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David's Dispatch Volume 3 Number 7 Vol. 3, No. 7 Copyright 2017 July 2017 Winner of the 2016 Best Newsletter Award, National, Sons of Confederate Veterans Winner of the 2017 Best Newsletter Award, Tex. Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans COMMANDER’S UPCOMING EVENTS CORNER by Larry “Joe” Reynolds Monday, July 17th, 7:00 p.m. Compatriots, as we approach this Refreshments at 6:30 p.m. 4th of July weekend, I send greetings. Although Old Union Community Center we are an organization dedicated to the Hwy 67E, Mount Pleasant, Texas preservation of our Southern Heritage and to Program: Mark Vogl honoring our Confederate Ancestors, we should Battle of Chancellorsville take some time to consider the 4th of July and its significance to our lives. 4th OF JULY PARADE July 1st, 2017 Many in this country will enjoy the holiday Ore City, Texas weekend because they are off work without Muster at 10:00 a.m. – Parade at 11:00 a.m. regard to why we celebrate the 4th. It’s just a holiday where we can go to the lake or have a 2017 NATIONAL REUNION cookout at home. Sadly, far too many don’t have July 18th – 23rd, 2016 a clue as to the significance of the 4th of July. Sheraton Downtown Hotel 250 N. Main Street Watching television, we laugh when comedians Memphis, TN 38103 and news reporters interview people on the street See www.scvmemphis2017.org for full details. and they quite seriously can’t identify the current President, much less the first. These are the same people that have no concept of the history of this Country. In fact, they make me look like a DAVIDRREYNOLDS.ORG genius. That aside, we need to take every opportunity to review, compare, and demonstrate This month the following changes have been made the actions that led to the Colonies declaring to our web site: http://www.davidrreynolds.org independence. It is those same issues that brought about the secession of the States, the • I’ve updated our Events page to include all declaring of independence and subsequently known events by the Camp and its members. another war. • I’ve updated our Calendar of Events. The values that our Colonial Ancestors so prized I’m still looking for biographies of your Confederate were the same values that our Confederate Ancestor. Please try to come up with a short bio that Ancestors held most dear. We should celebrate we can put on-line. the 4th of July and the ideals that it represents as did our Confederate forbears. If you have any suggestions, recommendations or comments you can send me an email to: V Vol. 3 No. 7 Copyright 2107 Page 2 [email protected] and I promise to established his own blacksmith shop. Ransom, like give it my full consideration. his siblings, grew up working on the family farm along with the slaves owned by his father. Our Charge… Sometimes he helped his father in the blacksmith shop and learned a lot about that work. By 1830 the Pruett family, including Ransom's elderly great "To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for grandfather, David Pruett lived in Gwinnett County, which we fought. To your strength will be Georgia. About 1834 Ansel and Agnes moved their given the defense of the Confederate soldier's family to Talladega County, Alabama when Ransom good name, the guardianship of his history, the was eight years old. emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of In 1846, Ransom was curious about what was on the those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him other side of the Choccoloco River in Talladega glorious and which you also cherish." County, Alabama. He rode his horse and swam it across the river and found on the other side another Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, family by the name of Pruitt with "the prettiest red United Confederate Veterans, haired girl" he'd ever seen. The family of Tillman New Orleans, Louisiana April 25, 1906 Dixon Pruitt and his wife Diannah Hillsman Farrar Remember, it is your duty to see that the true Pruitt had also once lived near Cross Keys. Georgia. history of the South is presented to future Neither family knew enough about their heritage to generations! identify a common Pruitt ancestor. Ransom 19, fell in love with and married the pretty red-haired Harriett Elizabeth Pruitt 18, in October 1846. Ransom and Harriett established a home in the northeast corner of Talladega County, near Ransom Marion Pruett Coldwater and Oxford. They were hard workers and Private thrifty and soon owned their own farm in the 55th Alabama Infantry mountains, and eventually three additional farms that they rented out. By 1848 Ransom and Harriett