Eugenius Corydon Kinnebrew

He enlisted in Athens, GA on 17 July 1861 as a Private in the Troup Artillery.

He was slightly wounded in the face in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Corporal on 15 November 1862 and was with his battery to at least the end of 1864, the last record in his file.

By 1872 he was a lawyer at Elberton in Elbert County, GA and later in that decade in Greensboro, Green County and he worked at least 2 cases before the Georgia Supreme Court, in 1875 and 1878. By 1880 he was a lawyer in Athens, GA. He was appointed US Commissioner to the Fifth Circuit (Southern Georgia) in 1897 and was in that post to at least 1908. In 1910, going by Corry, then age 70, he was a lawyer in general practice with an office at College Avenue and Clayton Street. By September 1912 his office was on Becker Street.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Eugenius C. Kennebrew. His wound from a list of casualties published in the Athens Southern Banner of 8 October 1862 - from a letter from Captain Carlton to Carlton's parents; thanks to Laura Elliott for transcribing that. Personal details from family genealogists, the Catalogue,2 the US Census of 1880-1910, The Lawyers of Georgia (1872), the Register of the Department of Justice (1902, 1908), and advertisements in the Athens Banner of 25 October 1910 and 11 September 1912. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Georgia Anne Lyle (1841-1905) in August 1859. He married again, Osceola M "Ossie" Briscoe (1880-1963), a woman 42 years his junior, in September 1906, and they had a daughter Corrie (later Shores, 1908-1996).

07/30/1838; Oglethorpe County, GA

12/07/1913; Athens, GA; burial in Rest Haven Cemetery, Monroe, GA