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David was born in 1832, Station Town in Kingdom community, Coweta County, Georgia.[1]
He died at General Hospital while serving in the Confederate Army. He is buried at G. H. Howard's Grove in Richmond. He served as a private in Co A, 7th Georgia Infantry Regiment. In July 1861, he had enlisted for 1 year. Plagued by measles, typhoid and other illnesses, he was discharged and had started home. In Virginia he met up with some of his family and friends from home, and joined again on July 30, 1862 for another year. He was serving as a colonel's orderly when he died, either of smallpox or of a congestion of the brain.
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