Rhodes, Andrew; Priv. Co G, 57th IN Inf. Was a shoemaker and at beginning
of Civil War, closed his shoe shop and traveled to Kokomo to volunteer
his services mustering in 11-18-61, going at once to the front. He was
killed Dec. 31, 1862, at the Battle of Stone River, being the first man
from Fairmount Township to lay down his life in defense of his country.
His remains were buried in the Stone River Nat'l. Cemetery, Lot N-5460.
He had married Miss Sarah Mann and fathered 2 children; John L. and Jennie
(for unknown reason, children spelled name as Rhoades, may be due to fact
that gr.father Mann, who raised them, was illiterate). In a letter written
by his son in 1917, he wrote, "I was a small boy but remember quite well
when the stage brought the letter to mother saying my father had been killed
at the Battle of Stone River, on Dec. 31, 1862. He belonged at his death to
Co G, 57th IN Volunteers. After father's death, mother sold the shop (which
was located 1/2 block east of intersection of Washington and Main streets on
south side). We have in our home a ...picture of him in his uniform."
Andrew's wife Sarah (Mann) Rhodes had 2 brothers; John and Andrew Mann (from
Gaston IN )who were in the Civil War. They contracted the measles while in
service and died. Her father Andrew Jackson Mann (of Gaston) also served in
the Union Army during the war.
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FLY, GEORGE WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE (1835-1905). George Washington Lafayette Fly, Confederate Army officer and Texas legislator, the youngest of ten children of William and Mary (Mitchell) Fly, was born on June 2, 1835, in Yalobusha County, Mississippi; in 1846 the family moved to Sharon, Madison County. Fly enrolled at the University of Mississippi in 1851 but after one term went to Madison College, where he graduated in 1853. He then traveled to Texas to join his parents, who had settled on Oyster Creek in Brazoria County earlier that year. At the death of his father in 1855 he moved with his mother to Big Hill Prairie in Gonzales County. There he became a planter.
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