15 January, 2018
Private Wiley C Plemmons
Gravesite of Private Wiley C Plemmons, my 2nd cousin 5x removed.
Wiley was born in Buncombe County, North Carolina on 20 Jan 1832. He is the son of William B. “Billy” and Elizabeth DeBoard Plemmons. He worked as a farmer.
Private Wiley C Plemmons enlisted in the 11th Georgia Infantry Regiment of the Confederate Army on 22 Feb 1862. On 02 July 1863 he suffered an impact wound from a ball round to the chest at Battle of Gettysburg. Wiley was taken to Plank's Farm and then transferred to DeCamp General Hospital on Davids Island in NY.
Private Wiley C Plemmons died at the hospital on 06 Aug 1863 from his wounds. He Left behind his wife Martha E. Kincaid and 4 young sons;William Robert born 1856, John Calhoun 1859, Miles Macafee “Mack” born 1860, and Andrew Jackson, Sr. born Oct 1863.
Private Plemmons' body now rests at Cypress Hills National Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY.
16 May, 2015
May 16, 1771, The Battle of Alamance was fought in North Carolina.
No stately column marks the hallowed place
Where in silence sleeps their sacred dust,
The first free martyrs of a glorious race-
Their fame a people's wealth, a nation's trust.
Above their tomb the golden harvest waves,
The glorious stars stand sentinel on high,
While in sad requiem near their turfless graves
The great Alamance slowly moaning murmurs by.
But holier watchers here their vigil keep
Than storied urn or monumental stone;
For love and justice guard their dreamless sleep
And plenty smiles above their bloody home.
Immortal youth shall crown their deathless fame,
And as their country's glories still advance,
Shall brighter glow, o'er all the earth thy name,
Our first-fought field for FREEDOM-ALAMANCE.
26 April, 2015
20 April, 2015
29 March, 2015
David A. Keever Company H of the 52nd Regiment N.C. Troops
Flag of the 52nd Regiment N.C. Troops
My 3rd cousin 4x removed, David A. Keever is the son of Henry Keever (1809 – 1885) and Diney Jane Stroup (1808 – 1875). David was born in Lincoln County N.C on 17 June 1836
David enlisted as a private in Company H of the 52nd Regiment N.C. Troops at the age of 25, on July 6, 1862. Records show that he was absent on wounded furlough during May-June of 1864. He returned to duty during the months of September-October 1864.
David was captured near Petersburg, Virginia on March 25, 1865. He was confined at Point Lookout, Maryland on March 28, 1865. Private Keever was released from Point Lookout on June 28, 1865.
Postwar records indicate that David was shot through the body at the battle of the Wilderness, but survived even though such a wound was "usually mortal."
Private David A. Keever passed away on the 26th of December, 1922. He is buried at the Marvin United Methodist Church in Lincolnton, NC
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