This is a Bumgarner from Wilkes County. May or may not be a relative--would like to hear more about him, if anyone has info. He was a CSA prison guard in the Civil War. Born 1844, I believe. The reason I am looking into this fellow is due to a family story: According to my mother's grandfather, Walter Bumgarner of Watauga County, NC, there was a family member who served in the Civil War in a prison camp in NC. He was in charge of burying the dead. Story goes that he became ill and told his comrades he was going to sit under a tree to rest. He was never heard from again. My g-grandfather theorized that maybe someone thought he had died (or maybe he had died???) and another burial detail picked him up and buried him. He might have been buried alive--or so Walter liked to conclude the story. (One thing I'm discovering on both sides of my family--a fascination with the ghoulish, ghost stories, etc.) One record for Wesley at Rootsweb.com states his cause of death as Typhoid Fever. Could it be that the Confederate authorities just never conmtacted the family, and so a story was born? Thank you! Best, John ===== "One more shot for the honour of Down!" -Rollicking Rollo (1766-1814) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com