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From: PEGGY TRUESDELL <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] CIVIL WAR (Carrold) LeeRoy William McWHERTER
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:22:43 -0700 (PDT)
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Carrold, thank you for checking on my relative, LeeRoy William McWHERTER (had transposed his name).  Looked at a record found on him, as follows:

Twenty-Seventh Regiment Arkansas Infantry -- Company C.; Private; Enlisted at Camp Livingston, Arkansas, 15 July 1862; Age 34; Transferred to Co.. D., 01 August 1862; Captured in Marion County, Arkansas, 14 January 1863; Sent to military prison at Saint Louis, Missouri, 29 March 1863; Forwarded to City Point, Virginia, for exchange, 02 April 1863; Captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi, 04 July 1863; Paroled, 16 July 1863.

Just thought I should put in correct information if anyone ever checks archives.

Appreciate your efforts and time.

Peggy

Peggy {KING} TRUESDELL 




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From: Carold Hodges <>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:03:00 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] CIVIL WAR (Rick, Carrold) Anybody!

Peggy, the book I have doesn't show a McWherter, but it does list a McWhorter.  Doesn't look like he would be connected to the person you are searching.  Here is the info on him:

HUGH LAWSON McWHORTER - Hugh Lawson was born February 10, | 848 in Atlanta, Carroll County, Ceorgia to Williarn
BarnettM cWhorterw ho wasb orn in Tennesseien 1827. William diedJ uly I l, 1883. His
mother, Mary Elizabeth Poston was born 1827 in Alabama. Williarn and Mary were rnarried
July2 , l846 in CarrollC ounty,G eorgia.H ugh wasr narriedD ecembe6r , 1868i n Sevier
County,A rkansasto Mary JaneH unsuckerd, aughteor f FredricM . Hunsuckear ndC hristian
Mcleod. Mary Janew as bornA pril 3, 1839i n Mississippai ndd ied May 18,1 893i n Sevier
County, Arkansas. Mary Jane was buried in Old Union Cemetery between Lockesburg and
Provo, Arkansas. Hugh had remarried and when he died, he was buried in McHorse/Pleasant
Hill Cemeterya bouta mile down the roadf rom Old Union Cemetery.H ughw as in theC SA
and served in Company A, Arkansas McNeal's lnfantry from November | 864 to May of 1865.



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From: PEGGY TRUESDELL <>
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Sent: Wed, October 14, 2009 8:03:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] CIVIL WAR (Rick, Carrold) Anybody!

One of my great-great-grandfathers was LeRoy William McWHERTER, b. 1832, Henry or Weakley County, Tennessee, married Caroline TODD, who died in Weakley County about six months after birth of my great-grandmother Lydia Ann Belle McWHERTER, who became wife of John Almus RIDGWAY.  Caroline's death (month and year) in 1850 Mortality Schedule for Weakley County.

William LeRoy remarried Coley BUCKLEY and they lived in Marion County, Arkansas in 1860 [Lydia Ann Belle, age 10, in household, age 10].  The boundary changed in 1870s and location was about or near Lead Hill, Boone County, Arkansas.  William LeRoy enlisted in CSA from Arkansas.  For decades, all I could find on him was "Died on West Bank of Mississippi River" -- and wasn't even sure he was CW Veteran. 

Then, finally, with picture of CSA marker on findagrave, I have date of death.  I believe he had already been "mustered out" when he died; maybe was on his way home.

Would someone have any information about William LeRoy McWHERTER.  His ancestor -- spelled McWHORTER -- was RW Patriot, along with siblings.  I have good records on his ancestry.  His parents were James McWHERTER and Mary CLAYTON.  Don't know when and why they started using "e" and "i" instead of "o" -- former governor of Tennessee Ned McWHERTER is one of ours.

Did his widow receive pension?  She is even related to me through a RIDGWAY and BUCKLEY marriage.  They had two sons:  Thomas Porter McWHERTER (died in CA) and Charles McWHERTER.

Would love to learn circumstances of his death and any further information.  Thank you.

Peggy

Peggy {KING} TRUESDELL

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