James Blevins was born to Joseph Josiah Blevins and his Native American wife in Sullivan County, Tennessee, where this mother died almost immediately after James' birth.
Josiah brought James to what was soon to become Cotaco County,(now Morgan County) Alabama, on the Tennessee River in 1803. Josiah soon married again and had many more children. James was one of the first men to claim land in Winston County, Alabama in 1832.
During the American Civil War, James was tending his and his son's fields, John, Nathaniel, and Josiah, who were fighting with the Union in the 1st Alabama Calvary, Company K. A group of Bushwhackers come upon him, beat him senseless, and threw him over one of the numerous high bluffs famous in Winston County.
James younger children and grandchildren found him under the bluff, and brought him to the house, where he died three days later, after telling the family what had happened to him.
He died, at the age of 60-61, in 1861 in Winston County, Alabama. He is buried at the Blevins Family Cemetery, Wilson Bend, Winston County, Alabama. [1]
Much of his family is buried in the Blevins Family Cemetery, near Rock Creek (now Smith Lake), Wilson Bend, Arley, Winston County, Alabama.
See Also:
Featured Eurovision connections: James is 30 degrees from Agnetha Fältskog, 24 degrees from Anni-Frid Synni Reuß, 26 degrees from Corry Brokken, 18 degrees from Céline Dion, 24 degrees from Françoise Dorin, 25 degrees from France Gall, 28 degrees from Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, 25 degrees from Lill-Babs Svensson, 20 degrees from Olivia Newton-John, 29 degrees from Henriette Nanette Paërl, 33 degrees from Annie Schmidt and 17 degrees from Moira Kennedy on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.
Categories: Blevins Family Cemetery, Winston County, Alabama