Samuel Gann of Winchester Va Family

From Nora Harris, 209 Rome St., Bowdon, GA 30108. From Judy L. Sims, 111 Brickhouse Rd, Oxford, AL 36203 (1990) 2/8/96.

Married by David Stephens, J.P. Recorded in Book B, Page 270, Clarke County, GA. Had resided in Clarke Co. and Cobb Co., GA and Clay, Randolph and Talludega Co., AL.

From Soldiers or Sailors Application for the Relief of Needy Confederate Soldiers and Sailors, Residents of Alabama, who from wounds or other cause, are now unable to earn a livlihood by labor, under Act approved FebruarY 13th, 1991: County of Tallagada..."James Gann who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that when a private in Company G of 46 Regiment of Georgia Vols and while in discharge of his duty on the ___ day of October 1864, between Yorktown & Richmond in the State of Virginia he was wounded in the left leg and in consequence of which wound or wounds, he has been rendered physically incapable of making a livelihood by labor; that he was a resident of Alabama on the 13th day of February, 1891, and is a resident at the date of this application; that he is engaged in no business but is helpless & in the Poor House of Tallagada Co..." Signed 10th day of April 1893 James (his X mark) Gann.

From Application of Widows of Deceased Soldiers or Sailors of the Armies of the Confederate States or the State of Alabama: "Your Petitioner, Francis Gann, respectfully represents to your Honorable Board, that she is a citizen of Cleburn County, in the State of Alabama, and was such on the 1st day of January 1899; that she is the widow of James Gann who served as a Home Guard under Capt. McGrogar in company...That her husband died on the 7th day of August, 1894..." Signed Francis (her X mark) Gann , Sources: Missouri Ann Dilda's New Testament; census records--1840 Cobb Co., GA, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 Randolph Co, AL; pension records - CSA; and gravestone.