He was born in Prairie View, then Johnson County now Logan County, Arkansas.
Sheridan "Sherd" Wesley Plunkett married Mahalia Catherine Laferry on 08 NOV 1868 at the Rose residence in Prairie View, Arkansas.
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Sheridan Wesley Plunkett, was only 14 years of age and not old enough for service in the Civil War. He had four older brothers (and possibly his father) who enlisted with the Union Army. However, Sheridan went to DeValls Bluff in Eastern Arkansas on the White River and cooked in a camp there. Rebel Bushwhackers began terrorizing northern Arkansas even more viciously after the Fall of 1864. The Federals had taken Fort Smith September 1, 1863 and Little Rock September 10, 1863. This seemed to have freed a band of Confederates who left the regular army and began looting and terrorizing the countryside in the Arkansas Valley. Jane Plunkett recorded in her Bible that her house was burned by the Rebels November 12, 1864.
Sheridan was wounded during these treacherous times and his mother, Jane, nursed him back in health. When he was strong again she dressed him up like a woman and went with him back to his company.
(Wagon Wheel, Logan County Arkansas Historical Society, Summer 1981, Volume 1 Number 4)
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He was born in Prairie View, then Johnson County now Logan County, Arkansas.
Sheridan "Sherd" Wesley Plunkett married Mahalia Catherine Laferry on 08 NOV 1868 at the Rose residence in Prairie View, Arkansas.
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Sheridan Wesley Plunkett, was only 14 years of age and not old enough for service in the Civil War. He had four older brothers (and possibly his father) who enlisted with the Union Army. However, Sheridan went to DeValls Bluff in Eastern Arkansas on the White River and cooked in a camp there. Rebel Bushwhackers began terrorizing northern Arkansas even more viciously after the Fall of 1864. The Federals had taken Fort Smith September 1, 1863 and Little Rock September 10, 1863. This seemed to have freed a band of Confederates who left the regular army and began looting and terrorizing the countryside in the Arkansas Valley. Jane Plunkett recorded in her Bible that her house was burned by the Rebels November 12, 1864.
Sheridan was wounded during these treacherous times and his mother, Jane, nursed him back in health. When he was strong again she dressed him up like a woman and went with him back to his company.
(Wagon Wheel, Logan County Arkansas Historical Society, Summer 1981, Volume 1 Number 4)
[Provided by PM #48410239]
Family Members
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William F Plunkett
1831–1875
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Romanda Caroline "Carol" Plunkett Farmer
1836–1876
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James Calvin Plunkett
1837–1902
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John Riley Plunkett
1839–1923
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Mary Elizabeth Ann Plunkett Lasater
1842–1870
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Ellison Jasper Plunkett
1843–1886
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Allen Newton Plunkett
1845–1890
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Ginevra Jane "Nevie" Plunkett Foster
1850–1933
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Francis Marion Plunkett
1852–1899
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Phebe Angeline Plunkett
1854–1871
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Martha Adeline Plunkett Walker
1856–1910
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