Francis Parnell Dean

Son of a farmer, in 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his parents and 2 siblings at Americus in Jackson COunty, MS. He enlisted on 8 June 1861 in Mobile, AL and mustered as a Private in Company I, 12th Alabama Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his wrist in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded again, by a gunshot in July 1864, place not given, and was in a hospital in Charlottesville, VA to 15 September 1864. He was captured near Petersburg, VA on 25 March 1865, and was sent from Washington, DC to Point Lookout, MD on 30 March. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 13 May and was released.

In 1870 he was again living with his parents and sister MJ on their farm at Americus, MS but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer on his own place in Jackson County, MS. By 1910 and to at least 1920 he farmed in George County, MS.

His service from the Alabama Archives1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both as Francis Deane. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave; the photo of the man in uniform on that page is probably not him.

He married Isabelle Tucker (1850-1932) in 1871 and they had at least 11 children.

10/14/1840; Clarke County, AL

05/27/1925; George County, MS; burial in Dean Cemetery, George County, MS