Jacob Ashhurst Flournoy

In 1860 he was 19 years old and lived with his parents, 4 siblings, his maternal grandmother, and 7 slaves on their prosperous farm at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Coosa County on 29 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed First Corporal about August 1862.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 26 September and furloughed to Wetumpka, AL on 4 October 1862. He was wounded again, at Davis Farm near Petersburg, VA on 18 August 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Richmond, VA on 10 April 1865.

He was in Texas when his second child was born in 1869 and by 1880 he was a farmer in Colorado County, TX. By 1900 he was farming in Jones County, TX and he was still a farmer in 1910, then in Stonewall County, TX.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave as Jacob Ashland Flournoy.

He married Euliah Mattie Varner (1848-1915) in October 1866 in Coosa County, and they had 7 children.

09/18/1841; Chambers County, AL

10/07/1919; Rochester, TX