Remains of Civil War Veterans to be Interred at Arlington

[subdjoe]

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/05/09/remains-of-civil-war-veterans-to-be-interred-at-arlington/

For more than 100 years, the cremated remains of two brothers — Civil War soldiers from Indiana — sat on a funeral home shelf, unclaimed and largely forgotten.

[JonnyReb]

 How very Cool, thanks for posting.

 A friend of our family owns a nice little 11 acre plot of land in the North Carolina mountains, they have a trailer on the property and use it just a few times a year. I went up to hang out about 15 years ago and he took me to the highest spot on his overgrown hillside and showed me a tiny cemetary with 7 piles of rocks marking each burial. They were buried trench style, basically side by side, 3 of them, at their feet were buried 4, side by side. The tour came with the story that they were Union soldiers buried there after a battle near Wilksboro, late in the war. From the style of burial, right beside a small natural spring on the hilltop, i can believe it and your post makes me wonder if our family friend ever contacted anyone as he said he might, to properly return or better commemorate their lives and deaths. I think i'll find out. Again, great post.  Jeff

[Oldshooter]

Kind of weird that they sat for so long on a shelf in a funeral home. So glad they are going to a resting place of honor.
 
Thanks for the post.

[subdjoe]

My pleasure, Gents.

Jeff, glad that it kind of stirred your memory and interest in those 7 graves. 

Oldshooter, I agree, it is a puzzlement that they could sit for 100 years like that - one from 1908 and the other from 1912.  But, if they had no other family and hadn't much money, I guess it sort of makes sense. 

Makes me wonder, how many died in state hospitals and ended up in Potters fields, with only a cement marker with a number on it? 

For instance:


McANALLY, [Dr.] William Winter, October 29, 1883, b.TN, a.65, physician, buried 10-30-1883
at the County Farm. CEN, INT, NEW

Comment: Dr. McAnally's obituary said he was a military surgeon in the War for Southern Independence. However, the excellent records of Tennesseans in the war do not include him. Dr. McAnally is thought to have been the resident physician of the State Female College in Memphis before the war [the 1860 U.S. Census enumerated him as a physician resident in the college]. The college served as a military hospital during the war and it may be that Dr. McAnally's wartime service as a civilian doctor was embellished by his Santa Rosa mourners following his death.

The records of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, show that William W. McAnally was a student at the School of Medicine in 1847. Although the records do not show him as a graduate, he may have enhanced his formal education with some "on the job" training under another physician and then awarded himself the title of "Doctor."

Although the 1860 Census shows Dr. McAnally to be a prosperous land- and slave-owner in Shelby County, Tennessee, he may have lost everything as a result of the war. In 1866 he left his wife and family and moved to Nevada County, California, where he advertised himself as a doctor in the Grass Valley Daily Union. Although claiming to have "permanently located" in Grass Valley, he left after a few months and moved to San Francisco where he was enumerated in the 1870 U.S. Census. By August 1871 Dr. McAnally was in Sonoma County where his Santa Rosa newspaper advertisement listed him as a "physician, surgeon, and accoucheur" [obstetrician]. In 1872, Dr. McAnally married Elsie Boyd of San Francisco. [No evidence of a divorce from the first Mrs. McAnally has been found; she listed herself as the "widow of W. W. McAnally" in several Memphis directories before her 1879 death.]

Dr. McAnally and his wife went through a nasty divorce early in 1883. As their home was hers before the marriage, it was awarded back to her (along with her former name!) as part of the settlement, leaving the doctor with little or nothing. later that year, he died in poverty and was buried by the county.

Census records
> 1850 (DeSoto Co., MS) M432-371-399, "McAnalley, Wm. W.," b.TN, a.36, physician, wife Louisa, four children, and [probably] father-in-law Thos. Mosely.
> 1860 (Shelby Co., TN) M653-1273-391, "McAnally, William," b.TN, a.45, physician, living at the "State College" near Memphis, wife Louisa Ann [Mosely] (b.VA, a.38), 4 children, 6 slaves, 2 slave houses.
> 1870 (San Francisco) M593-85-718, "McAnally, Wm. W.," b.TN, a.52, physician.
> 1880 (211 B St., Santa Rosa) T9-84-122, "McAnulty, Wm. W.," b.TN-NC-NC, a.60, physician, wife Elsie (b.NY-NY-NY, a.55).

Newspaper records
> "Business Cards," Sonoma Democrat, issue of 8-19-1871, advertisement placed 8-12-1871.
> "Professional Cards," Grass Valley Daily Union, advertisement placed 3-28-1866 and continued until 8-09-1866.
> "Card," Grass Valley Daily Union, notice placed 8-10-1866.
> "Died," [Santa Rosa] Daily Democrat, 10-29-1883.
> "Departed," [Santa Rosa] Daily Democrat, 10-29-1883.
> "Local Briefs," [Santa Rosa] Daily Democrat, 10-30-1883.

Other records
> William W. McAnally at the University of Louisville, in "Database of Medical School Graduates," School of Medicine (University of Louisville, Kentucky) 1838-1908.
http://library.louisville.edu/kornhauser/info/gfdb.html
> Marriage of William W. McAnally and Louisa A. Mosely, in "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900." http://search.ancestrylibrary.com
> LaPoint, "Military Hospitals," quoted by James X. Corgan in footnote 107 of "Toward a History of Higher Education in Antebellum West Tennessee," West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, volume 39 (1985).
> "McAnally, Lou A., [widow of] William, [boards at] 360 Lauderdale," in 1876 Boyle- Chapman directory of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee (http://register.shelby.tn.us).
> Dr. W. W. McAnally, physician, in the "Pacific Coast Directory, 1867." http://search.ancestrylibrary.com
> Records of the Superior Court for Sonoma County, California, case number 731, filed 11-28-1882.


He was buried at the http://www.chanatecemetery.org/Markers.htm Santa Rosa, CA and only recently was his name found and able to be connected to the grave.

[Oldshooter]

Interesting stuff!
 
 He prolly was a DR buy necessity and experience. If he had the stomach and ability for it, he was probably a blessing to those whos lives he saved or made comfortable.

[subdjoe]

Interesting stuff!
 
 He prolly was a DR buy necessity and experience. If he had the stomach and ability for it, he was probably a blessing to those whos lives he saved or made comfortable.

Records show that he at least went to med school.  Maybe that and some OJT made a half way decent doctor of him.  Likely, if he was a sort of unofficial regimental surgeon during the War, he got lots of practical experience. 

[JonnyReb]

 I enjoy history's mysteries much as anyone, thats some interesting reading for sure. Wouldn't the Doctor be amazed that so many years after his death, people all over the world are reading of his life. He'd be amazed.  J