Albert Wynne Searcy was KIA in the Civil War. He was from Middle Tennessee, southeast of Nashville. Even there, a connection to the Texas future was in evidence---Albert's grandfather had purchased property from the family of Ben McCullough, who moved to Texas and later became a state hero.
Albert Searcy left Tennessee in 1849 to go to St. Louis, Missouri, where he joined a wagon train headed to the California gold fields. He left California with tuberculosis in 1852 and traveled back to Tennessee, then to Washington County, Texas to see his brother Isham, an attorney, and finally to Lavaca County. He settled in the town of Hallettsville where he was appointed county clerk by Josiah Dowling in April 1853. Albert's parents, William Williams Searcy and his wife, Rebecca Katherine "Kitty" Marshall, his younger brother, Clay, and two younger sisters, Elizabeth Harris and Rebecca Katherine, moved to Lavaca County in the late 1850s.
Albert married twenty-year-old Mary Louisa Hanna (1834-1905) at her mother's Lavaca County farm, six miles north of Hallettsville, on September 26, 1854. Mary Louisa, called Louisa or Lou, had been born in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, the daughter of Elizabeth Nettles and William T. Hanna. Elizabeth was later known in Texas as the "Widow Hinckley" as the majority of her property was the result of her marriage to Walter Hinckley, which ended with his death on June 7, 1854. As a wedding gift, Elizabeth gave Mary Louisa and Albert 486 acres of land that was part of her large plantation.
The Searcy's first child, William Williams "Buck," was born in 1855. Daughter Katherine "Kittie" Elizabeth was born three years later in 1858, and their second son, Albert T. in 1860.
The late 50s were a difficult time for the Searcy family. Albert made an attempt in farming but the crops failed and were eaten by grasshoppers for at least two years in a row. In 1857 Albert's older brother, Isham, encouraged him to abandon the farm and move his family to the Texas frontier, near Phantom Hill, where Isham owned ranchland near the Brazos Indian Reserve. He also encouraged Albert to go with his brother-in-law, John R. Baylor, to the area to become a stock raiser, suggesting he live with the Baylor family until he got started. Albert, worried about his family's safety, remained in Lavaca County rather than move to the Brazos River country that was frequently the target of raids by Comanche and other Plains Indian tribes.
Mary Louisa was pregnant with their fourth child when Albert enlisted in the Confederate Army in August of 1861 and entered the Civil War. He had been recruited in Lavaca County by Captain John Wilkins Whitfield, and he signed with the 27th Texas Cavalry, Company D. Albert's brothers, Henry Clay and Oliver Cromwell (O. C.) Albert was assigned a Second Lieutenant, Henry a Master Sergeant and O. C. a First Lieutenant. Their unit was assigned to General Benjamin McCulloch's Army of the West, stationed at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The 27th Texas Cavalry saw heavy action at Pea Ridge in Arkansas during March of 1862. After Pea Ridge, Albert's record shows him absent for several weeks on recruiting duties. In September and October the unit was involved in heavy fighting in Mississippi and Tennessee and losses were heavy with half of a company killed in action and another company and a half wounded and paroled. Albert was listed as dead by early 1863. He was buried in Jackson, Tennessee where he died.
Thus, from the early days of the Civil War, Mary Louisa Searcy raised her family as a widow. At first, she and her children lived on her mother Elizabeth's large estate. Her youngest son, Albert T. died in 1866. Elizabeth died in 1867. Making enough money to support a family of four was very difficult for the widowed Mary Louisa. After the settlement of her mother's estate, Mary Louisa taught school. She and her three children moved from place to place living with relatives, including for a time in San Antonio with her sister Emily, and her brother-in-law, John Baylor.
Mary Louisa never remarried, and later in life, lived traveling between her adult children's homes. She was excited at the birth of her first grandson in 1880, Sol, Jr., Emma and Ike's son. Seven years later, in the summer of 1887, Mary Louisa stayed in their home for several months to care for all four of her grandchildren while Emma was back East for medical care. In the early 1890s, Mary Louisa's daughter-in-law, Mary Etta "Mamie" Shephard Searcy died leaving four children, the youngest one just three years old. Mary Louisa moved into her son Williams's home for about ten years to help raise the children. She was living with William, an attorney in Brenham, Texas, when she died May 30, 1904.
