Father: John Smith Lemmon (1811-1885)
Mother: Permelia Wallace (1812-1909)
08/23/1850 - Lived with parents, Polk Co., MO (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as James Lemmon)
1860 - Attended medical courses, Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, MO [Note: Dr. Lemmon is not listed in the Missouri Medical College catalogue of graduates]
06/29/1860 - Practiced medicine, Buck Prairie, Lawrence Co., MO (lived with the William Jennings family - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as "J. M. Lemmons") [Note: Dr. Lemmon would marry Susan Ann Jennings, the
daughter of William Jennings, who was living in the same household. Living next door was Dr. I. R. Jones, who may have been Dr. Lemmon's preceptor.]
~1861 - Married Susan Ann Jennings (1838-1902)
01/01/1862 - Enlisted as Pvt., Co. D, 5th MO Infantry, Polk Co., MO
03/23/1862 - Appointed, Hospital Steward, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
08/15/1862 - Hospital Steward, 5th MO Infantry, 1st Battalion, Saltillo, MS
09/01/1862 - Hospital Steward, 5th MO Infantry, 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, Little's Division, Army of the West
09/08/1862 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination, for the position of Asst. Surgeon, Aberdeen, MS
10/01/1862 - Reduced to ranks by order of Col. James McCown, 5th MO Infantry
10/00/1862 - As Pvt., Co. D, 5th MO infantry, wounded in the Battle of Corinth, MS, Oct. 3 to 5, 1862
12/04/1862 - Appointed Asst Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 09/08/1862
01/30/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 7th MS Battalion, Gen. Hebért's Brigade, Gen. D. H. Maury's Division, Snyders Mill, MS
04/04/1863 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from MO by the Confederate States Senate
07/00/1863 - In his description of the siege of Vicksburg, MS, author P. T. Tucker states, "The nightmare of swarming maggots in the wounds of the Fifth Missouri soldiers was added to the long list of siege horrors. With [William C.] Goodwin becoming the senior physician of the Fifth Missouri
during the siege in Surgeon [Benjamin Givens] Dysart's absence, Private James M. Lemmon, age twenty-one [actually, he was 25], took over assistant surgeon duties. He now put his Missouri Medical College degree, Class of 1860, to good use, assisting more suffering humanity than he could have possibly imagined when he was a young medical student . . . [Tucker, P. T., (1995) Westerners in gray: The men and missions of the elite Fifth Missouri Infantry, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC. p. 229.]
12/31/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Capt. Van Den Corput's Co, Light Artillery [GA]
04/30/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Capt. Van Den Corput's Co, Light Artillery [GA]
01/24/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Artillery Battalion, Gen. C. L. Stevenson's Division, Kingston, GA
05/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Johnston's Battalion Artillery
07/02/1864 - At hospital, sick
08/15/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Johnston's Battalion Artillery, Gen. S. D. Lee's Corps
08/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Johnston's Battalion Artillery, Col. R. F. Beckham commanding, Army of Tennessee, near Atlanta, GA
05/03/1865 - As Asst. Surgeon, Johnston's Artillery Battalion, Army of Northern Virginia, paroled by the U. S. Army at Greensboro, NC [former residence, Lincoln Co., MO]
08/03/1870 - Practiced medicine, Prairie, Lincoln Co., MO (lived with wife, Susan, and 4 children - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as Jas. M. Lemmon)
06/18/1880 - Practiced medicine, Prairie, Lincoln Co., MO (lived with wife, Susan, five daughters, and three sons - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as "James Lemnon")
04/27/1883 - Died, in either Lincoln Co., MO, or Montgomery Co., MO (buried: Truxton Cemetery, Truxton, Lincoln Co., MO)
02/00/1885 - Father, John, died in CO (buried: Old Crawford Cemetery, Crawford, Delta Co., CO)
09/01/1902 - Widow, Susan, died in Lincoln Co., MO (buried: Truxton Cemetery, Truxton, Lincoln Co, MO)
11/01/1909 - Mother, Permelia, died in Polk Co., MO (buried: Morrisville Cemetery, Morrisville, Polk Co., MO)

Note: Dr. James Monroe Lemmon's younger brother, Jefferson Lemmon, served for two years as a private, Co. D, 5th MO Infantry, became a hospital steward, and was subsequently discharged for being underage. After the war, the latter studied medicine under his brothers and received an M.D. degree from Missouri Medical College in 1879.[Tucker, P. T., (1995) Westerners in gray: The men and missions of the
elite Fifth Missouri Infantry, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC. p. 229.]

Becki Larson, the creator of this memorial, and Ray Nichols provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
02/11/2018. Updated 02/19/2018.
Unpublished database.