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Capt Samuel Southard Berger

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Capt Samuel Southard Berger Veteran

Birth
Toshes, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, USA
Death
21 Feb 1929 (aged 83)
Timmonsville, Florence County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
Timmonsville, Florence County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Husband of Victoria Smith; Son of Captain Samuel Casper Berger and Hester Ann Roe (Berger) Berger

Sgt. Company B 13th Battallion Virginia Light Artillery

Samuel Southard Berger served in the Confederate Army during the entire War, under the Captaincy of his brother-in-law, Dr. Crispin Dickenson. He ran a tobacco warehouse at Danville, VA until 1890 when he moved to Rocky Mount, NC as a pioneer in the new Eastern Tobacco Belt. He later moved to Timmonsville, SC where he died and was buried in 1929. Samuel was prominent in the tobacco business, and was well known throughout the tobacco producing states. He was a staunch Methodist and was active in both church and Sunday School.

Husband of Victoria Smith; Son of Captain Samuel Casper Berger and Hester Ann Roe (Berger) Berger

Sgt. Company B 13th Battallion Virginia Light Artillery

Samuel Southard Berger served in the Confederate Army during the entire War, under the Captaincy of his brother-in-law, Dr. Crispin Dickenson. He ran a tobacco warehouse at Danville, VA until 1890 when he moved to Rocky Mount, NC as a pioneer in the new Eastern Tobacco Belt. He later moved to Timmonsville, SC where he died and was buried in 1929. Samuel was prominent in the tobacco business, and was well known throughout the tobacco producing states. He was a staunch Methodist and was active in both church and Sunday School.



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