This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/667 Message Board Post: My great great grandfather was Robert S. White, CSA, 34 Reg. MS Infantry, Co. B. I have a copy of my great great grandmother's pension request giving his date of death as 1868 and the place as Covington, TN. I always thought that he was probably buried there. I have found a letter written by my great aunt Betty written in 1971 that he "was drafted into the war. While in one of the battles, he was wounded. A little Testament saved his life. A bullet hit the Testament, cut ever leaf in it. The Testament caused the bullet to glance... His health broke after the war. He died at an early age. He was also a singing school teacher. After his death, she stayed single for approx. 3 years. Then her father, Grandpa Crowder sold out. Moved to Rusk Co., TX. Then Grandma followed in pursuit. She started courting Hayes. She had all her stuff put on a steam boat at Memphis, TN moving to Texas. She married Hayes on the boat to TX. ... Grandpa White was buried in Miss. Grandpa Hayes was buried in Rusk Co., TX." I do not know anything about the Ripley area. Has anyone come across his name on a CSA grave? My brother found a Robert White, son of WH and MR White in the Ripley, MS Cemetery (Is there more than one?) who was born Nov. 4, 1842 and died 7/3/1844. I suspect this was a cousin. Perhaps W. H. And Robert (his father) were brothers? I found them both on the 1850 Census and both were born in SC and appear to have moved together from SC to TN to MS. My Robert S. was 15 years old at the time of the 1850 Census, Tippah Co., MS. and living with his parents and siblings. Thanks. Dawn