Alexander H. Woollums

1843 - 1865  (22 years)

• Name	Alexander H. Woollums  [1, 2]
  Born	1843	Kentucky, USA   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Military	28 Feb 1865	Camp Butler, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA
  	The regimental history of the 155th Illinois Infantry states that it mustered at Camp Butler on this date. On 2 March 1865 the 904-strong regiment marched through Louisville and Nashville to Tullahoma, Tennessee.
  Died	7 Apr 1865	General Hospital No. 1, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA   [4, 5, 6, 7]
  	Alexander Woollums died just about two months after he mustered into Co. A, 155th Illinois Infantry. Ironically, his death date was 7 April 1865--the day that Grant demanded Lee's surrender. The surrender took place on 7 April 1865.
  Buried	Nashville National Cemetery, Madison, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA   [4]
  Person ID	I3222	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	22 Apr 2013

  
  

  Family	Ritha Salina Walker,   b. 9 Jan 1843, Humphreys County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 23 Feb 1922, Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois, USA  (Age 79 years)
  Married	28 Dec 1862	Dickson County, Tennessee, USA   [2, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Louisa Alexandria Woollums,   b. 16 May 1865, Carlyle, Clinton County, Illinois, USA ,   d. 14 Feb 1953, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2011
  Family ID	F925	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents		Ritha S. Walker, marriage to Alexander Woollums, December 1862, Dickson County, Tennessee "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2011), for Alexander Woollums-Ritha S. Walker, Dickson County, [book not stated]: 45, license no. 1499, 27 December 1852, and return, 28 December 1852; citing Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and…
  		Hardin Franklin Sharp biographical entry in book about Henry Sharp and descendants. Includes material on Ritha S. Walker and her daughter Louisa Woollums. Elizabeth Cobb Steward Eastwood and Helen Sharp Wickliffe, comp., Henry Sharp (c. 1737-1800) of Sussex County New Jersey and Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and his wife Lydia Morgan and some of their Descendants. . . . (Cleveland, Oh.: n.p., 1975), 68, for Hardin Franklin "Frank" Sharp.

  
  

• Sources

  [S616] Illinois, Clinton - census 1880, (1880 U.S. census, Clinton County, Illinois, population schedule), Carlyle township, enumeration district [ED] 84, p. 28 (penned), p. 522-D (stamped, verson), dwelling 19, family 19, J.M. Journey household; (Reliability: 3), 2 Jun 2008. [S1847] "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2011), for Alexander Woollums-Ritha S. Walker, Dickson County, [book not stated]: 45, license no. 1499, 27 December 1852, and return, 28 December 1852; citing Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville. [S993] IGI, ((http://www.familysearch.org)). [S1846] "Nashville National Cemetery," database of Civil War era soldiers,Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, Inc. (http://www.bonps.org/ : accessed 5 December 2011), for Alexander W. J. Woolums [Woollums], private, 7 April 1865. [S1298] Military - Civil War pension files (Union, NARA). My page 45 [S3322] "Company A, 155th Illinois Infantry," database of roster, Illinois in the Civil War: A Project to Put Illinois Civil War Rosters and History on the Internet (http://civilwar.illinoisgenweb.org/ : accessed 20 April 2013), entry for Alexander Woolums, private, died 7 April 1865, Nashville; citing Military and Naval Department, "Muster and Descriptive Rolls," Record Series 301.020, 89 volumes, Illinois State Archives, Springfield. [S3339] "U. S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865," index and digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 April 2013), for Alex Woollum, died 7 April 1865, General Hospital No. 1, Nashville; citing War Department, The Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 94, Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, compiled 1861-1865,, ARC Identifier 656639, NARA, Washington, D.C. [S1851] John M. Journey (Pvt., Co. F, 49th Ill. Inf., Civil War), pension application no. 262,224, certificate no. 186,802, Case Files of Approved Pension Applications..., 1861-1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington, D. C. , Declaration of Minor Children for Pension (18 May 1868). [My page 8, stating that Alexander Woollums died in Nashville, Tennessee, of measles on 7 April 1865, and Ritha married John M. Journey on 7 June 1866.]