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 Noah D Rayburn |
| Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions suggested to the Southern Division, Special Examiner, W. R, King of Birmingham, Alabama for a thorough cross-examination of all the witnesses who have testified concerning the death of Noah Rayborn. Noah had been reported missing in action March 20, 1863 and the evidence as to the time, place and circumstances of his death were such as direct and positive character That rejection does not appear to be warranted without further inquiry. Witness should be asked to state whether they knew Rayborn personally and if not how is became generally understood that the name they refer to was Noah D Rayborn, and where it became so understood. The special examiner need not limit himself to original affidavits but it does not appear to be necessary to take another statement from claimant as she has probably told all she knows. Noah D Rayborn, 1st Alabama Calvary, Company D Pension Records, Case # 503341 Case of Sarah Rayborn, now Steward Deposition of Dr. D. C. Wheeler On this 13 day of Dec, 1905 at Huntsville, county of Madison State of Alabama, before me Mr. King, a Special Examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Dr. W C Wheeler, who, being duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him During this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says : Age 63 years, I am a practicing physician. Residence P.O. address Huntsville, Ala I remember the fact that a man was killed and buried in the banks of Buzzard Roost near Cherokee, about 3 or 3 1/2 miles distant. I took the bones up and put them together. I had forgotten about being present at the inquest or burial but since thinking over this matter and hearing you say that others who were present say that I was present I now believe I was present. I remember that the man had been shot right under one eye, the right, I think it was and I either saw the body at the inquest or saw the hole in the bone. The bone was broken I remember very well and I have had my finger in it many a time but until now I was thinking that I never saw the body until I exhumed it. I had not known the man prior to his death but I remember very well that it was generally talked about and understood in the community there abouts that the name of the dad man was Noah Rayborn. That was the understanding from the time or soon after I first learned of his death. My brother in law was the Justice of the Peace who held the inquest and he made enquiry and learned that the dead man was Noah Rayborn and that he was then living in Tishomingo Co. Miss. Since thinking further about the occurrence I now recall incidents of the inquest. Old man Alex Sides was a member of the jury that enquired into the death. I don?t think anyone at the enquest (sic) knew the dead mans name but it was only about 18 or 20 miles from his home and his people soon heard of his death and came in there to make further enquiry and they decided fully that the dead man was Noah Rayborn and I suppose I first found out as to this name the next time I came home on furlough. I cant fix the date of his death by reason of my absence from my command. I at that time I belonged to Gen Roddys command which was patrolling that community and I was frequently at the home of my sister, Mrs Benson, and for that reason I cannot fix the date of the killing. I think the body had been buried about 8 months when I disinterred the remains. I remember very well that the flesh had not all fallen off the bones. Yes - I remember that the war was still going on when I took up the bones. I have heretofore made a statement in this case. I made my former statement hurriedly and the dates may not be correct. I have heard you read my former statement and it is correct as to the facts but the dates as given you are I believe correct rather than those given in my former statement and I now remember to have been present and to have taken part in the enquest (sic) which I did not remember when making my former statement. When I went to disinter the body I recognized it as being the same we formerly buried. The grave had not been interfered with in any way and we found everything just as we Had formerly left it. I am satisfied n my mind that the dead man was Noah Rayborn. I have understood your questions and my answers are correctly recorded him. Signed : W.C Wheeler Noah D Rayborn, 1st Alabama Calvary, Company D Pension Records, Case # 503341 Case of Sarah Rayborn, now Steward Deposition of Mrs. Julia N Hamilton On this 6th day of Dec, 1905, at deponents home, county of Colbert State of Alabama, Before me, Mr King, a Special Examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Mrs. Julia N Hamilton, who, being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, desposes And says : Age 83, I live with my son Geo. W Hamilton, P.O. address Cherokee, Ala. I have lived right here since before the war. I am the widow of Wm G Hamilton. I remember about a man being killed down there at Buzzard Roost creek during