Individual Details

Joseph Thomas Sherer

(8 Apr 1847 - 3 Aug 1916)

Joseph Thomas Sherer, born 8 April 1848, Bullock's Creek, York County, South Carolina. Enlisted into the Confederate Army in May 1864 as a private in Co. K, 4th Alabama Cavalry; captured between Montevallo and Randolph Station, Alabama about 1 March 1865 and was kept in a stockade at Selma for about 15 days; paroled in Montgomery, Alabama.

Events

Birth8 Apr 1847Bullock Creek, York Co., South Carolina
Death3 Aug 1916Walker Co., Alabama
BurialOak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Walker Co., Alabama

Families

FatherThomas Sherer Jr. (1808 - 1888)
MotherJane Eleanor Kirkpatrick (1811 - 1886)
SiblingJohn Sherer (1840 - )
SiblingJonathan D. Sherer (1843 - )
SiblingSarah J. Sherer (1845 - )
SiblingCaroline Sherer (1850 - )

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