James Samuel McJunkin (1836 - 1879)

Born 1836 in Union District, South Carolina

Ancestors

Died 22 Sep 1879 at about age 43 in Gadsden County, Florida

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Biography

James McJunkin served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: May 10, 1862
Mustered out: April 9, 1865
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): Company 'B' 8th Regiment Florida Infantry

James was born in 1836. He was the son of Aquilla McJunkin and Martha Ferguson.^[1]

He mustered in at the formation of the company also styled, " Quincy Young Guards', and served until the end of the war.^[2] He was in almost all the major battles. He was admitted to a military hospital in Danville, Virginia on December 2, 1862 for debilitus, and remained there until December 19th when he returned to duty. Therefore he missed the Battle of Fredericksburg. He was with the regiment for the duration of the war.

In the end from 950 strong, James was one of only 32 soldiers at the surrender of the regiment at Appomattox.

James was living with his brother in 1870.^[3]

Before the decade was out, he would marry; his wife would bear him three children. She poisoned them one by one. James may have fell victim to his wife's murderous exertions himself. He died in 1879, the same year as his father. His untimely death may have been part of a larger scheme on the part of the deranged wife to seize the McJunkin lands.

James is buried along with the rest of his family at the Old Philadelphia Church in Gadsden County, Florida.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6CS-X6R : accessed 11 June 2016), James Mc Junkin in entry for Aquilla Mc Junkin, 1860.
2. ↑ http://pone.com/ts/8thFla_B.html.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNZD-XR3 : 12 April 2016), James Mcjunkins in household of Williams Mcjunkins, Florida, United States; citing p. 6, family 48, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,628.
4. ↑ Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGZ-73RW : accessed 11 June 2016), James S McJunkin, 1879; Burial, Quincy, Gadsden, Florida, United States of America, Old Philadelphia Church Cemetery; citing record ID 117638121, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.