Thurza "Thursy" Shumate Pruitt was the sixth born of the nine children of Tillman Dixon Pruitt and Diannah Hillsman Farrar. Thurza married William McMillan Catledge (1836-1864), son of Alson Catledge and Lavina McMillan, on June 10, 1855 in Winston County, Mississippi and they had three children.
According to his pension records William M. "Billy Mack" Catledge enlisted for service in the CSA on May 15, 1862, by Capt. J. Quarles, in Corinth, Mississippi and on December 5, 1862, by Capt. J. A. Moore, at Bridgeport, Alabama, as a Private in Company D, 5th Regiment Mississippi Infantry. On August 25, 1863, W. M. Catlege was sent to Chattanooga Hospital, and afterwards, on October 31, 1863 is shown present for duty in Corinth, Mississippi. Again, on July 22, 1864, W. M. Catlege was sent to the hospital wounded. Pension records show William McMillan Catledge died October 30, 1864 in Forsyth County, Georgia.
Thurza never remarried following the early death of her husband. By 1870 Thurza was living with her elder sister Martha Wilson's family in Hopkins County, Texas. She eventually returned to Mississippi where she lived with her mother-in-law, Lavina Catledge, in 1880 and later with daughter Lavina Blanton's family. In 1900 Thurza S. Catledge filed a Pension Application as an indigent Widow of a Soldier of the Confederacy in Choctaw County.
Thurza died after 1900, probably in Choctaw County, Mississippi and may have been buried near other Catledge kin in the area. (At least three of Thurza's husband's siblings and her daughter Lavina Blanton are buried at Concord Cemetery in Choctaw, Co. MS. -Please contact if you have any additional information!)
According to his pension records William M. "Billy Mack" Catledge enlisted for service in the CSA on May 15, 1862, by Capt. J. Quarles, in Corinth, Mississippi and on December 5, 1862, by Capt. J. A. Moore, at Bridgeport, Alabama, as a Private in Company D, 5th Regiment Mississippi Infantry. On August 25, 1863, W. M. Catlege was sent to Chattanooga Hospital, and afterwards, on October 31, 1863 is shown present for duty in Corinth, Mississippi. Again, on July 22, 1864, W. M. Catlege was sent to the hospital wounded. Pension records show William McMillan Catledge died October 30, 1864 in Forsyth County, Georgia.
Thurza never remarried following the early death of her husband. By 1870 Thurza was living with her elder sister Martha Wilson's family in Hopkins County, Texas. She eventually returned to Mississippi where she lived with her mother-in-law, Lavina Catledge, in 1880 and later with daughter Lavina Blanton's family. In 1900 Thurza S. Catledge filed a Pension Application as an indigent Widow of a Soldier of the Confederacy in Choctaw County.
Thurza died after 1900, probably in Choctaw County, Mississippi and may have been buried near other Catledge kin in the area. (At least three of Thurza's husband's siblings and her daughter Lavina Blanton are buried at Concord Cemetery in Choctaw, Co. MS. -Please contact if you have any additional information!)
Thurza "Thursy" Shumate Pruitt was the sixth born of the nine children of Tillman Dixon Pruitt and Diannah Hillsman Farrar. Thurza married William McMillan Catledge (1836-1864), son of Alson Catledge and Lavina McMillan, on June 10, 1855 in Winston County, Mississippi and they had three children.
According to his pension records William M. "Billy Mack" Catledge enlisted for service in the CSA on May 15, 1862, by Capt. J. Quarles, in Corinth, Mississippi and on December 5, 1862, by Capt. J. A. Moore, at Bridgeport, Alabama, as a Private in Company D, 5th Regiment Mississippi Infantry. On August 25, 1863, W. M. Catlege was sent to Chattanooga Hospital, and afterwards, on October 31, 1863 is shown present for duty in Corinth, Mississippi. Again, on July 22, 1864, W. M. Catlege was sent to the hospital wounded. Pension records show William McMillan Catledge died October 30, 1864 in Forsyth County, Georgia.
Thurza never remarried following the early death of her husband. By 1870 Thurza was living with her elder sister Martha Wilson's family in Hopkins County, Texas. She eventually returned to Mississippi where she lived with her mother-in-law, Lavina Catledge, in 1880 and later with daughter Lavina Blanton's family. In 1900 Thurza S. Catledge filed a Pension Application as an indigent Widow of a Soldier of the Confederacy in Choctaw County.
Thurza died after 1900, probably in Choctaw County, Mississippi and may have been buried near other Catledge kin in the area. (At least three of Thurza's husband's siblings and her daughter Lavina Blanton are buried at Concord Cemetery in Choctaw, Co. MS. -Please contact if you have any additional information!)
According to his pension records William M. "Billy Mack" Catledge enlisted for service in the CSA on May 15, 1862, by Capt. J. Quarles, in Corinth, Mississippi and on December 5, 1862, by Capt. J. A. Moore, at Bridgeport, Alabama, as a Private in Company D, 5th Regiment Mississippi Infantry. On August 25, 1863, W. M. Catlege was sent to Chattanooga Hospital, and afterwards, on October 31, 1863 is shown present for duty in Corinth, Mississippi. Again, on July 22, 1864, W. M. Catlege was sent to the hospital wounded. Pension records show William McMillan Catledge died October 30, 1864 in Forsyth County, Georgia.
Thurza never remarried following the early death of her husband. By 1870 Thurza was living with her elder sister Martha Wilson's family in Hopkins County, Texas. She eventually returned to Mississippi where she lived with her mother-in-law, Lavina Catledge, in 1880 and later with daughter Lavina Blanton's family. In 1900 Thurza S. Catledge filed a Pension Application as an indigent Widow of a Soldier of the Confederacy in Choctaw County.
Thurza died after 1900, probably in Choctaw County, Mississippi and may have been buried near other Catledge kin in the area. (At least three of Thurza's husband's siblings and her daughter Lavina Blanton are buried at Concord Cemetery in Choctaw, Co. MS. -Please contact if you have any additional information!)
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