Tombstone Tuesday~Pvt. John C. Dry

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In Memory

of

John C. Dry

v. abt 1836

d. after 5 October 1862

It is so sad to research your family and find young boys going off to war, never to return, interment unknown but in some case in place on the battlefield. Such is the case of John C. Dry. 

I know a lot about John’s civil war experience but two things I don’t know:

• His exact death date
• Place of interment

John C. Dry enlisted on 6 July 1862 as a  Private, Company "H", 57th Infantry. John was admitted to Hospital on 5 October 1862; He never left the hospital. Leah Dry claimed his effects on January 13 and 25 March 1864; No death date found within the Civil war records. (https://www.fold3.com/image/271/54690212) [1]

On 23 October 1862 the court appointed appraisers to appraise the Estate of John Dry, deceased and set aside for his widow Leah Dry a sufficient quantities to take care of herself and the family for one year.[2]  

So it’s known that John was admitted 5 Oct. 1862 and on 23 Oct. 1862 the court has proof of his death and had initiated Probate of his estate. 

John C. Dry died sometime between 5 and 23 October 1862.
 
Generally, when I run into these situations I take a look at the “Bible” on the men who served from North Carolina, a set of  Books consisting of 19 Volumes entitled: “North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster”

John C. Dry appears on Volume 14, page 184; however, in this case there was no actual death date.  

DRY, JOHN C. Private
Resident in Cabarrus County and was by occupation a day laborer prior to enlisting in Cabarrus County at age 26, July 6, 1862, for the war. Hospitalized at Richmond, Virginia, October 5, 1862, with bronchitis. Died prior to January 13, 1864. Place, date, and cause of death not reported (probably died in the winter of 1862-1863).[3]
 
John C. Dry left behind 4 children under the age of seven and his wife, Leah Dry, daughter of John B. Dry and Elizabeth Catherine ‘Caty’ Barrier.
 
John C. Dry is my 2nd cousin 4 times removed.





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[1] https://www.fold3.com/image/271/54690212
[2] "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-22995-23455-46?cc=1911121 : 8 May 2016), Cabarrus County > D > Dry, John (1862) > image 4 of 7; State Archives, Raleigh.
[3]  Matthew Brown Editor, BOOK: NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS:1861-1865: A Roster (Raleigh, NC 27699-4622: Historical Publications Section, 1997), John C. Dry, Volume 14, page 184.