John Thomas Boone C.S.A. (1847 - 1924)

Born 10 Nov 1847 in Pike County, Mississippi, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Lousia C. Bullock — married 11 Jul 1866 in Mississippi

Descendants

Died 20 Nov 1924 at age 77 in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi, United States

Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Death

Death:

Date: 20 Nov 1924

Place: Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi

Cause: Renal Failure

Burial

Burial:

Place: Beauvoir Cemetery, Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi

Note

Note: #NI7034

Sources

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Notes

Note NI7034CSA Vet

Notes for John Thomas Boone:John Thomas Boone was born on 10 Nov 1846, therefore, he was too young to join the Civil War when it started, so he went down into Louisiana to join when he was just 13-14 years old. He was in Comp. G, 13th Louisiana Cavalryand served under Capt. E. A. Gatlin.(NOTE: From the Pike County History by: Conerly, pg 36 - GATLIN, Mrs. Amanda Adelaide, nee Spenser, age 24 years; wife of Capt. E.A. Gatlin, died 10/26/73 at Osyka.) When the war ended, he went back to Lawrence County, Mississippi and married his childhood sweetheart, Louisa C. Bullock in 1866. Louisa (Lou) died in 1901, and sometime after that, John Thomas married Emma (Stovall) Wade, who was a widow.John Thomas worked as a Night Watchman during his later years, then in 1917,he and Emma moved to Beauvoir, the Confederate Soldiers Home on the old plantation of Jefferson Davis, which overlooks the Gulf of Mexico. . John Thomas died on 20 Nov 1924, ten days after his 78th birthday. Both John Thomas and Emma are buried at Beauvoir Cemetery in Biloxi, Mississippi. They have a very large double headstone marking their graves, with the "Masonic Emblem" on it.

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 :J.T. Boone enlisted in Miss. Company; Regiment 38; Age 63; Year of enlistment 1861; and he's listed as "soldier". This gives more reason to believe his original enlistment into Comp. G; 13th Louisiana Cavalry under Capt. A.E. Gatlin was a volunteer group that was later absorbed into the 38th Regiment of Mississippi. This is the same regiment his older brother, Rev. Robert Josiah was in.

Copied from the "History of Pike County, Mississippi", page 46...."Ebenezer Gatlin commanded the Summitt Rifles, at Bloody Angle, battle of Spotsylvania, Virginia, May 12, 1864, mortally wounded". It's also possible that John Thomas Boone served in the Summitt Rifles with Capt. Ebenezer Gatlin. (Summitt, MS is located a few miles from Brookhaven, MS.)

(NOTE: From the Pike County History by: Luke Ward Conerly, pg 36 - GATLIN, Mrs. Amanda Adelaide, nee Spenser, age 24 years; wife of Capt. E.A. Gatlin, died 10/26/73 at Osyka.)

When the war ended, he returned to Lawrence County, Mississippi and married his childhood sweetheart, Louisa C. Bullock in 1866. Louisa (Lou) died in 1901, and sometime after that, John Thomas married a widow, Emma (Stovall) Wade.

John Thomas worked as a Night Watchman during his later years, then in 1917, he and Emma moved to Beauvoir, the Confederate Soldiers Home on the old plantation of Jefferson Davis, which overlooks the Gulf of Mexico. My husband and I have visited this place and it is one of the most beautiful places we have ever visited. John Thomas died on 20 Nov 1924, ten days after his 78th birthday. I have a copy of his Death Certificate stating he died of renal failure. Both John Thomas and Emma are buried at Beauvoir Cemetery in Biloxi, Mississippi. They have a very large double headstone marking their graves, with the "Masonic Emblem" on it. The Director of Beauvoir told me the tombstone was placed there about 1941, but said there is no record of who had it erected. Most of the other graves are marked with the original, older, much smaller headstones. (NOTE: I took a picture of this headstone in 1998 which shows the date of death for Emma in 1932, and those numbers are slightly smaller and different than that of the other lettering on the stone, which leads me to believe the headstone was erected before Emma's death in 1932, and her death date was added to it later. On the Federal Census for 1910, it showed that John Thomas had been married to Emma (Stovall) Wade Boone for seven years and they were living in Pike County, MS. He was 63 years old and she was 55. They had two boarders living with them named W. Crawford Stovall and his wife of four years, Lilia Stovall. Crawford was a weaver and Lilia was a spinner at the cotton mill. It's possible this was a younger brother of Emma's.