Co. A, 21st Miss. Inft., CSA.
Name written Wynn and Wynne.
He was with Gen. Stonewall Jackson when he was fatally wounded and was one of the two men who carried Jackson's body from the field. He caught the General as he was shot off his horse, and carried him to the shade where he died.
Lee's Lieutenants (1942) by Douglas Southall Freeman, pp. 481-82 (abridged, 345); brother Benjamin L. Wynn, p. 660, 343-44.
Campbell Brown's Civil War: With Ewell in the Army of Northern Virginia (2001) by Terry L. Jones;
History of Yalobusha County (1982) by the Heritage Committee, p. 357;
All Things for Good: The Steadfast Fidelity of Stonewall Jackson (2004)
By J. Steven Wilkins, George Grant, p. 238;
Best Little Ironies, Oddities, and Mysteries of the Civil War (2000) By C. Brian Kelly, p.207.
Capt. William T. Wynn graduated from the Univ. of VA. He was the superintendent of public schools of Yalobusha Co. He also married an Episcopalian from Grenada, Judith Maria Jones, b. 1845, daughter of William S. Jones. Her mother may have been a Townes. Judith (Judity, J.B. Perry calls her) died 1872 leaving one child, William Townes Jones, educated at Oxford.
See Goodspeed's Memoirs of Missisippi (1891), pp. 1079-1082.
The Williams Family (1954) by John Ben Perry Jr., p.9.
Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman, vol. 3, pp.
1850 census: Yalobusha Co.
William Wellborn 8 (1842) GA (sic)
1860 census: Yalobusha Co.
Wm Thos Wynn 17 MS (at home with parents)
Yalobusha County, Miss. Marriages:
Wynn, W.T. to Jones, Judith M.
Mar 22, 1866
1870 census: Yalobusha Co.:
William T. Wynn 36 (sic) MS
Juria M Wynn 23 MS
Rebecca E. Townes 45 VA
Hester M Townes 40
Alice M Townes 7
Rebecca and Hester Townes were unmarried daughters of Judith Townes b1785 VA.
Hester Townes was still living with them in 1880.
Judith Jones Wynn's name is clearly Juria on the 1870 census, but W.T. Wynn's biography shows only two wives, Judith Jones and Sally Cocke.
He and Sally later named a daughter Juria.
The name Juria may be associated with the Townes and Leigh families.
The Townes and Leigh families were large land and slave owners in Yalobusha County. The 1860 slave schedules for Yalobusha show six different members of the Townes family owned 297 slaves total, while H. Townes had in his possession another 60 belonging to J.B. Anderson of Virginia. J.E. Leigh owned 52 and Mrs. L.W. Leigh (for Estate of R.H. Leigh) had 57.
William T. Wynn Sr. married (second) Sally M. Cocke from Virginia, a Baptist, and "a member of one of the most distiguished families of that state" (Goodspeed, p. 1081). "Her father was a man highly educated and of very polished manners. He was descended from the French Huguenots, and was regarded as the Chesterfield of his age." They had 3 children: Juria, Roland Edward, and Helen Archer (who died by 1890)."
William T. Wynn married Sally M. Cock 17 Nov 1874 in Yalobusha County, MS. (Marriage index says W.T. Wynn to S.M. Cook (sic).) She was a daughter of Chastain Cocke and sister of William's brother Robert's wife.
Name written Wynn and Wynne.
He was with Gen. Stonewall Jackson when he was fatally wounded and was one of the two men who carried Jackson's body from the field. He caught the General as he was shot off his horse, and carried him to the shade where he died.
Lee's Lieutenants (1942) by Douglas Southall Freeman, pp. 481-82 (abridged, 345); brother Benjamin L. Wynn, p. 660, 343-44.
Campbell Brown's Civil War: With Ewell in the Army of Northern Virginia (2001) by Terry L. Jones;
History of Yalobusha County (1982) by the Heritage Committee, p. 357;
All Things for Good: The Steadfast Fidelity of Stonewall Jackson (2004)
By J. Steven Wilkins, George Grant, p. 238;
Best Little Ironies, Oddities, and Mysteries of the Civil War (2000) By C. Brian Kelly, p.207.
Capt. William T. Wynn graduated from the Univ. of VA. He was the superintendent of public schools of Yalobusha Co. He also married an Episcopalian from Grenada, Judith Maria Jones, b. 1845, daughter of William S. Jones. Her mother may have been a Townes. Judith (Judity, J.B. Perry calls her) died 1872 leaving one child, William Townes Jones, educated at Oxford.
