15/1862 - Killed in action, Fort Donelson, TN (buried: Friendship Cemetery,
Columbus, Lowndes Co., MS; FindAGrave #12915701) [Note: The part of
Friendship Cemetery where Dr. Williams is buried was originally the
Confederate section of The Odd Fellows Cemetery. The Odd Fellows
Cemetery was acquired by the city of Columbus and is now part of
Friendship Cemetery.]
Larry Hammack and Michael Angelo provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F. T. & Koste, J. L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
01/25/2020. Unpublished database.

Inscription

Aged-24 years old Fell at the Battle of Fort Donelson

Gravesite Details

Pvt; Co. K, 14th MS Inf



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