Great-grandfather of Shelby Foote.
Hezekiah was married four times his first marriage was to Lucinda Frances Dade on 15 Nov 1836 Noxubee Co., Mississippi. On 10 Sep 1856 he married a cousin Mary G. Foote in Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi. He then married his third wife Sybilla Antoinette Messinger on 13 Dec 1863 in Noxubee Co. Lastly he married Eleanor W. Curtiss sometime after 1867.
Other notes
1st settler in Mississippi to raise pedigree cattle.
Founder of the Macon Intelligencer.
Owner of 4 plantations.
Entered the Civil war on 18 Mar 1861 in the Confederate Army as a Captian of the Miss. Calvary Company G Noxubee Calvary. He raised to the rank of Col. and fought in the battles of Belmont & Shiloh. His horse was shot from under him at Shiloh.
Hezekiah served in both houses of the Miss. legislature.
Was a co-founder of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
Hezekiah was married four times his first marriage was to Lucinda Frances Dade on 15 Nov 1836 Noxubee Co., Mississippi. On 10 Sep 1856 he married a cousin Mary G. Foote in Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi. He then married his third wife Sybilla Antoinette Messinger on 13 Dec 1863 in Noxubee Co. Lastly he married Eleanor W. Curtiss sometime after 1867.
Other notes
1st settler in Mississippi to raise pedigree cattle.
Founder of the Macon Intelligencer.
Owner of 4 plantations.
Entered the Civil war on 18 Mar 1861 in the Confederate Army as a Captian of the Miss. Calvary Company G Noxubee Calvary. He raised to the rank of Col. and fought in the battles of Belmont & Shiloh. His horse was shot from under him at Shiloh.
Hezekiah served in both houses of the Miss. legislature.
Was a co-founder of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
Great-grandfather of Shelby Foote.
Hezekiah was married four times his first marriage was to Lucinda Frances Dade on 15 Nov 1836 Noxubee Co., Mississippi. On 10 Sep 1856 he married a cousin Mary G. Foote in Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi. He then married his third wife Sybilla Antoinette Messinger on 13 Dec 1863 in Noxubee Co. Lastly he married Eleanor W. Curtiss sometime after 1867.
Other notes
1st settler in Mississippi to raise pedigree cattle.
Founder of the Macon Intelligencer.
Owner of 4 plantations.
Entered the Civil war on 18 Mar 1861 in the Confederate Army as a Captian of the Miss. Calvary Company G Noxubee Calvary. He raised to the rank of Col. and fought in the battles of Belmont & Shiloh. His horse was shot from under him at Shiloh.
Hezekiah served in both houses of the Miss. legislature.
Was a co-founder of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
Hezekiah was married four times his first marriage was to Lucinda Frances Dade on 15 Nov 1836 Noxubee Co., Mississippi. On 10 Sep 1856 he married a cousin Mary G. Foote in Macon, Noxubee, Mississippi. He then married his third wife Sybilla Antoinette Messinger on 13 Dec 1863 in Noxubee Co. Lastly he married Eleanor W. Curtiss sometime after 1867.
Other notes
1st settler in Mississippi to raise pedigree cattle.
Founder of the Macon Intelligencer.
Owner of 4 plantations.
Entered the Civil war on 18 Mar 1861 in the Confederate Army as a Captian of the Miss. Calvary Company G Noxubee Calvary. He raised to the rank of Col. and fought in the battles of Belmont & Shiloh. His horse was shot from under him at Shiloh.
Hezekiah served in both houses of the Miss. legislature.
Was a co-founder of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
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