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Joshua B. Baggett

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Joshua B. Baggett

Birth
Florida, USA
Death
1861 (aged 37–38)
Louisiana, USA
Burial
Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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There are many unmarked graves in this small cemetery long before the civil war. Since you and Julia died in the early 1860's, yours and Julia's are one of the many still missing markers (probably never placed) .... There once were several white wooden crosses that were scattered meant to replace some of the missing markers of the lost burials. Today there are several (more permanent) markers uniformly placed close together on the north side of the cemetery with names of those known to be once buried there with no assurance of the true location of said burial . No more graves were ever placed in the north half of this pre-civil war, and still small cemetery.

You and your brothers (Andrew, Milton and half brother T.J.) had married Evans girls (sisters) while in Harrison Co. in southern Mississippi. Your two brothers and their Evans brides and you with Julia moved to Sugartown, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana after your father died in southern Mississippi after the 1850 census.

Your father had married a second time, and your half brother Thomas Jefferson (T.J.) Baggett was born and died there. At the time of this 1850 (Harrison county (now Stone county), Mississippi) census your father was 70 years old and he died there (between 1850-1860) north of Bay St Louis as he was not found in the 1860 Census.

You and Julia were in your thirty's when you died. It makes me think you both could have been exposed to the same illness.
You died at the time of, or just before the civil war started.
The 1850 census reflects you employed yourself as a "Wood Chopper" . The initial "B" was shared by you and your brothers, and I have never learned where it came from or what it actually represents.

For many years I could find nothing on you and Julia, only to realise you both had died so young and were buried together close to where your older brother was. You will never be lost again. I pray for your souls, and you sleep in peace!
There are many unmarked graves in this small cemetery long before the civil war. Since you and Julia died in the early 1860's, yours and Julia's are one of the many still missing markers (probably never placed) .... There once were several white wooden crosses that were scattered meant to replace some of the missing markers of the lost burials. Today there are several (more permanent) markers uniformly placed close together on the north side of the cemetery with names of those known to be once buried there with no assurance of the true location of said burial . No more graves were ever placed in the north half of this pre-civil war, and still small cemetery.

You and your brothers (Andrew, Milton and half brother T.J.) had married Evans girls (sisters) while in Harrison Co. in southern Mississippi. Your two brothers and their Evans brides and you with Julia moved to Sugartown, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana after your father died in southern Mississippi after the 1850 census.

Your father had married a second time, and your half brother Thomas Jefferson (T.J.) Baggett was born and died there. At the time of this 1850 (Harrison county (now Stone county), Mississippi) census your father was 70 years old and he died there (between 1850-1860) north of Bay St Louis as he was not found in the 1860 Census.

You and Julia were in your thirty's when you died. It makes me think you both could have been exposed to the same illness.
You died at the time of, or just before the civil war started.
The 1850 census reflects you employed yourself as a "Wood Chopper" . The initial "B" was shared by you and your brothers, and I have never learned where it came from or what it actually represents.

For many years I could find nothing on you and Julia, only to realise you both had died so young and were buried together close to where your older brother was. You will never be lost again. I pray for your souls, and you sleep in peace!


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