February 15, 2000 Dear Diane: Have or are you going to order his CSR? See below, you might want to order several CSR's.What County was he from, a whole bunch of Chavis enlised or were from Marion County and Marlboro, try to order his pension application form the SCDAH based on these Counties. Interstingly, I find Alexander having a CSR for his SC service but an examination of the actual roster of Company D of the 26th (they were probably all kin and enlisted close together in time in this unit) shows no Alexander! I see an Elijah 27 (in 1863), James 28, Bethea J 20, Willis J 16, John 15 ?, Nelson 24, Eli 21 or 24, Calvin 25, Lvi 24, WILLIAM ( Alexander?, SC families had an annoying habit of calling their kids by their middle names)17, Bithel 20, and Alfred 18. all but Calvin (he from Brunswick, NC) were from Marlboro. No Alexander, he either joined after the date when the intial roster was made-up or probably lied about his age to join up. I'd guess that your data as to his birthdate is wrong. I believe that you said your dob for him was about 1853, which would not allowed him admittance to the CSA Army, unless his daddy was named Alexander, which it probably was and they called him William and daddy Alexander but William served but daddy didn't, not at least in SC maybe NC. It also is possible that he took on his beother William's name and gave up his real name to the feds when captured/ Just theories! A look-up in Kirklands "Brokern Fortunes" reveals William was killed on 05/16/64, Alfred on 08/16/64, Bithel on a questionable cited date 05/05/62 (64), Harris 11/02/63, John 07/25/62 (63), Levi 05/20/64. Here is the data and look it over to make what sense that you can out of it. OK , take care---Julian SIMMONSCRAFT@cs.com wrote: > julian i have nothing on alexander wm chavis except he was born in 1852 in > rob co mar to sarah frances hatcher. mar abt 1873 in horry co s.c. i have put > out queries but so far dead end. if i get lucky and find some pictures, i wll > send you what i have. my gma didn't even have a pix of her own mom. i am > working with some one else researching the chavis name, he may have some pixs > and things to give you i will email him today > diane > > ==== SCHORRY Mailing List ==== > Visit USGENWEB for links to GENWEB pages and data archives for all states > http://www.usgenweb.com/ > You can search the archives of any mailing list (except those withdrawn by > the listowner) at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > This site below is fantastic!! > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi