CONFEDERATE SOLDIER

Co H 15th Alabama Infantry &

Forage Master Maury's Command, Alabama & Florida Batt'n Cavalry.

enlisted September 4, 1862 at Mobile Ala

by Lt Cooper for the war.

promoted 4th Corp from the ranks April 28, 1863.

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Alabama Civil War Service Database

Last Name: Havens

Branch: Cavalry

Regimental Unit: 15th Confederate Regiment

Company Unit: H

Authority: Capt Garrow, April 30, 1863

First Name: H. MI: C.

Enlistment Date: 1862/09/04

Enlistment Information: Alabama, Mobile By Lieut. Cooper, 4th Corporal

Remarks: Promoted 4th Corporal from ranks, April 25, 1863; last paid Feb 28, 1863 by Capt McVoy; Also Co C, Murphys Batn Ala Cav, Murrells Independent Co Cav

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Charter Member - Ezell Lodge No. 426 Vancleave, MS & McLeod Lodge No. 424 A. F. & A. M. Ocean Springs MS.

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Henry Cooper Havens, oldest of twelve children of John & Sabra Ann Fletcher Havens, married three (3) times, fathered 20 children with those three wives.

He was a prominent citizen and patriarch of Vancleave. Involved in commercial activity, member of the Board of Supervisors, Justice of the Peace, organizer and first Worshipful Master of Ezell Lodge No 426 F&AM in Vancleave in Feb 1895, He was an organizer and officer for the McLeod Lodge No 424 F&AM in Ocean Springs in Feb 1894, and a sheep farmer.

His youngest son Bob Havens continued with sheep farming on H.C.'s land holdings on Gautier-Vancleave Rd until his death.

HCH owned large tracts of land in Vancleave along Jim Ramsay and Seaman Road, Gautier area and Vestry. Around 1900 his property totaled more than 1,400 acres.

In August 1880 he donated 5 acres to the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Vancleave Cemetery # 1. [Deed Book 20 page 165-166] His first wife Josephine Bowen was the first burial (1879)in this cemetery. It was also a 'school' site.

HCH died in Gautier after suffering a stroke. He was 81 years old.

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Obit

The Pascagoula Chronicle - Feb 9, 1912

JUDGE HENRY C. HAVENS DEAD AT GAUTIER, MISS.

Pascagoula, February 9.

Judge Henry C Havens, aged 81 years, one of the best and most widely known residents of Jackson county, died from a stroke of appoplexy at 6 o'clock Wednesday night at Gautier, Miss across the river from this city.

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2nd article

The Gulfport Daily Herald Gulfport Miss.

Monday Feb 12, 1912 p 3

Judge Henry C Havens, one of the oldest citizens of Jackson County, died at his home at Fort Bayou on Wednesday Night.

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3rd article

The Times-Picayune NOLA

Tuesday February 13, 1912 p. 14

Ocean Springs, Miss. Feb. 12-

JUDGE HENRY C. HAVENS

Judge Henry C Havens, one of the oldest residents of Jackson County and a Confederate Veteran, died at his home Thursday night.

Mr. Havens lived a few miles north of this place.

The funeral occurred from his late home, and was largely attended.

He was the father of William C Havens Circuit clerk of Jackson County.

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Family:

Wife (1) Josephine Bowen, m ca 1850

wife (2) Rebecca Smith Davis, m Oct. 31, 1882

Wife (3) Mary Franklin Cain, m Jan. 2, 1892

Son of John 'Jack' Havens [1812NC - 1900MS] and Sabra Ann Fletcher [1814 GA - 1882 LA] - Grandson of John Havens [1777 VA - 1855 MS] and Susan Flurry [c1777NC - c1826MS] - and William Flurry and Unknown.