Coryell Co. TX - Newton Russell Altum

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                            NEWTON RUSSELL ALTUM
                                      
    Newton Russell Altum enlisted in Knoxville, TN on 1 Aug 1861 for 12 months
    in the Confederate Service, Ashby's 2nd Cavalry Co. H, 2nd Regiment of
    Tennessee Cavalry under James W. Gillespie. He was present for the company
    muster near Tunnell Hill Georgia on 13 March 1864. On the muster roll for
    Nov. and Dec. of 1864 it was stated that he had enlisted 20 March of 1864
    for the duration of the war, but had been absent without leave since Nov.
    8, 1864. This was not unusual for the time and the place, this was the end
    of the Civil War, when it had become evident to the Confederate soldiers
    that they had lost the war, they simply stopped fighting and went home to
    try to put in their crops. The formalities of surrender they left to the
    officers, the most important thing to them was to pick up their lives. They
    and their families were facing starvation, they were exhausted and sick to
    death of the constant fighting. Tunnell Hill, Georgia was in Murray County,
    as was Pisgah, where the family Bible states that Newton Russell Altum
    married Elizabeth Irene Watson. No marriage record has been found, but that
    would not be unusual either, the South had many records lost or burned.
    This family is on the 1870 census of Murray Co. GA. with first two
    children, 1. Obedience born 1866, and 2. Margaret Elizabeth born 1869, the
    3rd, F. Belle, was born 1872 in Texas. This family came to Texas and to
    Coryell County, to the part that is now part of Fort Hood, seven children
    in all; 4. were twins, John Thomas and 5. Mary Jane, called Dollie, 6.
    James F. in 1876 and Samuel Newton in 1878 were reared and they contributed
    greatly to the settlement of this part of the country. This family joined
    with Farris, Beasley, DeLord, Kinsey, Palmer, Netherlin, Edgar, Shelton,
    Gallager, Edgar and other families of Coryell County, Texas. Newton Russell
    Altum died 17 April, 1918, Elizabeth Irene, known as "Rene" died 29
    October, 1923. Both were buried in the Shiloh cemetery, near their home and
    were moved in 1945 by military to Restland in Gatesville. By James Ross,
    great-great grandson of Newton Russell Altum and Elizabeth Irene Watson
    Altum. From book "Farris Facts" 1996 by Bobbie Ross 

                    copyrighted by Bobbie Ross Sept.2000