Individual Details
Robert Boyd Barfield
(19 Aug 1826 - 5 Feb 1848)
Events
| Birth | 19 Aug 1826 | Lauderdale, Tennessee, United States |  | ||
| Death | 5 Feb 1848 | Puebla de Zaragoza, Puebla, Mexico |  | |
Families
| Father | James Barfield (1780 - 1843) |
| Mother | Frances Pendleton Gaines (1798 - 1866) |
| Sibling | Frederick Barfield (1818 - 1875) |
| Sibling | Henry Pendleton Barfield (1819 - 1887) |
| Sibling | William Dickson / Dixon Barfield (1821 - 1895) |
| Sibling | James Barfield Jr. (1824 - 1832) |
| Sibling | Ira G. Barfield (1828 - 1864) |
| Sibling | Susannah W. Barfield (1831 - 1883) |
| Sibling | John W. Barfield (1833 - ) |
| Sibling | Alexander S. Barfield (1836 - 1836) |
| Sibling | Mary Frances Barfield (1838 - ) |
| Sibling | Needham Bryan Barfield (1840 - 1898) |
Notes
Death
Robert Boyd Barfield departed this life February the 5th 1848 at the city of Puebla in Mexico aged twenty one years five months and sixteen days (bible)Robert Boyd Barfield volunteered for service in the war against Mexico at Memphis, Oct 1847. He was wounded in action and left in a hospital in the city of Puebla, Mexico, when his company moved on. He died there on 5 Feb. 1848.
n 1847, the city of Puebla, Mexico, was taken by U.S. forces under General Winfield Scott, without a shot fired. These forces left in 1848 after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Endnotes
1. Rebecca Williams Harris, Daniel Williams and His Kin ,1987 ( pages sent Nov 2007 by Mildred Vander Hoeven mvanh@sbcglobal.net).
2. Family data, Frederick /Barfield/ Family Bible, The Holy Bible, (New York: American Bible Society, 1855); original owned in 1999 by Margaret Barfield Rucker, , Jackson, Tennessee, Mary Maud Barfield Webkes previous owner.
3. Rebecca Williams Harris, Daniel Williams and His Kin ,1987 ( pages sent Nov 2007 by Mildred Vander Hoeven mvanh@sbcglobal.net).
4. Family data, Frederick /Barfield/ Family Bible, The Holy Bible, (New York: American Bible Society, 1855); original owned in 1999 by Margaret Barfield Rucker, , Jackson, Tennessee, Mary Maud Barfield Webkes previous owner.