Individual Details

Marriage

According to the 1869 census the spouse of Mary was James H. Chancey, He was 38 yrs old and born in SC. Mary was 25 and born in Dale Co. AL.
Their first child Dicyann age 16 was born in Henry Co., AL
The next 6 children were born in Dale Co.,AL. The last child on this census, Lucy was born in Clarke Co., AL.
James probably died between the census of 1870 and the end of 1875. There is a marriage record for a Mrs. Mary Chancy to W. G. Dungan dated Dec. 14, 1875. This is Washington G. Dungan. They are on the 1880 census. Washington Dungan is 60 years old and Mary is 44. They have one son George age 3. Also living with them is Roda and Jasper Chancy. Rhoda Chancey married John G. Smith in 1882. They are both buried in Ulcanush cemetery in Clarke County near Coffeeville.
Dicy married Rober B. Cave in 1862 and they were in Wilcox County, AL on the 1870 Census.

Military

Name: Robert B. Cave
Also Known As Name: K.B. Cave
Also Known As Note:
Event Type: Military Service
Military Beginning Rank: Private
Military Final Rank: Private
Military Side: Confederate
State or Military Term: Alabama
Military Unit: 32nd Regiment, Alabama Infantry
Military Company: H
Note: Original filed under K.B./Cave
Affiliate Publication Title: Index to Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Alabama.
Affiliate Publication Number: M374
Affiliate Film Number: 7
GS Film number: 821955

Military

Deserted between Enterprise and State Line Station

Military

Roll of Prisoner of war
captured by Forces under Major Gen'l Thomas at the times and places set opposite their respective names and forwarded to Capt. S E Jones, Provost Marshall at Louisville, Ky Dec 6, 1863

Military

Transferred to Rock Island Barracks, Illinois.
The barracks were enclosed by a stockade fence 1300 feet long, 900 feet wide, and 12 feet high. A board walk was constructed on the outside of the fence, four feet from the top and sentry boxes were placed every one hundred feet. There were only two openings into the enclosure; these consisted of double gate sally ports located on the east and west ends of the fence. A strong guard house was erected outside the enclosure at each of the two gates.

The Commissary-General of Prisoners, Colonel Hoffman, made an inspection of the prison in November 1863 and in his subsequent report to the Secretary of War reported the prison at Rock Island had not as yet received prisoners. Just a few days before Colonel Hoffman's inspection trip a large fire had destroyed several of the prison barracks in Camp Douglas located near Chicago, Illinois. Colonel Hoffman, in his report to the Secretary of War stated it was his intention to transfer one thousand of these prisoners left without shelter to Rock Island Prison Barracks.
This transfer did not occur, however, and it was not until December 3, 1863 that the first group of prisoners arrived at the Rock Island prison. These men, numbering 5,592 in all, were a part of the group of prisoners captured by General Grant's Army in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge on November 24th and 25th.

There must have been a great deal of suffering in this group on their arrival. They were far from their homes and the coldness of the climate must have left them half frozen for on the day of their arrival the temperatures dropped to 32 degrees below zero. This condition was aggravated by sickness among them, the worst disease being the dreaded small pox. The prison doctors found 94 cases of this disease in the group and all had been exposed to it. The prison surgeon in charge, Doctor J.J. Temple, his assistant Surgeon Iles - an old man, and Doctor Moxley were faced with the responsibility of checking this terrible disease without hospital wards or adequate medicines. According to the report made by the Assistant Surgeon General A.M. Clark, after making his inspection of the prison in February 1864, Doctor Temple was not aware of the extent of his authority or duties as a surgeon in charge, Doctor Iles, although skilled professionally, was completely bewildered; and Doctor Moxley was a very young officer only commissioned a short time, anxious to do his duty but entirely unfitted both by temperament and experience for a charge of such magnitude.

On December 3, 1863, the first prisoners -- 5,592 in all -- arrived at the new facility. On the day of their arrival, the temperature stood at thirty-two degrees below zero and two feet of snow lay on the ground. Worse, it was discovered that ninety-four of those prisoners had smallpox. Hoffman had neglected to include any construction plans for a hospital at his new prison camp. Consequently, the sick had to be left in the barracks among the healthy. By the end of the month, 245 were sick, from smallpox and pneumonia, and 94 had died. Before long, there would be an average of more than 250 deaths a month in the prison’s first four months of operation.

By the end of January 1864, little more than seven weeks into its existence, 635 of the 8,000 POWs confined at the Rock Island facility were sick, and 325 had died. During the same period, seven of the guards had perished. The POWs, as at nearly all the facilities by this time, no longer cared, or were unable to properly police the grounds or make any substantial effort at any kind of sanitary practices. Rock Island was in the midst of coping with an epidemic and was still without a hospital. When Surgeon and Acting Medical Inspector Augustus M. Clark arrived on February 10, he immediately directed that certain barracks in the southwest section of the compound be designated as hospital facilities and that pesthouses be erected about a half mile outside the prison along the south shore of the island. By end of February, there were still 708 sick and another 346 deaths. The 671 burials took place in a graveyard established about four hundred yards south of the prison. The site was then moved in mid-March, at Clark’s suggestion, to a new site one thousand yards southeast of the prison. Union guards, who were succumbing to the smallpox in increased numbers, were buried one hundred yards northwest of the POW cemetery.

