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charles swafford
bonsue45_1 (View posts) Posted: 27 Feb 2003 12:07AM
Classification: Query
Surnames: swafford
charles madison swafford born in 1861.
charles went by madison. he married sarah e.(unknown). i think they married in polk or bradley co. they lived in hamilton co.
madison and sarah children are
laura b.,
charles m.,
rufus a.,
john,
willam p.(paul),
and bud b.
william married sallie m.
and their children are
laura p.,
ollie w.
and charles f.
bud married nettie
and their children are
ralph and
ruby.
ralph and ruby lived with william
(paul) and sallie in 1930 in bledsoe co
Census > U.S. Census > 1930 United States Federal Census > Tennessee > Bledsoe > District 3 > District 4
1930 United States Federal Census
about W Paul Swafford
Name: W Paul Swafford
Home in 1930: District 3, Bledsoe, Tennessee
Age: 40
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1890
Birthplace: Tennessee
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Name: C Madison
Mother's Name: Sarah E
Spouse's Name: Sallie M
Race: White
Occupation:
Education:
Military service:
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Age at first marriage:
Parents' birthplace:
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Household Members: Name Age
W Paul Swafford 40 Head
Sallie M Swafford 31 Wife
Laura P Swafford 10 Daughter
Ollie W Swafford 8 Son
Charles F Swafford 4 5/12 Son
>>>>>>>C Madison Swafford 68 Father
>>>>>>>Sarah E Swafford 77 Mother
>>>>>>>Ralph M Swafford 13 Nephew
>>>>>>>Ruby G Swafford 12 Niece
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smotherman/swafford
bonsue45_1 (View posts) Posted: 18 Nov 2002 4:14AM
Classification: Query
Surnames: smotherman
does anyone know jessie smotherman, he lived in polk co. tn.
jessie married catherine swafford march 13, 1870 in bradley co. tn.
1880 tn census jessie was living in polk co. he was 58 and catherine was 40 their children were john 9, william 7, ellen 5,and jessie
stepchildren were living with him. madison swafford was 19 and sarah was 21. does anyone know this family? thank you belinda
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Household Record 1880 United States Census
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Jessie SMOTHERMAN Self M Male W 58 NC Farmer NC NC
Charles Madison's mother>>> Cathie SMOTHERMAN Wife M Female W 40 TN Keeping House TN TN
John SMOTHERMAN Son S Male W 9 TN NC TN
William SMOTHERMAN Son S Male W 7 TN NC TN
Ellen SMOTHERMAN Dau S Female W 5 TN NC TN
>>>> Madison SWAFFORD **SSon** M Male W 19 TN TN TN
Sarah SWAFFORD SDau M Female W 21 TN TN TN
Source Information:
Census Place District 4, Polk, Tennessee
Family History Library Film 1255275
NA Film Number T9-1275
Page Number 42D
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Charles Madison Swafford
Birth: 25 Apr 1862
Tennessee
Death: 13 Apr 1941
Anderson, Madison, Indiana
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1862
25 Apr Birth Birth
Tennessee
1880
Age: 18 Residence
District 4, Polk, Tennessee, United States
1880
Age: 18 Marriage to Sarah E. Friddell
Tennessee
1910
Age: 48 Residence
Civil District 6, Hamilton, Tennessee
1920
Age: 58 Residence
Civil District 2, Hamilton, Tennessee
1941
13 Apr Age: 78 Death
Anderson, Madison, Indiana
1941
16 Apr Burial
Middletown, Henry, Indiana
Description: Miller Cemetery, Middletown, Henry County, Indiana
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Charles Madison's mother:
Catherine Ella Benton
Birth: 1840
Tennessee
Death: 29 Dec 1900
Hamilton County,Tennessee
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Timeline1840
Birth Birth
Tennessee
1859
Age: 19 Marriage to Abraham John Swafford
Tennessee
>>>>>>> 1870 13 Mar Age: 30 Marriage to Jesse Smitherman
Bradley County, Tennessee
1870
Age: 30 Residence
District 6, Bradley, Tennessee
1900
29 Dec Age: 60 Death
Hamilton County,Tennessee
1900
Age: 60 Residence
Civil District 6, Hamilton, Tennessee
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Spouse & Children
Abraham John Swafford
1838 – 1864
Charles M Swafford
1862 – 1941
Jesse Smitherman
1822 –
John Smitherman
1871 – William P. Smitherman
1873 – Ellen Smitherman
1875 –
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Abraham John Swafford
Parents
Charles Swafford (Name only)
Mary "Polly" (Name only)
Birth: 1838 Tennessee
Death: 8 May 1864
Rock Island Prison, Illinois
Timeline 1838 Birth Birth
Tennessee
1859 Age: 21 Marriage to Catherine Ella Benton Tennessee
1864 8 May Age: 26 Death Rock Island Prison, Illinois
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Census > U.S. Census > 1870 United States Federal Census > Tennessee > Bradley > District 6
1870 United States Federal Census
about Catharine Smitherman
Name: Catharine Smitherman
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1837
Age in 1870: 33
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1870: District 6, Bradley, Tennessee
Race: White
Gender: Female
Value of real estate: View Image
Post Office: Cleveland
Household Members: Name Age
Jesse Smitherman 48 Jail keeper born NC
>>>>>>Catharine Smitherman 33
Susan Smitherman 24
Andrew Smitherman 22
Permelia Smitherman 30
McKizick Smitherman 18
Lafayette Smitherman 12
Magnolia Smitherman 6
>>>>>>Mathew Swafford 8
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1900 United States Federal Census
about Catherine Smitherman
Name: Catherine Smitherman
Home in 1900: Civil District 6, Hamilton, Tennessee
Age: 70
Birth Date: Mar 1830
Birthplace: Tennessee
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
>>>>>>Relationship to head-of-house: Mother
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Marital Status: Widowed
Residence : Civil District 6, Hamilton, Tennessee
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Household Members: Name Age
John Smitherman 29
Catherine Smitherman 70
Mary M Prater 10
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1900 United States Federal Census
about Mary M Prater
Name: Mary M Prater
[Mary M Pratie]
Home in 1900: Civil District 6, Hamilton, Tennessee
Age: 10
Birth Date: Dec 1889
Birthplace: Tennessee
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
>>>>>>>Relationship to head-of-house: Adopted Daughter
Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Marital Status: Single
Residence : Civil District 6, Hamilton, Tennessee
Occupation: View Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
John Smitherman 29
>>>>>Catherine Smitherman 70
Mary M Prater 10 adopted daughter
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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ndpast&id=I53260
ID: I53260
Name: Abraham SWAFFORD
Given Name: Abraham
Surname: Swafford
Sex: M
_UID: 655058155CDABA489DED8DFCA1EB9046CFA3
Change Date: 3 Jun 2006
Birth: 1838 in Tennessee 1
Census: 1840 Bledsoe County, TN 1
Census: 1850 Bledsoe County, TN 1
Census: 1860 Bradley County, TN 1
Reference Number: 4677
Death: Y
Father: Charles S. SWAFFORD b: 1807 in South Carolina
Mother: Mary "Polly" \\ b: 1808 in Kentucky
Sources:
Abbrev: Swaffords Family FTW.FTWREPO: CALN: MEDI: Ot
Title: Swaffords Family FTW.FTW
REPO:
CALN:
MEDI: Other
REPO:
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MEDI: Other
REPO:
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MEDI: Other.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ndpast&id=I51869
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 1
1. Abraham SWAFFORD was born 1838 in Tennessee. He was the son of 2. Charles S. SWAFFORD and 3. Mary "Polly" \\.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 2
2. Charles S. SWAFFORD was born 1807 in South Carolina, and died BET 1860 AND 1870 in Prison during Civil war. He was the son of 4. Jacob SWAFFORD and 5. Sarah LARKIN.
3. Mary "Polly" \\ was born 1808 in Kentucky.
Children of Mary "Polly" \\ and Charles S. SWAFFORD are: i. Rececca SWAFFORD was born 1830 in Tennessee.
ii. Judy A. SWAFFORD was born 1833 in Tennessee.
iii. Isaac SWAFFORD was born 1837 in Tennessee.
1. iv. Abraham SWAFFORD was born 1838 in Tennessee.
v. Julia SWAFFORD was born 1839 in Tennessee.
vi. Howard SWAFFORD was born 1841 in Tennessee.
vii. Portman SWAFFORD was born 1845 in Tennessee.
viii. Mary E. SWAFFORD was born 1847 in Tennessee.
ix. Charles S. Jr. SWAFFORD was born MAY 1850 in Tennessee, and died BET 1910 AND 1911 in Addington, Oklahoma. He married Sarah Malinda PAYNE 19 JAN 1871 in Clay County, Kentucky. She was born 1851 in Kentucky.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 3
4. Jacob SWAFFORD was born BET 1762 AND 1763 in Greenville County, SC ?, and died ABT 1840 in Bledsoe County, TN. He was buried ABT 1840 in Walker(Brushy Creek)Cem.Bledsoe Co., TN. He was the son of 8. Peter James SWAFFORD and 9. Rennie HOWARD.
