Blount County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....Dean, Tlitha Boyd & Joseph ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jon Gary Dean jd4316@sbcglobal.net September 30, 2012, 2:08 pm Cemetery: Sulphur Springs Cemetery Name: Tlitha Boyd & Joseph Dean Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/blount/photos/tombstones/sulphursprings/dean11341gph.jpg Image file size: 38.3 Kb Tlitha Dean Jun 2, 1833 Mar 20, 1932 Joseph Dean May 7, 1823 Dec 6, 1881 Their memory is blessed Additional Comments: The 1850 US Census, Walker County, Alabama, 311B (Image 24), District 12, Family #168, lines 24-28, shows Joseph Dean, age 27, a farmer born in Tennessee, with wife Athenia, age 26, born in Alabama. They had children John, age 6, James, age 3 and Elias, age 7/12, all born in Alabama. By 1860, Joseph was in Blount County (US Census, Blount County, Sheet 964B (page 28), Western Division, Summit Post Office, Family #197, lines 24-30) with second wife, Rebecca, age 26, born in Alabama. With them were John, age 17, James, age 13, and Elias, age 11, William, age 6 and Monroe, age 2. William and Monroe were Rebecca’s natural born sons. Joseph enlisted as a private in Company K, 19th Alabama Infantry Regiment on August 12, 1861 and was assigned to the hospital as a nurse. His compiled service records show him as a nurse for several months, January, February, March (in the General Hospital at Corinth, Mississippi), and November 1862. The June 1862 Regimental Return paper states Joseph was a Cook for DMD (?). In July 1862, Joseph was assigned as a teamster for Colonel Joseph Wheeler at Leiltillo, Mississippi. Joseph was captured on January 2, 1863 at Stones River, Tennessee. He was listed as away without leave on March 4, 1863 and on detached service of Wither’s Division, Polk’s Corp, Army of Tennessee as of December 12, 1862. It is likely they did not know he had been captured at that time. He is on the list of medical officers, attendants, nurses and patients at Confederate Hospital No. 2, Murfreesboro, Tennessee dated April 23, 1863, as a nurse/cook. On May 23, 1863, he was transferred from Nashville, Tennessee Prison Hospital (where he was a nurse and cook) to the prison in Louisville, Kentucky arriving on May 26, 1863 and on to Baltimore, Maryland on May 29, 1863. On June 3, 1863, Joseph is listed on the Roll of Prisoners of War paroled at Fort McHenry, Maryland, being sent to Fort Monroe, Virginia for exchange. Joseph was again captured at Resaca, Georgia on May 15, 1864 and taken first to Louisville, Kentucky and then to Alton Military Prison, Alton, Illinois, where he arrived on May 25, 1864. Alton Prison Hospital records state Joseph was diagnosed with diarrhea on May 7, 1864 (he didn’t arrive until May 25 so the date is suspect), Typhoid Mall Fever in June 1864 “rem fever” on May 2, 1865. On June 14, 1865 he took an Oath of Allegiance and was discharged. With the end of the war, Joseph returned to Blount County where he married third wife, Tlithia Boyd, daughter of James Lee Boyd and Hannah James Boyd. The 1870 census shows Joseph, Tlithia, James, age 22, Elias, age 20, William age 16, and, Samuel, age 1, born in Alabama, By 1880 Joseph and Tlithia added Dandy, age 8, Pinkney, age 6, and Wesley, age 4, all born in Alabama. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/blount/photos/tombstones/sulphursprings/dean11341gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb