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Daniel Jasper Dominy

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Daniel Jasper Dominy

Birth
Henry County, Alabama, USA
Death
4 Oct 1899 (aged 66)
Trinity County, Texas, USA
Burial
Pennington, Trinity County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Son of Henry & Lovica Dominy.

According to the book "Henry's Heritage Vol. II" published in 1980, both Daniel and his wife Cynthia were born and reared near Lawrenceville, Henry County, Alabama. They married at the home of her parents by John R. Dominy, J.P. Two of their ten children were born in Henry Co., Alabama and were listed in the 1870 Census. In the fall of 1870, the family migrated to Pennington, TX. "They joined friends and relatives who were already in Texas and were followed by others." Two of Daniel's brothers, Alexander & Seaborn and his uncle Alexander Blackshear, Jr. had settled in Trinity County, TX by the 1860 Census. According to family tradition, the family took a boat from Mobile, Alabama to Galveston, TX and took a boat up the Trinity River to Sebastopol and then to Pennington on horseback.

Daniel J. Dominy was enlisted on February 24, 1862, at Abbeville, Alabama, by Capt. J. N. Lightfoot for 3 years. Pvt. D. J. Dominy, Company B, 6th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, received a bounty for enlistment in the service of the Confederate States. He was captured at Spotsylvania, Virginia, on May 8, 1864, and was a Prisoner of War at Point Lookout, Maryland. He was transferred to Elmira, New York, on August 17, 1864, and released on June 14, 1865, after signing an Oath of Allegiance to the United States.

Source: Daniel J. Dominy, Civil War service records.
Son of Henry & Lovica Dominy.

According to the book "Henry's Heritage Vol. II" published in 1980, both Daniel and his wife Cynthia were born and reared near Lawrenceville, Henry County, Alabama. They married at the home of her parents by John R. Dominy, J.P. Two of their ten children were born in Henry Co., Alabama and were listed in the 1870 Census. In the fall of 1870, the family migrated to Pennington, TX. "They joined friends and relatives who were already in Texas and were followed by others." Two of Daniel's brothers, Alexander & Seaborn and his uncle Alexander Blackshear, Jr. had settled in Trinity County, TX by the 1860 Census. According to family tradition, the family took a boat from Mobile, Alabama to Galveston, TX and took a boat up the Trinity River to Sebastopol and then to Pennington on horseback.

Daniel J. Dominy was enlisted on February 24, 1862, at Abbeville, Alabama, by Capt. J. N. Lightfoot for 3 years. Pvt. D. J. Dominy, Company B, 6th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, received a bounty for enlistment in the service of the Confederate States. He was captured at Spotsylvania, Virginia, on May 8, 1864, and was a Prisoner of War at Point Lookout, Maryland. He was transferred to Elmira, New York, on August 17, 1864, and released on June 14, 1865, after signing an Oath of Allegiance to the United States.

Source: Daniel J. Dominy, Civil War service records.

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