Soldier in the War of 1812. Served under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. Son of George Isbell and Susanne/Susannah Eubank Smith Isbell. Grandson of William and Ann Dillard Isbell of Virginia.
Father of Col. John Ellis Isbell who laid out the town of Isbell, Alabama.
Montgomery Advertiser Oct 29, 1905, p. 10:
"UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
Editor, Mrs. Harvey E. Jones, State Historian, Spring Hill, Mobile County, Alabama.
…President, Mrs. J.N. Thompson, Tuscumbia.
First Vice-President, Mrs. Electra Semmes Colston, Mobile. (Daughter of Admiral Raphael Semmes)
…THE ISBELL BROTHERS.
The subjects of this sketch were born at the family residence near Russellville, Franklin County, Ala., being the sons of wealthy parents, they had received the rearing and culture given the sons of the Old South. At the bugle's call, see how quickly they donned the uniform of gray and went forth to meet death in the struggle they thought was for right, and which we of today will teach to our children's children was right, and will leave to them to guard its traditions as a sacred heritage till the last revellie calls to meet the gray and the blue in that final judgment where truth, not might, will prevail for ever more.
"William A. Isbell enlisted in the summer of 1861, and was elected third lieutenant of his company, which formed part of the 27th Alabama. At first this regiment was armed with double-barreled shot guns – squirrel rifles – and weapons of primitive warfare. It was ordered to Fort Henry, of the Tennessee River. When this fort was evacuated, William Isbell was in command of his company, the other officers being absent. Most of the company was sick with measles. Lieutenant Isbell collected wagons, horses and other conveyances and reached Fort Donelson with all his sick. When this fort fell, William Isbell, being an officer, he was separated from his men and sent to St. Louis, he was sick when captured, so, on reaching the city, he was sent to a military hospital. His name appeared in a city paper as a new arrival at the hospital, and was seen by a lady of the city, Mrs. Agnes Henankamp (sic), whom he had known in his youth. She made immediate application to take him to her house, which was granted and here he speedily regained his health. In this home he met some wealthy ladies, who were Southern sympathizers, and they had made and presented to him a handsome uniform of grey, which he wore in leaving for prison on Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie. Here also the attentions of a lady friend secured for him every comfort allowed to prisoners. This lady was Miss Mary Sleight of Troy, N.Y. At the breaking out of the war she was teaching at Russellville, Ala., and was patronized by the Isbell family. For many years she kept up a correspondence with Mrs. Isbell, and the family have ever remembered her with lasting gratitude. After Lieutenant Isbell was exchanged, he was unanimously elected captain of his company and was sent to Vicksburg, Miss. He was with General Pemberton in the sortie from Vicksburg that culminated in the battles around Champion Hills, and was mortally wounded at Bakers Creek, near Champion Hills, March 16, 1863, dying next day, aged 22 years. Captain Isbell was considered the highest type of manhood, and was greatly beloved by all who knew him. After receiving his death wound a litter was made and he was carried along with the retreating army till his death. He was buried in a private garden, and the four men detailed to bury him were captured at his grave. The Federals were so struck with their devotion to their captain that they were paroled on the spot.
"George Louis Isbell enlisted in the spring of 1861 with Captain, afterwards Colonel, J.W. Harris, his company made part of the 16th Alabama. This regiment was ordered to Knoxville, Tenn., and afterwards sent to Cumberland Gap and formed part of Zollicoffer's army, taking part in the battle of Fishing Creek, also called battle of Mill Spring, Ky., where General Zollicoffer was killed. George Isbell had recently been a cadet at Lagrange Military Academy, but was at home when he enlisted. After the fighting at Fishing Creek, the troops were joined to General A.S. Johnston, and were in the battle of Shiloh, where young Isbell was killed in the thickest of the fight on Sunday, April 6, 1862, aged 20 years.
"Henry Isbell joined his brother William's company at Russellville in 1861, and was with the 27th Alabama, he was captured at Fort Donelson and sent to St. Louis, to the hospital, as he was suffering from measles, the exposures of the trip resulted in his death, March 11, 1862, aged 16 years.
"He was buried by the same Mrs. Henankamp, mentioned before, in her family plot in the St. Louis cemetery, and it was one of the sweet and sorrowful pleasures of her life to send a spray of blooms from the young heroe's grave to his mother, and let me note, one of the last letters written by his mother was one of thanks to Mrs. Henankamp for the flowers received, for full of goodness and of years this mother of the Confederacy only departed this life, Feb. 22, 1905. The last of the mothers of Franklin County, though at the time of her death she was living with her last and only son, John Ellis Isbell, of Nashville, Tenn. Fortunately none of these young men were married, so no widows or orphans were left to mourn their untimely deaths."
