Jefferson Henry Brown

A 22 year old farmer in the Spartanburg District, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 9 August 1862.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his left hand at Chancellorsville, VA on 4 May 1863. He was in a hospital in Williamsburg, VA and furloughed, with no further military record, on 26 June 1863.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Reidsville, Spartanburg County. His occupation was listed as fisherman on his 1916 death certificate.

His service from Swain.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Malissa Thompson (b. 1841) in about 1856 and they had 8 children.

02/14/1839 in SC

04/21/1916; Spartanburg, SC; burial in Cannons Methodist Church Cemetery, Spartanburg, SC