See Goodspeed's Memoirs of Missisippi (1891), pp. 1079-1082.
The Williams Family (1954) by John Ben Perry Jr., p.9.
Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman, vol. 3, pp.
1850 census: Yalobusha Co.
William Wellborn 8 (1842) GA (sic)
1860 census: Yalobusha Co.
Wm Thos Wynn 17 MS (at home with parents)
Yalobusha County, Miss. Marriages:
Wynn, W.T. to Jones, Judith M.
Mar 22, 1866
1870 census: Yalobusha Co.:
William T. Wynn 36 (sic) MS
Juria M Wynn 23 MS
Rebecca E. Townes 45 VA
Hester M Townes 40
Alice M Townes 7
Rebecca and Hester Townes were unmarried daughters of Judith Townes b1785 VA.
Hester Townes was still living with them in 1880.
Judith Jones Wynn's name is clearly Juria on the 1870 census, but W.T. Wynn's biography shows only two wives, Judith Jones and Sally Cocke.
He and Sally later named a daughter Juria.
The name Juria may be associated with the Townes and Leigh families.
The Townes and Leigh families were large land and slave owners in Yalobusha County. The 1860 slave schedules for Yalobusha show six different members of the Townes family owned 297 slaves total, while H. Townes had in his possession another 60 belonging to J.B. Anderson of Virginia. J.E. Leigh owned 52 and Mrs. L.W. Leigh (for Estate of R.H. Leigh) had 57.
William T. Wynn Sr. married (second) Sally M. Cocke from Virginia, a Baptist, and "a member of one of the most distiguished families of that state" (Goodspeed, p. 1081). "Her father was a man highly educated and of very polished manners. He was descended from the French Huguenots, and was regarded as the Chesterfield of his age." They had 3 children: Juria, Roland Edward, and Helen Archer (who died by 1890)."
William T. Wynn married Sally M. Cock 17 Nov 1874 in Yalobusha County, MS. (Marriage index says W.T. Wynn to S.M. Cook (sic).) She was a daughter of Chastain Cocke and sister of William's brother Robert's wife.
Co. A, 21st Miss. Inft., CSA.
Name written Wynn and Wynne.
He was with Gen. Stonewall Jackson when he was fatally wounded and was one of the two men who carried Jackson's body from the field. He caught the General as he was shot off his horse, and carried him to the shade where he died.
Lee's Lieutenants (1942) by Douglas Southall Freeman, pp. 481-82 (abridged, 345); brother Benjamin L. Wynn, p. 660, 343-44.
Campbell Brown's Civil War: With Ewell in the Army of Northern Virginia (2001) by Terry L. Jones;
History of Yalobusha County (1982) by the Heritage Committee, p. 357;
All Things for Good: The Steadfast Fidelity of Stonewall Jackson (2004)
By J. Steven Wilkins, George Grant, p. 238;
Best Little Ironies, Oddities, and Mysteries of the Civil War (2000) By C. Brian Kelly, p.207.
Capt. William T. Wynn graduated from the Univ. of VA. He was the superintendent of public schools of Yalobusha Co. He also married an Episcopalian from Grenada, Judith Maria Jones, b. 1845, daughter of William S. Jones. Her mother may have been a Townes. Judith (Judity, J.B. Perry calls her) died 1872 leaving one child, William Townes Jones, educated at Oxford.
See Goodspeed's Memoirs of Missisippi (1891), pp. 1079-1082.
The Williams Family (1954) by John Ben Perry Jr., p.9.
Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman, vol. 3, pp.
1850 census: Yalobusha Co.
William Wellborn 8 (1842) GA (sic)
1860 census: Yalobusha Co.
Wm Thos Wynn 17 MS (at home with parents)
Yalobusha County, Miss. Marriages:
Wynn, W.T. to Jones, Judith M.
Mar 22, 1866
1870 census: Yalobusha Co.:
William T. Wynn 36 (sic) MS
Juria M Wynn 23 MS
Rebecca E. Townes 45 VA
Hester M Townes 40
Alice M Townes 7
Rebecca and Hester Townes were unmarried daughters of Judith Townes b1785 VA.
Hester Townes was still living with them in 1880.
Judith Jones Wynn's name is clearly Juria on the 1870 census, but W.T. Wynn's biography shows only two wives, Judith Jones and Sally Cocke.
