Individual Details

Peter Horry Cantrell

(October 16, 1835 - October 16, 1905)

"Peter Horry Cantrell enlisted in Company A, Capt. L. N. Savage, 16th Regiment of Tennessee, Col. John H. Savage, C. S. A. He was in the battle at Perryville, Kentucky. At Murfreesboro, Tennessee, he had his kneecap knocked out of place by a minie ball. He was taken prisoner at Missionary Ridge in 1863 and confined at Rock Island, Illinois, until the close of the war. He was a farmer and lived for many years near McMinnville, Tennessee. He died on his seventieth birthday and was buried from the Concord Baptist church." (THE CANTRILL - CANTRELL GENEALOGY, 1908, by Susan Cantrill Christie, pages 78 - 79.)

"In 1870, we find that Peter's mother-in-law, Mary Purser, age 80, was living in his household. Elizabeth was born 1828." (CANTRELL - CANTRILL, 1972 by Horace Elbert Cantrell, page 407D.)

Events

BirthOctober 16, 1835Sink Creek, Warren County, now DeKalb County, Tennessee
MarriageMay 5, 1859Warren County, Tennessee - Sarah Green
MarriageNovember 11, 1865Warren County, Tennessee - Elizabeth Purser
DeathOctober 16, 1905Tennessee
BurialConcord Baptist Cemetery, Warren County, Tennessee

Families

SpouseSarah Green (1835 - 1860)
ChildShadrack Cantrell (1860 - 1868)
SpouseElizabeth Purser (1828 - )
ChildAndrew Jackson Cantrell (1866 - )
ChildMary Ann Cantrell (1868 - )
ChildMartha Jane Cantrell (1870 - )
FatherPeter Green Cantrell (1806 - 1869)
MotherMary E. "Polly" Cantrell (1808 - 1888)
SiblingIsaac Cantrell (1830 - 1899)
SiblingNancy Cantrell (1832 - 1858)
SiblingBenjamin Cantrell (1833 - 1883)
SiblingThomas Jefferson Cantrell (1837 - )
SiblingSarah Jane Cantrell (1839 - 1896)
SiblingWilliam Lafayette Cantrell (1841 - )
SiblingJohn Calvin Cantrell (1844 - 1919)
SiblingLeonard Cantrell (1846 - )
SiblingRobert Cantrell (1849 - )
SiblingMary Ellen Cantrell (1852 - 1922)