the civil war. There was a shop right closed to this house owned by my father in law and was run by Mr. Alex Sides and three men Mitch Malone, Anse Porter and Ab Woods came by the shop with two prisoners and it was reported that one of the prisoners got away and that they killed the other one right down here at Buzzards Roost Creek. I remember very well seeing them go by the shop with the prisoners but I don?t remember them coming back. But I supposed they did for it was right on their road back home. Several days later Mrs. Sides when out hunting her calves saw a man lying down there by the creek but she did not go close enough to be convinced that it was a man and came to the shop and told her husband about it but he would not go with her and she came here and told me and asked me to go with her and we went and made Mr. Sides go with us and sure enough it was a dead man and we counted back to when the men passed the shop and it has been 14 days since the man was killed. The man has been gagged and shot right under the right eye and they said the ball had come out the back of his head. He was as black in the face as a negro and I thought at first that he was a negro but soon saw that he was a white man. Nothing had eaten of the body. An inquest was held and the body was buried by my information was that no coffin or box was used but that they just rolled him in a gray yankee blanket and buried him. Dr. Wheeler of Huntsville was present and took part in the inquest. I could not say that the dead man was one of the prisoners carried by the shop but Friday Hamilton and others did recognize the man as one of the prisoners. My information obtained about that time was that the two prisoners were ____Webb and Noah Rayborn and that Webb got away and Rayborn was the man that we found dead. I don?t know how we came to learn that the dead man was named Noah Rayborn but that was the name that we heard about the time the occurrence happened or while it was being talked about. He was killed in March and I reckon it was about 1864 but I cant say was to the year. The men claimed so it was said that they were taking the prisoners to Roddys Command at Cherokee but it was the talk that there was no Confederate Command at Cherokee at them time. Twas said that Malone and Porter had caught Webb and Rayborn trying to get through to the Union Army and they caught them. Malone came here and cut up a lot because I was talking about the killing and told my old man that he would kill him if he did not make me stop talking about it. I never heard of any reason why they killed Rayborn. I cannot fix the year when Rayborn was killed nor just how we heard that his name was Rayborn but his name became known to us in some way about that time. I have understood your questions and my answers are correctly recorded herein. Signed : Julia N. Hamilton Witness : W. L. Hamilton, Norah Hamilton Noah D Rayborn, 1st Alabama Calvary, Company D Pension Records, Case # 503341 Case of Sarah Rayborn, now Steward Deposition of Thomas Alex Sides On this 6 day of Dec, 1905, at Deponents home, county of Colbert, State of Ala, before me Mr. King, a Special Examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Thos Alex Sides, who being first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says: Age 78 years, I used to farm and blacksmith ? P.O. address Cherokee, Ala During the Civil War I lived right near here and run the blacksmith shop at Mr. Hamiltons. In 1863, I think it was, about the spring of the year three men Anse Porter, Hugh Cornelison and Ab Woods came by my shop about 10 oclock one morning in charge of two prisoners Strangers to me. Porter came in advance of the other and I asked him where he was going And he said ? we have two yankee and we are going to take them to Roddys Command? I dont know where Roddys Command was but they said that they were going to take the Them to Roddys Command at Cherokee 5 miles north of here. They told me that they caught the prisoners over on Bear Creek in a vacant house. They did not tell me who the prisoners were nor did I know either of them either. They spoke of the prisoners as Yankees. I suppose they knew the mens names but I don?t think they had known them personal before they caught them in the vacant house. Porter, Malone and Wood were riding and the prisoners were walking. No- I am not sure that Malone was along it was Porter and Cornelison that I knew personally. I did not know the 3rd man but afterwards learned that he was Ab Woods. Along in the evening Ab Woods came back to my shop alone and I asked him where the others were and he said that they were behind a piece and would be on in a few minutes and a little later the other two Porter and Cornelison came riding up and I asked Porter what they did with the prisoners and he said that they had gotten away. My recollection is that they said that Roddy was not camped at Cherokee as they had expected. Don?t remember that they told where or how the prisoners got away. No ? they said nothing about having killed the prisoners nor do I remember they