John Ananias Small

Son of a clergyman, in 1860 he was a 22 (24?) year old farmer living with his parents at Flint Ridge in the Lancaster District, SC. Going by Ananias, he enlisted on 28 April 1862 at Lancaster Court House, SC and mustered as a Private in Company D, First South Carolina Infantry. He was on furlough from 10 July to 1 August.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 suffering a "flesh wound by minie ball in left arm."

He was furloughed home on 1 October and was back on duty on 20 February 1863. He was slightly wounded in the scalp in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and, except for a period of illness in August and September, was afterward with his company to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to 1900 he was a farmer at Pleasant Hill/Lancaster in Lancaster County, SC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his memorial there has his birth in 1833 in Alabama calculated from his age on his stone: both place and year are probably in error.

He married Mary Alice Rebecca Ingram Williams (1834-after 1910) and they had at least 8 children between 1865 and 1881; she had 4 from her previous marriage.

c. 1836; Lancaster District, SC

06/26/1900; Lancaster, SC; burial in Douglas Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lancaster, SC