William Johnson Cude

A 26 year old farmer on his parent's place in Montgomery County, TX, he enlisted in Montgomery County as a Private in Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 10 April 1862.

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but not at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was with his Company into May 1864 and was granted a 30 day furlough back to Texas on 15 May. Apparently he never returned, as he was listed as absent without leave in August 1864 with no later military record. In a statement of unknown provenance of 28 March 1910, probably from a widow's pension application, a W.B. Berry wrote:

William Johnson Cude ... was disabled on or about the 15th or 16th of September 1863, and from such disability his leg was finally amputated.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was farming his own place at Danville in Montgomery County, FL. In 1900 he was a farmer in Grimes County.

Service information from Davis,1 as Wm. Coode, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Helen Ann Davis (1838-1872) in July 1859 in Montgomery County and they had 7 children. He married again, Gatsy Ann Mixon (1848-1932) in September 1874 in Conroy, TX and they had 4 more.

09/25/1834; Montgomery County, TX

03/10/1908; Plantersville, TX; burial in Plantersville Cemetery, Plantersville, TX