said anything to indicate that they had killed them but I suspected that they had for they were bad men who made a business of running Union Sympathizers off to the Union Army then to take there property. I don?t remember to have heard any gun shot while the men were awat with the prisoners but a week or two later my wife found a dead man on the creek bank about 300 yards from my house. She first saw the man come distance away and told me that she believed it was a man and I hooted at the idea of a man being killed that close to our house and later she ventured closer and came to my shop and told me that it was a man and she and I and Mrs. Hamilton went and saw him and gave the news out and Esq. Jack Benson held and inquest and we buried the man there on the creek bank. We identified him as one of the men held prisoner by Porter, Wood and Cornelison and the verdict of the jury was that the unknown man came to this death at the hand of some of those men from a gunshot wound. No sir no one knew the mans name at that time but the matter was generally talked of and the talk became general that the dead man was Noah Rayborn. My information was hat the has lived in Franklin Co and seems to me that it was near Bell Green. I never heard of the finding of the other prisoners dead body but just supposed that he too had been killed. I cannot say as to when that man was killed, whether in 1863 or 64 but I believe it was in the Spring of 1863, for I remember that up to that time I had never saw a federal soldier and I looked at the two prisoners and saw they were just common looking men and I think I had seen plenty of Federal Soldiers in 1864, so I think that must have been in 1863 and not 64. I have heretofore testified in this claim. I have understood your questions and my answers are correctly recorded herein. Signed Thomas Alex Sides Witnesses : Norah Hamilton, Olia Hamilton Noah D Rayborn, 1st Alabama Calvary, Company D Pension Records, Case # 503341 Case of Sarah Rayborn, now Steward Deposition of Mrs. Martha Sofronia Sides On this 6 day of Dec, 1905, at deponents home, county of Colbert State of Ala, before me Mr. King, a Special Examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Mrs. Martha Safronia Sides, who being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to her during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says: Age 72 years, I am a housekeeper, the wife of T. A. Sides P.O. address Cherokee Ala. We have lived right here near this place since before the war and at this place since after the war. I remember about the dead man who was found down here on Buzzard Roost Creek during the Civil War. I found the man myself. My husband was exempt from serving because he was a blacksmith and did the shop work. He was working in the shop up here at Mr. Hamiltons and three men or four men I forget which came by the shop with two prisoners going toward Cherokee. I knew two of the men Mitch Malone and Anse Porter. Mr Sides knew the others but I did not. I did not see them when they passed along but Mr. Sides told me of them having passed the shop with the two prisoners. I don?t think Mr. Sides or anyone knew the prisoners. They reported to Mr. Sides that they were going to take the men to head quarters at Cherokee but it was reported that they killed them both. One on Buzzard Roost Creek down here near the creek and the other on Browns Creek about a mile this side of Cherokee. I never heard of the body being found of the man supposed to have been killed on Browns Creek but it was supposed that they had killed him down there. I think they came by the shop on a Wednesday about 10 or 11 oclock and Mr. Sides said that they came back by the shop around 3 oclock without the prisoners. As well as I remember the men told Mr. Sides that the prisoners got away from them. I heard a gun shot down on Buzzard Roost Creek about 3 oclock of the day when the men passed the shop and it developed that the men came back by the shop a little later and I suppose it was the shot that I heard that killed the man. About five or 6 days later I was looking for my calves and saw what I took to be a man down there on the creek but I did not go close to it. I was afraid to go close. I came back to the shop and told my husband and he hooted at me and 8 or 10 days later I was down there again with my niece Mary Burkhed now Mrs. Joe Mitchell near Hillsboro, Texas and we saw the man again and knew that it was a man and I went to the shop and told my husband again and a general alarm was given and all the neighbors came in and Esq. Benson (dead) held an inquest and buried the man right there on the creek bank. No box or coffin was used. He was to badly decayed. They just dug a hole and wrapped him in his blanket and buried him. I saw him buried and I know that no box was used. Dr. Wheeler of Huntsville was there at the inquest and burial and I heard that Dr. Wheeler took up his bones up and used them. As well as I remember no one knew the mans here at the date of his burial but it was talked of and within a few weeks it was