5. Sarah LARKIN was born 1772 in Virginia, and died BET 1850 AND 1860 in Tennessee.
Children of Sarah LARKIN and Jacob SWAFFORD are:
i. Larkin SWAFFORD was born BET 1790 AND 1800 in Greenville County, South Carolina, and died ABT 1839 in Stinesville/Bean Blossom, Monroe Co., IN. He married NANCY\\. She was born 1800 in Tennessee, and died ABT 1860 in Indiana.
ii. Alexander SWAFFORD was born 1791 in South Carolina, and died AFT 1860 in Bledsoe County, TN. He married SUSANNAH\\ ABT 1814. She was born 1798 in South Carolina.
iii. Nancy SWAFFORD was born 1796 in Greenville County, South Carolina, and died BET 1870 AND 1880 in Newton County, AR.
iv. Elizabeth A. SWAFFORD was born 1802 in South Carolina, and died AFT 1880 in Tennessee.
v. Peter J. SWAFFORD was born 28 FEB 1805 in South Carolina, and died 18 FEB 1888 in Bledsoe County, TN. He married Rebecca IGUO. She was born 1807 in Kentucky, and died 1872 in Bledsoe County, TN. He married Tennessee Annie TORBETT ABT 1873 in Bledsoe County, TN. She was born 16 JUL 1852 in Tennessee, and died 4 APR 1888 in Bledsoe County, TN.
2. vi. Charles S. SWAFFORD was born 1807 in South Carolina, and died BET 1860 AND 1870 in Prison during Civil war. He married Mary "Polly" \\ 13 DEC 1829 in Bledsoe County, TN. She was born 1808 in Kentucky.
vii. Richard "Dickie" SWAFFORD was born 1808 in South Carolina, and died 10 APR 1886 in McMinn County, Tennessee. He married Malinda C. SWAFFORD. She was born 16 FEB 1815 in Bledsoe County, TN, and died 16 MAY 1888 in Tennessee.
viii. Thomas M. SWAFFORD was born 4 MAY 1812 in Tennessee, and died AFT 1880.
ix. Alfred Annison SWAFFORD was born 1814, and died 1895 in Izard County, AR. He married Nancy AHL.
x. Jackson SWAFFORD was born 1816 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, and died BET 1860 AND 1869 in Overton County, TN(Putnam Co. TN)(?).
xi. Jefferson J. SWAFFORD was born 1820.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 4
8. Peter James SWAFFORD was born BET 1750 AND 1755 in Dublin, IRELAND, and died AFT 1800.
9. Rennie HOWARD.
Children of Rennie HOWARD and Peter James SWAFFORD are: i. Paul SWAFFORD was born BET 1760 AND 1785.
4. ii. Jacob SWAFFORD was born BET 1762 AND 1763 in Greenville County, SC ?, and died ABT 1840 in Bledsoe County, TN. He married Sarah LARKIN 1790 in Greenville County, SC`. She was born 1772 in Virginia, and died BET 1850 AND 1860 in Tennessee.
iii. Abraham SWAFFORD was born 10 OCT 1772 in S.C.. He married Jane HOWARD.
iv. Isaac SWAFFORD was born 1774 in North Carolina, and died in Clay county, KY. He married Polly (Mary) SMITH. She was born ABT 1778.
v. Aaron " Big Aaron" SWAFFORD was born BET 1774 AND 1784 in South Carolina, and died ABT 1824 in Bledsoe County, TN. He married Lucinda HOWARD.
vi. Thomas Younger SWAFFORD was born 10 MAR 1783 in Greenville County, S C, and died 2 NOV 1856 in Bledsoe County, TN. He married Matilda HOWARD ABT 1800 in Greenville County, SC. She was born ABT 1785 in Greenville County, S C, and died ABT 1815 in Mississippi. He married Elizabeth NICHOLS.
vii. William SWAFFORD was born 1785 in North Carolina, and died 9 OCT 1857 in Hamilton County, TN. He married Nancy CRAIG. She died 1873 in Tennessee.
viii. John SWAFFORD was born 1770 in Greenville County, SC ?, and died BET 1850 AND 1860 in Chickasaw County, Mississippi. He married MARY. She was born BET 1780 AND 1784 in North Carolina, and died BET 1850 AND 1860 in Chickasaw County, Mississippi
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ID: I3996
Name: Charles S. SWAFFORD 1
Sex: M
Birth: 1807 in South Carolina 1
Death: BET 1860 AND 1870 in Prison during Civil war 1
Census: 1830 Bledsoe County, TN 1
Census: 1840 Bledsoe County, TN 1
Census: 1850 Bledsoe County, TN 1
Census: 1860 Bradley County, TN 1
Reference Number: 3996
Note:
[Swaffords Family FTW.FTW]
>>>>>The "History of Bradley County, Tennessee" by Wooten, lists federal soldiers from Bradley County that were killed during the Civil War. It listed Charles Swafford died in Andersinville prison. The National Archives at Washington D.C. has a record of application for pension No. 129455, certificate No. 88306 for his widow, Polly. It indicates that Charles served in Company G, 3rd Tennessee Calvary.
