Enlisted 30 Apr 1862 at Simpson County, MS as a private in Company F, 39th Regiment of MS Volunteers, CSA during the Civil War to serve a period of 3 years under Capt Banks. He was 30 years old at the time. Noted as absent sick at Greensboro, GA on 17 Jun 1964, he was captured on 15 Apr 1865 and retained as a prisoner of war at Blakeley, Alabama on 09 Apr 1865. He was transferred from Ship Island, MS to Vicksburg on 01 May 1865. George W. Ware of Smith County, MS was paroled at Jackson, MS on 12 May 1865.
He was a mason, a member of lodge #225, Cooper at Center Point, Smith County, MS. The lodge records indicate he died on 01 Jul 1907.
George appears on the 1881 Personal Tax List for Smith County, Mississippi in the town of Zion Hill.[1] And again in 1883's assessment.[2]
In May of 2010, his descendant Lisa submitted paperwork and had him approved for a military marker to mark his burial site. At over 100 years unmarked it was long overdue! In addition she purchased a marker for his wife Keziah and placed both markers at their burial site in Ware Cemetery, Smith County, MS.
Sources
↑ 1881 Smith County, Mississippi Personal Property Assessment. Series 1202 Box 376, Mississippi Department of Archives and History. page 33.
Author: Wixon, Thomas G. S. & Strickland, Jean Title: Mississippi Masonic Death Records 1819-1919, Book 3, N-Z. 1991. (attached)
NARA, CSA Records (attached)
MS State Census - 1866, Smith County, MS
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Lisa Franklin for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Lisa and others.
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