David Oscar Summer

He came to Mississippi from South Carolina with his family in 1854 and in 1860 was a 19 year old living with his parents and siblings on the family farm in Smith County, MS. He enlisted on 4 May 1861 in Raleigh, MS, and mustered as a Private in Company H, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.

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

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by November and returned to his Company on 13 February 1863. He was detailed as a musician from about December 1863 through October 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a school teacher at China Grove in Pike County, MS but by 1900 was a surveyor at Fernwood in Pike County. In 1910 he was living with his daughter Lela and her family in Hattiesburg, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as David O. Summers. A casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862 has him as D.O. Sumner, wounded in the arm at Sharpsburg. His Appomattox parole is on the Park Service List [pdf] as D.O. Summers. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900, and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Jane Watts (1843-1927) in December 1869 and they had 7 children.

02/16/1841; Newberry District, SC

06/18/1922; Newton, MS; burial in Oaklawn Cemetery, Hattiesburg, MS