[An excerpt from "The Wests of Texas: Cattle Ranching Entrepreneurs" -– "Searcy Girls and the Widow Hinckley"- Shackelford]
https://books.google.com/books
Texas, Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011
Name: Mary Louisa Hanna
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 26 Sep 1854
Marriage Place: Lavaca, Texas, USA
Spouse: Albert W. Searcy
Spouse Gender: Male
Source: Texas Marriages, 1851-1900
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: A W Searcy
[Albert W. Searcy]
Age in 1860: 31
Birth Year: abt 1829
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1860: Lavaca, Lavaca, Texas
Gender: Male
Post Office: Hallettsville
Household Members:
A W Searcy 31
Mary Searcy 25
Willie W Searcy 5
C Ema Searcy 3
AL T Searcy 4/12
U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
Name: Albert W Searcy
Rank at enlistment: 2nd Lieutenant
State Served: Texas
Service Record: Commissioned an officer in Company D, Texas 27th Cavalry Regiment.
Sources: Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
Note:
SOUTH SLOPE - COMMENTS CONCERNING TOMBSTONES SOUTH of EIGHTH STREET AND NEAR THE CONFEDERATE GRAVES ON THE SOUTH SLOPE. "In 1937, Ingram James was able to read the tombstone inscription: W. B. MARSHALL, DIED IN MAY 1863, Aged 63 YEARS. This must be the Wm. B. Marshall in the June 4, 1860 Census, Jackson, page 212. He was aged 40 (whereas James copied down 63). Evidently, nearby was the stone for ALBERT SEARCY, who "Died a Confederate Soldier during the late war." So copied by Ingram James in 1937. This stone is gone: appears not to be covered with a grassy mat. It was next to or a part of the Confederate graves layout." [http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/
cemeteries/riverside/mrc3-15.htm#south2]
2. "It was with the keen assistance of Mr. Charles H. Richards of Jackson, a foremost authority on the Battle of Britton Lane, that I was able to "make sense" and read portions of the above inscription. He told me that Lt. Montgomery was in fact George Montgomery, who was in the forefront of the Confederate forces at the battle. He suspected also that Sgt. Lee Briscoc's name was the one which was inscribed on the missing upper part of the stone. Nearby, judging from the 1937 copyist's notation there was also a marker that read, "ALBERT SEARCY died a Confederate soldier during the late war." We could not locate this stone." [http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/cemeteries
/riverside/mrc1-09.htm]
Albert Searcy left Tennessee in 1849 to go to St. Louis, Missouri, where he joined a wagon train headed to the California gold fields. He left California with tuberculosis in 1852 and traveled back to Tennessee, then to Washington County, Texas to see his brother Isham, an attorney, and finally to Lavaca County. He settled in the town of Hallettsville where he was appointed county clerk by Josiah Dowling in April 1853. Albert's parents, William Williams Searcy and his wife, Rebecca Katherine "Kitty" Marshall, his younger brother, Clay, and two younger sisters, Elizabeth Harris and Rebecca Katherine, moved to Lavaca County in the late 1850s.
Albert married twenty-year-old Mary Louisa Hanna (1834-1905) at her mother's Lavaca County farm, six miles north of Hallettsville, on September 26, 1854. Mary Louisa, called Louisa or Lou, had been born in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, the daughter of Elizabeth Nettles and William T. Hanna. Elizabeth was later known in Texas as the "Widow Hinckley" as the majority of her property was the result of her marriage to Walter Hinckley, which ended with his death on June 7, 1854. As a wedding gift, Elizabeth gave Mary Louisa and Albert 486 acres of land that was part of her large plantation.
The Searcy's first child, William Williams "Buck," was born in 1855. Daughter Katherine "Kittie" Elizabeth was born three years later in 1858, and their second son, Albert T. in 1860.
The late 50s were a difficult time for the Searcy family. Albert made an attempt in farming but the crops failed and were eaten by grasshoppers for at least two years in a row. In 1857 Albert's older brother, Isham, encouraged him to abandon the farm and move his family to the Texas frontier, near Phantom Hill, where Isham owned ranchland near the Brazos Indian Reserve. He also encouraged Albert to go with his brother-in-law, John R. Baylor, to the area to become a stock raiser, suggesting he live with the Baylor family until he got started. Albert, worried about his family's safety, remained in Lavaca County rather than move to the Brazos River country that was frequently the target of raids by Comanche and other Plains Indian tribes.
