My great grand uncle through the Greshams; my great grand uncle by marriage only through the Baughs.
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Born: about 1836, Georgia. 2
Parents: STERLING HOLCOMB RHODES GRESHAM* AND CATHERINE E. WINGARD*
Military: First Lieutenant, 28 June 1862, District 146, 16 Reg. 2nd Brigade Co., GA, Army of the Confederacy. 1 3
Married: 15 June 1858, Greene Co., GA. 1
Death: Unknown.
Burial: Oakland-Gresham Cemetery, Greene Co., GA. 5
Notes:
23 April 1853 TEMPERANCE BANNER, LEGAL NOTICES: Georgia, Greene County: Will be sold before the Court House door in said county on the first Tuesday in June, next, between the legal hours of sale, all the property belonging to Young F. and Albert W. Gresham, minors. Sold for their benefit. (Signed) Sterling A. Gresham, Guardian. 4
23 July 1853 TEMPERANCE BANNER, LEGAL NOTICES: Georgia, Greene County: Will be sold before the Court House door in said county on the first Tuesday in September, next, between the legal hours of sale, all property belonging to Y. F. Gresham, A. Y. Gresham and S. A. Gresham, minors. Sold for their benefit. (Signed) Sterling A. Gresham, Guardian. 4
8 July 1853 TEMPERANCE BANNER, LEGAL NOTICES: Georgia, Greene County: Will be sold before the Court House door in said county on the first Tuesday in August, next, between the legal hours of sale, all the property belonging to Young F. and Albert W. Gresham, minors of S. H. R. Gresham, late of said county, deceased. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate. (Signed) Sterling A. Gresham, Guardian.4
Listed as a farmer in the 1860 Federal Census, Greene, GA, in the 1870 Federal Census, Militia District 137, Greene, GA, and in the 1880 Federal Census, District 146, Greene, GA (wife Sarah not listed in 1880).
19 November 1868, THE GREENSBORO HERALD, LEGAL NOTICES: Georgia, Greene County: Young F. Gresham, of said County makes application to this Court for Exemption of Personalty and Valuation and setting apart Homestead of Realty; if no sufficient objection is made and filed in said Court thereto, I will pass upon said application at my office at next court session. (Signed) D. A. Newsom, Ordinary. 4
Spouse: SARAH JANE BAUGH
CHILDREN OF YOUNG FELIX GRESHAM AND SARAH JANE BAUGH:
(my first cousins twice removed through both the Baughs and the Greshams)
LAURA GRESHAM b. about 1860, Georgia. 2
YOUNG GRESHAM b. about 1862, Georgia. 2
ALBERT ERVIN GRESHAM b. about 1864, Georgia. 2
FRANKLIN GRESHAM b. about 1866, Georgia. 2
Sources:
1. "History of Greene County Georgia 1786-1886," Thaddeus Brockett Rice and Carolyn White Williams, J. W. Burke Co., Macon,
GA, 1961.
2. 1870 Federal Census, Militia District 137, Greene, GA.
3 Y. F. Gresham is also listed in GA 9th Inf. (St. Guards) Co. C (The Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865, Volume VI, Janet B. Hewitt, 1996).
4. Greene County, Georgia, Newspaper Clippings Volume I, 1852-1873, Tad Evans, 1995.
5. The Cemeteries of Greene County Georgia, E. H. Armor, Agee Publishers, 1987.
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