Individual Details

James M. Cantrell

(February 7, 1837 - )

"James M. Cantrell enlisted in the Confederate Army, 1st Tennessee Cavalry, under Capt. L. K. Hooper, Wheeler's Division, and served three years. He was taken prisoner at Swan Creek and sent to the Penitentiary at Nashville, where he remained about one month, when he was transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, and held until the surrender. After the war he returned to the old homestead of his father and grandfather (where the latter is buried), and has been engaged there ever since in farming and stock raising." (THE CANTRILL - CANTRELL GENEALOGY, 1908, by Susan Cantrill Christie, page 140.)

Events

BirthFebruary 7, 1837Sumner County, Tennessee
MarriageApril, 1866Kate Milam

Families

SpouseKate Milam (1842 - )
ChildAndrew Cantrell ( - )
ChildJames M. Cantrell ( - )
ChildAlice Cantrell ( - )
ChildMyra Cantrell ( - )
ChildKittie Cantrell ( - )
FatherDarby H. Cantrell (1801 - 1883)
MotherAlmira Gillespie ( - )
SiblingMary Cantrell (1829 - )
SiblingAlfred Cantrell (1831 - )
SiblingCaroline Cantrell (1832 - )
SiblingAnnie Cantrell (1835 - )
SiblingSophia Cantrell (1839 - )
SiblingSarah Cantrell (1841 - 1907)
SiblingAllen Cantrell (1843 - 1907)
SiblingJennie Cantrell (1844 - )
SiblingJohnetta Cantrell (1848 - 1907)
SiblingWillie Franklin Cantrell (1852 - )
SiblingBenjamin Cantrell (1855 - )