CSA
Bazil Brooke Edmonston, son of Ninian Edmonston and Mary Ann Strother, was born in 17 Mar 1826.
From letters he wrote in 1854 he was apparently farming near Dallas, GA and was experiencing serious poor health as a consequence of measles which resulted in a convalescence of many months. He mentions he has "commenced reading law again and will pursue the study as long as my head is hot." His only known marriage was in 1869 so during this sickness he tells of his brother Masons lending a hand as well as other friends. He served as a Confederate private in Co. C, 25th Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers and later as adjutant apparently through the end of the war. He may have taken part in the battles at Fredericksburg and Petersburg. He gave evidence of being in contact with members of General Lee's staff and may have been a member of it at one time or another.
Bazil Brooke Edmonston married Mary Emily Brown on 21 Jan 1869, at the age of forty-two. They had no children, and after his death his wife remarried. Some family records give his name as Benjamin rather than Bazil. On his tombstone in Bethel Cemetery the inscription reads: In memory of B. B. Edmonston, born March 17, 1826, died Oct. 5, 1882. He was a man of high toned principles but did not profess a hope in Christ until about two years before his death. When about to die he took up the Song of the Redeemed, and died exclaiming, "Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" John N. Himes, a nephew of Bazil, related the reason for the odd inscription. It seems one night Bazil awoke to the realization that God or Jesus Christ was paying him a visit. The wraith warned him that this visit was the next to the last. "When I come next time, Bazil, I'm going to take you with me so you better get right with the Lord!"
Comments by Blanche Aubin Clarkson Hutchison, drawn from "My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others", by Charles Ninian Edmonston, 1971.
Bazil Brooke Edmonston, son of Ninian Edmonston and Mary Ann Strother, was born in 17 Mar 1826.
From letters he wrote in 1854 he was apparently farming near Dallas, GA and was experiencing serious poor health as a consequence of measles which resulted in a convalescence of many months. He mentions he has "commenced reading law again and will pursue the study as long as my head is hot." His only known marriage was in 1869 so during this sickness he tells of his brother Masons lending a hand as well as other friends. He served as a Confederate private in Co. C, 25th Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers and later as adjutant apparently through the end of the war. He may have taken part in the battles at Fredericksburg and Petersburg. He gave evidence of being in contact with members of General Lee's staff and may have been a member of it at one time or another.
Bazil Brooke Edmonston married Mary Emily Brown on 21 Jan 1869, at the age of forty-two. They had no children, and after his death his wife remarried. Some family records give his name as Benjamin rather than Bazil. On his tombstone in Bethel Cemetery the inscription reads: In memory of B. B. Edmonston, born March 17, 1826, died Oct. 5, 1882. He was a man of high toned principles but did not profess a hope in Christ until about two years before his death. When about to die he took up the Song of the Redeemed, and died exclaiming, "Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" John N. Himes, a nephew of Bazil, related the reason for the odd inscription. It seems one night Bazil awoke to the realization that God or Jesus Christ was paying him a visit. The wraith warned him that this visit was the next to the last. "When I come next time, Bazil, I'm going to take you with me so you better get right with the Lord!"
Comments by Blanche Aubin Clarkson Hutchison, drawn from "My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others", by Charles Ninian Edmonston, 1971.
CSA
Bazil Brooke Edmonston, son of Ninian Edmonston and Mary Ann Strother, was born in 17 Mar 1826.
From letters he wrote in 1854 he was apparently farming near Dallas, GA and was experiencing serious poor health as a consequence of measles which resulted in a convalescence of many months. He mentions he has "commenced reading law again and will pursue the study as long as my head is hot." His only known marriage was in 1869 so during this sickness he tells of his brother Masons lending a hand as well as other friends. He served as a Confederate private in Co. C, 25th Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers and later as adjutant apparently through the end of the war. He may have taken part in the battles at Fredericksburg and Petersburg. He gave evidence of being in contact with members of General Lee's staff and may have been a member of it at one time or another.
Bazil Brooke Edmonston married Mary Emily Brown on 21 Jan 1869, at the age of forty-two. They had no children, and after his death his wife remarried. Some family records give his name as Benjamin rather than Bazil. On his tombstone in Bethel Cemetery the inscription reads: In memory of B. B. Edmonston, born March 17, 1826, died Oct. 5, 1882. He was a man of high toned principles but did not profess a hope in Christ until about two years before his death. When about to die he took up the Song of the Redeemed, and died exclaiming, "Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" John N. Himes, a nephew of Bazil, related the reason for the odd inscription. It seems one night Bazil awoke to the realization that God or Jesus Christ was paying him a visit. The wraith warned him that this visit was the next to the last. "When I come next time, Bazil, I'm going to take you with me so you better get right with the Lord!"
Comments by Blanche Aubin Clarkson Hutchison, drawn from "My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others", by Charles Ninian Edmonston, 1971.
Bazil Brooke Edmonston, son of Ninian Edmonston and Mary Ann Strother, was born in 17 Mar 1826.
From letters he wrote in 1854 he was apparently farming near Dallas, GA and was experiencing serious poor health as a consequence of measles which resulted in a convalescence of many months. He mentions he has "commenced reading law again and will pursue the study as long as my head is hot." His only known marriage was in 1869 so during this sickness he tells of his brother Masons lending a hand as well as other friends. He served as a Confederate private in Co. C, 25th Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers and later as adjutant apparently through the end of the war. He may have taken part in the battles at Fredericksburg and Petersburg. He gave evidence of being in contact with members of General Lee's staff and may have been a member of it at one time or another.
Bazil Brooke Edmonston married Mary Emily Brown on 21 Jan 1869, at the age of forty-two. They had no children, and after his death his wife remarried. Some family records give his name as Benjamin rather than Bazil. On his tombstone in Bethel Cemetery the inscription reads: In memory of B. B. Edmonston, born March 17, 1826, died Oct. 5, 1882. He was a man of high toned principles but did not profess a hope in Christ until about two years before his death. When about to die he took up the Song of the Redeemed, and died exclaiming, "Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" John N. Himes, a nephew of Bazil, related the reason for the odd inscription. It seems one night Bazil awoke to the realization that God or Jesus Christ was paying him a visit. The wraith warned him that this visit was the next to the last. "When I come next time, Bazil, I'm going to take you with me so you better get right with the Lord!"
Comments by Blanche Aubin Clarkson Hutchison, drawn from "My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others", by Charles Ninian Edmonston, 1971.
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