Edward Stephen Farish

In 1860 he was a 35 year old farmer living with his wife and 6 children at Rehoboth in Wilcox County, AL. He enlisted at Bridgeport, AL on 6 July 1861 and he mustered as a Private in Company A of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded by a gunshot at Cold Harbor, VA on 27 June 1862 and was in a hospital in Danville, VA to 30 July.

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

He was wounded by a gunshot again, at Davis Farm near Petersburg, VA on 18 August 1864, in a Richmond, VA hospital by 20 August, and was furloughed home for 40 days on 6 September. He was absent, recovering, for the rest of the war. He was paroled as a "straggler" at Selma, AL in June 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was again a farmer in Wilcox County.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, sometimes as Edward Stevens Farish, and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Davis (1829-1856) and they had 4 children between 1848 and 1856, when Martha died in childbirth or soon after. He married again, Sarah Jane Cannon (1829-1861) and they had 3 children between 1858 and 1861, when Sarah also died in/after childbirth. He married, thirdly, Laura Annie McMurphy (1842-1909) and she bore 14 (!) more between 1863 and 1886.

03/12/1825; Erie, AL

05/27/1904; burial in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Wilcox County, AL