Individual Details

Hinche Parham Mabry

(27 Oct 1829 - 21 Mar 1884)



Here is another of the weird coincidences I’ve encountered. My husband’s relative, George W. Holderness, brother of Don’s gg grandfather, Robert C. Holderness, wrote to another brother, Algernon, from his Civil War camp in Selma, Alabama on 9 Jun 1864. In the letter he mentioned that his company was then under the command of Col. Mabry.
Col. Mabry, was Hinche Parham Mabry, born 1829 in Georgia, who had entered the war as a Captain in the Third Texas Cavalry, but had been promoted to Colonel in July of 1862. By March of 1864, Col. Mabry was leading a brigade of under-strength Arkansas and Mississippi units in Mississippi. His men captured a federal gunboat on the Yazoo River on April 22, 1864. It was the Petrel. George Holderness’s letter describes the taking of the Petrel – one of the “perks” was the fresh coffee from the captured stores.
By October of 1864, George was ill and sent to Ross Hopital in Mobile where he died on November 17th. In the letter in June, he had told his brother, “my health is still very good”.
Col. Hinche P. Mabry is a distant cousin of mine. A fourth cousins, five times removed, is the precise relationship. Col. Mabry and I both descend from sons of the immigrant Francis Mabry , who died 1712 in Sussex County, Virginia.

Events

Birth27 Oct 1829Laurel Hill, Carroll County, Georgia
Marriage1854Sarah Abigail Haywood
Military1862 - 1865Capt in 3rd TX Cavalry and Colonel, Civil War
Death21 Mar 1884Sherman, Grayson County, Texas

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