Cephas Hardy Noblin

In 1860 he was a 22 year old farm worker on the Darius Daniels farm (next door to his father Robert Holmes Noblin's place) in Smith County, MS. He mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 10 July 1861 in Corinth. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 20 May 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hand in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was absent, wounded, later detailed as a nurse and cook to hospitals in Richmond, VA, for the rest of the war. He was captured there on 3 April 1865 and paroled on 18 April.

By 1870 he was back in Smith County, farming his own place.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as C.H. Nobbin. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Margaret E. "Puss" McCollum (1837-1913) and they had a son Virgil Melron Noblin (1872-1918).

His brother Robert H Noblin, Jr (1841-1897) was also in Company H, and surrendered with them at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.

09/08/1837; Mecklenburg County, VA

09/30/1897; Edwards, MS; burial in Edwards Cemetery, Edwards, MS