Seburn Matthew Waldrop

In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old farmer at Rockford in Randolph County AL. He enlisted in Randolph County, AL on 6 July 1861 and mustered at Montgomery, AL on 19 July as a Private in Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 July 1863 to 31 October 1864 when he was sent to Point Lookout, MD and exchanged. He was probably captured by cavalry at Newton, NC and paroled there on 19 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Miller Valley/Almond in Clay County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, as Sebron M. Waldrop, and the Alabama Archives,2 as Seaborn M. Waldrop. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900; also seen as Sebron, Seaborn, and S. Matt Waldrop. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Elizabeth Daniel (1845-1885) in 1865 and they had 8 children. He married again, Sarah Mary Elizabeth Blanks (1853-1936) in August 1889 and they had 3 more children.

His cousin Matthew N. Waldron was also in Company D.

07/12/1843; Clayton County, GA

01/12/1916; Clay County, AL; burial in Bethany Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Mellow Valley, AL