A son: Col. John Ellis Isbell (1852-1945).
Descendants of Robert Isbell in America (1944) by Edna Warren Mason, p. 258: "in 1815, Ellis Isbell, accompanied by his mother, brothers John, George and Lewis Isbell, and his paternal aunt and uncle Richard and Polly (Isbell) Walden, left Virginia for Franklin County, Ala. In 1818 he built of cedar logs the old Isbell home which still stands."
Ellis Isbell "died (at) Isbell, Ala., 1888."
Some family trees say he died in 1878.
U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules:
Name: Isabell, Ellis
Gender: "M" was originally written but changed to "F"
Marital Status: Widowed *
Age 87 (born about 1793)
Death date: Jan 1880
Place: Franklin County, Alabama
*Gender change to F and "widowed" must be mistakes. Ellis Isbell's widow Louisa Amanda (shown in her son's household in June 1880) lived until 1905.
It definitely refers to Ellis or Mrs. Ellis Isbell because their son John Ellis Isbell (1851-1945) was living and his wife Mrs. J. Ellis Isbell (Amanda Stratton Harris, born 1856, not c1793) lived until 1912.
Father of Col. John Ellis Isbell who laid out the town of Isbell, Alabama.
Montgomery Advertiser Oct 29, 1905, p. 10:
"UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
Editor, Mrs. Harvey E. Jones, State Historian, Spring Hill, Mobile County, Alabama.
…President, Mrs. J.N. Thompson, Tuscumbia.
First Vice-President, Mrs. Electra Semmes Colston, Mobile. (Daughter of Admiral Raphael Semmes)
…THE ISBELL BROTHERS.
The subjects of this sketch were born at the family residence near Russellville, Franklin County, Ala., being the sons of wealthy parents, they had received the rearing and culture given the sons of the Old South. At the bugle's call, see how quickly they donned the uniform of gray and went forth to meet death in the struggle they thought was for right, and which we of today will teach to our children's children was right, and will leave to them to guard its traditions as a sacred heritage till the last revellie calls to meet the gray and the blue in that final judgment where truth, not might, will prevail for ever more.
"William A. Isbell enlisted in the summer of 1861, and was elected third lieutenant of his company, which formed part of the 27th Alabama. At first this regiment was armed with double-barreled shot guns – squirrel rifles – and weapons of primitive warfare. It was ordered to Fort Henry, of the Tennessee River. When this fort was evacuated, William Isbell was in command of his company, the other officers being absent. Most of the company was sick with measles. Lieutenant Isbell collected wagons, horses and other conveyances and reached Fort Donelson with all his sick. When this fort fell, William Isbell, being an officer, he was separated from his men and sent to St. Louis, he was sick when captured, so, on reaching the city, he was sent to a military hospital. His name appeared in a city paper as a new arrival at the hospital, and was seen by a lady of the city, Mrs. Agnes Henankamp (sic), whom he had known in his youth. She made immediate application to take him to her house, which was granted and here he speedily regained his health. In this home he met some wealthy ladies, who were Southern sympathizers, and they had made and presented to him a handsome uniform of grey, which he wore in leaving for prison on Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie. Here also the attentions of a lady friend secured for him every comfort allowed to prisoners. This lady was Miss Mary Sleight of Troy, N.Y. At the breaking out of the war she was teaching at Russellville, Ala., and was patronized by the Isbell family. For many years she kept up a correspondence with Mrs. Isbell, and the family have ever remembered her with lasting gratitude. After Lieutenant Isbell was exchanged, he was unanimously elected captain of his company and was sent to Vicksburg, Miss. He was with General Pemberton in the sortie from Vicksburg that culminated in the battles around Champion Hills, and was mortally wounded at Bakers Creek, near Champion Hills, March 16, 1863, dying next day, aged 22 years. Captain Isbell was considered the highest type of manhood, and was greatly beloved by all who knew him. After receiving his death wound a litter was made and he was carried along with the retreating army till his death. He was buried in a private garden, and the four men detailed to bury him were captured at his grave. The Federals were so struck with their devotion to their captain that they were paroled on the spot.
"George Louis Isbell enlisted in the spring of 1861 with Captain, afterwards Colonel, J.W. Harris, his company made part of the 16th Alabama. This regiment was ordered to Knoxville, Tenn., and afterwards sent to Cumberland Gap and formed part of Zollicoffer's army, taking part in the battle of Fishing Creek, also called battle of Mill Spring, Ky., where General Zollicoffer was killed. George Isbell had recently been a cadet at Lagrange Military Academy, but was at home when he enlisted. After the fighting at Fishing Creek, the troops were joined to General A.S. Johnston, and were in the battle of Shiloh, where young Isbell was killed in the thickest of the fight on Sunday, April 6, 1862, aged 20 years.
