M C (Mack Million) Trotter

Obituary of Mack Trotter
10 Mar 1908
Knoxville Sentinel

Daniel Neal, Dawson County, GA militia roll 1864 in GA's Virtual Vault

Militia enrollment lists from 1864 are available at GA's Virtual Vault.  Daniel Neal is on line 40.  He is listed as a farmer, age 47, born in SC.  It says he is a Minister of the Gospel and he owns a rifle in good condition.
http://cdm.georgiaarchives.org:2011/cdm/landingpage/collection/countyfilm

Daniel Neal civil war records available at Footnote.com

http://www.footnote.com/image/35662194

Daniel Neal
Co. C, 11 Batt'n Georgia Inf.
(State Guards) Confederate

July 14, 1863
Dawsonville, Dawson County, GA

Remarks:  Refused to be mustered in.

In the 1864 Census for Reorganizing the GA Militia (available on Ancestry.com), Daniel Neal (age 47)  is listed in Dawson County with an exemption because he is a minister of the Gospel.  It also says he was born in SC.

Starling Reynolds civil war records available at Footnote.com

http://www.footnote.com/image/69805020

William M. Moon's civil war records on Footnote.com

http://www.footnote.com/image/260369440

Another branch of Ford ancestors

I found this website while looking around:
http://www.anneric.info/gentry/index.htm

The descendants of John and Agnes Gentry

I found a connection to my husband's Ford family.
William Patton Ford Sr (1828-1910) son of Henry Ford and Ruth Speer
Ruth Speer (b abt 1785) daughter of Joshua Speer and Ruth Vandeveer
Joshua Speer (1760-1843) son of Andrew Speer Sr and Elizabeth Gentry
Elizabeth Gentry daughter of Joseph Gentry and Agnes Shelton
Joseph Gentry son of Samuel Gentry
Samuel son of Nicholas
Nicholas son of Samuel
Samuel son of Samuel
Samuel son of Simon
Simon son of John Gentry(b abt 1510 in England)

Headstone of John F. McGown

Headstone of John F. McGown in Sabine County, TX.

John F. McGown was rejected for a pension because he deserted from the Confederate Army. He was later court martialed and sentenced.  Served in CSA Pvt, Co F, 11th Tex Infantry.

Civil War Families of Tennessee

Affidavit of George M. Blazer 1897

This affidavit was found in the civil war pension records of William Mitchel Moon. It was written by George Blazer who served in Co. M of the 2nd Tn Cavalry. From reading this affidavit I learned that George M. Blazer and William M. Moon were brothers-in-law. He states in the affidavit that they married sisters by the name of Patterson and lived about 4 or 5 miles apart.

William Mitchell Moon

Pictures of headstones are helpful in genealogy research, but not as personal as a picture of the actual person. I hope one day to discover a picture of William Mitchell Moon. William Moon is the father of John C. Moon. That makes him my husband's great great great grandfather. He was born February 22, 1826 and died April 29, 1893. He is buried in Providence Cemetery in Sevierville, TN.

William Moon was married to Mahala Patterson who is also buried in Providence Cemetery. Mahala Patterson was born January 28, 1828 and died June 30, 1907.

William Moon was a Corporal in Co. I of the 2nd TN Cavalry, USA during the Civil War. He applied for a pension due to disability after the war. His son John's affidavit in the pension records states, "I am a son of the said Mahala and William M Moon and was something like 9 or 10 years old when my father enlisted in the war of the Rebellion. I well remember when he went into the war in the fall of 1862 and especially do I remember of his return from the war in 1865. I remember when he came home he complained of his legs hurting him, he also had a dry hacking cough and complained of his breast and complained of headache.... I lived with my father on the farm and in the house with him until I was married. Then I lived on the same farm and close to him until his death. I saw him almost daily now from the time he came home until his death. I don't know what was the immediate cause of his death. I was present and with him almost daily from the time he was taken down until his death. "