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John Spellings

Birth: 24 Sep 1840
Death: 28 Jan 1905 (aged 64)
Burial: Spellings Cemetery

Buena Vista, Carroll County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 88053966 View Source

Private/Corporal/Sergeant, Companies B & A, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted in Huntingdon, TN on 8/15/1862 and mustered in Benton Co, TN on 8/17/1862 furnishing his own horse and equipment and receiving a $100 bounty for enlistment. Captured and paroled with the regiment at the battle of Trenton, TN on 12/20/1862. Hospitalized with chronic diarrhea on 6/4/1865, he was discharged from the Jeffersonville, IN military hospital on disability. He received an invalid pension in 1870. He was the brother of James M Spellings of Companies B & A. His widow, Elizabeth F Hamilton, applied for a widow’s pension in October 1905.

Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014

per contributor gman

Private/Corporal/Sergeant, Companies B & A, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted in Huntingdon, TN on 8/15/1862 and mustered in Benton Co, TN on 8/17/1862 furnishing his own horse and equipment and receiving a $100 bounty for enlistment. Captured and paroled with the regiment at the battle of Trenton, TN on 12/20/1862. Hospitalized with chronic diarrhea on 6/4/1865, he was discharged from the Jeffersonville, IN military hospital on disability. He received an invalid pension in 1870. He was the brother of James M Spellings of Companies B & A. His widow, Elizabeth F Hamilton, applied for a widow’s pension in October 1905.

Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014

per contributor gman

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Elizabeth Frances Hamilton Spellings

1850–1912

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Gideon Cullen Spellings Jr

1859–1933

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Maintained by: Pat Brown Azlin
Originally Created by: Sandra Moody
Added: Apr 4, 2012
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88053966/john-spellings: accessed ), memorial page for John Spellings (24 Sep 1840–28 Jan 1905), Find a Grave Memorial ID 88053966, citing Spellings Cemetery, Buena Vista, Carroll County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Pat Brown Azlin (contributor 47556344).

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