He and Sally later named a daughter Juria.
The name Juria may be associated with the Townes and Leigh families.
The Townes and Leigh families were large land and slave owners in Yalobusha County. The 1860 slave schedules for Yalobusha show six different members of the Townes family owned 297 slaves total, while H. Townes had in his possession another 60 belonging to J.B. Anderson of Virginia. J.E. Leigh owned 52 and Mrs. L.W. Leigh (for Estate of R.H. Leigh) had 57.
William T. Wynn Sr. married (second) Sally M. Cocke from Virginia, a Baptist, and "a member of one of the most distiguished families of that state" (Goodspeed, p. 1081). "Her father was a man highly educated and of very polished manners. He was descended from the French Huguenots, and was regarded as the Chesterfield of his age." They had 3 children: Juria, Roland Edward, and Helen Archer (who died by 1890)."
William T. Wynn married Sally M. Cock 17 Nov 1874 in Yalobusha County, MS. (Marriage index says W.T. Wynn to S.M. Cook (sic).) She was a daughter of Chastain Cocke and sister of William's brother Robert's wife.
Name written Wynn and Wynne.
He was with Gen. Stonewall Jackson when he was fatally wounded and was one of the two men who carried Jackson's body from the field. He caught the General as he was shot off his horse, and carried him to the shade where he died.
Lee's Lieutenants (1942) by Douglas Southall Freeman, pp. 481-82 (abridged, 345); brother Benjamin L. Wynn, p. 660, 343-44.
Campbell Brown's Civil War: With Ewell in the Army of Northern Virginia (2001) by Terry L. Jones;
History of Yalobusha County (1982) by the Heritage Committee, p. 357;
All Things for Good: The Steadfast Fidelity of Stonewall Jackson (2004)
By J. Steven Wilkins, George Grant, p. 238;
Best Little Ironies, Oddities, and Mysteries of the Civil War (2000) By C. Brian Kelly, p.207.
Capt. William T. Wynn graduated from the Univ. of VA. He was the superintendent of public schools of Yalobusha Co. He also married an Episcopalian from Grenada, Judith Maria Jones, b. 1845, daughter of William S. Jones. Her mother may have been a Townes. Judith (Judity, J.B. Perry calls her) died 1872 leaving one child, William Townes Jones, educated at Oxford.
See Goodspeed's Memoirs of Missisippi (1891), pp. 1079-1082.
The Williams Family (1954) by John Ben Perry Jr., p.9.
Lee's Lieutenants by Douglas Southall Freeman, vol. 3, pp.
1850 census: Yalobusha Co.
William Wellborn 8 (1842) GA (sic)
1860 census: Yalobusha Co.
Wm Thos Wynn 17 MS (at home with parents)
Yalobusha County, Miss. Marriages:
Wynn, W.T. to Jones, Judith M.
Mar 22, 1866
1870 census: Yalobusha Co.:
William T. Wynn 36 (sic) MS
Juria M Wynn 23 MS
Rebecca E. Townes 45 VA
Hester M Townes 40
Alice M Townes 7
Rebecca and Hester Townes were unmarried daughters of Judith Townes b1785 VA.
Hester Townes was still living with them in 1880.
Judith Jones Wynn's name is clearly Juria on the 1870 census, but W.T. Wynn's biography shows only two wives, Judith Jones and Sally Cocke.
He and Sally later named a daughter Juria.
The name Juria may be associated with the Townes and Leigh families.
The Townes and Leigh families were large land and slave owners in Yalobusha County. The 1860 slave schedules for Yalobusha show six different members of the Townes family owned 297 slaves total, while H. Townes had in his possession another 60 belonging to J.B. Anderson of Virginia. J.E. Leigh owned 52 and Mrs. L.W. Leigh (for Estate of R.H. Leigh) had 57.
William T. Wynn Sr. married (second) Sally M. Cocke from Virginia, a Baptist, and "a member of one of the most distiguished families of that state" (Goodspeed, p. 1081). "Her father was a man highly educated and of very polished manners. He was descended from the French Huguenots, and was regarded as the Chesterfield of his age." They had 3 children: Juria, Roland Edward, and Helen Archer (who died by 1890)."
William T. Wynn married Sally M. Cock 17 Nov 1874 in Yalobusha County, MS. (Marriage index says W.T. Wynn to S.M. Cook (sic).) She was a daughter of Chastain Cocke and sister of William's brother Robert's wife.
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