Individual Details

Served with his twin brother, Rufus Herren, as a private in General Roddy's Escort; an Alabama cavalry unit in the C.S.A. Rufus Herrin is buried in Old Salem Baptist Church cemetery.
His pension application from 1919 shows his dates of service to be from Nov. 1863 to the close of the war in April, 1865. He claims to have been captured in Tuscaloosa County and was taken to Montgomery and paroled. Roddy's Escort was made up mostly from counties in Northeast Alabama and fought with Gen. Forrest at Selma in the final days of the war.
Received the Southern Cross of Honor for service in the Confederate army.
Newton was a brother of Caroline Herrin Jones (wife of Jolly Jones) who is also buried in this cemetery.

Birth	17 Aug 1844	Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Census (family)-shared	22 Aug 1860	(William Henry Herring and Harriett Mathews) Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Death	27 Jan 1918	Coaling, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Burial		Coaling Cemetery, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

Spouse	Lavina Annie Watts (1849 - 1927)
Child	William Monroe Herring (1867 - 1935)
Child	Dora Alice Herring (1880 - 1948)

Father	William Henry Herring (1801 - 1873)
Mother	Harriett Mathews (1813 - )
Sibling	Rev. William Jackson Herring (1831 - 1891)
Sibling	Jackson Herring (1836 - )
Sibling	Caroline Herring (1841 - 1913)
Sibling	Rufus Henry Herrin (1844 - 1928)
Sibling	Priscilla Herring (1853 - 1924)

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