About Me
Surnames
Abstracts
Marriage Lookups
Ahnentafel
Credits
Cooking
Guest Book
Family Photos
Portraits
Awards
[ Home ] [ Ahnentafel ] [ Hickman ]
|
JOSEPH
BERRY ‘JOBERRY’
HICKMAN |
Joseph was born June 1, 1820 in Jefferson County, Alabama, the son of Joseph B. Hickman and Elizabeth C. Perkins. He was the sixth of ten children. Her siblings were Elizabeth Ann ‘Betsy’, William Pullen, Nancy Croft, Pleasant Argalus, Mary Caroline, Clarissa Mariah, David Edward, Martha Jane and Harriet Eliza.
Joseph was 23 when he married Elizabeth C. ‘Eliza’ Perkins, daughter of William M. Perkins and Presia George, on May 11, 1843 in Jefferson County, Alabama. He and Eliza had eight children between 1847 and 1865 -- Martha born May 6, 1847, Jane Presh born in January, 1849, Harriet A. born in 1852, Eliza Zinkie born August 22, 1854, Epsie born in December, 1856, William Finis born September 2, 1858, Jabez R. born in February, 1860, and Joseph Peyton born in April, 1865.
The couple worked their farm in the vicinity of Trussville, Alabama (now part of Birmingham).
Joberry served as a 4th Sergeant in Company H of the 28th Regiment of Alabama Volunteers, Confederate States of America. He enlisted 3 Mar 1862 in Jonesboro, Alabama for three years. He was left sick at the Chattanooga Hospital in Tennessee in October, 1862. He was paroled as a Confederate Prisoner captured by the Union forces in Kentucky in September-November, 1862.
He re-enlisted on 23 Jan 1864. The regiment was organized at Shelby Springs, Alabama on 29 Mar 1862, about 1100 men strong, to serve 'for three years or the war'. Shortly after the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, the regiment reached Corinth, Mississippi., where many of the men died of disease. The regiment saw action at Corinth and Tupelo, Mississippi and Murfreesboro and Tullahoma, Tennessee. They suffered heavy losses at Chickamauga, Georgia and Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. The regiment surrendered at Greensboro, South Carolina.
Military records described Joberry with gray eyes, sandy hair, fair complexion, 5'9" and born in Jefferson County, Alabama. He was listed as a farmer, 42 years of age.
Joseph died January 28, 1895 in Trussville, Alabama. He was preceded in death by his siblings Elizabeth, William, Nancy, Caroline, Clarissa, and Martha and by his daughter Martha and possibly his son Jabez R.