"Henry Isbell joined his brother William's company at Russellville in 1861, and was with the 27th Alabama, he was captured at Fort Donelson and sent to St. Louis, to the hospital, as he was suffering from measles, the exposures of the trip resulted in his death, March 11, 1862, aged 16 years.
"He was buried by the same Mrs. Henankamp, mentioned before, in her family plot in the St. Louis cemetery, and it was one of the sweet and sorrowful pleasures of her life to send a spray of blooms from the young heroe's grave to his mother, and let me note, one of the last letters written by his mother was one of thanks to Mrs. Henankamp for the flowers received, for full of goodness and of years this mother of the Confederacy only departed this life, Feb. 22, 1905. The last of the mothers of Franklin County, though at the time of her death she was living with her last and only son, John Ellis Isbell, of Nashville, Tenn. Fortunately none of these young men were married, so no widows or orphans were left to mourn their untimely deaths."
A son: Col. John Ellis Isbell (1852-1945).
Descendants of Robert Isbell in America (1944) by Edna Warren Mason, p. 258: "in 1815, Ellis Isbell, accompanied by his mother, brothers John, George and Lewis Isbell, and his paternal aunt and uncle Richard and Polly (Isbell) Walden, left Virginia for Franklin County, Ala. In 1818 he built of cedar logs the old Isbell home which still stands."
Ellis Isbell "died (at) Isbell, Ala., 1888."
Some family trees say he died in 1878.
U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules:
Name: Isabell, Ellis
Gender: "M" was originally written but changed to "F"
Marital Status: Widowed *
Age 87 (born about 1793)
Death date: Jan 1880
Place: Franklin County, Alabama
*Gender change to F and "widowed" must be mistakes. Ellis Isbell's widow Louisa Amanda (shown in her son's household in June 1880) lived until 1905.
It definitely refers to Ellis or Mrs. Ellis Isbell because their son John Ellis Isbell (1851-1945) was living and his wife Mrs. J. Ellis Isbell (Amanda Stratton Harris, born 1856, not c1793) lived until 1912.
Soldier in the War of 1812. Served under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. Son of George Isbell and Susanne/Susannah Eubank Smith Isbell. Grandson of William and Ann Dillard Isbell of Virginia.
Father of Col. John Ellis Isbell who laid out the town of Isbell, Alabama.
Montgomery Advertiser Oct 29, 1905, p. 10:
"UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
Editor, Mrs. Harvey E. Jones, State Historian, Spring Hill, Mobile County, Alabama.
…President, Mrs. J.N. Thompson, Tuscumbia.
First Vice-President, Mrs. Electra Semmes Colston, Mobile. (Daughter of Admiral Raphael Semmes)
…THE ISBELL BROTHERS.
The subjects of this sketch were born at the family residence near Russellville, Franklin County, Ala., being the sons of wealthy parents, they had received the rearing and culture given the sons of the Old South. At the bugle's call, see how quickly they donned the uniform of gray and went forth to meet death in the struggle they thought was for right, and which we of today will teach to our children's children was right, and will leave to them to guard its traditions as a sacred heritage till the last revellie calls to meet the gray and the blue in that final judgment where truth, not might, will prevail for ever more.
"William A. Isbell enlisted in the summer of 1861, and was elected third lieutenant of his company, which formed part of the 27th Alabama. At first this regiment was armed with double-barreled shot guns – squirrel rifles – and weapons of primitive warfare. It was ordered to Fort Henry, of the Tennessee River. When this fort was evacuated, William Isbell was in command of his company, the other officers being absent. Most of the company was sick with measles. Lieutenant Isbell collected wagons, horses and other conveyances and reached Fort Donelson with all his sick. When this fort fell, William Isbell, being an officer, he was separated from his men and sent to St. Louis, he was sick when captured, so, on reaching the city, he was sent to a military hospital. His name appeared in a city paper as a new arrival at the hospital, and was seen by a lady of the city, Mrs. Agnes Henankamp (sic), whom he had known in his youth. She made immediate application to take him to her house, which was granted and here he speedily regained his health. In this home he met some wealthy ladies, who were Southern sympathizers, and they had made and presented to him a handsome uniform of grey, which he wore in leaving for prison on Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie. Here also the attentions of a lady friend secured for him every comfort allowed to prisoners. This lady was Miss Mary Sleight of Troy, N.Y. At the breaking out of the war she was teaching at Russellville, Ala., and was patronized by the Isbell family. For many years she kept up a correspondence with Mrs. Isbell, and the family have ever remembered her with lasting gratitude. After Lieutenant Isbell was exchanged, he was unanimously elected captain of his company and was sent to Vicksburg, Miss. He was with General Pemberton in the sortie from Vicksburg that culminated in the battles around Champion Hills, and was mortally wounded at Bakers Creek, near Champion Hills, March 16, 1863, dying next day, aged 22 years. Captain Isbell was considered the highest type of manhood, and was greatly beloved by all who knew him. After receiving his death wound a litter was made and he was carried along with the retreating army till his death. He was buried in a private garden, and the four men detailed to bury him were captured at his grave. The Federals were so struck with their devotion to their captain that they were paroled on the spot.