Mary Louisa was pregnant with their fourth child when Albert enlisted in the Confederate Army in August of 1861 and entered the Civil War. He had been recruited in Lavaca County by Captain John Wilkins Whitfield, and he signed with the 27th Texas Cavalry, Company D. Albert's brothers, Henry Clay and Oliver Cromwell (O. C.) Albert was assigned a Second Lieutenant, Henry a Master Sergeant and O. C. a First Lieutenant. Their unit was assigned to General Benjamin McCulloch's Army of the West, stationed at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The 27th Texas Cavalry saw heavy action at Pea Ridge in Arkansas during March of 1862. After Pea Ridge, Albert's record shows him absent for several weeks on recruiting duties. In September and October the unit was involved in heavy fighting in Mississippi and Tennessee and losses were heavy with half of a company killed in action and another company and a half wounded and paroled. Albert was listed as dead by early 1863. He was buried in Jackson, Tennessee where he died.
Thus, from the early days of the Civil War, Mary Louisa Searcy raised her family as a widow. At first, she and her children lived on her mother Elizabeth's large estate. Her youngest son, Albert T. died in 1866. Elizabeth died in 1867. Making enough money to support a family of four was very difficult for the widowed Mary Louisa. After the settlement of her mother's estate, Mary Louisa taught school. She and her three children moved from place to place living with relatives, including for a time in San Antonio with her sister Emily, and her brother-in-law, John Baylor.
Mary Louisa never remarried, and later in life, lived traveling between her adult children's homes. She was excited at the birth of her first grandson in 1880, Sol, Jr., Emma and Ike's son. Seven years later, in the summer of 1887, Mary Louisa stayed in their home for several months to care for all four of her grandchildren while Emma was back East for medical care. In the early 1890s, Mary Louisa's daughter-in-law, Mary Etta "Mamie" Shephard Searcy died leaving four children, the youngest one just three years old. Mary Louisa moved into her son Williams's home for about ten years to help raise the children. She was living with William, an attorney in Brenham, Texas, when she died May 30, 1904.
[An excerpt from "The Wests of Texas: Cattle Ranching Entrepreneurs" -– "Searcy Girls and the Widow Hinckley"- Shackelford]
https://books.google.com/books
Texas, Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011
Name: Mary Louisa Hanna
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 26 Sep 1854
Marriage Place: Lavaca, Texas, USA
Spouse: Albert W. Searcy
Spouse Gender: Male
Source: Texas Marriages, 1851-1900
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: A W Searcy
[Albert W. Searcy]
Age in 1860: 31
Birth Year: abt 1829
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1860: Lavaca, Lavaca, Texas
Gender: Male
Post Office: Hallettsville
Household Members:
A W Searcy 31
Mary Searcy 25
Willie W Searcy 5
C Ema Searcy 3
AL T Searcy 4/12
U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
Name: Albert W Searcy
Rank at enlistment: 2nd Lieutenant
State Served: Texas
Service Record: Commissioned an officer in Company D, Texas 27th Cavalry Regiment.
Sources: Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
Note:
SOUTH SLOPE - COMMENTS CONCERNING TOMBSTONES SOUTH of EIGHTH STREET AND NEAR THE CONFEDERATE GRAVES ON THE SOUTH SLOPE. "In 1937, Ingram James was able to read the tombstone inscription: W. B. MARSHALL, DIED IN MAY 1863, Aged 63 YEARS. This must be the Wm. B. Marshall in the June 4, 1860 Census, Jackson, page 212. He was aged 40 (whereas James copied down 63). Evidently, nearby was the stone for ALBERT SEARCY, who "Died a Confederate Soldier during the late war." So copied by Ingram James in 1937. This stone is gone: appears not to be covered with a grassy mat. It was next to or a part of the Confederate graves layout." [http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/
cemeteries/riverside/mrc3-15.htm#south2]
2. "It was with the keen assistance of Mr. Charles H. Richards of Jackson, a foremost authority on the Battle of Britton Lane, that I was able to "make sense" and read portions of the above inscription. He told me that Lt. Montgomery was in fact George Montgomery, who was in the forefront of the Confederate forces at the battle. He suspected also that Sgt. Lee Briscoc's name was the one which was inscribed on the missing upper part of the stone. Nearby, judging from the 1937 copyist's notation there was also a marker that read, "ALBERT SEARCY died a Confederate soldier during the late war." We could not locate this stone." [http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/cemeteries
/riverside/mrc1-09.htm]
Albert Wynne Searcy was KIA in the Civil War. He was from Middle Tennessee, southeast of Nashville. Even there, a connection to the Texas future was in evidence---Albert's grandfather had purchased property from the family of Ben McCullough, who moved to Texas and later became a state hero.
