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Notes for Benjamin Majors
Benjamin Majors enlisted in the Civil War in Butler County, Alabama on September 4, 1862. He was a Private in Company B, 17th Alabama Infantry Regiment. He was captured by forces under Major General Thomas commanding Department of the Cumberland near Nashville, Tennessee on December 15, 1864
and sent to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois to be processed and sent to Military Prison, Louisville, Kentucky. His Alabama Civil War military records states that after the war he applied for a pension for going blind from an injury caused by a musket ball to the head during the war. Since this family now has a history of blindness and other eye problems, it seems unlikely that his blindness was caused by an injury. He probably would have gone blind at some other time anyway. (The inherited gene for blindness that is prevalent in the Majors family is called "Sticklers Syndrome" and is being extensively studied by Dr. Scotty Parma, a descendant of Benjamin Majors.)
Obituary Record from Butler County Alabama Obituary Records by Marilyn Davis Barefield, taken from records in Greenville Advocate: "Ben Majors, age 70 to 75 died at the residence of his brother Dave Majors, near Georgiana last Friday. For many years he lived in the Mt Olive area. He had been blind for many years. dated: 3/15/1899."
He was married to Elizabeth Wall about 1851 in Dale County, Alabama. Dale County Alabama has not marriage records for this period. Both the Majors and Wall families were known to be in Dale County during this time. Land records did survive.
Elaine Hendricks. Ancestors of Suphronia Majors (MajorsSuph.txt). October 15, 2000.
The Family Biographies (Majors-Till.htm). December 2000.
mother: Whittington, Charity Elizabeth "Lizzie"(1876 - 1962).
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