Moved with his father from College Grove to Caney Springs, about the time of the death of his mother, Elizabeth.
Rom grew to manhood on his father's 700 acre farm. he was 14 years old when the Civil War started and was only 16 wwhen he enlisted into the Confederate Army eventually becoming a Sergeant in Company G, 9th Tennessee Battalion.
Rom survived the final two years of the war and returned home to help rebuild the family farm.
On May 17, 1877 Rom married Elizabeth Morgan, daughter of William and Martha Louise Morgan. They settled on a part of his father's farm and started their family.
Children: Lillie Pearle, Sallela, William Harris, James Romulus "Rom".
-"Ogilvie Kith and Kin" Volume 25, No. 1
Moved with his father from College Grove to Caney Springs, about the time of the death of his mother, Elizabeth.
Rom grew to manhood on his father's 700 acre farm. he was 14 years old when the Civil War started and was only 16 wwhen he enlisted into the Confederate Army eventually becoming a Sergeant in Company G, 9th Tennessee Battalion.
Rom survived the final two years of the war and returned home to help rebuild the family farm.
On May 17, 1877 Rom married Elizabeth Morgan, daughter of William and Martha Louise Morgan. They settled on a part of his father's farm and started their family.
Children: Lillie Pearle, Sallela, William Harris, James Romulus "Rom".
-"Ogilvie Kith and Kin" Volume 25, No. 1
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