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Pvt John Lee Bess

Birth: Mar 1837
Rich Patch, Alleghany County, Virginia, USA
Death: 19 Feb 1913 (aged 75)
Potts Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia, USA
Burial: Pinnell Cemetery

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Memorial ID: 67716887 View Source

Son of Hamilton Bess & Rebecca King

Soldier: 22nd Virginia Infantry, Company G, CSA. Wounded in the left shoulder at Lewisburg, WV and later medically discharged.

Married Mary Fletcher Lynch (1847-1921 and daughter of John Brownlee Lynch & Harriet Elizabeth Pinnell)

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1847–1925 (m. 1870)

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