Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Henry H Moreland

Henry H Moreland.

Birth: Apr. 8, 1840, Georgia.
Death:   Feb. 28, 1917, Dade County, Georgia.

Wife: Fannie Oliver Moreland (1871 - 1960)

Children: Lizzie S., Martha J., Winnie M., Jefferson A., James H., Jack A. Moreland. 

Burial: Wildwood Cemetery, Wildwood, Dade County, Georgia.

Henry O Moreland and his wife, Fannie Oliver Moreland, have CSA pension applications on line, courtesy of GA virtual vault. He says he was born 1840 in Tenn. He enlisted in Co. B of the 6th GA regiment and was paroled at Greeensboro N. C. after the surrender. They married 21 Oct 1892 in Dade county and Henry died 1/9/1917. (Sometimes memory is not quite accurate...or families of the deceased make mistakes on monuments- hard to tell which date is correct.)

Authors noteGeorgia Sixth Infantry, Co. B., Army of Tennessee.
Dade County, Georgia, "Look out Dragoons"

Moreland, Henry H., Private July 17, 1861. Severely wounded in hips at Petersburg, Va. in 1864. Middle finger of left hand shot off and wounded in right leg at Ft. Harrison, Va. Sept. 30, 1864. Surrendered Greensboro, N. C. Apr. 26, 1865. Born in McMinn County, Tenn. Apr. 8,1840. Died at Dayton, Tenn.

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