This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spraggins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wS.2ADIAE/374.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: SPRAGGINS Jesse and Mary Jane Paddock Spraggins were my gggrandparents. He was the oldest son of William and Lyndia Jones Spraggins. Mary Jane died 9 Dec 1905. Jesse died on Jan. 24,1908 just four days after my ggrandfather George Milton died of Cancer.They are buried at the Birdseye Cemetery at Birdseye Indiana. William and Lyndia had 11 children. All born in Kentucky between 1822 and 1848. The 3 oldest boys married in Kentucky. Jesse to Mary Jane 6 Aug 1854, Milton to Sarah Lanham 26 May 1852 in Springfield. and James to Nancy Lanham 1 Nov 1852. All of this family lived on a farm in Pottsville beside William’s brother Jesse until late 1850’.All of William’s family moved to Pike County Indiana in the late 1850’s . Brother Jesse and his family remained in Washington County Kentucky. Six of William’s sons a enlisted in Indiana during the civil war with the Union. Jesse, Milton, James and a brother-in law Nathan Beadles were together at the battle of Chaplin Hills, Perryville Kentucky on Oct 8, 1862. It was the first action any of them had been in. Milton was hit in the head with a cannon ball and died 20 Oct 1862. He was first buried in one of eight hospital trenches containing fifteen to fifty-five bodies. He became one of many who could not be identified when the remains where transferred to Camp Nelson National Cemetery located just a few miles from where the family lived in Kentucky. The same cannon ball that killed Milton came to rest at my Jesse’s side resulting in him walking with a limp the rest of his life. Nathan was also killed during the day at Perryville. -Fran , I have often wondered if your Jesse or any of his son's were at the same battle. I have not been able to find much about his military history. - Karen, Thanks for the ad in the Lebanon Post.