| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Seventh Generation324. Angeline Bedwell144 was born about 1823. She died before 9 Jul 1874. Angeline Bedwell
and Capt. James Holdson were married on 28 Jul 1857 in Jefferson Township, Sullivan
County, Indiana. Capt. James Holdson (son
of James Holdson and Lilla Dougan) was born on 20 Jan 1813 in Shelby County,
Kentucky. He was Methodist Episcopal. He was a Republican.
CAPT. JAMES HOLDSON, farmer, P. O. Pleasantville, was born in Shelby County,
Ky., January 20, 1813, son of James and Lilla (Dougan) Holdson. He settled in
Jefferson Township, Sullivan County, in the year 1817, and has been a farmer
ever since. He was married to Naomi Wallace, when he was about twenty-two years
old, and to their union the following children were born: Joseph, Nancy, Stephen
and Laura. His second wife was Angeline Bedwell, and to this union one child
was born--Harriet. His second wife dying, he married Sarah Burton, on the 9th
of June, 1873, and to this union two children have been born--Cynthia Ann and
James Arthur. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically
a Republican. Mr. Holdson was in the Mexican war, enlisting June 6, 1846, and
was at the battle of Buena Vista, and then returned home, after being discharged
at New Orleans; he arrived July 4, 1847. In 1862, he enlisted in the Union army,
and was commissioned Captain of Company H, Second Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
by Gov. Morton, on the 22d day of August, 1862, and was with Sherman through
some of his hard fighting; was in the battles of Vicksburg and Hain's Bluff,
Jackson, Mission Ridge, and was wounded at Dallas five times, when he was sent
to the hospital, and was furloughed; went home, where he staid thirty days, and
then met his regiment at Atlanta, Ga., and was at the battle of Jonesboro; then
went to Nashville, Tenn., and from there to the coast, fighting hard all the
way through defeating the rebels at Macon, killing and capturing 2,300 men, and
losing only seventy of their forces, and from there went to Rolla, and then to
Bentonville, where they had a hard fight with Johnston, defeating him; then went
to Columbia, S. C., then to North Carolina, and thence to Washington, mustering
out on the 10th day of June, 1865, when they were paid off at Indianapolis, and
returned home, receiving an honorable discharge, and feeling satisfied the war
was over, returning to his family, where he owns and runs a farm of 265 acres
of land.
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