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Blevins, Ernest Everett
704 Crystal Bay Road Villa Rica, Georgia 30180 United States Email Address: blevins@alumni.cofc.edu
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Blevins, Allen
Branch of Service: Army-Infantry Company/Regiment: Company E 1st East Tennessee Date of Service: 17 July 1862 Starting Rank: Private Discharge Rank: Private Date of Discharge: 7 February 1863 Reason for Discharge: unfit for duty 90 days tuberculosis/choric diarrhea |
I am a member of the following:
| 1 | Maurice Everett Blevins | Relationship: | Father | |
| Birth Date: | 30 March 1928 | Birth Location: | Franklinville, New Jersey | |
| Death Date: | living | Death Location: | ||
| 2 | Ernest Irving (IV) Blevins | Relationship: | Father | |
| Birth Date: | 4 October 1896 | Birth Location: | Seymour, Finley Twsp, Webster, Missouri | |
| Death Date: | 26 April 1979 | Death Location: | Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina | |
| 3 | John William Blevins | Relationship: | Father | |
| Birth Date: | 13 May 1864 | Birth Location: | Cumberland County, Tennessee | |
| Death Date: | 22 December 1928 | Death Location: | Seymour, Finley Twsp, Webster, Missouri | |
| 4 | Allen Blevins | Relationship: | Father | |
| Birth Date: | 23/26 February 1831 | Birth Location: | Laurel County, Kentucky | |
| Death Date: | 9 October 1913 | Death Location: | Solsberry, Highland Township, Greene, Indiana | |
Additional Biographical Information
See Photos from the Past at http://suvcw.org/past/ablevins.htm for bio and ancestor photograph.
Allen Blevins was born on February 23 or 26, 1832 of Rial or Ryal Blevins and Isabella Cornett Neal (her second marriage) of Clay County, Kentucky and later Laurel County, Kentucky. Late 1836, Allen was in Roane County, Tennessee with his father and step-mother, Lititia or Lintitia (?) (married after 1834 and before 1838); a sister, Mary, and three half siblings (William - born around 1838, John Hill - born around 1840, and Thomas - born around 1845). By 1860, Allen lived in Cumberland County, Tennessee with his wife Eliza Basket. He is listed as a farmer on his military records and several of the cenuses. Although some records show Allen with middle initial H it appears that this was only added in and not really representative of a name.
Allen Blevins did not join immediately when the War Between the States broke out (although his half brother John Hill Blevins left the Confederate county of Cumberland and served throughout the War also in Company I, 1st Regiment (East) Tennessee Volunteer Infantry). On July 17, 1862, Allen joined Company E, First Regiment (East) Tennessee Volunteer Infantry at Camp Cottrell at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. He appears there shortly after John H. Blevins was on furlough and it is suspected that he was recruited by his half brother. Regimental history shows this was under General Morgan of the Army of the Ohio. It appears the regiment during Allen Blevins’ service was assigned to Cincinnati, Ohio; Bowling Green, Kentucky; Louisville, Kentucky; and fought at Stone’s River in December 1862. It is unlikely Allen Blevins actually fought at Stone’s River because his discharge papers list him as unfit for 90 days and it is unknown if he did supporting work when not in the front lines. It is possible that he participated in several skirmishes in East Tennessee, but this is unclear – only the fact the regiment was in the right place and the ri
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