Albert Searcy left Tennessee in 1849 to go to St. Louis, Missouri, where he joined a wagon train headed to the California gold fields. He left California with tuberculosis in 1852 and traveled back to Tennessee, then to Washington County, Texas to see his brother Isham, an attorney, and finally to Lavaca County. He settled in the town of Hallettsville where he was appointed county clerk by Josiah Dowling in April 1853. Albert's parents, William Williams Searcy and his wife, Rebecca Katherine "Kitty" Marshall, his younger brother, Clay, and two younger sisters, Elizabeth Harris and Rebecca Katherine, moved to Lavaca County in the late 1850s.
Albert married twenty-year-old Mary Louisa Hanna (1834-1905) at her mother's Lavaca County farm, six miles north of Hallettsville, on September 26, 1854. Mary Louisa, called Louisa or Lou, had been born in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, the daughter of Elizabeth Nettles and William T. Hanna. Elizabeth was later known in Texas as the "Widow Hinckley" as the majority of her property was the result of her marriage to Walter Hinckley, which ended with his death on June 7, 1854. As a wedding gift, Elizabeth gave Mary Louisa and Albert 486 acres of land that was part of her large plantation.
The Searcy's first child, William Williams "Buck," was born in 1855. Daughter Katherine "Kittie" Elizabeth was born three years later in 1858, and their second son, Albert T. in 1860.
The late 50s were a difficult time for the Searcy family. Albert made an attempt in farming but the crops failed and were eaten by grasshoppers for at least two years in a row. In 1857 Albert's older brother, Isham, encouraged him to abandon the farm and move his family to the Texas frontier, near Phantom Hill, where Isham owned ranchland near the Brazos Indian Reserve. He also encouraged Albert to go with his brother-in-law, John R. Baylor, to the area to become a stock raiser, suggesting he live with the Baylor family until he got started. Albert, worried about his family's safety, remained in Lavaca County rather than move to the Brazos River country that was frequently the target of raids by Comanche and other Plains Indian tribes.
Mary Louisa was pregnant with their fourth child when Albert enlisted in the Confederate Army in August of 1861 and entered the Civil War. He had been recruited in Lavaca County by Captain John Wilkins Whitfield, and he signed with the 27th Texas Cavalry, Company D. Albert's brothers, Henry Clay and Oliver Cromwell (O. C.) Albert was assigned a Second Lieutenant, Henry a Master Sergeant and O. C. a First Lieutenant. Their unit was assigned to General Benjamin McCulloch's Army of the West, stationed at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The 27th Texas Cavalry saw heavy action at Pea Ridge in Arkansas during March of 1862. After Pea Ridge, Albert's record shows him absent for several weeks on recruiting duties. In September and October the unit was involved in heavy fighting in Mississippi and Tennessee and losses were heavy with half of a company killed in action and another company and a half wounded and paroled. Albert was listed as dead by early 1863. He was buried in Jackson, Tennessee where he died.
Thus, from the early days of the Civil War, Mary Louisa Searcy raised her family as a widow. At first, she and her children lived on her mother Elizabeth's large estate. Her youngest son, Albert T. died in 1866. Elizabeth died in 1867. Making enough money to support a family of four was very difficult for the widowed Mary Louisa. After the settlement of her mother's estate, Mary Louisa taught school. She and her three children moved from place to place living with relatives, including for a time in San Antonio with her sister Emily, and her brother-in-law, John Baylor.
Mary Louisa never remarried, and later in life, lived traveling between her adult children's homes. She was excited at the birth of her first grandson in 1880, Sol, Jr., Emma and Ike's son. Seven years later, in the summer of 1887, Mary Louisa stayed in their home for several months to care for all four of her grandchildren while Emma was back East for medical care. In the early 1890s, Mary Louisa's daughter-in-law, Mary Etta "Mamie" Shephard Searcy died leaving four children, the youngest one just three years old. Mary Louisa moved into her son Williams's home for about ten years to help raise the children. She was living with William, an attorney in Brenham, Texas, when she died May 30, 1904.
