Thursday, November 12, 2015

Treasure Chest Thursday~Death of Alexander Huneycutt


Alexander Huneycutt Death - Civil War
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State of North Carolina}
Cabarrus County} This day Sarah Honeycutt personally appeared before me J. S. Denker A Justice of the peace for said County And made oath in due form of law, that she is the widow of Alexander Honeycutt, a Private in Co. B. 46 Regiment of North Carolina State Troops. That the said Alexander Honeycutt died in the camp at Raleigh No. Ca. on 3rd May last 1862. That as his widow I am entitled to the pay and Bounty that may be due the said Alexander Honeycutt, Deceased, and that she now desires to draw the same.
Also appeared John Barba at the Same time and place, and made oath that he knows of his own knowledge that the Said Sarah Honeycutt is the widdow of Alexander Honeycutt, Deceased, and the facts as set forth above are true and That he is Entirely Disinterested.
                                                              Sary X (her mark) Honeycutt
                                                              John X (his mark) Barba

Sworn To and Subscribed before me this the 29th Day of October 1862, and I certify That John Barba is a creditable Witnefs.
                                                                          J. S. Denker JP

Alexander Huneycutt, born 1825 was a son of Lewis Huneycutt and Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Rowland. He was the grandson of Dempsey Huneycutt and Ruth Keyes.
Alexander married,  about 1849,  Sarah Jane Crayton. They had six children; 4 sons and 2 daughters.2 3

On  16 April 1862, Alexander enlisted into Company “B’ 46th Regiment, NC State Troops. On 3 May 1862, he died while “in Camp” at Raleigh, North Carolina. His Civil War service record on Fold3.com shows that he died of “croup colic”. 4 5 

After the death of Alexander, his widow, Sarah Jane Crayton Huneycutt married on 2 January 1870 John Rosencrans.6  
 
 
 









 
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Note: Justice of the Peace name may not be correctly reported. I make the name out to be J. S. Denker
[1]https://www.fold3.com/image/271/51729223
[2] 1850 Census, Stanly County, North Carolina, population schedule, Furrs, Stanly County, North Carolina, Page: 38B(stamped); Line 42, Dwelling 536, Family 538, Household of Alexander HONEYCUTT; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 November 2015); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 645.
[3] 1860 U. S. Census, Stanly County, North Carolina, population schedule, Stanly County, North Carolina, Page: 71B(stamped); Line 1, Dwelling 1017, Family 1032, Household of Alexr HONEYCUTT; online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 11 November 2015); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 914.
[4] Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, Military Service Records (http://www.fold3.com/ : accessed 11 November 2015), entry for Alexander Huneycutt, private; Company 'B', 46th Regiment, NC Troops; Confederate.
[5] Ancestry,Military Service Records, database entry for Alexander Huneycutt, private; Company 'B', 46th Regiment, NC Troops; Confederate.
[6] "North Carolina, Marriages Index, 1741-2011," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : Viewed 9 November 2015), Marriage; John Rosencrants and Sarah Crayton [Huneycutt], Married 2 January 1870.















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