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Bean Family Civil War Veterans – Iowa

April 4, 2011 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Bean Family Civil War Veterans – Iowa Richard Lemuel Bean 1808-1869 From the Nashua, Iowa Library: He served in Company C, in the 6th Iowa Cavalry “I do not know the year he moved to Nashua from St. Lawrence County, New York, but it was very probably right after the birth of his son [...]

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John Breedlove Civil War Diary: Deaths 1864

January 2, 2011 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

It’s always a goal of mine to share information I think will be helpful to other genealogists and family historians. My cousin Kathleen and I recently received the gift of a lifetime: a scanned copy of our GG-Grandfather John W. Breedlove’s Civil War diary. As soon as I brought it in from the mailbox I [...]

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My Civil War Ancestors – John Watts Breedlove

June 13, 2010 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

My Great-Great Grandfather was John Watts Breedlove. Many of my family have called him John Wyatt Breedlove for years, but I believe his middle name really was Watts. The name Wyatt doesn’t show up in any of the naming patterns of the family, while the name Watts does, as it was his Granfather’s middle name, [...]