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Sgt George W Ervin

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Sgt George W Ervin

Birth
Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
Death
21 May 1900 (aged 69)
Exeter, Barry County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Exeter, Barry County, Missouri, USA
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G.W. Ervin came to Tishomingo Co MS, from North Carolina in the 1840s with his parents. Married Sarah Jane Martin of Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1849. She died in 1874. George Ervin served in Warren's Partisan Rangers from the Tupelo, Miss., area, where he was captured in Dec. 1862 and exchanged two weeks later. In 1863 he joined Moreland's Alabama Cavalry Bttn, and finished the war in Roddy's 10th Alabama Cavalry. A story told about him in the war says that he was captured by some guerrillas who tied his hands and put him on a mule, meaning to take him into some woods and shoot him. He got his hands free, grabbed a pistol and dared his captors to come in and take him. While he hid out in a thicket, they rode away. He married Alice Wynne in Dallas in 1875. Moved to Missouri in 1890. Robert E. Howard believed his grandfather's middle name was Washington, while others believe it was Walter. No document has been found that would support either.

G.W. Ervin came to Tishomingo Co MS, from North Carolina in the 1840s with his parents. Married Sarah Jane Martin of Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1849. She died in 1874. George Ervin served in Warren's Partisan Rangers from the Tupelo, Miss., area, where he was captured in Dec. 1862 and exchanged two weeks later. In 1863 he joined Moreland's Alabama Cavalry Bttn, and finished the war in Roddy's 10th Alabama Cavalry. A story told about him in the war says that he was captured by some guerrillas who tied his hands and put him on a mule, meaning to take him into some woods and shoot him. He got his hands free, grabbed a pistol and dared his captors to come in and take him. While he hid out in a thicket, they rode away. He married Alice Wynne in Dallas in 1875. Moved to Missouri in 1890. Robert E. Howard believed his grandfather's middle name was Washington, while others believe it was Walter. No document has been found that would support either.

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