| Name: CURENTON/CURETON,
ELBERT WRIGHT "FINEY" |
| Rank: Private |
| Enlisted: 8
August 1862 at Westville, Dale County, age 23 |
| Service History:
Present at: Fredericksburg, Suffolk, Gettysburg both days, Battle Mount,
Chickamauga; Wounded: Chickamauga 2nd day; Absent wounded: Raccoon
Mountain, Lookout Valley, Camel Station;Absent on furlough: Knoxville
both days, Dandridge, Wilderness, Spotsylvania; Absent sick:
Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Chester Station, Deep Bottom. Retired at
Petersburg, Virginia 1864/07/06 |
| Date of Birth: 12
October 1839 |
Place of Birth:
Barbour County, Alabama |
| Date of Death: 5
March 1896 |
Place of Death:
Dale County, Alabama |
| Buried:
First Baptist (Old Mt. Liberty) Church Cemetery, Level Plains, Dale
County, Alabama |
| Father:
Rezon/Reason Cureton, b 1812 in Georgia |
| Mother:
Mary Summerlin, b 1813 in North Carolina |
| Spouse(s):
Frances Hildreth (b 6 May 1840 in Dale County, Alabama, d 1 September
1913 in Dale County) |
| Children:
Emma, Laura, Jasper C., Reece, Millard, Ophelia (Parrish), Mellon C.,
Marvin Bishop |
| Occupation:
Farmer |
| Residence(s):
Westville, Dale County, Alabama |
| Other:
Pension application filed by Frances Curenton, widow, witnessed by J. L.
Cullefer and E. Jones. Pension record card Coffee County; Alabama
pension number 28140. Brother of Bryant
Newton Curenton and Jasper Curenton. |
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| Submitter:
Georgia V. Fleming |
E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net |
