George Wilson Efferson, Jr.

An unmarried 24 year old laborer in Livingston, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 7th Louisiana Infantry at Camp Moore, LA on 7 June 1861.

He was in action at Harpers Ferry on 14-15 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was captured on 7 November 1863 at Rappahannock Station, VA and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until exchanged on 9 March 1864. He was on furlough home, disabled, for the rest of the war.

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Livingston Parish. He had retired there by 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Elizabeth Causey (1845-1876) in 1864 and they had 5 children. He married again, Martha Amelia Queen Patterson (formerly Wall, 1836-1904), in July 1876, and they added two sons. She already had 6 children with Iverson J. Wall. George married for the third time, by 1910, Martha's sister Cornelia Patterson (1842-1925).

01/13/1837; Springfield, Livingston Parish, LA

11/22/1917; Livingston Parish, LA; burial in Efferson Cemetery, Livingston Parish, LA