The pesthouses were completed that same month and all prisoners suffering from smallpox were moved there. The eleven barracks previously used for them were thoroughly cleaned and whitewashed and, afterward, used as noncontagious disease wards. Meanwhile as prisoner rations were reduced and the savings placed in a prison fund, a hospital was built from $30,000 that was eventually accumulated in the account.

Military

Prisoner of War since November 25 1863

Military

Robert B Caves born Clarke County, Alabama, age 25 years, 5 feet 10 inches, blue eyes, light hair. he enlisted at Coffeeville, Alabama and was listed at prisoner of war by his unit.
Captured at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee on Nov 25 1863 and listed as a prisoner; first at Nashville, Tennessee than at Louisville, Kentucky and transferred to Rock Island Illinois, was a private in Company H, 32 Regiment of the Alabama Infantry
October 15, 1864 in Rock Island Illinois by Captain R H Rathbone
Remarks: Wounded in action with a band of hostile Indians near Midway Station, N J; May 12, 1865
Mustered out at Fort Leavenworth on November 29, 1865, paid to June 30, 1865

Residence

J W Cave and Edmond Allen are near nieghbors

Census

Clarke County, Alabama, Lower Peach Tree Bt, family 321, line 29 page 336
Robert B Cave age 30 farmer personnal property $300 born Alabama
Dicy R age 25 Housekeeper born Alabama
Braxton age 1 born Alabama

Census

Robert B Cave age 40, farmer, born Alabama and parents born South Carolina
Rebec.. age 35 wife born Alabama and parents born Alabama
James S age 8 son born Alabama
Robert M age 6 son born Alabama
Florence age 5 daughter born Alabama
Almena C age 2 daughter born Texas
Ida age 1 daughter born Texas
David C age 1 nephew born Texas mother born Alabama father [blank]

Marriage

Wood County, License # 1340
R B Cave and Miss Martha E Logan; married 29 February 1888 by S M Lipscomb, J P

Marriage

Rebecca Elvira Vaughn
Daughter of Reuben Vaughn (1849-1894) and Mary Elizabeth Reece (1852-1930), Beckey was 11 years old when her mother married Robert Bruce Cave on March 13,1892 in Wood County, TX and the 7 Vaughn children joined 12 Cave children on Robert's farm. Within 10 years 3 of the Vaughn and 3 of the Cave kids intermarried.

Census

R Bruce Cave, born June 1839 married 30 years, born Alabama father Alabama Mother South Carolina, is a farmer
Mary E born March 1854 has had 12 children and 8 alive, born Alabama father Tennessee mother Alabama
Edna daughter, born July 1881 in Texas father Alabama mother Georgia
Columbus S, son born Oct 1878 in Texas father Tennessee mother Georgia is a farmer
Haywood, son born April 1884 in Texas father Alabama mother Georgia at school
Bertha daughter born March 1891 in Texas father Alabama mother Georgia at school
Nora daughter born July 1894 in Texas father Alabama mother Alabama
Thomas Vaughn stepson born Jan 1880 in Alabama parents born Alabama
Rebecca E Vaughn, step daughter born May 1881 in Alabama parents born Alabama
Elmer Vaughn step son, born April 1886 in Alabama parents born Alabama
Orie Vaughn step daughter born Oct 1888 in Alabama parents born Alabama
Donnie E Vaughn step son born Nov 1891 in Alabama parents born Alabama
Mertie L Vaughn Grand daughter born 1899 in Texas father Alabama mother Texas

Census

Robert B Cave 70 years old married 3 times, married 12 years, born Alabama, father born Alabama, mother born South Carolina, is a general farmer, owns farm free of mortgage
Mary E wife, age 56 married 2 times, has had 12 children and 8 alive, born Alabama, father born Alabama, mother born Tennessee
Donnie E. Vaughn, step daughter age 17 single, born Alabama, and parents born Alabama
Myrtie L Vaughn granddaughter, age 10 single born Texas, and father born Alabama, mother born Texas

Census

Robert B Cave age 80 owns farm free of mortgage, born Alabama and parents born Alabama
Mary E age 64, born Alabama and parents born Tennessee
Mytre Vaughn age 20, granddaughter, born Texas, father born Alabama and mother born Texas

Death

Robert B Caves Private US Volunteer Infantry; 3d regiment
Invalid application Aug 2 1906 and March 12, 1907
Widow application December 15 1920
Enlisted October 1864
Discharge November 29, 1865
died October 20, 1920 in Quitman, Texas