John W Chaney (abt. 1838 - 1864)

Born about 1838 in Pike County, Kentucky, United States

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Descendants

Died 29 Jul 1864 at about age 26 in Rock Island Confederate Prison, Rock Island, Illinois

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Biography

• Fact: Residence (1850) Pike county, Pike, Kentucky, United States
• Fact: 1850 Census (July 1850) Pike County, Kentucky, United States
• Fact: 1860 Census (14 August 1860) Pike County, Kentucky, United States
• Fact: Burial Rock Island Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois, United States

Conflict:

From FAGM:^[1]
John W. Chaney was born in 1838, the son of Thomas G. Chaney and Sophia Campbell. He married Dorcas Moore on March 10, 1859. In 1862, John enlisted as Private in the Virginia Cavalry Regiment and joined the Confederate Army in the Civil War. He was later captured by the Union Army in May of 1864 in Pike County, Kentucky and taken by train to the Rock Island Confederate Prison in Rock Island, Illinois, where he passed away of acute dysentery on July 29, 1864.

OR

He died in Pike County, KY in 1887.^[2]

Research Notes

• Findagrave has birth location as North Carolina.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9130515/john-w-chaney.
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158749725/john-w.-chaney.

• Source: Media: Electronic Databases, Abbreviation: Linton & Ellis Families, World Connect Project, Title: Linton & Ellis Families, World Connect Project, Author: Debbie Linton
• Census Records:
  • "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65V-YRX : 22 December 2020), John Chaney in household of Thos G Chaney, Pike, Kentucky, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWY1-2YM : 23 February 2021), John W. Cheeny, 1859.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9130515/john-w-chaney : accessed 02 January 2022), memorial page for Pvt John W. Chaney (1838–29 Jul 1864), Find A Grave: Memorial #9130515, citing Rock Island Confederate Cemetery, Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by In Remembrance (contributor 48917025) .
• FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LC7L-GKH

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Spurlock 20110318.ged on 19 March 2011.