Sketch by Andrew Bond, August 1996
Kilgore Fort House, Copper Creek, Scott Co. Va.
Sketch by Andrew Bond, August 1996
Rank: Private
1860 Census:
Enlistment: Lee Co., age 28, 7/15/61
Present through 10/15/61. Hosp., sick, 10/20/61 to 2/26/62 when died,
measles, Winchester.
Jim Hipkins of Ft. Worth, Texas writes that German Jackson Ratliff married his great grandfather's half sister, Martha E. Hipkins circa 1850, in Patrick Co., Virginia. They had three children - John, Nancy and Catherine.
Ratliff enlisted in 1861 in Scott County after drifting around southwestern Virginia. He died in 1862 in Winchester, VA of measles. Winchester also had an outbreak of typhus in the winter of '62. Presumably he is buried in the Winchester area, probably in an unmarked grave.
The widow Ratliff spent the rest of her life with her son, John in Hancock Co., Tennessee and died circa 1928 (100 years old, more or less) and is buried in Cedar Flats Cemetery just inside Claiborne Co., TN. She received a Tennessee pension.
Jim indicates that more information on the Ratliff and Stapleton families can be found in the Claiborne and Hancock County histories.
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