learned or talked that his name was Noah Rayborn. He was said to have lived over about Bear Creek somewhere which is about 15 miles from here and people passing back and forth talked about the occurrence and it became the general talk that the dead man was Noah Rayborn and he had left a widow and lot of little children over there wherever he came from. Mr. Sides recognized the dead man as the same one who was carried by the shop a prisoner but he didn?t not know the mans name at that time. Mitch Malone married Mr. Sides niece after the war and my recollection is that Malone told that the mans name was Rayborn. All those men who had the prisoners are reported to be dead and I suppose they are. So Far as I ever heard there was no one in this community who knew the dead man and knew that he was Noah Rayborn but there has never been any doubt for all these years but that the dead man was Noah Rayborn but no one in here knew that for a short time after his death. Word came from down there where he had lived that the dead man was Noah Rayborn and we have always spoken of him as Noah Rayborn since that time. I am correctly recorded herein as read to me. Signed : Mrs. Martha Safronia Sides Witnessess : Narah Hamilton, Olia Hamilton Noah D Rayborn, 1st Alabama Calvary, Company D Pension Records, Case # 503341 Case of Sarah Rayborn, now Steward Deposition of Mr. Friday Hamilton On this day 5 Dec, 1905 at Cherokee, county of Colbert State of Ala, before me W. R. King, a Special Examiner of the Bureau of Pensions, personally appeared Friday Hamilton, who being by me first duly sworn to answer truly all interrogatories propounded to him during this special examination of aforesaid claim for pension, deposes and says : Age 74 years old, I am a carpenter, Residence P.O. address, Cherokee Ala. During the Civil War I belonged to Mr. Bill Hamilton (deceased) and I lived on his Farm on Buzzard Roost Creek about six miles south of this place. Q ) Did you ever know of any man being killed out there in that neighborhood by soldiers or other persons during the Civil War, If so tell me all you knew of it. |
| A) Yes Sir I knew about it. My Master had a blacksmith shop out there on the Cherokee and Pleasant Site public road about half a mile where said road crosses Buzzard Roost Creek and the Soldiers used to get their horses shad there and I was there at the shop one morning between 10 or 11 oclock I think it was, when Anse Porter, Mitch Malone and another man whose name I have forgotten, Yes I now remember his sur name was Cornelison all came by the shop with a prisoner and someone, Mr Alex Sides I think it was asked them where they were going to do with him and they said that they were going to bring him here and turn him over to Roddys Command. All were riding except the prisoner who was walking. Don?t remember that they had him tied or fastened in anyway. They stopped at the shop for a few minutes then passed on toward the creek and in a little while we heard a gun shot and about half an hour later these three men came back by the shop and someone remarked to them, ? You went to headquarters and back very soon? or something to that effect and some one of them answered, ?Yes we made a quick trip of it? and after a stop of a few minutes passed on. About 3 or 4 days I reckon it was, Mrs. Sides was out looking for her calves and she found a dead man right near the Creek (Buzzard Roost Creek) and about half a mile from the ford of the creek and right in the path that led to a foot log leading across the creek. Mrs Sides told her husband of the man that she had found and it was talked around and Esq. Benson (now dead) held an inquest over body and buried it right there. I was present at the inquest and helped to bury him. No Sir he was not buried in a coffin but in a common plank box made for that purpose. Yes Sir the box was as long as the man and I think Esq. Benson made it. I cant tell the exact date but it was about the first of March and I should say that it was 1863. There is no way by which I can tell the year but I think the war had been going on about two years and I know that it was about the first of March for we rolled logs about that time of year and I had been to a log rolling at Mr. Douthards and came along home after night and if I had been alone I would have come by the foot log and would have walked right over the dead body but in order to have company along home I went the wagon road by the ford and missed the dead man. |
| Q) Did any one at the shop know the man or did they find out at the inquest who the dead man was ? |
| A) Yes Sir Mr Sides knew who he was and I think it was Noah Rayborn. That is the name that I remember. No Sir I don?t remember that anyone else about there knew the man. No Sir The men who came by the shop with the mane were supposed to have killed him and were not present at the inquest. They were Confederate Soldiers. Yes Sir I recognized the dead mand as the same one who passed the shop in custody of Anse Porter, Mitch Malone and ____ Cornelison and there is no doubt in my mind but they killed him he had been gagged and had been shot right under one eye, the left as well as I can remember and the ball came of the back of his head. A good stick was in his mouth and tied there by a piece of suspender. Dr Wheeler now of Huntsville was a young doctor just home from school and he was present and examined the man. Yes Sir I personally remember that Dr. Wheeler was there, his father owned a farm near there and he was with his father. |
