Pioneers: Benjamin L. Fox, CSA Vet., 1986, Winn Parish, LA. Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From: December 24, 1986 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American Winn Parish Past Tense, Article No. 91 Many families in the Winn Parish area have interesting histories but few have been so well recorded, preserved, and commemorated at that of Louisiana Confederate veteran, Benjamin Leonadus Fox of the Tannehill area of Winn Parish about five miles north of the parish seat of Winnfield near the Zion Hill Baptist church and Cemetery. A large and comprehensive family record book documenting the descendants was painstakingly compiled by a family member and released in June, 1985. An annual Fox family reunion is held and well attended on the first Sunday of June each year at Zion Hill Baptist Church. Excerpts from Benjamin L. Fox's records in the Archives in Washington, D. C., included in the family yearbook: Benjamin Leonadus Fox, born in Madison County, Tennessee, 3 September 1831, A. D., was married to Mary Dorcas Lambright of Mississippii about 1854 or 1855. To this union were born twelve children. On May 7, 1862 at the age of 30 years, he enlisted as a soldier in the Army of the Confederate States of America at Monroe, La., for three years or the duration of the war. He was a private in Co. K, 28th Regiment of General Gray's La. Infantry when this company was organized on the 17th of May, 1862. He name appeared on the register of payments, showing him as a member of the 30th Regiment of La., a private in Company K, and that he was paid on May 14, 1862 "a muster bounty" of $ 50. A "muster roll" dated August 31, 1863 confirmed his assignment, rank and place of enlistment. He name also appeared on a "roll of prisoners of war" giving his residence as Winn Parish, La. It simply showed that detachments of regiments in the Confederate States Army surrendered at New Orleans, La., to the United States Army on may 26, 1865 and were paroled at Natchitoches, La., on June 13, 1865. Only one reference-two words, "gun shot"-made any reference to his having been wounded, but from his children and those who over the years saw his suffering, it was told that a bullet passed through his body at the battle of Yellow Bayou near New Orleans (actually near Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, La.). After the war was over, Benjamin L. Fox came back to the small settlement he had helped establish near the banks of the Dugdemona Bayou about seven miles north of Winnfield, La., and near the Old Zion Hill Baptist Church which also served the community for many years as a school house. He rejoined his wife, Mary Dorcas Fox, and their four small children, having lost one child, a little girl, about five years of age. Three Fox descendants who at this December 17, 1986 date are well known in public life are attorney Kermit Mixon "Mickey" Simmons, Herbert Eugene Bolton, who is in charge of the Winn Parish office of motor vehicles, and State Representative Michael Lee Tinnerello. Staff historians acknowledge with gratitude the courtesy of Mrs. Violet Ruth Fox Sorenson for the loan for review herewith of her personal copy of the Fox family history.