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Civil War Veteran, Company D, 13th Kentucky Cavalry

Civil War Veteran; Private, Co. D, 13th KY Cavalry (Union).

Probably fought at the Battle of Saltville, VA.

From the Kentucky Archives: he was mustered in Dec. 23, 1863 at Columbia, KY at the age of 17 and joined for duty Dec. 26, 1863 at Liberty Co. for a period of one year; he was absent (sick) at the muster for March-April 1864. He was present for the musters taken for July-Aug. 1864 and Sept.-Oct. 1864, so he was very likely with the unit for the Battle of Saltville, VA. He was mustered out at Camp Nelson, KY Jan. 10, 1865. Source: military records from Kentucky Archives

Subj: Pulaski County Website: James Wesley Post
Date: 1/17/01 3:31:45 PM Central Standard Time
From: KReynolds@MNAT.com (Kathleen Reynolds)
To: mannesah@aol.com ('mannesah@aol.com')

Linda: I saw your response to my post to Orville on the Pulaski County
website. For some reason he sent an e-mail instead of posting his response.
Here it is:

Hi! Orville (Arvil) - here

Pap told me and Hoy that his father, James B.(Punkin Jim) had a brother
that was in the Rebel army
during the Civil War and that James was in the Union Army. His grave
marker shows that. When the
war was over James' brother (I do not know his name) did not return to
Kentucky but instead went to
Oklahoma. When various members of the family went to find him and try to
talk him into coming back
to Kentucky, he would not talk to them.

Pap said that some one told them that the brother had been killed. Guy
believed that to be true
because he had some kind of news paper article stating that he had been
lynched by Union Soldiers
that did not know the war was over.

Pap said that the family talked to people where he had lived and his
friends told them that they just
told that he had been lynched but instead had gone to Arizona to live with
an Indian tribe.

I do not know which story is true or in fact that either is true but when I
came to Arizona, I found
tribe members, both in the Apache and also the Salt River tribes with
people with the last names
"Wesley". I never inquired as to where their name came from. I know that
after the war, a lot of
people took the name Wesley as their last name, who in fact had no blood
relation to the Wesley
people.

[Linda: "Pap" is Orville & Hoy's father Albert, who is the son of James
Wesley; "Guy" is my uncle, Orville's nephew.]

I've also been corresponding with your aunt Irene, who says that Mitchell
moved to Oklahoma because he didn't want his children to marry relatives.
My grandfather, John Lincoln Wesley, also went to Beggs, OK the same year
and married a girl from there (they returned to Kentucky to raise their
family). Probably more than just coincidence.

I've seen your name before in my genealogy searches -- it seems we've been
researching the same families! We should compare notes.

Kathleen Wesley Reynolds
kreynolds@mnat.com (work)
kathleen71@webtv.net (home)

1880 US Census - Pulaski, Kentucky
Household:

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
James WESLEY Self M Male W 32 KY Farmer KY KY
Sarena WESLEY Wife M <Married> Female W <White> 37 KY Keeping House KY KY
Shedrick H. WESLEY Son S <Single> Male W <White> 12 KY At Home KY KY
Nancy A. WESLEY Dau <Daughter> S <Single> Female W <White> 10 KY At Home KY KY
Albert C. WESLEY Son S <Single> Male W <White> 8 KY KY KY
Anna J. WESLEY Dau <Daughter> S <Single> Female W <White> 5 KY KY KY
Minnie L. WESLEY Dau <Daughter> S <Single> Female W <White> 3 KY KY KY
Micheal WESLEY Son S <Single> Male W <White> 6M KY KY KY

Kentucky 1910 Miracode Index <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5185&enc=1>
about James Wesley
Name: James Wesley
Birthplace: Kentucky
County: Pulaski
Relatives: Wife Sarenie 65, Kentucky Granddaughter Mary A Branium 17, Kentucky
Enumeration District: 0195
Visit: 0190
Color: W
Age: 64