| Q) Do you know whether the dead mans body was ever removed ? A) I don?t know that it was but I heard that Dr. Wheeler took it up and used the skelton. I cant say as to when he took it up. Q) Dr. Wheeler testifies that he first knew of this dead man when he returned from the Confederate Army in July 1865. A) Well he was there at the inquest. I remember it just was well as I do that I am talking to you now for I remember just was well about him sticking his finger in the hole in the mans face. Others I think will tell you that Dr. Wheeler was there at the Inquest and testified concerning this dead man. Q) Well who talked to you about the occurrence and were you then able to remember the dead mans name or did someone them refresh your memory as to his name ? A) I don?t remember the name of the man who talked to me, Yes I do it was Buchanan, a red whiskered man, who claimed to be some relation of the dead man, and I remembered at that time that Mr. Sides said the mans name was Noah Rayborn. I had remembered the dead mans name ever since he was killed. Esq. Benson who held the inquest was Dr. Wheelers brother in law. Q) Now it sometimes happens that people forget when they first learned the name of such a victim. Are you positive that you have not heard this mans name the first time within the last few years. A) Yes Sir I have remembered the mans name ever since the day he was killed. Just as soon as the men passed the shop with the man old man Alex Sides who was there running my masters shop said that is ?Noah Rayborn? and at the inquest he testified that the man was known to him as Noah Rayborn and I have remembered his name ever since. Rayborns home at that time was said to be over about Bear or Rock Creek somewhere and about 10 miles form where he was killed. No Sir now one from that community was present at the inquest. Just the near neighbors nearly everybody there was in the army. When Rayborn passed the shop he had on a suit of homespun jeans, had on no soldiers clothes at all, had no overcoat, shawl or blanket, had no soldier equipment at all. The understanding there was that the man had deserted his country (the south) and had enlisted in the Yankee Army and claimed to be home on furlough when caught and killed. The only reason I heard assigned for them killing the man was because he had deserted his country and gone over to the Yankees. I cant fix the year of this mans death whether 1863 or 64 as stated in my former statement. I have no interest whatever in this claim. I have understood your questions and my answers are correctly recorded herein as read to me. Signed : Friday (his Mark) Hamilton Witnessess : C. W. Williams, M. C. Williams November 28, 1905, Sarah Steward sent a letter to her attorney in Washington DC, inquiring on status of her claim. Hon. M. L. Moran Dear Sir, As is has been some time since I have heard from you I would ask you to Please write me by return mail advising me how you are progressing with my pension claim. Please write at one, Resp Yours, Sarah Steward Report to Commissioner of Pensions, by W. R. King 14 Dec 1905 Sir I have the honor to return with report of special examination all the papers in the above cited claim for pension which was referred to the S. E. Division for a Thorough cross examination of all witnesses who have testified concerning the death of the soldier. In accordance with the suggestion of the reviewer I have not taken an additional statements from the claimant. The testimony herein shows that a man was killed on the banks of Buzzard Roost Creek and that it became generally talked and accepted that by the people of the community That it was Noah Rayborn. In addition to those whose depositions are herein I interviewed a number of persons and had heard that the dead man was the said to have been Noah Rayborn. I was unable to find anyone who personally knew that the dead was Rayborn but this report became common very soon after his death and it was never claimed that he was any other person, so it is presumed that he the soldier of record. Anse Porter, one of the men who is said to have killed te soldier is said to have lived at or near Danville, Yell County, Ark. some years ago and I recommend further examination at that place for his testimony as to the indentity of the dead man, if he can be found. Signed : Special Examiner, W. R. King Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions Notified the Post Master of Danville, Yell County, Arkansas inquiring as to a Anson Porter. For use in the claim for pension under the General Law #503 341, of Sarah Steward, formerly widow of Noah D. Rayburn, Co. D 