Elam Tullos Yelverton

In 1860 he was 22 years old and lived with his parents and 7 siblings on a farm at Old Hickory in Simpson County, MS. He enlisted at Westville, MS on 26 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

He was wounded in the shoulder in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was absent, wounded, into September 1863 and was retired on a certificate of disability on 12 December 1863.

By 1870 he was a farmer in Simpson County, MS. He was only 36 years old when he and his mule were killed by lightning while riding home from a neighbor's house on 14 August 1874.

His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details - including his death, from an unknown news piece of 22 August 1874 - from family genealogists, and from the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Kiturah Elizabeth "Kit" Ware (1844-1874) in about 1863 and they had 7 children.

His brother Richard was killed at Sharpsburg.

08/06/1838

08/14/1874; Simpson County, MS; burial in Sharon Cemetery, Coats, MS