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Submitted: 4/20/21 • Approved: 4/25/21 • Last Updated: 4/28/21 • R411058-G0-S3
Alabama
PRIVATE CSA
Company G 7 Regiment Alabama Infantry
Civil War Confederate
July 29, 1846 - September 3, 1911
On last Sunday evening at 5:30 p.m. Mr. James Leatherwood formerly of Johnson County died at the home of his son. Mr. Leatherwood had been to church and stopped at his son´s, Henry, to take dinner. He ate a hearty dinner after which he walked out to the barn and when found was in a dying condition. They carried him in the house and sent for a doctor, but he was dead when the doctor arrived. All he ever said was "pain in my bowels."
Mr. Leatherwood came to Texas at the close of the war and settled in Johnson county near Cleburne. He was a member of the Baptist church, a member of Pat Cleburne Camp 88 UCV at Cleburne. He was a Mason belonging to the Blue Lodge at Cleburne. He also belonged to the Royal Arch Chapter at Crosbyton.
I have known him for 35 years. He gave me a job of work soon after I came to the state. He was a good soldier and a good kind, loving husband and father. He has finished his work and has gone to meet his loved ones who have gone before him.
Three years ago he lost his wife. They buried her on the farm close to the house. On Monday morning, Mr. Wooten and two other gentlemen and myself went to the grave, removed the remains and placed her by the side of him in the one grave in Crosbyton.
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