Married by Rev. J.H. Gray, Greene Co., Ala.-Marriage Book B, Page 28.
1850 Alabama Census-Sumter Co.-Page 345---Ben Mitchell was a hero on theriver boat "ELIZA BATTLE' when it burned on the Tombigbee River
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Death may be Civil War?
Marriage Book, B, Page 28. Married by Rev. J.H. Gray----1860 AlabamaCensus Sumter Co-Page 587-----
Died of kidney failure
1870 Alabama Census-Sumter Co.-Page 370---Died after being kicked by amule---Received into Bethel Presbyterian Church, Sumterville Alabama, onthird Sabbath in October, 1844.
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Married by J. H. Gray, Marriage Book 1, page 30.
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Served as Captain in Co. I, 3rd Alabama Reserves----Marriage Book P, page183, Sumter Co., Ala.
1910 Ala. Census show in house of Jacobus J. Dial
Co. E, 31 Ark. Inf. Wounded at Battle of Stone River, Tn.-Lost arm.
1860 Ark Census, Monroe Co. Page 800
1870 Ark Census, Monroe Co. Page 29
Recieved into Bethel Presbyterian Church, Sumterville, Alabama, on 22August 1841. Willis, negro slave, belonging to Jeremiah Dial joinedBethel Presbyterian Church on 4 June 1843. 1 April 1844 church had 83white members and 43 black members.
Records of Bethel Church indicate that Jeremiah and slave girl Laviniawere expelled on same day.
I have been in touch with Lisa Richarson a descendant of Ellen a childthat was born to Lavinia in 1849.
This family has kept very good records and Lavinia named Jeremiah asbeing the father of Ellen after the Civil War. This was some 10 yearsafter Jeremiah had moved to the state of Arkansas. Some software programsdo not allow for children born out of wedlock. This data does not in anyway give a hint of marriage between Lavinia and Jeremiah.
Goodspeeds History of Arkansas
J.H. Dial, merchant and Planter, Holly Grove, Ark. In the business ofmerchandising Mr. Dial is second to none in Duncan Township, and inconnection is also extensively engaged in agricultural pursuits. Anative of Greene Co., Ala., he was born June 28, 1821. His father DavidM. Dial, was born in South Carolina in 1785, was married to Miss JennettSpence in 1801, and successfully tilled the soil all his life. His wifewas born in Newberry District, S. C., in 1783. Two them were giventhirteen children, only two now living: J. H. (the subject of thissketch) and his siste, Rebecca (the wife of George Rix of Keokuk, Iowa).David M. Dial was an Elder in the Old School Presbyterian Church. Hiswife was a member of the same church. They immigratedd from SouthCarolina to Greene Co., Ala. in 1818, where the father died in 1834, themother in 1855. At the age of 16, J. H. Dial started out for himself,and began farming on a tract of land he owned in Sumter Co., Ala. In theyear 1853 he moved to this state and purchased land in Monroe County.When the late war broke out he enlisted in the Confederate army, CompanyE., Thirty-First Regiment Infantry, under Capt. O. H. Oates, and waswounded in the battle of Stone River, Tenn., December 31, 1862. He wasfirst taken to the field hospital and remained there ten days, then beingremoved to Nashville in a six horse wagon, going as fast as it could overrough roads.
There he was put in the guard house and three days later in thepenitentiary, where he was kept four or five days and then taken to thehospital. It was found necessary to amputate his right arm, whichoperation was porformed by Surgeon Massy, and he was then removed to Mr.Robinson's, a private house, where he was nursed and taken care of forthree months by two noble ladies, Mrs. Cartwright and Miss Mary Hadley.Being taken to Louisville, Ky., as a prisoner, he and his companions werethere robbed of all their clothes and money. Later, going to Baltimore,Md., and thence to Petersburg, he was finally released and from therewent to Shelbyville, Tenn., where he recieved his discharge. Starting ona thamp for home he walked the entire distance from West Point, Miss. In1864 he was again taken prisoner when at Clairidon on some business, hehad his wagon and mules taken from him and was ptu in prison at Devall'sBluff and kept for a week or ten days. Had it now been for the kindnessof Mr. Steele and Mr. Phillip Trice he would have suffered, but theyfurnished him clothes and money and he fared sumptuously for a prisoner.Mr Dial was married to Miss Letitia Caulfield, a daughter of Henry andIsabella (Watson) Caulfield, on November 2, 1853. She was born in GreeneCo., Ala., her parents being from Ireland. Her father came to thiscountry in 1821. He was a sucessful and energetic farmer and died inGreene Co., October 16, 1867. The mother died March 5, 1870. They werethe parents of sixx children, two daughters now being the only livingmembers of the family; Bessie the wife of Jere Horn of San Marcos, TX.and the present Mrs. Dial. J. H. Dial an his wife had a family of eightchicdren, of whom six survive at this time: Belle (wife of T. G. Trice),of Holly Grove, Ark., Mary V. the widow of Dr. C. H. Boyd, of HollyGrove, Margie, wife of W. M. Harrison of Pine Bluff, Ark., their sons,David M., Thomas G., and Jere H., all live in Holly Grove, Ark. Mr. Dialowns a valuable farm and is a sucessful farmer. He and his wife aremembers of the Presbyterian Church.
Lavinia a slave owned by William Frierson Fulton had a child by JeremiahH. Dial the brother of William
Fultons wife. Lavinia and the female child both came out of slavery withthe name Fulton.
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1860 Alabma Census-Payneville, Sumter Co.-Page 518
1870 Alabama Census-Livingston, Sumter Co.-Page 250
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1850 Alabama Census, Sumter Co. Page 297
1870 Alabama Census-Liningston, Sumter Co.-Page 337