Individual Details

"William Lagayette Cantrell was in Company A, 16th Tennessee Regiment, C. S. A. He was in the Battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro and Missionary Ridge. After his marriage, settled on Sink Creek, DeKalb County, on the place known as the "Old Forge," which came into the possession of his great-grandfather, Thomas Cantrell, when he first located in Tennessee." (THE CANTRILL - CANTRELL GENEALOGY, 1908, by Susan Cantrill Christie, page 79.)

"In reviewing the census report of 1870 for DeKalb County, we find William, his wife Altha, two daughters, Maggie and Agnes, and a black woman named Mary Cantrell, age 24, with her two mulatto daughters named Caldonia and Rachel. Caldonia was working for John P. Titsworth and family in 1880 and she had a four month old daughter named Mary E. Cantrell." (CANTRELL - CANTRILL, 1972 by Horace Elbert Cantrell, page 407F.)

Birth	December 30, 1841	DeKalb County, Tennessee
Marriage	February 2, 1865	Leathy Alice Scott

Spouse	Leathy Alice Scott ( - 1905)
Child	Mary Magdaline "Maggie" Cantrell (1865 - )
Child	Daisy Agnes Cantrell (1868 - )
Child	Henry Eugene Cantrell (1871 - 1876)
Child	John Scott Cantrell (1873 - 1876)
Child	Robert Lee Cantrell (1876 - 1881)
Child	Emma Green Cantrell (1879 - )
Child	Ida May Cantrell (1882 - )
Child	Willie Alice Cantrell (1887 - )

Father	Peter Green Cantrell (1806 - 1869)
Mother	Mary E. "Polly" Cantrell (1808 - 1888)
Sibling	Isaac Cantrell (1830 - 1899)
Sibling	Nancy Cantrell (1832 - 1858)
Sibling	Benjamin Cantrell (1833 - 1883)
Sibling	Peter Horry Cantrell (1835 - 1905)
Sibling	Thomas Jefferson Cantrell (1837 - )
Sibling	Sarah Jane Cantrell (1839 - 1896)
Sibling	John Calvin Cantrell (1844 - 1919)
Sibling	Leonard Cantrell (1846 - )
Sibling	Robert Cantrell (1849 - )
Sibling	Mary Ellen Cantrell (1852 - 1922)