Private Elijah Markus Messer Company L, 16th NC Infantry Regiment

My 2nd cousin 6x removed Elijah Markus Messer. He was born in Haywood county NC, and is the son of Daniel Alden Boone Messer and Elizabeth Betty Palmer. Elijah married Christina Catherine Conard and they had 7 children together.

Elijah Markus Messer enlisted as a Private on 15 March 1862 at the age of 18 in Waynesville NC. He was assigned to Captin E.G. Johnson's Company L, 16th Infantry Regiment of North Carolina . Muster records show Elijah as being at the general Hospital at Staunton Virginia on 16 September 1862 and suffering Jaundice. He was placed on guard duty while there.

Elijah Markus Messer died at the age of 91 on 4 Jun 1936, while at his son William Greenbury Messer's home on the Yadkin River. He is buried at Palmer Chapel Cemetery Cataloochee Haywood County North Carolina, CSA.