CSA Veterans in the Selman Family Cemetery, Cherokee Co TX

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Permalink Reply by Russell Jordan on December 27, 2009 at 1:23pm

http://www.txgenweb2.org/txcherokee/Cemeteries/SouthernCem/selmanro... ---I saw 2 listed for that county but only found this one.

Permalink Reply by Sherry Hightower on December 27, 2009 at 2:17pm

Thanks Russell. I will pass this along.

Permalink Reply by James Alfred Locke Miller Jr. on December 27, 2009 at 4:20pm

I descend French marie aide Maj. Pierre Gabriel de Juzan of Mobile, AL, killed in combat against Chickasaws in the first 1730's Battle of Ackia, Tupelo, Miss. Military District. One of hiis fellow descendants was a western (Texas?) Indian Confederate soldier, (Sgt.?) Juzan (cavalry?). Would like to find his grave and kin. Likely he descends Juzan Lake, MS, inn keeper, Choctaw Chief, Capt. Peter Juzan who in the 1815 Battle of New Orleans let 52 Choctaws from the swamp against the British right flank. Later he was Choctaw conductor during the removal, and his brother William Juzan was Chickasaw conductor. Some think they know the location of Capt. Juzan's grave out west; but if it is not his; I believe he deserves a War of 1812 U.S. ally soldiers memorial stone at the small national cemetery at the BoNO battle site; the stone's obverse to record the 52 Choctaw's mission he led. My ancestor, then New Orleans lawyer, Adj. Lt. John W. Nixon, DeJean's 1st La. Militia, fought the British on the far west bank until over-run, when he spiked his two cannon and retreated. He later owned the Nixon House Hotel, Biloxi, and was entombed next to the waterfront highway in the Biloxi City cemetery. I believe Hurricane Katrina destroyed Lt. Nixon's tomb? If so, he too deserves a War of 1812 U.S. soldier's tombstone replacement. My 1815, 3rd U.S. Infantry, Col. Gilbert Christian Russell, Sr. (for whom Russell Co., AL, is named), had no stone at Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile. About two decades ago; the U.S. government furnished one and Magnolia Cemetery installed it gratis. It is across from "Confederate Rest", adjoining the Sossaman lot. Seek the Tenn. grave of his Battle of Kings Mountain father, Capt. Andrew Russell, Jr., of Abingdon, Va. As a Captain, Col. Russell was C.O. of Ft. Pickering below Memphis, and investigated and reported on the death of his friend, Capt. Merriweather Lewis. He also executed the six Tenn. militiamen (one really from Ky., "Six Coffins" posters) for his friend, Gen. Jackson. He is the "Col. Russell" mentioned in the posters. Jim Miller, Southport, N.C.