Name: POUNCEY, SAMUEL RYALS
Rank: Private
Enlisted: 2 August 1861 at Westville, Dale County, Alabama
Service History: 
Date of Birth: 4 April 1843 Place of Birth: Alabama
Date of Death: 8 November 1861 (smallpox) Place of Death: Manassas, Virginia (Camp Wigfall)
Buried: Virginia
Father: Jesse B. Pouncey (b 7 September 1805 in Marlboro County, South Carolina, d 3 July 1886 in Dale County, Alabama)
Mother: Margaret Jane Donnell (b 14 August 1818 in Guilford County, North Carolina, d 1 October 1902 in Clayhatchee, Alabama), daughter of Daniel Donnell and Elizabeth Thompson.
Spouse(s): Not married
Children: None
Occupation: Farmer
Residence(s): Dale County, Alabama
Other: Brother of Abel John Pouncey and William Thompson Pouncey, brother-in-law of Thomas Sidney Mills.
Brothers Jessie Irvin Pouncey and Joseph Franklin Pouncey (Co A, 6th Alabama Cavalry) also served.
Photographs:

Jesse and Margaret Pouncey, parents of
Samuel Ryals Pouncey

Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net