David Boozer Chupp

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents, 6 siblings, and 10 slaves on their farm at Lithonia in DeKalb County, GA. He enlisted in Decatur, GA on 1 August 1861 and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry. He was detailed as escort to return his brother Sammy's remains home on Christmas Eve 1861; Samuel Young Chupp (b. 1836) had also been a Private in Company C and died of pneumonia at Yorktown, VA.

David was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was home on furlough to at least 1 December 1862. He was detailed as a shoemaker about January 1864 and to at least 30 May, but was afterward with his company, and was surrendered and paroled with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he farmed his own place at Lithonia, GA. In 1910 he was working in a commercial grain mill there.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Jane Evans (1846-1935) in November 1862, and they had 2 daughters.

06/05/1840; Lithonia, GA

07/12/1912; Lithonia, GA; burial in Chupp Cemetery, Lithonia, GA