William Benjamin READ^[1]

1829 - 1904  (74 years)

• Name	William Benjamin READ
  Birth	15 Oct 1829	Davidson County, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  _UID	826CDBC015FB4A8DB1B0AD7B0C2E0DC0002D
  Death	1 Oct 1904
  Person ID	I14022	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Dec 2009

  
  

  Father	Guilford Dudley READ,   b. 9 Dec 1803, North Carolina d. 1883, Tennessee (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth WALLACE,   b. 8 Feb 1812   d. 1891, Tennessee (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	18 Jan 1825	Davidson County, Tennessee
  Family ID	F7282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret Amanda MORRIS,   b. Abt 1833, Davidson County, Tennessee d. 18 Dec 1864, Gallatin, Sumner Co., Tennessee (Age ~ 31 years)
  Marriage	20 Mar 1851	Davidson County, Tennessee
  Children	1. John Wesley READ,   b. 27 Nov 1851   d. 1927 (Age 75 years)   2. William Oliver READ,   b. 18 Oct 1853   d. 26 Aug 1916 (Age 62 years)   3. Guilford Dudley READ,   b. 26 Jan 1856   d. Aft 1880 (Age 24 years)
  Family ID	F7250	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Mattie Ann HUNTER   d. 23 Jul 1904
  Marriage	18 Jan 1870
  Family ID	F5423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Willliam was the oldest of 11 children. He was in the Civil War as a Confederate cavalry soldier, and was one of Morgan's Raiders. He was captured on the Ohio River and was a prisoner of war at Camp Morton, near Indianapolis, and then sent on to Camp Douglass on the south side of Chicago. Amanda bore him three sons, with descendants from the two elder boys and the youngest son was alive through 1880, where further info on him cannot be found yet. Amanda died in 1864, six months before her husband was paroled by the Yankees, leaving her three sons as wards of her father-in-law. Her husband remarried five years after her death, but he had no other children. (Info from Linda Chesser of Indiana)

  
  

• Sources

  [S894] Linda Read Chesser.