Father: Jacob SWAFFORD b: BET 1762 AND 1763 in Greenville County, SC ?
Mother: Sarah LARKIN b: 1772 in Virginia
Marriage 1 Mary "Polly" \\ b: 1808 in Kentucky
Married: 13 DEC 1829 in Bledsoe County, TN 1
Children
Rececca SWAFFORD b: 1830 in Tennessee
Judy A. SWAFFORD b: 1833 in Tennessee
Isaac SWAFFORD b: 1837 in Tennessee
Abraham SWAFFORD b: 1838 in Tennessee
Julia SWAFFORD b: 1839 in Tennessee
Howard SWAFFORD b: 1841 in Tennessee
Portman SWAFFORD b: 1845 in Tennessee
Mary E. SWAFFORD b: 1847 in Tennessee
Charles S. Jr. SWAFFORD b: MAY 1850 in Tennessee
Sources:
Title: Swaffords Family FTW.FTW
Repository:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: Aug 26, 2002
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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2871188&id=I2836
ID: I2836
Name: Jacob SWAFFORD 1
Sex: M
Birth: BET 1762 AND 1763 in Greenville County, SC ? 1
Death: ABT 1840 in Bledsoe County, TN 1
Burial: ABT 1840 Walker(Brushy Creek)Cem.Bledsoe Co.,TN 1
Census: 1830 Bledsoe County, TN 1
Reference Number: 2836
Note:
[Swaffords Family FTW.FTW]
>>>>>>>Jacob & Sarah had eleven children, five boys andsix girls but the girls names are not known. Descendents believe they had nine sons and this is what I copied from Ray Swaffords books.
Father: Peter James SWAFFORD b: BET 1750 AND 1755 in Dublin, Ireland
Mother: Rennie HOWARD b: in Dublin, Ireland
Marriage 1 Sarah LARKIN b: 1772 in Virginia
Married: 1790 in Greenville County, SC` 1
Children
Larkin SWAFFORD b: BET 1790 AND 1800 in Greenville County,South Carolina
Alexander SWAFFORD b: 1791 in South Carolina
Nancy SWAFFORD b: 1796 in Greenville County,South Carolina
Elizabeth A. SWAFFORD b: 1802 in South Carolina
Peter J. SWAFFORD b: 28 FEB 1805 in South Carolina
Charles S. SWAFFORD b: 1807 in South Carolina
Richard "Dickie" SWAFFORD b: 1808 in South Carolina
Thomas M. SWAFFORD b: 4 MAY 1812 in Tennessee
Alfred Annison SWAFFORD b: 1814
Jackson SWAFFORD b: 1816 in Bledsoe County,Tennessee
Jefferson J. SWAFFORD b: 1820
Sources:
Title: Swaffords Family FTW.FTW
Repository:
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: Aug 26, 2002
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Could Abraham be the husband of Catherine and father of Charles Madison?
Abraham Swafford (First_Last)
Regiment Name 16 Battalion (Neal's) Tennessee Cavalry.
Side Confederate
Company C
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
Alternate Name
Notes
Film Number M231 roll 42
CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
16th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry (Neal's)
16th Cavalry Battalion was organized in October, 1862, with four companies, later increased to six. The men were from Roane, McMinn, Rhea, Greene, and Hawkins counties. It served in Pegram's, J.J. Morrison's, H.B. Davidson's, Grisby's, and Vaughn's Brigade. From June, 1863 to March, 1864, the 12th and 16th Battalions were consolidated into a field organization known as Rucker's Legion. This command saw action at Chickamauga and in Tennessee, and on January 31, 1864, it totalled 171 effectives. During April, 1864, the 16th had 147 members and moved into the Valley of Virginia where it was engaged at Piedmont. It went on to confront the Federals in Virginia and Tennessee, moved to North Carolina, and probably disbanded in Georgia during the spring of 1865. The field officers were Lieutenant Colonel John R. Neal, and Majors F.J. Paine and Edmund W. Rucker.
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Civil War prison camp on Arsenal
Burial site of 1,950 Confederate soldiers
The American flag flies over the hundreds of graves of confederate soliders buried in the Confederate Cemetery on Arsenal Island. The soliders were prisoners of war who died while in captivity on the island. The island housed prisoners for 20 months, starting in December of 1863.