were Ransom Marion Pruett, son of Ansel Beddington the parents of two sons, John Perry and William Pruett and Agnes Rebecca Heaton, was horn January Andrew. They became parents of their first daughter, 04, 1827 in DeKalb County, Georgia, and died July Serena Almantha in 1853, son Francis Marion in 16, 1907 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He married (1) 1857, and Martha Ann in 1860, and they were all Harriett Elizabeth Pruitt on October 08, 1816 in listed together in the Talladega County, Alabama Talladega County, Alabama, daughter of Tillman census in 1860 living on their mountain farm. Dixon Pruitt and Diannah Hillsman Farrar. He When the Civil War began in 1861 life changed married (2) Sevilla E. Hayley on August 15. 1885 in forever for the family. Harriett endured many Delta County, Texas. hardships during the war while Ransom was away Ransom was the sixth of the eleven children of Ansel serving the Confederacy, and he returned changed by and Agnes. Ansel had learned the blacksmith trade his experiences. Hansom enlisted for service in the from a large plantation owner for whom he had Confederate Army on June 9, 1861 in Jackson worked for about five years in Pendleton, South County, Alabama and was discharged July I, 1864 in Carolina. The family moved to DeKalb County, Talladega County, He served with the 55th Alabama Georgia, near Cross Keys by 1823 where Ansel Infantry under Capt. Bouy in Talladega County. One V Vol. 3 No. 7 Copyright 2107 Page 3 time while he was assigned to conscription service, a make a crop in 1868. They were all sick with malaria fellow southerner, who was trying to evade chills and travel was slow and only at intervals. The conscription, shot at Ransom as he rode up to the men got work in fields and forests. as they could." mans' place. The man then turned to run and Ransom By the beginning of 1869, they stopped and rented shot him in the back, right at the cross of his trousers land three miles cast of the center of Little Rock, suspenders. He fell dead. Ransom off his his horse Arkansas to farm in the bottom land of the Arkansas and turned the man over, whose dead eyes stared him River. While they lived there for the year, most of the in the face. Ransom said that killing worried him the sleeping was done in the covered wagons, and most remainder of his life. So far as he knew that was the cooking done outside of whatever they had in the only person he killed during the war, but in battle he way of a small house or houses. Harriett 41, gave may have killed others. birth to her eighth and final child in a covered wagon At the close of the war, the fences of Ransom and in Arkansas. The new daughter, Mary Jane. was Harriett's four farms had all been destroyed and all of named after their daughter-in-law, but was always their livestock had been taken. Ransom decided to called Molly. sell out and move to Texas where Harriett's brother After the crops were all gathered, they traveled to the William Malone Truitt had been living since 1858. south edge of Sulphur Springs in Hopkins County They sold their mountain farm to Ransom's sister Texas, arriving in the spring of 1870. Ransom and Olive and her husband Jack Cline. The agreement Harriett with John Perry and Mary Jane rented a farm was that Jack and Olive could live there and pay it from Curl Criss four miles northwest of Sulphur off later. Jack Cline paid the taxes on Ransom and Springs. Both families lived in the same house. Harriett's farm for three years and then took title to During 1871, they rented farm land from Tom it, which was legal, but he never paid Ransom a Gluver about 12 miles north of Sulphur Springs, on dime. Burk's Creek, and again they all lived together. Early in December 1867 Ransom age 41, Harriett 40, (Ransom Marion Pruett is the 4th Great Grandfather of and their youngest children. Serena Almantha 14. our new Cadet Member, Seth Clark) Francis Marion 9, Martha Ann 7, Genns Anchel, and Thomas Jefferson 2, along with their two married sons, left Alabama and set out on what would become a 27 month long covered wagon journey to east Texas. Son John Perry 20, and his wife Mary BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES Jane with William Andrew 17, and his wife Nancy & OTHER IMPORTANT DATES Parrish, sister of Mary Jane, rode in one wagon, while Ransom, Harriett and the five younger children July 7th – James Robert Reynolds rode together in the second wagon. Both Pruett sons and their wives were grieving over the recent losses July 3rd – Talks With White Buffalo and Mariann of each of their first-born children.
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