Notes for Josiah Baggett: Josiah was nicknamed Joe. His name is often written as Joseph. Legend says he walked from Illinois to Tennessee to join the Confederate Army. He married Betty in Montgomery County, Tennessee, and enlisted on 3 De. 1861 as a private in Company E, 49th Tennessee Regiment and worked on construction of Fort Donelson, near Dover, Tennessee. He went home on sick furlough and missed the Union capture of the fort. Josiah is first found in 1850 living with a farmer in Illinois where sons William Henry and James Edward were born. In 1870 the family is listed in Stewart County, Tennessee, and in 1880 the family was living in Montgomery County, Tennessee, near Shilo and Palmyra. He later listed his occupation as laborer and carpenter. Josiah may have named his sons after his brothers but this has not been proven yet. Jim Baggett found the burial sites of Josiah and Betty in Allen's family Cemetery in Shilo, Tennessee, in 1970. The graves where marked with two flag stones. In 1991 Martha Pauline Mier found the cemetery but could not locate the flag stones. NOTE: William Henry Baggett and James Edward Baggett married sisters.[v28t2586.ftw]
Josiah and wife Betty are buried in Allen's Family Cemetery in Shilo, TN.[v28t2586.ftw]
Josiah and wife Betty are buried in Allen's Family Cemetery in Shilo, TN.[v28t2586.ftw]
Josiah and wife Betty are buried in Allen's Family Cemetery in Shilo, TN.[v28t2586.ftw]
Josiah and wife Betty are buried in Allen's Family Cemetery in Shilo, TN.
More About Josiah Baggett: Died 2: March 22, 1916
More About Josiah Baggett and Betty "Elizabeth": Marriage 1: March 23, 1860, Montgomery Co., TN.269, 270 Marriage 2: March 23, 1860
Children of Josiah Baggett and Betty "Elizabeth" are:
Josiah Baggett (b. October 1832, d. March 22, 1916)
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