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John Culpepper Throgmorton

9 Dec 1819 – 26 Jul 1865

Birth9 Dec 1819
Death26 Jul 1865
CemeteryNashville National Cemetery
Madison , Davidson County , Tennessee , USA
Added byClint Alley on 14 Jun 2014
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30894060

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John Culpepper Throgmorton John Culpepper Throgmorton the son of Robert P. and Mary (Crittenden) Throgmorton of Bedford County, Tennessee was born 9 December, 1819. He had eight siblings: Edward Brook, William, Elizabeth, Sarah, Nancy, Robert P., Jane Crifton, and Mary B. Throgmorton. He married Virginia Couch. Virginia was born on 14 November, 1821 in Georgia. John married Virginia sometime before 1850. The family is shown on the 1850 Coffee County, Tennessee census with a son named William born ca. 1839. Bedford County court records indicate that John was appointed guardian of a minor, William M. Meadows in May 1855. The family moved to Wayne County shortly after 1850 and settled on Beech Creek. John's brother, Edward B. and his wife Patience also moved to Wayne County around this time settling in Carrolsville. John and Virginia had thirteen children all born in Tennessee: 1. Rebecca A. born 11/14/1842 married William Riley on 4/7/1858. 2. Mary Jane born circa 1843 married Alfred S. Cotham on 7/7/1859. 3. Elizabeth born circa 1844 married David M. Haynes on 2/2/1860. 4. Rosa David born circa 1846, died circa 1853-1856. 5. Eliza born circa 1850. 6. Patience Kisiah born 2/15/1851 married John W. Simmons on 6/5/1880 and died 7/20/1930. 7. Harriet J. born circa 1854 married Henry E. Davis on 12/18/1871. 8. Martha Virginia born circa 1856 married Brice Riley on 12/18/1871 and died in 1872. 9. John William born 4/9/1857 married Mary Jane Helton on 9/15/1874 and died on 1/27/1936. 10. Tennessee born circa 1859 married John William Brown. 11. Nancy J. born circa 1861. 12. Paulina P. born 12 January, 1863 married John Dempsey Hill on 3 September, 1878 and died on 6 January, 1940 and 13. James S Throgmorton born circa 1864. Patience and John William are buried along with their spouses at the Throgmorton Cemetery on Beech Creek. Martha V. and her spouse are buried alongside her brother David at the Riley cemetery on Little Beech Creek at Mill Branch. It is interesting to note that John's brother Edward was shown as a slaveholder on the 1860 Wayne County census and that John enlisted in the 2nd Mounted Infantry, U.S.A. during the Civil War. The unit spent much of the war around Clifton guarding the Tennessee River against Confederate cavalry crossings. Family tradition says that he spent his last night with his family in a cave hiding from Confederaters and then on December 10, 1864 the regiment was sent to Nashville to patrol the Cumberland River against Confederate Cavalry crossing. John was captured near Hampshire, Tennessee and sent to a prison of war camp it is believed in Cahaba, Alabama. Shortly before the end of the war, he was exchanged and sent up the Mississippi River on the overcrowded, ill-fated SS Sultana. His service record indicates he perished on the sultana. He survived the Sultana disaster and making his way back home, found himself sick in a hospital at Benton Barracks. He died of dysentery on 7/26/1865 and is buried at the National cemetery section J grave # 14847 on Gallatin Pike near Nashville Tennessee. Family tradition indicates that he reached Nashville on his way home and became ill after eating sugar. It is interesting to note that along with the Union soldiers just released from prison of war camps, sugar was the Sultana's cargo. His marker erroneously reads "J.C. Throckmorton". Virginia became known as widow Throgmorton and never remarried. The name "widow Throgmorton" was used in describing her property as a district boundary for census takers in later years. She died on 8/22/1886 and is buried at the Throgmorton cemetery on Beech Creek. The Throgmorton cemetery on Beech Creek contains many various spellings of the Throgmorton name.

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