> Probably everyone has seen the letter but me but will ask anyway. > Does anyone know Mrs. Julian Kelly, 1955, Savannah, Ga. > She wrote a letter to the County Clerks office on that date asking about > John Breedlove and Elizabeth Watkins, and son William Watkins Breedlove > married Sarah H. Foster. > It was in Hancock Co.,Ga. deed books 1794-1802. > If anyone wants the details let me know. > Mamie, I, for one, am not familiar with that letter. Can you transcribe and post to the list or is it too long? While we are on the subject of Hancock Co, GA - my line is John's brother, Benjamin W. Breedlove who married Mary Watkins (Elizabeth's sister). The "tradition" in my family has been that Benjamin and Mary's son, Benjamin Jr., was a sheriff in Hancock Co, GA (though his parents lived in SC) and that he was, at some point, indicted for murder. The rumor mill has it that he fled the state to avoid capture. Does anyone out there know about this story or have the details? Could that Benjamin have been, instead, a son of John and Elizabeth Breedlove (I have only one son listed for that couple, William - can someone post an accurate listing of their children so I can add it to my database?) or was it actually my own Benjamin? I have long wanted to know the true story about this situation. I have been lurking on the sidelines of late and haven't added much to the list but always enjoy my Breedlove cousins' posts - what a nice group you all are! In another vein, the following was posted on my DeHart list. I, for one, was unaware of this event and think it worth sharing for those of you who, like myself, did not know about this tragic CW accident. Best to all, Linda <<clip>> > If anyone has a family member who fought in the civil war and you don't > know when or where he died, maybe he was on the SULTANA ( April 27 > 1865) when it exploded. There are soldiers still unaccounted for but > there is a list of accounted for in the book *Disaster on the > Mississippi* author Gene Eric Salecker. I have this book with the list > of names, there are no DeHart's listed.......... The bulk of the men > came from Ohio- 652 ,TN-463, MI-274, KY-185,......a few from WV > -IL-AL-IW-MO-NB-PA. Total number of troops 2,015.....passangers > 100...crew-85....guard unit 22....this is approximate total 2,222, The > paroled prisoner number was probably higher. More people died on the > Sultana than the Titanic, this is a very sad fact in our history that > has been brought to the public eye (I believe) because of everyday > people *like us trying to dig up the real story....Pvt. John W. Steele > Co.C 5th WV Inf. Died- he lived in Lawrence Co OH, his widow Rebecca > Webb was denied pension for him,* lack of proof*. He is in my husbands > tree. > > The Union soldiers aboard had been released from Andersonville and > Cahaba prison camps. If you have a CW soldier still missing I will check > for his name. The History Channel has a good show about this event, if > you get a chance on the reruns it is worth watching, more than once. > A reply from another on the list: > We saw the show on the Sultana on the History Channel. It was quite good > and I was amazed how little I knew of the event and it's magitude. That > show should be on the "Must Do" list of everyone that had family in > Andersonville. The irony of surviving the war and Andersonville to be > killed in the trip home to your family, by that act of greed or whatever > one wants to ascribe the overloading of the boat to, cannot escape anyone. > >