"George Louis Isbell enlisted in the spring of 1861 with Captain, afterwards Colonel, J.W. Harris, his company made part of the 16th Alabama. This regiment was ordered to Knoxville, Tenn., and afterwards sent to Cumberland Gap and formed part of Zollicoffer's army, taking part in the battle of Fishing Creek, also called battle of Mill Spring, Ky., where General Zollicoffer was killed. George Isbell had recently been a cadet at Lagrange Military Academy, but was at home when he enlisted. After the fighting at Fishing Creek, the troops were joined to General A.S. Johnston, and were in the battle of Shiloh, where young Isbell was killed in the thickest of the fight on Sunday, April 6, 1862, aged 20 years.
"Henry Isbell joined his brother William's company at Russellville in 1861, and was with the 27th Alabama, he was captured at Fort Donelson and sent to St. Louis, to the hospital, as he was suffering from measles, the exposures of the trip resulted in his death, March 11, 1862, aged 16 years.
"He was buried by the same Mrs. Henankamp, mentioned before, in her family plot in the St. Louis cemetery, and it was one of the sweet and sorrowful pleasures of her life to send a spray of blooms from the young heroe's grave to his mother, and let me note, one of the last letters written by his mother was one of thanks to Mrs. Henankamp for the flowers received, for full of goodness and of years this mother of the Confederacy only departed this life, Feb. 22, 1905. The last of the mothers of Franklin County, though at the time of her death she was living with her last and only son, John Ellis Isbell, of Nashville, Tenn. Fortunately none of these young men were married, so no widows or orphans were left to mourn their untimely deaths."
A son: Col. John Ellis Isbell (1852-1945).
Descendants of Robert Isbell in America (1944) by Edna Warren Mason, p. 258: "in 1815, Ellis Isbell, accompanied by his mother, brothers John, George and Lewis Isbell, and his paternal aunt and uncle Richard and Polly (Isbell) Walden, left Virginia for Franklin County, Ala. In 1818 he built of cedar logs the old Isbell home which still stands."
Ellis Isbell "died (at) Isbell, Ala., 1888."
Some family trees say he died in 1878.
U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules:
Name: Isabell, Ellis
Gender: "M" was originally written but changed to "F"
Marital Status: Widowed *
Age 87 (born about 1793)
Death date: Jan 1880
Place: Franklin County, Alabama
*Gender change to F and "widowed" must be mistakes. Ellis Isbell's widow Louisa Amanda (shown in her son's household in June 1880) lived until 1905.
It definitely refers to Ellis or Mrs. Ellis Isbell because their son John Ellis Isbell (1851-1945) was living and his wife Mrs. J. Ellis Isbell (Amanda Stratton Harris, born 1856, not c1793) lived until 1912.
Father of Col. John Ellis Isbell who laid out the town of Isbell, Alabama.
Montgomery Advertiser Oct 29, 1905, p. 10:
"UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
Editor, Mrs. Harvey E. Jones, State Historian, Spring Hill, Mobile County, Alabama.
…President, Mrs. J.N. Thompson, Tuscumbia.
First Vice-President, Mrs. Electra Semmes Colston, Mobile. (Daughter of Admiral Raphael Semmes)
…THE ISBELL BROTHERS.
The subjects of this sketch were born at the family residence near Russellville, Franklin County, Ala., being the sons of wealthy parents, they had received the rearing and culture given the sons of the Old South. At the bugle's call, see how quickly they donned the uniform of gray and went forth to meet death in the struggle they thought was for right, and which we of today will teach to our children's children was right, and will leave to them to guard its traditions as a sacred heritage till the last revellie calls to meet the gray and the blue in that final judgment where truth, not might, will prevail for ever more.
