Thank you Hazel. I will contact you via email.

Thanks also for the correction about Joseph's wife. I knew that. I just had my mind on Mary Amelia from research I'm doing that involves Mary Amelia, the granddaughter. I am a cousin to this Shumate line via the Montgomery's.

I've come up with a Civil War fatality that might be William S. M. Shumate. I found a William M. Shumate, private in Co. D, 4th Regiment Texas Infantry, who died May 6, 1864 in the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia. Joseph had another son, Christopher Columbus, that had moved to Texas in the early 1850's. When Joseph's wife Amelia died in 1857, if I remember correctly, some say that Joseph moved to Texas. A Texas connection would be quite plausible. Can anyone come up with further evidence as to whether or not the soldier in question was Joseph's son?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.