• General Notes

  Civil War Veteran, Company D, 13th Kentucky Cavalry
  
  Civil War Veteran; Private, Co. D, 13th KY Cavalry (Union).
  
  Probably fought at the Battle of Saltville, VA.
  
  From the Kentucky Archives:  he was mustered in Dec. 23, 1863 at Columbia, KY at the age of 17 and joined for duty Dec. 26, 1863 at Liberty Co. for a period of one year; he was absent (sick) at the muster for March-April 1864.  He was present for the musters taken for July-Aug. 1864 and Sept.-Oct. 1864, so he was very likely with the unit for the Battle of Saltville, VA.  He was mustered out at Camp Nelson, KY Jan. 10, 1865.  Source:  military records from Kentucky Archives
  
  Subj:  Pulaski County Website: James Wesley Post
  Date:  1/17/01 3:31:45 PM Central Standard Time
  From:    KReynolds@MNAT.com (Kathleen Reynolds)
  To:    mannesah@aol.com ('mannesah@aol.com')
  
  Linda:  I saw your response to my post to Orville on the Pulaski County
  website.  For some reason he sent an e-mail instead of posting his response.
  Here it is:
  
  Hi! Orville (Arvil) - here
  
  Pap told me and Hoy that his father, James B.(Punkin Jim) had a brother
  that was in the Rebel army
  during the Civil War and that James was in the Union Army.  His grave
  marker shows that.  When the
  war was over James' brother (I do not know his name) did not return to
  Kentucky but instead went to
  Oklahoma.  When various members of the family went to find him and try to
  talk him into coming back
  to Kentucky, he would not talk to them.
  
  Pap said that some one told them that the brother had been killed.  Guy
  believed that to be true
  because he had some kind of news paper article stating that he had been
  lynched by Union Soldiers
  that did not know the war was over.
  
  Pap said that the family talked to people where he had lived and his
  friends told them that they just
  told that he had been lynched but instead had gone to Arizona to live with
  an Indian tribe.
  
  I do not know which story is true or in fact that either is true but when I
  came to Arizona, I found
  tribe members, both in the Apache and also the Salt River tribes with
  people with the last names
  "Wesley".  I never inquired as to where their name came from.  I know that
  after the war, a lot of
  people took the name Wesley as their last name, who in fact had no blood
  relation to the Wesley
  people.
  
  [Linda:  "Pap" is Orville & Hoy's father Albert, who is the son of James
  Wesley; "Guy" is my uncle, Orville's nephew.]
  
  I've also been corresponding with your aunt Irene, who says that Mitchell
  moved to Oklahoma because he didn't want his children to marry relatives.
  My grandfather, John Lincoln Wesley, also went to Beggs, OK the same year
  and married a girl from there (they returned to Kentucky to raise their
  family).  Probably more than just coincidence.
  
  I've seen your name before in my genealogy searches -- it seems we've been
  researching the same families!  We should compare notes.
  
  Kathleen Wesley Reynolds
  kreynolds@mnat.com (work)
  kathleen71@webtv.net (home)
  
  1880 US Census - Pulaski, Kentucky
  Household:
  
  Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
  James WESLEY   Self   M   Male   W   32   KY   Farmer   KY   KY
  Sarena WESLEY   Wife   M <Married>   Female   W <White>   37   KY Keeping House   KY   KY
  Shedrick H. WESLEY   Son   S <Single>   Male   W <White>   12   KY   At Home   KY   KY
  Nancy A. WESLEY   Dau <Daughter>   S <Single>   Female   W <White>   10 KY   At Home   KY   KY
  Albert C. WESLEY   Son   S <Single>   Male   W <White>   8   KY      KY KY
  Anna J. WESLEY   Dau <Daughter>   S <Single>   Female   W <White>   5 KY      KY   KY
  Minnie L. WESLEY   Dau <Daughter>   S <Single>   Female   W <White>   3 KY      KY   KY
  Micheal WESLEY   Son   S <Single>   Male   W <White>   6M   KY      KY KY
  
  Kentucky 1910 Miracode Index <http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5185&enc=1>
  about James Wesley
  Name:    James Wesley
  Birthplace:    Kentucky
  County:    Pulaski
  Relatives:    Wife Sarenie 65, Kentucky Granddaughter Mary A Branium 17, Kentucky
  Enumeration District:    0195
  Visit:    0190
  Color:    W
  Age:    64
  

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