| Name: PAINTER, WILLIAM RUFUS "WILL" | |
| Rank: Private | |
| Enlisted: 1 October 1861 in Fairfax, Virginia, age 20 | |
| Service History: Absent Sick, Winchester, Virginia 1862/05/25, Cross Keys, Virginia, 1862/06/08, Present, Cold Harbor, 1862/06/27, Malvern Hill, 1862/05/02,, Cedar Mt. 1862/08/09, Hazel River 1862/09/23, Manassas Junction 1862/08/27, Manassas Plains 1862/08/28-30; Chantilly, Virginia 1862/09/01, Harpers Ferry, 1862/09/13, Sharpsburg 1862/09/17, Shepards Town 1862/09/19 Fredericksburg, 1862/12/13, Suffolk, Virginia 1863/05/03; Captured at Gettysburg; discharged at Ft. Delaware 15 June 1865 | |
| Date of Birth: 25 July 1841 | Place of Birth: Muscogee County, Georgia |
| Date of Death: (no dates on grave marker); d aft 1920 | Place of Death: Ozark, Dale County, Alabama |
| Buried: Union Cemetery, Ozark, Dale County, Alabama | |
| Father: William Painter (b 1806 in Georgia) | |
| Mother: Nancy Everets (b 1808 in South Carolina) | |
| Spouse(s): (1) Louisa M. Bruner (b 31 July 1844, d 9 March 1904; daughter of Judge // Bruner and Anna //), married 26 December 1867; (2) Virginia Lee // | |
| Children: by (1) Euell N. (1871-1887) | |
| Occupation: Clerk, Farmer, owned a hotel and livery stable, livestock dealer | |
| Residence(s): Haw Ride; Ozark, Dale County, Alabama | |
| Other: First commander of Ozark Camp #308 United Confederate Veterans, August 1893; represented Dale County at the Democratic Convention; the Ozark Camp #1719 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is named in his honor. | |
| Photographs:
William Rufus and Louisa Painter; gated Painter plot |
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| Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming | E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net |