"William A. Isbell enlisted in the summer of 1861, and was elected third lieutenant of his company, which formed part of the 27th Alabama. At first this regiment was armed with double-barreled shot guns – squirrel rifles – and weapons of primitive warfare. It was ordered to Fort Henry, of the Tennessee River. When this fort was evacuated, William Isbell was in command of his company, the other officers being absent. Most of the company was sick with measles. Lieutenant Isbell collected wagons, horses and other conveyances and reached Fort Donelson with all his sick. When this fort fell, William Isbell, being an officer, he was separated from his men and sent to St. Louis, he was sick when captured, so, on reaching the city, he was sent to a military hospital. His name appeared in a city paper as a new arrival at the hospital, and was seen by a lady of the city, Mrs. Agnes Henankamp (sic), whom he had known in his youth. She made immediate application to take him to her house, which was granted and here he speedily regained his health. In this home he met some wealthy ladies, who were Southern sympathizers, and they had made and presented to him a handsome uniform of grey, which he wore in leaving for prison on Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie. Here also the attentions of a lady friend secured for him every comfort allowed to prisoners. This lady was Miss Mary Sleight of Troy, N.Y. At the breaking out of the war she was teaching at Russellville, Ala., and was patronized by the Isbell family. For many years she kept up a correspondence with Mrs. Isbell, and the family have ever remembered her with lasting gratitude. After Lieutenant Isbell was exchanged, he was unanimously elected captain of his company and was sent to Vicksburg, Miss. He was with General Pemberton in the sortie from Vicksburg that culminated in the battles around Champion Hills, and was mortally wounded at Bakers Creek, near Champion Hills, March 16, 1863, dying next day, aged 22 years. Captain Isbell was considered the highest type of manhood, and was greatly beloved by all who knew him. After receiving his death wound a litter was made and he was carried along with the retreating army till his death. He was buried in a private garden, and the four men detailed to bury him were captured at his grave. The Federals were so struck with their devotion to their captain that they were paroled on the spot.
"George Louis Isbell enlisted in the spring of 1861 with Captain, afterwards Colonel, J.W. Harris, his company made part of the 16th Alabama. This regiment was ordered to Knoxville, Tenn., and afterwards sent to Cumberland Gap and formed part of Zollicoffer's army, taking part in the battle of Fishing Creek, also called battle of Mill Spring, Ky., where General Zollicoffer was killed. George Isbell had recently been a cadet at Lagrange Military Academy, but was at home when he enlisted. After the fighting at Fishing Creek, the troops were joined to General A.S. Johnston, and were in the battle of Shiloh, where young Isbell was killed in the thickest of the fight on Sunday, April 6, 1862, aged 20 years.
"Henry Isbell joined his brother William's company at Russellville in 1861, and was with the 27th Alabama, he was captured at Fort Donelson and sent to St. Louis, to the hospital, as he was suffering from measles, the exposures of the trip resulted in his death, March 11, 1862, aged 16 years.
"He was buried by the same Mrs. Henankamp, mentioned before, in her family plot in the St. Louis cemetery, and it was one of the sweet and sorrowful pleasures of her life to send a spray of blooms from the young heroe's grave to his mother, and let me note, one of the last letters written by his mother was one of thanks to Mrs. Henankamp for the flowers received, for full of goodness and of years this mother of the Confederacy only departed this life, Feb. 22, 1905. The last of the mothers of Franklin County, though at the time of her death she was living with her last and only son, John Ellis Isbell, of Nashville, Tenn. Fortunately none of these young men were married, so no widows or orphans were left to mourn their untimely deaths."
A son: Col. John Ellis Isbell (1852-1945).
Descendants of Robert Isbell in America (1944) by Edna Warren Mason, p. 258: "in 1815, Ellis Isbell, accompanied by his mother, brothers John, George and Lewis Isbell, and his paternal aunt and uncle Richard and Polly (Isbell) Walden, left Virginia for Franklin County, Ala. In 1818 he built of cedar logs the old Isbell home which still stands."
Ellis Isbell "died (at) Isbell, Ala., 1888."
Some family trees say he died in 1878.
U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules:
Name: Isabell, Ellis
Gender: "M" was originally written but changed to "F"
Marital Status: Widowed *
Age 87 (born about 1793)
Death date: Jan 1880
Place: Franklin County, Alabama
*Gender change to F and "widowed" must be mistakes. Ellis Isbell's widow Louisa Amanda (shown in her son's household in June 1880) lived until 1905.
It definitely refers to Ellis or Mrs. Ellis Isbell because their son John Ellis Isbell (1851-1945) was living and his wife Mrs. J. Ellis Isbell (Amanda Stratton Harris, born 1856, not c1793) lived until 1912.
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