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Hi Crystle,
The children listed in your message #460 are indeed Hugh W. Quinton's children.
But there are some errors. Most importantly, there were 10, not 12 children. The
person listed as Rebecca Jane and the person listed as Jennie are one and
the same: Rebecca Jane "Jennie" Quinton. And the person listed as Hugh A.
and the person listed as Andrew are the same: Hugh Andrew Quinton.
I have Hugh W's children as follows:
John Henry Quinton, b. abt 1845, d. 6 Mar 1864.
Hugh Andrew Quinton, b. abt 1846, d. 15 Aug 1864.
Martha Louisa Quinton, b. abt 1847, d. 1925.
Rebecca Jane Quinton, b. 7 Apr 1848, d. 8 Apr 1926.
Margaret Elizabeth Quinton, b. abt 1850, d. 14 Nov 1929.
David P. Quinton, b. abt 1853.
Clara M. Quinton, b. abt 1855, d. 1890.
Thomas Napper Quinton, b. 8 Jan 1859, d. 19 May 1948.
Robert H. Quinton, b. 6 Mar 1861, d. 3 Mar 1919.
Beulah E. Quinton, b. Aug, 1866, d. 1946.
A few other notes:
Hugh W. Quinton (the father), John Henry Quinton, and Hugh Andrew Quinton,
all enlisted in Co E, 45th Alabama Infantry, CSA on 20 Mar 1862. Hugh Andrew
enlisted under the name 'Andrew H. Quinton', presumably to avoid confusion
with his father in the same outfit.
John Henry Quinton was captured at Gordon's Mill, GA, 21 Dec 1863, and
imprisoned at the Rock Island Illinois Prison Barracks, where he died on 6
Mar 1864. (Grave #742)
Hugh Andrew Quinton (Andrew H.) was captured at Resaca, GA on 16 May 1864. He
was received at the Military Prison, Louisville, KY on 22 May 1864, where he was
entered as Andrew H. Quinson. It seems a practical certainty that this is our
boy, as his age. rank, outfit, place and date of capture all match exactly. He
was shipped to the Alton Illinois Military Prison, where he was offered amnesty
if he joined the Union forces. In June, 1864 he joinedthe U.S. Navy, where he
served on the USS North Carolina until he came down with dysentery and was
shipped to the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, where he died on 15 Aug 1864. He is buried in
the Cypress Hills National Cemetery on Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn.
Note that Thomas Napper Quinton died in 1948, not 1938. He had 24 children
by three different wives. 3 of those children died young. He is my wife's
grandfather.
Lastly, I'm familiar with the letter from which much of your information
appears to have been taken. It is an interesting document, and contains some
good information. But, at the same time, some of what she says is
demonstrably incorrect; she admits in the letter that she is ailing and that
she expects she's got a lot of it wrong. And remember that this letter was
written when she was quite old and that she is repeating information she no
doubt heard when she was much younger.
In particular, I suspect that in naming her grandmother as 'Nancy' she has
mixed up her grandmother with her aunt Nancy. All the information and
documentation we currently have points to Martha Akin Quinton as being the
wife of Samuel and the mother of Hugh W. and his siblings.
I also think that her statement that Grandfather Sam and Nancy came from
Scotland is probably incorrect. There is little doubt that the family came
from Scotland originally, and was part of the great Scots-Irish immigration
in the 18th century. But the evidence for the ties to the Chester Co, SC
Quintons is becoming stronger and stronger, which would discount the idea
that Sam and 'Nancy' themselves arrived from Scotland.
The comments in the two paragraphs above are my opinion only; I have no
documentary evidence (yet). But personally I strongly suspect that the
Chester Co Quintons arrived in this country in the north, possibly
Pennsylvania, and drifted south along the Appalachians into the Carolinas
and Georgia. At least this was a typical Scots-Irish immigration
pattern.
Just some thoughts...
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