Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice My Civil War Ancestor Bradford County PA Chemung County NY Tioga County PA

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For April 2002 we dedicate the site to our Civil War ancestors. You may register yourself as a descendant following the directions below.

To qualify as a Civil War Ancestor, the person must have served in the military in the Civil War, on either side, as soldier or nurse, even though nurse did not have official military status. We particularly hope to hear from those whose confederate ancestors are buried at Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira. The person should be in some way connected to this area, either having lived here or buried here. Please submit to Joyce M. Tice, your path from you to the Civil War ancestor in the format below. Only entries following this pattern will be added to this page. Use birth names only, not married names, except for yourself. If you use a married alias, submit your name with both your real and married name (Example Jane SMITH Jones). Dates are not included except on the final link to the generation who served in the Civil War. Just email me the path with commas separating the names in your email, no numbers, just plain and simple so I don't have to edit more than necessary.. Use normal capitalization - No all cap or all lower case entries can be used as it will take my time to edit them. Please spell correctly, particularly Cemetery. Your name will be linked to your email address so that others on similar lines can contact you. If you have more than one Civil War link, submit each, from you to the generation of the Civil War - as illustrated. Submissions that do not follow this pattern, so that they can easily be added to the page, will be returned for modifications. If you do not have a known Civil War ancestor to include - keep looking and good luck. Maybe next year you'll have one.  PLEASE put Civil War Ancestor in your subject line to help me sort my email and not miss yours. I do not have a known Civil War ancestor - yet -  so had to "cheat" just a bit to give you a format example. You may include Regiment and place of origin IF you keep it BRIEF. Before submitting your email please review the directions and the example and be certain you have followed it exactly. I want to be able to just copy and paste and not have to edit. Thanks for being accurate the first time.

Joyce's Search Tip - January 2008 Do You Know that you can search  the site by using the Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the Current What's New Page? Family pages are listed on the Family list but also on the individual Township pages in the Photo, Bible, and other sections.

Please note that records at Woodlawn National Cemetery show a J. A. Dry buried in lot 1995.  His marker shows Co. H, NC 8th Regiment. All of this and other records match the Civil War Records of one Tobias Augustus Dry from Cabarrus County, NC.

While in Elmira in 1993, I found copies of original hand written records, one showing the cause of death, that clearly show how a T could be misread as a J.  Evidently someone else has proven this to be true.  I visited Elmira on May 21, 2003 and to my astonishment, the marker has been replaced.  The new stone reads T. A. Dry (I can send you a picture).  The caretaker could not tell me how the change came about.  The record at the cemetery still shows J.A. Dry.

Gary Walter

1 - Ralph Scott Moshier
2 - Ralph Mastin Moshier
3 - Nina Genevieve Mastin
4 - Joseph Edsell Mastin
5 - Robert James Mastin (R. James Mastin) E Co. 141st PA Vol Inf  Enlisted 25 Aug 1862,  Mustered out: 28 May 1865.  Buried Old Riverside Cemetery, Athens, Bradford County, PA

Sharon Phillips "McMurray", Betty Manis, William H. Manis, Sarah Matilda Smith, Junius H. Smith  63rd TN Regiment, Co. C, (Confederate) died Jan. 9, 1865 Elmira Prison, buried Woodlawn National Cemetery # 1217
                                               Sharon McMurray

Generation one Me: Silas David Douglas
Generation two my father: Silas Douglas
Generation three my grandmother Rosa (Conley) Douglas
Generation four my g-grandmother Samantha (Griffin) Conley
Generation five my g-g-grandfather Washington Jackson Jack (W.J.) Griffin
He served in the 7 Georgia Cavalry, Company G. He was captured on June 11, 1864 at the Louisa Court
House in Virginia. Then arrived at Fortress Monroe, VA on June 20, 1864 then onto Point Lookout, Maryland then
transfered to Elmira Prison, New York on July 25, 1864 then released from Elmira Prison with an oath of allegiance on July
11, 1865. He is buried in High Bluff Cemetery in Brantley County, GA. Born 1841 and died 1917.

Joyce Tip Box -- December 2007 - If you are not navigating this Tri-Counties Site via the left and right sidebars of the Current What's New page you are doing yourself a disservice. You can get to any place on the site easily by making yourself familiar with these subject and place topics. Try them all to be as familiar with the site's 16,000 plus pages as you can. Stop groping in the dark and take the lighted path. That's also the only way you'll find the search engines for the site or have access to the necessary messages I may leave for you. Make it easy on yourself.

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