Submitted by Peggy Horton:
John C. Childers, b. October 3, 1846 (according to headstone; but
census records support 1845 as birth year); d. February 3, 1910, was the Father
of Henry Ivy Childers; John C. was the son of Elizabeth and
Henry W. Childers of Itawamba County, MS, and was the youngest brother of
my great grandmother, Mary Childers Boren Rains.
Both of John's parents
were dead by 1859, and he lived with an older sister and her husband until
her death about 1866. John enlisted in the CSA on March 1, 1862, at
the age of 16, serving in 2nd Mississippi, Company E -- his brother-in-law
with whom he had lived and a future brother-in-law (my great grandfather)
served in the same unit. All three of them were captured at
Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. John was exchanged as a prisoner of war
on September 25, 1863, while his brother-in-law and future brother-in-law
were not released from Fort Delaware until June 11, 1865.
Henry Ivy Childers, son of John C. Childers, was born about 1868 and died
about 1897 -- (have pictures of the headstones) his
headstone is next to John's in Section K of Oakland Cemetery.
