BRADLEY COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - Jeremiah Triplett, Civil War Pension Record ----¤¤¤---- Jeremiah Triplett was born March 29, 1820 in Adair County, Kentucky. He migrated to the Black Fox community of Bradley County, Tennessee with his parents, Wm and Rebecca Triplett, when young. On August 19, 1843 he married Narcissus Benton in Bradley Co. The ceremony was performed by Amos Briner, JP. Their children were Sarah J., William Green, Julia Ann, John Benton, Rebecca, Milly A., David M., Frances, Jeremiah Jr., and Mary Ellen. All of their children were born in the Black Fox Community. Jeremiah died at home on November 11, 1885 from disease of his liver and kidneys (according to his pension file). He is buried in the Triplett Cemetery in Bradley County. Jeremiah joined the 5th Regiment of the Tennessee Infantry Co G on April 11, 1862 in Cleveland, Tennessee for a period of three years. He mustered in on Mary 21, 1862 at Camp Pine Knot as a Corporal. According to his Company Muster Roll he was present August 31 to December 3, 1862, January 1863, February 28 to June 30, 1863, June 30 to October 31, 1863, November to December 25, 1863, January to February 1864, March to April 1864, May to June 1864, July to August 1864, October 31, 1864, December 31, 1864, March to April 1865. Jeremiah mustered out of service is Nashville Tennessee on May 15, 1865. Willoughby D. Harvey, a soldier in Company E Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, provided a written statement in Jeremiah's pension file that Jeremiah had contracted a fever during his service. Willoughby told of his visit with Jeremiah in the Cumberland Hospital in Nashville. Willoughby was on furlough and had heard that the 5th Regiment had returned from a trip to North Carolina and that Jeremiah was sick. This is how he described his visit and condition of Jeremiah, " I called to see him two different times. I found him very low and after he was discharged from the service, I saw him again and he was an invalid and never did recover but remained delicate until the date of his death and I know that at the date of his enlistment he was a stout healthy man but that spell of fever upset him and it also injured his hearing. I can also testify that he was perfectly normal and had no vicious habits. He was a perfect gentleman, both honorable and upright." Another affidavit describing Jeremiah's illness while in service was by S.N. Winkler. He stated, "That he met with Triplett at Nashville Tennessee while he was in the army but cannot remember the date at which time he was complaining of liver trouble. Triplett told me he was taking blue moss as medicine for liver trouble. He knew Triplett at the time he came out of the army and Triplett was complaining of liver and kidney trouble. That he lived a near neighbor to said Jeremiah Triplett from the time Triplett came out of the army up to date of his death. Triplett apparently had chronic liver and kidney trouble from the time he came home out of the army up to the date of his death. Triplett was not able to do hard manual labor when he came out of the army. He was with Triplett during his last illness. The attending physician Dr. Samuel J. Day told him that Triplett died from abscess of the liver." Another affidavit was by W.T. Gammon who was also in the 5th Tennessee Regiment. He said, "I was with Triplett from the time we enlisted until about 2 months before we were discharged at which time I was left at the hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Triplett was a stout able bodied man when we enlisted. About a year after we enlisted Triplett began complaining of liver trouble and took medicine for said trouble. Oftentimes Triplett was unable for duty but refused to go to the hospital and when he was ordered on duty I and other comrades took his place. We did this very often. I knew Triplett after we came out of the army up to the time of his death and saw him occasionally from time to time. As well as I can remember, Triplett was never a strong man after he came out of the army up to the date of his death." ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Deborah Parks bdvw@earthlink.net ___________________________________________________________________