William Henry Paine Jones

In 1860 he was a 27 year old trader living with (cousin?) Thomas G Macon and his family in Athens, GA. He enlisted there on 24 April 1861 and mustered on 8 May as 4th Corporal in the Troup Artillery. He was reduced to Private on 30 June 1861.

He was slightly wounded in the thigh by a piece of shell in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was appointed Guidon of the battery on 15 November 1862. He was court martialed in December 1863, charges not found, but his sentence was remitted in April 1864. He was with his battery to at least December 1864, the last record in his file.

In 1870 he was a farm worker on (in-law?) Lucy A Puryear's place at Athens, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wound also in a list of casualties published in the Athens Southern Banner of 8 October 1862 - from a letter from Captain Carlton to Carlton's parents. His nickname and further detail about his wound from a letter Private Hemphill wrote home, published in the Southern Banner of 1 October 1862; thanks to Laura Elliott for transcribing both of those articles. Personal details from family genealogists, notably Althea Jane Macon in Gideon Macon of Virginia and Some of his Descendants (1956), and the US Census of 1860 & 1870.

He married Eliza Mead Harrison (1838-1859) in January 1856. He married again, Martha Jane Puryear (later Lockhart, 1850-1938) in October 1866.

08/04/1832; Clarke County, GA

02/23/1872; Clarke County, GA