I just got the same information you have requested for my great grandfather, John Thomas BARTLETT. It was wonderful! I got it in about two weeks and it cost only $2.50. Had a whole lot more information than I anticipated...enjoy yours. I hope some of what I sent you will help you at some point. When I can get over to the Bell County Courthouse, I will see what else I can find. They have put many of the old records on film and it is harder to read the film than the old documents. MA Bartlett -----Original Message----- From: Mike <nash@randomc.com> To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 12:01 AM Subject: [TXBELL-L] Elijah and Sarah J. GORE |I have just found a possible link to my missing Confederate relative, Elijah |Gore! A Sarah J. Gore is listed in the Confederate Pension Records as the |wife of Elijah GORE, living in Bell County at the time she applied for a |pension. | |Elijah was born in 1831 in Bradford County, PA and was in the South at the |start of the War. Against the wishes of his family, he signed up with the |1st Louisiana Cavalry and served valiantly under Col. Scott. In 1863 he was |captured and spent the rest of the War in Yankee prisons. He had no apparent |contact with his family after the War and they presumed he was dead. This |spring I found a reference to him in Yandell Hospital in Meridian, MS at the |end of the War and the trail had stopped there. | |AS far as my research has taken me, my Elijah is the only Elijah GORE who |fought for the Confederacy. AS you may tell, I am quite excited to have |found this reference. I have sent off to the State Archives for this record |to verify it is him.....in the mean time, I am requesting any leads that you |may know of to further my search for Elijah....any local records of |Confederate Veterans, local historians who could help, local cemetery |records that I could search....etc. I would appreciate any information |that you may point me to. | |Thanks! | |Mike Wennin | | | |==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |The Bell County Genealogy And History Page Is At: |http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell |