Anita,
Thank you so very much for the information on your family. It was very helpful and much appreciated.
I have listed below the information you requested on your great grandparents:
28. WILLIAM A.4
COE (Andrew Jackson3 (8), Isaac2, Edward1) was born in 1844 in
Barbour County,
AL. Five feet, eight inches tall, with gray eyes, dark hair, a dark complexion, and notably handsome, he enlisted as a private February 26, 1861, at
Columbia,
AL, with Company B, First Battalion,
Alabama Artillery. Committed to three years service, he was ordered to
Fort Gaines and
Fort Morgan,
AL, where he worked as a teamster and hostler. On October 11, 1862, he was assigned to the Quartermaster Department. By order of
Colonel Cowell, on June 20, 1863, he was transferred to “The Mobile Cadets,” Company K, 21st Regiment,
Alabama Infantry Artillery, CSA. In October and November 1863 he was reported as “under arrest at his Post.” In February 1864 he was reported as being “In Guard House at Post - Transferred from Co. K, 21st A.R. Reenlisted,” which he did February 26.
On March 31, 1864, he transferred from the First
Alabama Heavy Artillery to Company G, Fourth Regiment, Louisiana Infantry. Captured at the Battle of Franklin, TN, December 17, 1864, he was taken to Nashville as a prisoner of war. Transferred to the military prison at Louisville, KY, he was received there December 22. He was transferred January 2, 1865, to infamous Camp Chase,
Columbus, OH. Received there January 4, he applied for the oath of allegiance while held there.
On March 15, 1865, he enlisted in
Columbus to serve for a three-year term with Company A, Sixth Regiment, US Volunteer Infantry. He mustered in the following day and was simultaneously promoted to corporal. Transferred to naval rendezvous, Chicago, IL, March 20, four days later he was admitted to the hospital at Camp Douglas. Two months later, May 12, 1865, he was demoted to private. On August 20 he deserted from near
Fort Collins, said to have been indebted $17.50 to the camp sutler at
Fort Laramie,
Dakota Territory, when he left. He rejoined his company September 1 and was returned to duty by order of Lieutenant
Colonel Smith. In October and November 1865 he worked as a carpenter in the Quartermaster Department at
Fort Kearney, Nebraska Territory, under command of Lieutenant
Colonel Milo George, post commander. In early 1866 he was at Camp Douglas, Utah Territory, from where on March 16 he again deserted, taking with him a .58 caliber Springfield rifle, a cap pouch, a cartridge box, a belt, a gunsling, a waist belt, a screwdriver, a wiper, a cone, a canteen, a haversack, a knapsack, and some straps, in all said to have been valued at $28.05.
He returned to
Columbia,
AL, where he was living in 1869. In 1870 he was working as a farmhand for J.W. Culverhouse at Skipperville,
AL.
Before 1880 he moved to
Henderson County, TX, where he appears in the census that year. He lived about twelve miles south of Malakoff where he was reported to be a cotton farmer. Family members claim that he also owned land at Kilgore,
Gregg County, TX. He died about 1896.
He married October 27, 1879, in
Henderson County, TX, Susan
Litchfield, born September 8, 1862, in
Alabama, died of diabetes October 21, 1922, at
Walters, OK, daughter of Thomas H. and Mahala Jane (Head)
Litchfield of Orion,
AL. She married (2) July 2, 1897, in
Henderson County, William F. Dunning, died before 1910; (3) about 1911 in
Oklahoma,
Cosby Lee Shirley. She moved to
Oklahoma about 1900 and was buried at
Walters. She was said to have been of Native American heritage. Her photograph tends to verify the fact.
Children (b. in
Henderson County, TX):
74. i. I.D., b. May 30, 1882, at Athens, TX.
75. ii. O.D., b. April 4, 1885.
76. iii. MODIE, b. Nov. 22, 1892.
iv. Willie
Zola, b. Aug. 18, 1895; m. Burns Moore, b. March 10, 1886, d. April 1964; lived at Pampa, TX. Children:
Zona, b. 1910; Gladys, b. 1913; Glenn, b. 1916.
Please tell me more about your immediate family. When and where were your parents married? What was your fatherÂ’s occupation? What is your motherÂ’s date of birth and who were her parents? Where was she born? In what cemetery was your father buried? Do Kermit Jr. or Truman have families? Are you and Maxine married? Do you have children? What are the childrenÂ’s birth dates?
I am so delighted to hear from you. You are the first of O.D. CoeÂ’s family with whom I have been in contact.
Thank you again,
Carl Robert
COEcarlrcoe@compuserve.com