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Adeline Shelby <I>McDowell</I> Deaderick

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Adeline Shelby McDowell Deaderick

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1 Feb 1904 (aged 89)
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Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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March, 1948
Notes and Documents: Civil War Memoirs of Mrs. Adeline Deaderick (pp 52-71)
Edited by Anna Mary Moon

Adeline McDowell Deaderick (1814-1904) lived much of her life in Jonesborough and its vicinity. She wrote her memoirs of the war years between 1890 and 1898. In 1856, she and her family moved to a farm on the Nolichucky River, where they lived during the war. Her husband
James William and son Shelby were not secssionists, but six of her other sons enlisted with the Confederacy. Marauders attacked the farm nine times and a neighbor youth was murdered. Much of the journal details the violence her part of Washington County suffered, and Deaderick and her family were forced to Bristol as refugees. Later they went to Knoxville. Her son Shelby was killed at Chickamauga and son Wallace shot and taken prisoner at Murfreesboro. Three letters
date from 1866-1869; in the latter she writes her sister about infanticide among the African Americans on Knoxville, as they cannot support themselves.
March, 1948
Notes and Documents: Civil War Memoirs of Mrs. Adeline Deaderick (pp 52-71)
Edited by Anna Mary Moon

Adeline McDowell Deaderick (1814-1904) lived much of her life in Jonesborough and its vicinity. She wrote her memoirs of the war years between 1890 and 1898. In 1856, she and her family moved to a farm on the Nolichucky River, where they lived during the war. Her husband
James William and son Shelby were not secssionists, but six of her other sons enlisted with the Confederacy. Marauders attacked the farm nine times and a neighbor youth was murdered. Much of the journal details the violence her part of Washington County suffered, and Deaderick and her family were forced to Bristol as refugees. Later they went to Knoxville. Her son Shelby was killed at Chickamauga and son Wallace shot and taken prisoner at Murfreesboro. Three letters
date from 1866-1869; in the latter she writes her sister about infanticide among the African Americans on Knoxville, as they cannot support themselves.

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