Dear Gambrell Researchers.....I am sending this as a wordpad document....enclosed as text in body of email...I find that this is more easily copied for those without genealogy software programs....I received this file from
D. McHenry...
Wade Gambrell
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Subject:
John Gambrell Files
Date:
Sun, 17 May 1998 12:52:30 -0500
From:
McHenry
To:
Robert Wade Gambrell

Note: This information on Pleasant Marion Gambrell was extracted from a larger email from D.McHenry of a GEDCOM which I edited for easier reading.(RWG)gambrelw@ix.netcom.com

1 NAME Pleasant Marion /Gambrell/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 22 May 1826
2 PLAC Honea Path Township Anderson County S.C.
1 DEAT
2 DATE 19 Oct 1864
2 PLAC Battle of Cedar Creek Virginia

 
Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia Links

http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/shenandoah/svs3-15.html
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va122.htm
http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va122.htm
http://www.winchesterva.com/cedarcreek/
http://www.winchesterva.com/cedarcreek/story.htm
http://www.winchesterva.com/cedarcreek/order.htm
http://www.winchesterva.com/cedarcreek/visitors.htm
http://personal.cfw.com/~dbcmc/bat1.htm
http://users.aol.com/dmsmith001/cedar.html
http://www.insiders.com/civil/tour03.htm
http://www.winchesterva.com/cedarcreek/courier/courier.html
 

  1 FAMS @F020@
1 FAMS @F277@
1 FAMC @F003@
1 NOTE @NI0045@
0 @NI0045@ NOTE
1 CONC

Pleasant Marion Gambrell
Pleasant Marion Gambrell


Pleasant Marion Gambrell was a prosperous farmer in the area in Anderson County, S.C. He was said to be tall and slender with a soldierly bearing. It is said that he had numerous slaves and an extensive farm operation. Jemima Caroline Mitchell Gambrell was a lady of distinction and delicate beauty, with blue eyes and blonde hair. She was the daughter of Ephriam Mitchell and Edna Ester Wyatt Mitchell. (See Mitchell-Pearman Book) After the death of Caroline in 1860, Pleasant remarried Elvira Geer. It was said that his children did not get along with her and upon his enlistment in the Confederate Army, they went to live with other relatives of Jemima Caroline's in the area of Honea Path. Pleasant Marion enlisted in the S.C. Volunteer Army on April 14, 1861; two days after the Confederate Army fired the first shot at Ft. Sumter. he then enlisted in Co. E. 20 Reg. S. C. Infantry on March 2, 1863. His name is on the muster rolls through June of 1864, the last payroll records. According to the records from the Battle of Gettysburg, Co. E. S.C. was under the command of Jubal Early in Kershaw's Brigade. Pleasant Marion was killed on October 19, 1864 in the Battle of Cedar Creek, VA. Place of burial is unknown. There are many graves of unknown Confederate soldiers at the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery in Winchester near the battle site. The director of the battle field museum directed me to that location since the dead were taken there for burial following the battle. (D. McHenry)

Mr. Boyce S. Mitchell wrote a letter in September of 1965 about his Grandparents, Narcissa Emaline and William Carter Alexander. The following are quotes from the letter. "In 1870 a small colony of south Carolinians came to Texas from Charleston to Galveston by ship. they then came by Railroad to Keene, TX. in this group were the following people: William Oliver Alexander and his wife Louisa Telford Alexander, his son William Carter Alexander and wife Narcissus Emaline Gambrell Alexander, her two younger brothers, George Washington Gambrell and William Ephriam Gambrell. Sarah Mitchell Gilkerson and her two sons. (I believe that she was Jemima Caroline's younger sister. According to the Mitchell-Pearman book, she had a younger sister named Sarah who married a Gilkerson.) Newt and Marion Mitchell, Jemima Caroline's brothers, and a bachelor by the name of Venal Kay. Miss Betsy Alexander, spinster sister of William Oliver Alexander (d.1873) buried at Cleburne, TX. This is a list given to me by my father. W. O. Alexander died about 1872 and is buried at Thorpe Springs, TX. His wife Louisa Telford Alexander is buried at Cleburne, TX (died 1872).

I often visited with my grandparents and they loved to tell stories of the Civil War. Grandmother, in her last days, thought that she was living again in the time. She would call her little brothers and felt that because they didn't come that they were hiding from the Yankees or that they had to hide from their stepmother. she was planning to run away from her childhood home, taking her little family with her because they were just not going to stay and be treated that way!!!. (Reference
to Elvira Geer , mean stepmother) She did indeed end up selling the plantation and took all the proceeds for herself after P. M. death. The children did incidentally go to Belton where their mother's brother in law, William Cox, took them in and gave them a home.
Narcissus Emaline was 11 years old when here mother died. I believe that she was 13 or 14 when she and her brothers went to live with Capt. Cox, she called him "Cousin Billy". she told stories of the plantation. it was her duty to carry the keys to the Commissary and give each slave their bacon and supplies each week. She also did spinning for the family. My grandfather met her in the spinning house when he called on Capt. Cox. My father is the oldest son of William Carter and Narcissus E. Alexander."




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