Company D 1st Alabama Cavalry USV (Union, not Confederate)
http://www.1stalabamacavalryusv.com/Roster/Troopers.aspx?trooperid=25
The marker is clearly relatively recent and gets the Civil War side wrong (the picture shows a Union uniform), and I believe they used his wife's death date as he shows up in the 1900 US Federal Census living with his son with the right age and widowed.
https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/3941312?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a226f396d5834494e4765444233377a37524b78754a7966694f575355374551734b4274424c4b71704634316f3d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d
My mother (his great-great-grandaughter) said his middle name was McDonald, though I haven't found any evidence of that.
http://www.1stalabamacavalryusv.com/Roster/Troopers.aspx?trooperid=25
The marker is clearly relatively recent and gets the Civil War side wrong (the picture shows a Union uniform), and I believe they used his wife's death date as he shows up in the 1900 US Federal Census living with his son with the right age and widowed.
https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/3941312?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a226f396d5834494e4765444233377a37524b78754a7966694f575355374551734b4274424c4b71704634316f3d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d
My mother (his great-great-grandaughter) said his middle name was McDonald, though I haven't found any evidence of that.
Company D 1st Alabama Cavalry USV (Union, not Confederate)
http://www.1stalabamacavalryusv.com/Roster/Troopers.aspx?trooperid=25
The marker is clearly relatively recent and gets the Civil War side wrong (the picture shows a Union uniform), and I believe they used his wife's death date as he shows up in the 1900 US Federal Census living with his son with the right age and widowed.
https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/3941312?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a226f396d5834494e4765444233377a37524b78754a7966694f575355374551734b4274424c4b71704634316f3d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d
My mother (his great-great-grandaughter) said his middle name was McDonald, though I haven't found any evidence of that.
http://www.1stalabamacavalryusv.com/Roster/Troopers.aspx?trooperid=25
The marker is clearly relatively recent and gets the Civil War side wrong (the picture shows a Union uniform), and I believe they used his wife's death date as he shows up in the 1900 US Federal Census living with his son with the right age and widowed.
https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/3941312?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a226f396d5834494e4765444233377a37524b78754a7966694f575355374551734b4274424c4b71704634316f3d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d
My mother (his great-great-grandaughter) said his middle name was McDonald, though I haven't found any evidence of that.
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