Stephens County - Tombstone Photos - Crystal Falls cemetery - James Miller Lynn

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James Miller Lynn
Born 1842 in Union County, Kentucky
son of Elias G. Lynn and Polexina "Puss" Below
parents were both natives of Kentucky. 

James Miller Lynn enlisted on 15 August 1861 as private in Company B, 
4th Kentucky Infantry. Taken prisoner at Fort Donelson on 16 February 1862 and taken to 
Camp Morton, Indiana, where he escaped returning to Kentucky. James joined Company F of 
the 10th Kentucky Cavalry on 23 August 1862. He rose to rank of 3rd Sergeant of the Cavalry 
company. He enlisted at the age of 21. 

James M. Lynn filed application of Indigent Soliders
or Sailor for a pension on 12 May 1899 while living in Stephens County, Texas.

James M. Lynn and family left Kentucky in 1873-1874 going to Texas locating
first in Palo Pinto County, Texas.

James Miller Lynn had nine children that I know of:
Belle
Fred
Willie
Mattie L
Charles C
Florence
Nellie
Olin
James Frederick


Of all the Union County families which provided sons who served as soldiers in
the Civil War, no single family equals in number the five patriotic sons of
Elias and Polexxina Lynn, of the Boxville community.

As in the case of many Southern families, the Lynn boys' loyalties were divided.
The oldest son, Edley A. and the youngest John Alexander cast their lot with the
Union army. Both became members of Company, 48th Kentucky Infantry, called the
Bloodless 48th because the regiment never saw action. John Lynn was sixteen and
had to lie about his age when he enlisted for one year of duty in July, 1863.

Edley enlisted at the same time and was the only married man among the five
siblings. He left behind a Phoebe Ann (Jenkins of Caldwell County) a son Elias
V. (aged 5) and a daughter, Mary H (age 3). Upon return from the service, Edley
fathered nine more children and became a prosperous farmer. He served Union
County as a constable (1865-66) and a magistrate (1875-81).

The middle three Lynn sons, chose the Confederate cause in the beginning of the
war and enlisted in August 1862, in Company F of the 10th Kentucky Calvary
Partisan Rangers, serving under General Adam R. Johnson. They saw many heated
skirmishes and went on General Morgan's raid into Indiana and Ohio.

James Miller rose to the rank of Third Sergeant after enlisting at the age of
21. Henry J was 19 years old when he first donned the gray uniform of the "Lost
Cause". Aaron Robert had the most colorful career of the Lynn brothers. The
first time he attempted to enlist he was not accepted because he was underage.
On the second attempt he was mustered into the service just shy of his 18th
birthday. Robert was captured on Morgan's raid near Williamsburg, Ohio on July
19, 1863. After eighteen months imprisonment at Camp Morton and Camp Douglas,
where he was forced to eat rats and a dog in lieu of starvation, he was released
in an exchange of prisoners near Richmond, Virginia shortly before General Lee
evaccuated the city.

In 1915, Robert Lynn purchased the Union White Sulphur Springs and operated the
spa there until 1934, the resort hotel was located at the site presently known
as the Nally Spa and it boasted a race course and bowling alleys. For a number
of years the resort was quite fashionable.

At the time of his death on May 18, 1941, "Uncle Bob", as he was affectionately
called by everyone, was the last surviving Union County Civil War Veteran. He
witnessed America survive three wars and still was still alive at the dawn of
World War Two.

Source: Wagon Wheel-Webster County, Vol IX No 3, Jul Aug Sept 1988 edition.
Buried in Chalybeate, Webster County, KY