ARSENAL ISLAND -- On a crisp winter day, the Stars and Stripes lapped softly in the icy breeze coming off the Mississippi River. The sunlight bathed a field of uniform white stones marking the graves of American patriots -- graves many Americans don't know exist.
Dispatch/Argus Photo By Todd Mizener
The American flag flies over the hundreds of graves of confederate soliders buried in the Confederate Cemetery on Arsenal Island. The soliders were prisoners of war who died while in captivity on the island. The island housed prisoners for 20 months, starting in December of 1863.
It's not that soldiers in the graves are unknown. Each grave is identified. It isn't that they're historically insignificant. They fought and suffered valiantly.
They were just fighting for what many say was the wrong side.
The Civil War was long ago, and to northerners, far away. However, in 1863, the Union brought the war to a small, rocky island in the Mississippi.
Two days before Christmas, a train rustled into Rock Island and passed over a wooden bridge to the island where a landmark clock tower was being built, and unloaded 468 Confederate soldiers captured in battles near Chattanooga, Tenn.
They were the first prisoners of war incarcerated on the 12-acre Confederate prison camp on the northern side of the island. Before the camp closed 20 months later, 1,964 prisoners died and were buried in the cemetery on Rodman Avenue.
Dan Whiteman is director of the Rock Island Arsenal Museum and resident expert on the cemetery's history. He said it has a fascination for the 50,000 people who visit the site each year.
``The romance of the Confederacy has been, even for northerners, a rather persistent thing,'' Mr. Whiteman said. ``Americans love the underdog. It's interesting to walk through, but it is all the same. That's part of the drama of it, of course.''
The white marble gravestones, in rows of 100, contain only the soldier's name, regiment and grave number. Unlike the rounded stones in the National Cemetery down the road, the tops are pointed. Mr. Whiteman isn't sure why.
``The story among (Confederates) was it was to keep the Yankees from taking their ease'' atop the gravestones, Mr. Whiteman said.
The camp wasn't operating long before a cemetery was needed. The winter of 1863 was exceptionally cold, something Southern soldiers weren't accustomed to.
To make matters worse, prisoners on the first train were infected with smallpox, pneumonia and dysentery. Ninety-eight died within the month. Before spring, the Confederate cemetery held more than 900 graves. Nearly 30 Union guards also died.
The first prisoners to die were quickly buried adjacent to the prison grounds. Not long after, in February 1864, the bodies were moved to the present site to improve sanitary conditions and end the plague. The prisoner death rate then dropped considerably.
In June, the Secretary of War ordered prisoner rations cut in response to conditions Union soldiers faced in the infamous prisoner of war camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Malnutrition contributed to the scurvy deaths of at least 12 prisoners, and while it remained a problem, the subsequent drop in the death rate belied rumors of starvation.
After the war, prison buildings were razed. Ornate stone officers' quarters were erected along what is now Terrace Drive.
In following years, the camp gained an allegedly unearned reputation as a place of suffering, torture and death. Many referred to it as the ``Andersonville of the North.'' The myth was fed by articles written by Confederate veterans and published in Confederate magazines.
In her epic Civil War novel, ``Gone with the Wind,'' author Margaret Mitchell noted these accounts in a paragraph which claims ``at no place were conditions worse than at Rock Island.'' The fictional character Ashley Wilkes was said to have been held at Rock Island, in the ``hellhole of the north.''
Although camp conditions certainly were not pleasant, many of those ``memories'' were proven false. ``The death rate here was not extraordinary,'' Mr. Whiteman said, ``compared to what the soldiers would have faced in the field.''
While nearly 2,000 Confederate soldiers died at Rock Island, more than 13,700 Union soldiers died in Andersonville.
The Union kept fairly good records of prisoners who came through the camp, which Mr. Whiteman said he refers to often, particularly when he's contacted by prisoners' ancestors, trying to trace their genealogy.
Sometimes, he can't help them, he said. ``They want to know if (their relative) was married, what was his wife's name,'' information that isn't in the records, he said.
Over the years, families of about a dozen of the dead Confederates moved their relatives' bodies from the cemetery to family plots. Most however, remain in the cemetery. On Memorial Day, a Confederate flag is placed at every grave and ``Taps'' is played.
Through it all, the American flag flies. For the Confederates, it's perhaps an insult to forever lie in the shadow of the flag they defied. However, Mr. Whiteman said it is there to claim them as our own, although they died swearing allegiance to another banner.
He said the men are honored as Americans who gave their lives for a cause they deemed sacred.
-- By Marcy Norton (January 22, 1998)
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