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Pvt Jeremiah Alexander Heatherly

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Pvt Jeremiah Alexander Heatherly

Birth
Lebanon, DeKalb County, Alabama, USA
Death
4 Dec 1910 (aged 66)
Belden, Lee County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
Belden, Lee County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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He married; Sarah Jane Dunlavy, January 11, 1866 in Walker County, Alabama. They had eleven children, nine sons and two daughters.
His parents were;
Ambrose Ripley and Nancy Morgan Heatherly.
In the War Between the States, he and his brother fought first for the South and then for the North.
He first enlisted into Company F of the 56th Alabama Rangers on September 6, 1862 in Jasper, Alabama, He deserted from this unit after July 1863. On March 27 1864 he was enrolled into Company B, 1st Regt. Alabama USA Calvary. He was discharged October 20 1865 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. He received a pension for his service.∼served under the name James M. Heatherly/Heatherby;

Co B. 1st Alabama Cavalry Union

Three months after he returned home from the Civil War he married Sarah Jane Dunlavy on 11 Jan 1866 in Walker Co., AL.

About 1899, he headed to Texas by wagon train with his wife and most of his children, with some staying behind in Cullman Co., AL.

After encountering a great flood in Arkansas he turned around and came back to Lee Co., MS where he settled. He died there in Belden, Lee Co., MS, near Tupelo.
He married; Sarah Jane Dunlavy, January 11, 1866 in Walker County, Alabama. They had eleven children, nine sons and two daughters.
His parents were;
Ambrose Ripley and Nancy Morgan Heatherly.
In the War Between the States, he and his brother fought first for the South and then for the North.
He first enlisted into Company F of the 56th Alabama Rangers on September 6, 1862 in Jasper, Alabama, He deserted from this unit after July 1863. On March 27 1864 he was enrolled into Company B, 1st Regt. Alabama USA Calvary. He was discharged October 20 1865 in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama. He received a pension for his service.∼served under the name James M. Heatherly/Heatherby;

Co B. 1st Alabama Cavalry Union

Three months after he returned home from the Civil War he married Sarah Jane Dunlavy on 11 Jan 1866 in Walker Co., AL.

About 1899, he headed to Texas by wagon train with his wife and most of his children, with some staying behind in Cullman Co., AL.

After encountering a great flood in Arkansas he turned around and came back to Lee Co., MS where he settled. He died there in Belden, Lee Co., MS, near Tupelo.

Bio by: George Griffin

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