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Floyd W. Herring & Sarah Ann Lorinda Skillman Floyd W. Herring,
son of Allen William Herring and Sarah Jane Smith, was born November
15, 1844 in Carroll Co., Georgia. He was the second of five children -
four sons and one daughter.
 According to the 1850 census, Floyd, his parents and three brothers have moved to St. Clair Co., Alabama. There his only sister, Martha M Herring, was born in 1852. Sarah Jane died in June 1852 in St. Clair Co., Alabama at the age of thirty-three. It is possible that she died at the birth of her daughter or from complications afterwards. Approximately one year later, Allen William Herring married 19-year-old Jane Hill in St. Clair Co., Alabama. On December 20, 1861, Floyd enlisted in the Confederate Army at Ashville, St. Clair Co., Alabama; he was assigned to Co. K/L, 18th Regiment, Alabama Infantry. The infantry consisted of men who fought on foot.  Less than two months after Floyd's enlistment, he married Sarah Ann Lorinda Skillman on February 2, 1862 in St. Clair Co., Alabama. He was seventeen and Sarah Ann was nineteen. (Possibly on leave after training?). Sarah Ann had been born in DeKalb Co., Alabama, the oldest daughter of Elijah Bolton Skillman and Martha Jane "Patsy" Canterbury Noble. Floyd served from December 1861 to August 1863 in Co. K, 18th Regiment of the Alabama Infantry. On December 10, 1863, Floyd re-enlisted and was assigned to Co. A, 10th Regiment, Alabama Infantry at the age of nineteen. In July 1864, Floyd received $63.13 payment for four months service. In March 1865, Floyd W. Herring was reported as a deserter of the Rebel Army. He was Captured-Prisoner of War Side; in the roll of Civil War Prisoners, he was described as "Dark Hair/Complexion; Blue Eyes; 5'11" tall". January 1865 - The Fall of the Confederacy. Transportation problems and successful blockades caused severe shortages of food and supplies in the South. Starving soldiers began to desert Lee's force, and although President Jefferson Davis approved the arming of slaves as a means of augmenting the shrinking army, the measure was never put into effect . . . During the American Civil War, political prisoners and prisoners of war were often released upon taking an "oath of allegiance". Floyd signed his Oath of Allegiance on March 20, 1865 and was discharged March 21, 1865 in Louisville, Jefferson Co, Kentucky with instructions "Oath and to be released North of the Ohio River". According to the 1866 Alabama census, Floyd is living again in St. Clair Co., Alabama. In July 1867, Floyd's voter registration for Carroll Co., Alabama indicated that he had been living there for nine months. The 1870 Alabama census shows Floyd, Sarah Ann and their two-year-old son, James, living in Etowah Co, Alabama; his occupation is listed as "farmer". Floyd's father, stepmother and eight-year-old sister are living two houses away from them. The families continued to live in Etowah Co., until 1887 after Floyd and Sarah's last child, Martha Jane, was born on March 4, 1887.  Collinsville 1900 Between March 1887 and the 1900 Grayson County, Texas census (June 4th), Floyd, Sarah and their four children moved to Collinsville, Grayson County, Texas, purchasing approximately thirty acres northwest of Collinsville in 1908.  Sarah Ann Lorinda Herring died July 30, 1912 at the age of 70. Ten days after Floyd's 80th birthday, he died on November 25, 1924. Both are buried in Collinsville Cemetery.
One daughter, Wilie Columbus Herring Akin, died in Collinsville but is buried in the Callisburg Cemetery, just across the Grayson/Cooke County Line.  Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any links inoperable, please send me a message. |
