Southern Graves

And that's all I know about him. As claimed in the previous post , Thomas Herald was the father of Sam Herald, who was the husband of Rachel Etta Talley Herald (d. 1913). Both Thomas and Etta rest in Maddux Cemetery in Harrison, Hamilton County, Tennessee. To be fully transparent, I will tell you all the evidence I currently have for Thomas being the father of Sam (and father-in-law of Etta) is circumstantial. It's not a theory I'm super queasy about, though, so I'll go with it unless proven otherwise. As communicated in the image of Thomas's headstone, he served in Company C of the 5th Tennessee Mounted Infantry. (Better image by Cynthia Henry here .) The recessed shield and American flag decoration could lead one to believe he served with the Union Army during the Civil War. It's also helpful to know that Tennessee, especially its eastern part, had a large population of Southern Unionists . That belief is proven to be so with Thomas's Civil War service rec...

Rachel Etta Talley was born on 10 August 1876 in Tennessee (possibly Meigs County) to Mary Jane Salomon / Salmon (d. 1884) and Dudley H. Talley (1834-1933). On 16 November 1902, Etta married Samuel "Sam" Herald in Hamilton County, Tennessee. The couple had at least two children: Bertie May and Thomas. According to Chattanooga, Tennessee city death records, Etta died of pneumonia on 27 November 1913. Burial was at Maddux Cemetery in Harrison, Hamilton County, Tennessee, although it was incorrectly listed as McCullough Cemetery in an obituary that ran in the Chattanooga Daily Times: " Mrs. Eta Herald. Mrs. Eta Herald, aged 37 years, died at her residence, 1125 Dodson avenue, East Chattanooga, at 2 p.m. yesterday. She is survived by her husband, Sam Herald, and two children. Funeral services will be held from the residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The body will be taken to Harrison early Saturday morning for interment in McCullough cemetery near there." Etta wa...