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CPL John T Ables

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CPL John T Ables Veteran

Birth
Illinois, USA
Death
31 Oct 1881 (aged 37–38)
California, USA
Burial
Brentwood, Contra Costa County, California, USA GPS-Latitude: 37.9101717, Longitude: -121.6491083
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Aged 38yrs 3mos1st Corporal, Companies C & M, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted at either Savannah, TN, or Adamsville, TN 7/6/1863, receiving a $100 bounty. Presumed captured at Union City, TN with the regiment on 3/24/1864, Ables spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Exchanged through Savannah/Charleston in November/Dececember 1864, he spent time in the hospitals at Annapolis, MD, Columbus, Ohio, and Jeffersonville, IN. His mother, Julian A. Edwards, received a mother's pension in August 1870 so he is presumed dead by that time.

Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014

in the 1860 United States Federal Census
Home in 1860: District 11, Hardin, Tennessee
Post Office: Savannah and Coffeelanding

Suson Able 65
Emily Able 18
John Able 15
Mary Able 9
Julia Edwards 39
Martha Edwards 5
Aged 38yrs 3mos1st Corporal, Companies C & M, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted at either Savannah, TN, or Adamsville, TN 7/6/1863, receiving a $100 bounty. Presumed captured at Union City, TN with the regiment on 3/24/1864, Ables spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Exchanged through Savannah/Charleston in November/Dececember 1864, he spent time in the hospitals at Annapolis, MD, Columbus, Ohio, and Jeffersonville, IN. His mother, Julian A. Edwards, received a mother's pension in August 1870 so he is presumed dead by that time.

Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014

in the 1860 United States Federal Census
Home in 1860: District 11, Hardin, Tennessee
Post Office: Savannah and Coffeelanding

Suson Able 65
Emily Able 18
John Able 15
Mary Able 9
Julia Edwards 39
Martha Edwards 5


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