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Biographies, Photos and
Anecdotes
Company E
Asst. Surgeon Chauncy Porter Conerly
Chauncy Porter Conerly
was born in 1839 and resided in Holmesville, Pike County, Mississippi.
After enlisting in the Holmesville Guards, Co. E, of the 33rd
Mississippi Infantry, he was appointed hospital steward in November
1863. He later was promoted to acting Assistant Surgeon of the 33rd and
Clerk of Chief Surgeon P.F. Whitehead, Loring's Division.
Resource Records of
Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly
and E. Russ Williams, Jr.
Additional
Information: Chauncey Porter Conerly married Margaret
McCullough. He died in 1903 in Lincoln County. Mississippi and is buried
in the Winston McCullough Cemetery near Ruth, Mississippi.
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Courtesy of
Lee Jackson
Pvt. Fleming
Tynes Conerly
Fleming "Flem" Tynes
Conerly was born October 3, 1843 and resided in Pike County,
Mississippi. He married Sarah Hammonds.
He enlisted in the Holmesville Guards of Pike County in the spring of
1862. This unit later became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry
Regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee on
November 30, 1864.
Following his death on May 13, 1910, he was buried at China Grove, Pike
County, Mississippi.
Resource Records of
Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly
and E. Russ Williams, Jr.
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Pvt. James Rayford Conerly
James Rayford Conerly was born November 2, 1835. A resident of
Pike County, Mississippi, he married Mary Elizabeth Harper and had nine
children.
In the spring of 1862, he joined the Holmesville Guards of Pike County,
which later became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
He died at the age of 76 on April 9, 1911.
Resource Records of
Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly
and E. Russ Williams, Jr.
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Pvt. Mark Russell Conerly
Mark Russell Conerly was born in 1838. As a resident of Pike
County, Mississippi he married Sophronia Taylor.
In the spring of 1862 he joined the Holmesville Guards of Pike County,
which later became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
He died in 1890 at the age of 52.
Resource Records of
Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly
and E. Russ Williams, Jr.
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2gt. Sgt./Ensign Owen Lewis Conerly
Owen Lewis Conerly was born September 15, 1830 in Pike County,
Mississippi to Cullen Conerly and Levisa Lewis. From his marriage to
Saleta Azalena Paine Warner on November 4, 1852, there were six children
born.
In the spring of 1862, he joined the Holmesville Guards of Pike County,
which later became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
He was elected 2nd Sergeant and later became the color bearer. At the
age of 34 he was killed in action at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee
on November 30, 1864 and is buried there.
Resource Records of
Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly
and E. Russ Williams, Jr.
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Pvt. William Marion Conerly
William Marion Conerly was born July 30, 1833 in Pike County,
Mississippi to Cullen Conerly and Levisa Lewis. He married Jane Ann
Harvey on January 5, 1855.
When the Holmesville Guards were organized in Pike County in the spring
of 1862, he enlisted. This unit later became Company E of the 33rd
Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
He died November 23, 1901 in Hornbeck, Louisiana.
Resource Records of
Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly
and E. Russ Williams, Jr.
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Pvt.
Newland Jack Ginn
Newland Jack
Ginn, born 16 Nov. 1827 in Pike County,
Mississippi, was the eldest son of Huriah Ginn and Salina Ann Smith. On
7 Dec. 1854 in Pike County, MS, Jack married Mrs. Louisa Bullock
Brumfield (widow of John G. Brumfield - d/o Hugh Bullock & Caroline
Brumfield). Jack and Louisa made their home about 2 miles north of Knoxo
(now located in Walthall County) along with Louisa’s son from her
previous marriage and three sons and one daughter of their own.
In April 1862, at
Holmesville, Pike County, Mississippi, Jack enlisted as a Private in the
Holmesville Guards, Company E., of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry. The
following July found Jack fighting a losing battle with measles in camp
at Grenada, Mississippi. He died on the 16th of July, 1862 and when word
reached his wife, Louisa, she rode horseback to Summit, Mississippi, the
nearest railway station, with the intention of trying to catch a
northbound train to retrieve his body. Arriving late, she spent the
night with friends and learned the following morning that a train from
the north carrying the bodies of several soldiers had arrived around
dawn. Newland Jack’s body was one of them. He was buried in the Jap
Holmes Cemetery, Walthall Co., MS. Louisa Ginn never remarried.
Courtesy:
Marie Luter Upton, Rosa Elizabeth Ginn, & Patti Smith
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Captain John Tillman Lamkin
John T. Lamkin
was born in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, July 17, 1811. Around
1847 he served as District Attorney in Bay Saint Louis, Hancock County,
Mississippi and was a law partner with David Wiley
Hurst.
Lamkin was a "Unionist", like his former law partner Hurst, but felt
obligated to support his state. Having moved to Pike County, the 51-year
old former District Attorney enlisted more than seventy volunteers in
the "Holmesville Guards" which became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi
Infantry Regiment in April of 1862, serving as Captain.
On September 9, 1863 Lamkin resigned due to medical reasons.
He was soon elected to serve in the Second Confederate Congress. From
May 2, 1864-March 18, 1865 he served on three committees: commerce,
patents, post offices and post roads. While serving in Virginia, he
wrote, "The time has come when every man who has a spark of patriotism
in his bosom should promptly volunteer his services."
He died in Holmesville, Pike County, Mississippi, May 19, 1870 and is
buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Summit, Mississippi.
Photo: Resource Records
of Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward
Conerly and E. Russ Williams, Jr.
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Courtesy of David E. Godbold
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