1st Ala. Vol. Cav., you are requested to state on the reverse of this letter whether one Anson Porter is, or has been, a resident of your vicinity. If he now resides in your community, you are requested to state the location of his home, if dead, the date of his death- if removed, his present post office address. Very respectfully, J. C. Davenport, Pensions Commissioner Reply, Jan 1, 1906 Dear Sir, I am wholly unacquainted with any of the partie mentioned in your letter on the reverse side this sheet. Anson Porter does not live here now and if he ever did I can not find it out. Respectfully, Geo. Leming, PM The Auditor for the War Department Sir: In response to your call of the 3rd, received the 4th instant (IGP. 326-295,719), relative to the claim of Sarah Steward, of Maud, Colbert Co., Ala., formerly widow of Noah D. Rayburn, late of Co. D 1st Ala. Cav., Orig. #503 341. you are advised that the said claim was rejected on January 18, 1906, on the ground that the evidence filed, evidently the best obtainable, fails to show that the soldier was in the line of duty at the time of his capture and death, or that he was absent from this command under proper authority. The evidence shows that he was a straggler in citizen?s clothes at the time of capture by the rebels. I enclose herewith two Special Examiners? reports had in said case, which you are requested to return to this Bureau when they are no longer required. Very Respectfully, Commissioner May 3, 1909 Treasury Department, Washington Commissioner of Pensions Sir: For use in the claim of Sarah Steward widow of Noah D. Rayburn, alledged Pvt. Co. D. 1st Ala Vols (Capt. Kings Co.) please state whether the evidence in the case shows that the special examination made by your office gives the service of the soldier. The claimant alleges her claim for pension was rejected because the soldier was killed while on furlough. No number of claim given. **** Notes this was the last of the entries in this file, Sarah would have been 85 years old. Those who filed affidavits in Sarah?s behalf were : John Haithcock, Burleson, Franklin County, Alabama, June 29, 1891 Sarah Haithcock, Burleson, Franklin County, Alabama, June 29, 1891 Were Present at the death of Robert B Elliott, 17 July, 1855. Houston McKinney of Burleson, Franklin County, Alabama, June 29, 1891 States : Noah was previously married to Patsy Webb, she died in 1859 and Noah and Sarah lived together as man and wife till his death. James P Carr, Burleson, Franklin County, Alabama, July 18, 1891 (age 45 years) Nancy Rhea, Burleson, Franklin County, Alabama, July 18, 1891 (age 63 years) States : They were present at the marriage ceremony of Sarah Rayburn and James W. Stewart on the 1st of October 1865. Albert L Osborn, Franklin County, Alabama, November 13, 1893 States : He was well acquainted with Noah D Rayburn, and he has not been seen or heard from since March 1863, at which time he was reported to have been killed. James M Thorn, Burleson, Franklin County, Alabama, December 3, 1893 States : He was acquainted with Noah D Rayburn from his boyhood up to the war. He was married to Sarah Elliott and it was reported that he had come home and upon trying to return to his command, he was killed at Buzzard Roost Creek in Colbert County, Alabama. Thomas E Cooper, Belgreen, Franklin County, Alabama, November 3, 1899 W. J. Ledbetter, Belgreen, Franklin County, Alabama, November 3, 1899 States : Acquainted with both Sarah and Robert B. Elliott since 1849, declares that Sarah was not married prior to her marriage to Robert B. Elliott. R. J. Moody, Judge of Probate, Franklin County, Alabama December 5, 1899 I, R. J. Moody, Judge of Probate in and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that there is no record in this office of the marriage of Sarah Steward and Robert B. Elliott. That if the said marriage took place prior to December in the year 1890, a certificate of the same cannot be furnished from this office for the reason that our Court House, together with all the records were destroyed by fire on the night of December 4, 1890, and we have no record of any marriage in this county prior to that date. James W. Stewart, Burleson, Franklin County, Alabama, March 26, 1900 Nancy Rhea, Burleson, Franklin County, Alabama, March 26, 1900 They were both present at the marriage of Sarah and Noah D. Rayburn on the 1st day of April 1861, and were married by J. B. Cox Houston McKinney, Burleson, Franklin County, Alabama, May 18, 1900 A. L. Osborne, Burleson, Franklin County, Alabama, May 18, 1900 Neighbors to Noah D. Rayburn and to best of their knowledge, he never served in the Confederate States Army. J. W. Elliot, age 47 Highland, Tishomingo County, Mississippi, October 29, 1900 I am the son of Sarah Steward, and I was nine years olf at the time that Noah D. Rayburn my step father joined the U. S. Army and to my own personal knowledge Noah D. Rayburn never belonged ot served into any army prior to the time that joined the U. S Army. Information from Peggy Shaw |
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