In the Patrick Co. Cemetery Book, by O.L. Pilson on page 351, it has Ephraim Puckett Cemetery. Located on top of high ridge about a mile west of road #767, in woods. Shelby Puckett said it was on Renfrow Ridge and Ephraim lived right below it.
Courtney L. Tucker sent this information,
Enlisted on 6/22/1861 at Wythe County, VA as a Private.
On 6/22/1861 he mustered into "K" Co. VA 50th Infantry
He was discharged on 9/15/1861 (Estimated day of discharge)
He was listed as on rolls 11/1/1861 (place not stated)
He also had service in the NC 33rd Infantry (No further record)
Other Information:
born 2/2/1846 in Patrick County, VA
died 12/24/1917 in Patrick County, VA
Buried: Rt 767, Patrick Co, VA, on a high ridge
After the War he lived in Patrick County, VA
Sources - The Virginia Regimental Histories Series
Name: Ephraim Puckett
COMPANY: I
Unit: 33 North Carolina Infantry.
Rank - Induction: Private
Rank - Discharge: Private
Allegiance: Confederate
Notes: Cachet, Ephraim
Source Citation: Box: 230;Extraction: 32; Record: 1480
: Ephriam Puckett
Descendants of Ephraim Puckett
Generation No. 1
1. EPHRAIM6 PUCKETT (JACOB5, JOHN MATTHEW4, ISOM3, WOMACK2, WILLIAM S.1) was born 02 Feb 1846 in Patrick County, VA, and died 24 Oct 1917 in Patrick County, VA. He married (1) JENETTE MCBRIDE 10 Aug 1865 in Surry County, NC, daughter of JOHN MCBRIDE and ELIZABETH SMITH. She was born 04 Jul 1844 in Rockingham County, NC, and died 30 Apr 1866 in Patrick County, VA. He married (2) EMILLE MONTGOMERY 19 Mar 1868 in Patrick County, VA, daughter of KELLY MONTGOMERY and ZILPHIA COCK. She was born 16 May 1847 in Floyd County, VA, and died 28 Nov 1928 in Patrick County, VA.
Notes for EPHRAIM PUCKETT:
Served in Civil War.
(from Kathy Goins)
According to my mother-in-law, Martha PUCKETT GOINS, her grandmother, "Granny Mink", Emillie MONTGOMERY PUCKETT, said that her husband Ephraim PUCKETT was married to Jenette McBRIDE first. Jenette died in childbirth within a year of their marriage. Ephraim was so afraid it would happen again, he told Emillie that he would not marry her if she wanted children. So she told him she could live without children and they were married. But God or fate stepped in and they eventually had a son, Paola PUCKETT. And Paola is responsible for fathering 13 children.
Martha says her mother told her that she was born just two days before her grandfather Ephraim died. Her mother, Mary Belle SHELTON PUCKETT, said that it snowed that week. When the family went to carry Ephraim to his final resting place in the family cemetery on top of a hill behind the family farm in Willis Gap, Patrick County, VA, they had to tie the coffin to a pulley and have a team of mules pull it up to the top of the steep hill. It was a dangerous, difficult business. The gravediggers had to use pickaxes to open the ground enough to bury him properly.
Children of EPHRAIM PUCKETT and JENETTE MCBRIDE are:
i. INFANT7 PUCKETT, b. 30 Apr 1866, Patrick County, VA; d. 30 Apr 1866, Patrick County, VA.
ii. INFANT PUCKETT, b. 30 Apr 1866, Patrick County, VA; d. 30 Apr 1866, Patrick County, VA.
Child of EPHRAIM PUCKETT and EMILLE MONTGOMERY is:
iii. PAOLA7 PUCKETT, b. 01 Jun 1874, Patrick County, VA; d. 07 Aug 1934, Surry County, NC; m. MARY BELLE SHELTON, 31 Mar 1898, Carroll County, VA; b. 10 Oct 1882, Surry County, NC; d. 30 Oct 1973, Mount Airy, NC.