[An excerpt from "The Wests of Texas: Cattle Ranching Entrepreneurs" -– "Searcy Girls and the Widow Hinckley"- Shackelford]
https://books.google.com/books
Texas, Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011
Name: Mary Louisa Hanna
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 26 Sep 1854
Marriage Place: Lavaca, Texas, USA
Spouse: Albert W. Searcy
Spouse Gender: Male
Source: Texas Marriages, 1851-1900
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: A W Searcy
[Albert W. Searcy]
Age in 1860: 31
Birth Year: abt 1829
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1860: Lavaca, Lavaca, Texas
Gender: Male
Post Office: Hallettsville
Household Members:
A W Searcy 31
Mary Searcy 25
Willie W Searcy 5
C Ema Searcy 3
AL T Searcy 4/12
U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
Name: Albert W Searcy
Rank at enlistment: 2nd Lieutenant
State Served: Texas
Service Record: Commissioned an officer in Company D, Texas 27th Cavalry Regiment.
Sources: Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
Note:
SOUTH SLOPE - COMMENTS CONCERNING TOMBSTONES SOUTH of EIGHTH STREET AND NEAR THE CONFEDERATE GRAVES ON THE SOUTH SLOPE. "In 1937, Ingram James was able to read the tombstone inscription: W. B. MARSHALL, DIED IN MAY 1863, Aged 63 YEARS. This must be the Wm. B. Marshall in the June 4, 1860 Census, Jackson, page 212. He was aged 40 (whereas James copied down 63). Evidently, nearby was the stone for ALBERT SEARCY, who "Died a Confederate Soldier during the late war." So copied by Ingram James in 1937. This stone is gone: appears not to be covered with a grassy mat. It was next to or a part of the Confederate graves layout." [http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/
cemeteries/riverside/mrc3-15.htm#south2]
2. "It was with the keen assistance of Mr. Charles H. Richards of Jackson, a foremost authority on the Battle of Britton Lane, that I was able to "make sense" and read portions of the above inscription. He told me that Lt. Montgomery was in fact George Montgomery, who was in the forefront of the Confederate forces at the battle. He suspected also that Sgt. Lee Briscoc's name was the one which was inscribed on the missing upper part of the stone. Nearby, judging from the 1937 copyist's notation there was also a marker that read, "ALBERT SEARCY died a Confederate soldier during the late war." We could not locate this stone." [http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/cemeteries
/riverside/mrc1-09.htm]
Albert Searcy left Tennessee in 1849 to go to St. Louis, Missouri, where he joined a wagon train headed to the California gold fields. He left California with tuberculosis in 1852 and traveled back to Tennessee, then to Washington County, Texas to see his brother Isham, an attorney, and finally to Lavaca County. He settled in the town of Hallettsville where he was appointed county clerk by Josiah Dowling in April 1853. Albert's parents, William Williams Searcy and his wife, Rebecca Katherine "Kitty" Marshall, his younger brother, Clay, and two younger sisters, Elizabeth Harris and Rebecca Katherine, moved to Lavaca County in the late 1850s.
Albert married twenty-year-old Mary Louisa Hanna (1834-1905) at her mother's Lavaca County farm, six miles north of Hallettsville, on September 26, 1854. Mary Louisa, called Louisa or Lou, had been born in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, the daughter of Elizabeth Nettles and William T. Hanna. Elizabeth was later known in Texas as the "Widow Hinckley" as the majority of her property was the result of her marriage to Walter Hinckley, which ended with his death on June 7, 1854. As a wedding gift, Elizabeth gave Mary Louisa and Albert 486 acres of land that was part of her large plantation.
The Searcy's first child, William Williams "Buck," was born in 1855. Daughter Katherine "Kittie" Elizabeth was born three years later in 1858, and their second son, Albert T. in 1860.
The late 50s were a difficult time for the Searcy family. Albert made an attempt in farming but the crops failed and were eaten by grasshoppers for at least two years in a row. In 1857 Albert's older brother, Isham, encouraged him to abandon the farm and move his family to the Texas frontier, near Phantom Hill, where Isham owned ranchland near the Brazos Indian Reserve. He also encouraged Albert to go with his brother-in-law, John R. Baylor, to the area to become a stock raiser, suggesting he live with the Baylor family until he got started. Albert, worried about his family's safety, remained in Lavaca County rather than move to the Brazos River country that was frequently the target of raids by Comanche and other Plains Indian tribes.
