Re: Sebron/Seaborn McCurry African American Freeman
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Sebron/Seaborn McCurry African American Freeman
Ron McCurry 1/29/04
The muster roll of company G of the 19th regiment of South CarolinaVolunteer Infantry mentions that private Seaborn S. McCurry "died in service of disease on June 24, 1862."
At that time the 19th regiment was encamped in or near either Tupelo or Corinth in northeast Mississippi, where conditionswere very bad and many many men died of disease (more than had been killed at Shiloh).The soldiers of G company were all from Abbeville county and were, of course, all white men.As you know, when the Negros were liberated after the war many of them adopted the name of their former owner as their own new family name.If your ancestor were a Negro named Seaborn McCurry, then it is almost a certainty that he had taken the name of his former owner. Have you looked in the 1850 and 1860 censuses of Abbeville county to see if the white Seaborn S. McCurry, the 1862 soldier, owned any slaves?? In the 1870 census for the Negro Seaborn?(Be aware that the 1870 census of the defeated Southern states was notoriously inaccurate, missing many names, especially of whites.)I hope this helps you.
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Re: Sebron/Seaborn McCurry African American Freeman
Ron McCurry 7/31/06