Notes from Comment 1 event: He enlisted in Capt. Boring's Co. of Cavalry as a private, in Grayson Co. VA. He was latr electe dCapt. and served in the 37th Va Battallion until the surrender. On the 9th of Oct. 1864, below Woodstock, VA., he was shot from his horse in the charge on the enemy. The ball passing thru his left pocket and out at his right side. The doctors at Woodstock hospital cut the caul fat from the bullet hole and he lay at Woodstock until Feb. 1865. When he arrived home he found that his wife had died, leaving him 5 children. He moved to Alleghany co., where he married thw widow Crouse (another soldiers widow), at which time she had 4 children..
Notes from Comment 1 event: He enlisted in Capt. Boring's Co. of Cavalry as a private, in Grayson Co. VA. He was latr electe dCapt. and served in the 37th Va Battallion until the surrender. On the 9th of Oct. 1864, below Woodstock, VA., he was shot from his horse in the charge on the enemy. The ball passing thru his left pocket and out at his right side. The doctors at Woodstock hospital cut the caul fat from the bullet hole and he lay at Woodstock until Feb. 1865. When he arrived home he found that his wife had died, leaving him 5 children. He moved to Alleghany co., where he married thw widow Crouse (another soldiers widow), at which time she had 4 children..
1900 fed census shows them living in Dallas, TX