BIOGRAPHIES OF OUR KIN IN THE 24TH REGIMENT TEXAS CAVALRY CSA





BIOGRAPHIES OF OUR KIN IN COMPANY B 24TH REGIMENT TEXAS CAVALRY CSA


For the several years, I have been working on web pages devoted to the history of Company B, 24th Regiment, Texas Cavalry, hosted on Barrett Branches through the kindness and assistance of webmaster Janet Barrett Walker.

These pages feature the history and the biographies of men who served under Captain Samuel Dunbar Wooldridge, the brother-in-law of our great-grandfather, James Marion McCan. Dr. Wooldridge settled at Old Danville, Texas, where most of Great-grandfather and Great-grandmother McCan's other families settled upon their arrival in Texas in the 1830s and 1840s. He married our great-great-aunt, Catherine Elizabeth McCan.

Many of the men who served under Captain Wooldridge (both in his militia unit, the Danville Mounted Riflemen, and later in his regular C. S. A. unit) were our kin.

Those include:


1. Great-grandfather James Marion McCan
2. Great-great-uncle Samuel Dunbar Wooldridge

The following members of Captain Sam's companies were related in some way, or were married to our relatives, or were brothers of those who married our relatives. The families to whom they were related include Whitten, Reding, McCan, Viser, and Barrett. All had ties to Old Danville, Montgomery County, Texas. I list them here so that you can get the sense of Danville as a community.

In case you find this page before I have a chance to place all the links, come back in a day or two! Otherwise, you can access their biographies from the home page of Company B, Twenty-Fourth Regiment Texas Cavalry.

3. Edward Americus Anderson
4. Andrew J. Brooks
5. John L. Conn
6. Henderson F. Malone
7. Thomas Monroe Malone
8. W. F. Malone
9. Samuel B. Mayfield
10. James McCarley
11. M. A. McCrory
12. David Henry Parker
13. George W. Reding
14. John Baker Reding
15. David Edward Roten
16. L. J. Roten
17. W. W. Roten
18. William W. Viser
19. Wm. Waters
20. John D. G. Whitten
21. Thomas J. Wilson
22. Edmund D. T. Wooldridge

Check back from time to time and see what I have added!

Fond greetings to all of you!



Karen McCann Hett

Last modified January 2009

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