Mary Louisa was pregnant with their fourth child when Albert enlisted in the Confederate Army in August of 1861 and entered the Civil War. He had been recruited in Lavaca County by Captain John Wilkins Whitfield, and he signed with the 27th Texas Cavalry, Company D. Albert's brothers, Henry Clay and Oliver Cromwell (O. C.) Albert was assigned a Second Lieutenant, Henry a Master Sergeant and O. C. a First Lieutenant. Their unit was assigned to General Benjamin McCulloch's Army of the West, stationed at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The 27th Texas Cavalry saw heavy action at Pea Ridge in Arkansas during March of 1862. After Pea Ridge, Albert's record shows him absent for several weeks on recruiting duties. In September and October the unit was involved in heavy fighting in Mississippi and Tennessee and losses were heavy with half of a company killed in action and another company and a half wounded and paroled. Albert was listed as dead by early 1863. He was buried in Jackson, Tennessee where he died.
Thus, from the early days of the Civil War, Mary Louisa Searcy raised her family as a widow. At first, she and her children lived on her mother Elizabeth's large estate. Her youngest son, Albert T. died in 1866. Elizabeth died in 1867. Making enough money to support a family of four was very difficult for the widowed Mary Louisa. After the settlement of her mother's estate, Mary Louisa taught school. She and her three children moved from place to place living with relatives, including for a time in San Antonio with her sister Emily, and her brother-in-law, John Baylor.
Mary Louisa never remarried, and later in life, lived traveling between her adult children's homes. She was excited at the birth of her first grandson in 1880, Sol, Jr., Emma and Ike's son. Seven years later, in the summer of 1887, Mary Louisa stayed in their home for several months to care for all four of her grandchildren while Emma was back East for medical care. In the early 1890s, Mary Louisa's daughter-in-law, Mary Etta "Mamie" Shephard Searcy died leaving four children, the youngest one just three years old. Mary Louisa moved into her son Williams's home for about ten years to help raise the children. She was living with William, an attorney in Brenham, Texas, when she died May 30, 1904.
[An excerpt from "The Wests of Texas: Cattle Ranching Entrepreneurs" -– "Searcy Girls and the Widow Hinckley"- Shackelford]
https://books.google.com/books
Texas, Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2011
Name: Mary Louisa Hanna
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 26 Sep 1854
Marriage Place: Lavaca, Texas, USA
Spouse: Albert W. Searcy
Spouse Gender: Male
Source: Texas Marriages, 1851-1900
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: A W Searcy
[Albert W. Searcy]
Age in 1860: 31
Birth Year: abt 1829
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1860: Lavaca, Lavaca, Texas
Gender: Male
Post Office: Hallettsville
Household Members:
A W Searcy 31
Mary Searcy 25
Willie W Searcy 5
C Ema Searcy 3
AL T Searcy 4/12
U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
Name: Albert W Searcy
Rank at enlistment: 2nd Lieutenant
State Served: Texas
Service Record: Commissioned an officer in Company D, Texas 27th Cavalry Regiment.
Sources: Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
Note:
SOUTH SLOPE - COMMENTS CONCERNING TOMBSTONES SOUTH of EIGHTH STREET AND NEAR THE CONFEDERATE GRAVES ON THE SOUTH SLOPE. "In 1937, Ingram James was able to read the tombstone inscription: W. B. MARSHALL, DIED IN MAY 1863, Aged 63 YEARS. This must be the Wm. B. Marshall in the June 4, 1860 Census, Jackson, page 212. He was aged 40 (whereas James copied down 63). Evidently, nearby was the stone for ALBERT SEARCY, who "Died a Confederate Soldier during the late war." So copied by Ingram James in 1937. This stone is gone: appears not to be covered with a grassy mat. It was next to or a part of the Confederate graves layout." [http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/
cemeteries/riverside/mrc3-15.htm#south2]
2. "It was with the keen assistance of Mr. Charles H. Richards of Jackson, a foremost authority on the Battle of Britton Lane, that I was able to "make sense" and read portions of the above inscription. He told me that Lt. Montgomery was in fact George Montgomery, who was in the forefront of the Confederate forces at the battle. He suspected also that Sgt. Lee Briscoc's name was the one which was inscribed on the missing upper part of the stone. Nearby, judging from the 1937 copyist's notation there was also a marker that read, "ALBERT SEARCY died a Confederate soldier during the late war." We could not locate this stone." [http://www.tngenweb.org/records/madison/cemeteries
/riverside/mrc1-09.htm]
Gravesite Details
The son of William W. Searcy, Jr. & Rebecca Katherine "Kitty" Marshall.
Family Members
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