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Family Researcher: Peggy Horton wphor@sbcglobal.net 

Family Researcher: Gail Sturgess gmsturg@msn.com

 

John C. CHILDERS
Oct. 3, 1846 - Feb 3, 1910
son of Henry Ivy Childers & Ardell Gardner

 

Submitted by Peggy Horton:

John C. Childers, b. October 3, 1846 (according to headstone; but census records support 1845 as birth year); d. February 3, 1910, was the Father of Henry Ivy Childers;  John C. was the son of Elizabeth and Henry W. Childers of Itawamba County, MS, and was the youngest brother of my great grandmother, Mary Childers Boren Rains.

Both of John's parents were dead by 1859, and he lived with an older sister and her husband until her death about 1866.  John enlisted in the CSA on March 1, 1862, at the age of 16, serving in 2nd Mississippi, Company E -- his brother-in-law with whom he had lived and a future brother-in-law (my great grandfather) served in the same unit.  All three of them were captured at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. John was exchanged as a prisoner of war on September 25, 1863, while his brother-in-law and future brother-in-law were not released from Fort Delaware until June 11, 1865.

Henry Ivy Childers, son of John C. Childers, was born about 1868 and died about 1897 --  (have pictures of the headstones) his headstone is next to John's in Section K of Oakland Cemetery.

Oakland Cemetery

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