PARISH, SAMUEL H, Co D, private, enlisted for 1 year in Carroll Co, TN on 8/4/62 and mustered at Trenton, TN on 9/24/62 at age 34. Captured and paroled with the regiment at the battle of Trenton on 12/20/1862, he failed to report to parole camp at Camp Chase in Columbus, OH. Some way, in later years, he managed to get the desertion removed and was honorably discharged retro to 10/26/63. Parish was married to Mary Umstead and in 1890 lived in the Maple Creek Community of Carroll Co, TN according to the 1890 veterans' census. He applied for and received an invalid pension in 1890. He died on 4/12/1906 and is buried in the Mt. Comfort Cemetery in Carroll Co, TN. He appears to have been the son of John Sihon and Sarah Adams Parish and the uncle of Sion Parish of Co D. MR #1290 Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
It should be noted that Samuel was actually the half uncle as there is another nephew named Sion that was a full nephew. John R. Harris
It should be noted that Samuel was actually the half uncle as there is another nephew named Sion that was a full nephew. John R. Harris
PARISH, SAMUEL H, Co D, private, enlisted for 1 year in Carroll Co, TN on 8/4/62 and mustered at Trenton, TN on 9/24/62 at age 34. Captured and paroled with the regiment at the battle of Trenton on 12/20/1862, he failed to report to parole camp at Camp Chase in Columbus, OH. Some way, in later years, he managed to get the desertion removed and was honorably discharged retro to 10/26/63. Parish was married to Mary Umstead and in 1890 lived in the Maple Creek Community of Carroll Co, TN according to the 1890 veterans' census. He applied for and received an invalid pension in 1890. He died on 4/12/1906 and is buried in the Mt. Comfort Cemetery in Carroll Co, TN. He appears to have been the son of John Sihon and Sarah Adams Parish and the uncle of Sion Parish of Co D. MR #1290 Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
It should be noted that Samuel was actually the half uncle as there is another nephew named Sion that was a full nephew. John R. Harris
It should be noted that Samuel was actually the half uncle as there is another nephew named Sion that was a full nephew. John R. Harris
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