Corp Lafayette Bice Sr was born on 25 August 1826 in South Carolina to James Byce and his wife, Mary. He married Sarah Jane Allen, 1854. Their children were Amanda, George, James, William, Lafayette, Mary, Robert, Jefferson, Barbara, and Gilbert Bice. Lafayette farmed and worked at Etowah Ironworks. He enlisted in the Confederate States Army, 1862, in Cass County, Georgia, serving in Sheppard's Company but, before muster, he was transferred back to the Ironworks, manufacturing cannons and other war materials. Etowah Ironworks was burned on 22 May 1863, as part of the Savannah Campaign. Afterwards, Lafayette was assigned to the Talladega Camp of Instruction #2 in Alabama as a guard. He worked at Bibb County Ironworks until he was no longer able to operate the furnace (possibly due to failing vision). At that time, he was transferred to the Alabama and Tennessee Rivers Railroad, a government train that ran from Selma to the Confederate camp and iron mine at Blue Mountain, Alabama, where he worked until the Civil War ended. After the war, Lafayette followed two of his brothers to Texas, where he was awarded pension #00758, September 1899. He died, 12 March 1902, aged 76, in Alto, Texas, and was buried at Mount Zion Cemetery. (The written history of Cherokee County, Texas, as well as Lafayette's military gravestone wrongly credit Lafayette Bice Sr as serving as a Private with the Texas State Troops during the Civil War.)
Corp Lafayette Bice Sr was born on 25 August 1826 in South Carolina to James Byce and his wife, Mary. He married Sarah Jane Allen, 1854. Their children were Amanda, George, James, William, Lafayette, Mary, Robert, Jefferson, Barbara, and Gilbert Bice. Lafayette farmed and worked at Etowah Ironworks. He enlisted in the Confederate States Army, 1862, in Cass County, Georgia, serving in Sheppard's Company but, before muster, he was transferred back to the Ironworks, manufacturing cannons and other war materials. Etowah Ironworks was burned on 22 May 1863, as part of the Savannah Campaign. Afterwards, Lafayette was assigned to the Talladega Camp of Instruction #2 in Alabama as a guard. He worked at Bibb County Ironworks until he was no longer able to operate the furnace (possibly due to failing vision). At that time, he was transferred to the Alabama and Tennessee Rivers Railroad, a government train that ran from Selma to the Confederate camp and iron mine at Blue Mountain, Alabama, where he worked until the Civil War ended. After the war, Lafayette followed two of his brothers to Texas, where he was awarded pension #00758, September 1899. He died, 12 March 1902, aged 76, in Alto, Texas, and was buried at Mount Zion Cemetery. (The written history of Cherokee County, Texas, as well as Lafayette's military gravestone wrongly credit Lafayette Bice Sr as serving as a Private with the Texas State Troops during the Civil War.)
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