Samual Lemuel Franks

 

Samual Lemuel Franks
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Samual was born 1834 in Marion County, Alabama.

 

In 1850 he was living in District 14, Marion County, Alabama. {Cencus Records}

 

Samual married Martha E Anne Rader on 19 Oct 1854 in De Soto County, Mississippi. They had 8 childern.

 

In 1860 they were in Union, Fulton County, Arkansas. {Cencus Records}

 

10th Infantry Regiment [also called 12th Regiment] was organized in November, 1862. Some of its members were raised in the counties of Chariton, Crawford, and Howard. The unit was assigned to A.E. Steen's, Parson's, and S. P. Burns' Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and saw action in Arkansas and Missouri. It lost 11 killed, 41 wounded, and 237 missing at Helena, and afger the fight it mustered 236 men. The regiment sustained 34 casualties at Pleasant Hill and 10 at Jenkins' Ferry. During the spring of 1865 it disbanded. The field officers were Colonel W.M. Moore, Alexander C. Pickett, and A.E. Steen; Lieutenant Colonel Simon Harris; and Major Elijah Magoffin. Lemuel served in this regiment until his capture and internment in St. Louis, Missouri.

Originally submitted by Goldenrod102 to Rorie Family Tree on 26 Jan 2008

 

In 1870 they were in Table Rock, Izard County, Arkansas. {Cencus Records}

 

Samual died on 15 Aug 1873 in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.

 

 

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