Benjamin Marion Stonaker

Going by Marion, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.

He was wounded by a gunshot through his right thigh in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was on wounded furlough to 19 January 1863. He was wounded again, in his right thumb, at the Wilderness, VA on 12 May 1864, and it was amputated near his palm. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1907 he was a farm worker in Pike County, GA. By 1910 and to at least 1920 he was farming in Spalding County.

He died in Griffin of pneumonia on 4 December 1924; his daughter Lucy reported he was 97 years old, which would put his birth in about 1827.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, as Marion Stonicher, and from Henderson,2 as B. Marion Stonaker. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1920 (also as Benjamin Stonacher, B.M. Stenaker, Stanker, etc) and his 1900 and later Georgia soldier's pension applications, online from the Georgia Archives; he called himself Marion Stonaker and gave his birth variously in 1822 and 1824.

He married Mary Ann Weaver (1841-) in May 1859 in Fayette County, GA and they had a daughter, Lucy.

03/19/1834; Chambers County, AL

12/04/1924; Griffin, GA