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Pvt Thomas Archibald "Tom" Quinley

20 Feb 1846 – 25 Jan 1918

Birth	20 Feb 1846
Death	25 Jan 1918
Cemetery	Johnson Cemetery Whitehouse Forks , Baldwin County , Alabama , USA
Added by	The Wanderer on 14 Jan 2009
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5093349

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Tom Quinley grew up in the Flat Rock Community on the Sepulga River in Conecuh County, Alabama. He left there between 1870 and 1873 and came to Baldwin county. Tom's first wife was named Mary. It is said they had two children together. They could of been married under Indian law. He left them. Others say that Tom killed a man and fled. Eleanor Rogers, a great granddaughter of Tom's sister Emily Quinley , said he did come back about a year after he left to see his mother Elvie Johnson Quinley, but only stayed a short time. He may of came to Baldwin County because he had family there, since his wife Catherine's maiden name was Johnson. Tom served in the Confederate States Army, Company F of 23rd Battalion, Alabama Sharpshooters, during the Civil War. In his application for Civil War pension in 1902, Tom Quinley lists the value of his personal property as: 1 Horse @ $20; 3 cattle of all kinds @ $24; 20 goats @ $10; household and kitchen furniture @ $10; and Mechanical and Farming tools and implements @ $3. Bernard "Brenon" Quinley said that his father Tom would get so mad so mad at his mother Catherine that he would leave her and the children for weeks at a time. Catherine and the kids would have to fend for themselves. Brenon said Tom had this little place out in the woods he would stay at. His granddaughter, Emma Duck Trawick said that Tom Quinley was bedridden before his death. He loved to gaze up at the stars at night and wanted to do so this particular night. To fulfill Tom's request, his son Will, and another man stood Tom up and helped him walk outside. Tom remarked that if the archangel Gabriel blow the trumpet at that very moment he would be ready to go to Heaven. They brought him back in the house and Will said that his father died before was able to rest his whole body in bed. His death certificate says that he died January 25, 1918 at 2 A.M. Emma said she was so glad that her grandfather found peace with the Lord before passing on. Emma said she only had one clear memory of her grandfather. The first time she saw him was when she was about 5 years old. It was when he came out to Brady, now a ghost town, to see them when her youngest brother Horace Duck was born in 1917. That was the first and only time she remembered seeing him, which he got bedridden and died shortly after this visit. David Quinley , Tom's grandson, said that someone in Tom's family died in Conecuh County, he remembered or heard that his grandfather dressed up in a three piece suit and went back for the funeral. Someone said this was either his mother or first wife.

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FATHER PVT CO F 23 BN ALA SHARP SHOOTERS CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY

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