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Elizabeth while they were living together but that all of them had died and also
his wife, Elizabeth died there in Louisiana and all died with swamp fever. He left
there soon after the death of Elizabeth and their children and as soon as he had
recovered from the swamp fever, which he had at the time of death of his wife and
children and came to Scott Co., Miss., and has always lived here to date of his
death. His second wife was Cynthia Tadlock and he married her here in his
county in about January 1878, and she died in December 1901. No, he did not
have any children by Cynthia, his second wife. Soldier was living at the home of
Frank Bishop, near Morton, at the time of our marriage.
There was 4 children born to me while I was the soldier’s wife. Two are dead and
two living. The two oldest children died and the two younger are living and they
are: Charles Summer Atherton, born Oct. 19, 1914 in Hinds Co., Miss, and Ruby
Jewel Atherton, born July 3, 1918 in Scott County, Miss. Dr. Rube Baugh, of
Polksville, Miss. was with me when Ruby was born and he named her. My mother
Maria Garner and my sister Mary Herald were both with me when Charles
Summer was born.
His pension was based on rheumatism of the back and injury to his foot. “I can now
recall he was afflicted with his back in some way, and then he walked lame in one of his
feet. I have heard of … Mr. Atherton getting one of his feet cut with an axe, and I used to
laugh at Mr. Bishop for calling Mr. Atherton lame or limping Jim. Mr. Atherton has been
a man, as far back as I can remember, who was a hard worker when able, and I have
heard my husband, Mr. Bishop, say that he never knew a more willing man to work than
Mr. Atherton was. He was a poor man and no doubt had to work at times when not able
in order to make ends meet.—Ida Culpepper, 1914.
“About three years ago this winter I was fireing a dry kiln down near Pellahatcha and
while taking a plank off the ramp to pass it up one end of the plank slipped off the ramp
and struck me on the shoulder and in falling under the plank I was injured across my back
and had to throw up my job and leave, but my back had given me trouble long before
this.”—James Atherton, 1914
“I cut my foot while living with my brother-in-law, R. K. Tadlock at Homewood, Miss.
On Friday before the 4 th Sunday in May, 1889, while I was splitting rails I was cutting
with an axe and as I went to strike with the axe it caught to limb of a sapling above my
head, turned the axe in my hand and landed on my left foot and cut my big toe and first
toe next to big toe entirely off, behind the first joint, cut my second little toe nearly off. I
had the second little toe and first little toe sewed back on, losing my big toe entirely, and
the first little toe turned up at the middle joint, causing same to rise occasionally giving
me considerable trouble all the time and keeps me from work a good deal of my time.”—
James Atherton, 1913
Barber, William—Enlisted 8 August 1862 as a Private, 32 years old, in Co. F, 84 th
Infantry. Deserted 5 February 1863 at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Description at
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