Sheridan Wesley "Sherd" PLUNKETT
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Additional PLUNKETT Surnames in PLEASANT GROVE Cemetery
PLUNKETT, Johnnie MayPLUNKETT, Francis MarionPLUNKETT, EllisonPLUNKETT, Ellison (2nd marker)PLUNKETT, Jane (2nd marker)PLUNKETT, JanePLUNKETT, Nora EPLUNKETT, Sheridan Wesley "Sherd"PLUNKETT, Mahalia CatherineLAFERRY PLUNKETT, Mahalia CatherinePLUNKETT, James EarlPLUNKETT, RuthPLUNKETT, Ellison JasperPLUNKETT, Mary EPLUNKETT, Nancy JanePLUNKETT, Martha Jane "Mattie"PLUNKETT, Mary JPLUNKETT, Omer GPLUNKETT, James CalvinPLUNKETT, Mary APLUNKETT, ClaphrayPLUNKETT, OmerPLUNKETT, Victory Ann "Vickie"PLUNKETT, John RileyPLUNKETT, John Riley (closeup)PLUNKETT, Allen Newton Additional PLUNKETT Surnames in LOGAN County
PLUNKETT, Myrtle MitchelPLUNKETT, SolenPLUNKETT, Mary AgathaPLUNKETT, Jessie M.PLUNKETT, Olen E.PLUNKETT, John R.PLUNKETT, EugeniaPLUNKETT, Maude E.PLUNKETT, William E.PLUNKETT, BrunettPLUNKETT, Edith CPLUNKETT, Doris Irene
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Submitted: 10/6/23 • Approved: 10/6/23 • Last Updated: 10/9/23 • R1505318-G1505318-S3
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July 15, 1849 - April 2, 1888
Sheridan Wesley Plunkett was the son of Ellison Plunkett and Jane (Stringer) Plunkett.
He was born in Prairie View, then Johnson County now Logan County, Arkansas.
Sheridan "Sherd" Wesley Plunkett married Mahalia Catherine Laferry on 08 NOV 1868 at the Rose residence in Prairie View, Arkansas.
Sheridan Wesley Plunkett, was only 14 years of age and not old enough for service in the Civil War. He had four older brothers (and possibly his father) who enlisted with the Union Army. However, Sheridan went to DeValls Bluff in Eastern Arkansas on the White River and cooked in a camp there. Rebel Bushwhackers began terrorizing northern Arkansas even more viciously after the Fall of 1864. The Federals had taken Fort Smith September 1, 1863 and Little Rock September 10, 1863. This seemed to have freed a band of Confederates who left the regular army and began looting and terrorizing the countryside in the Arkansas Valley. Jane Plunkett recorded in her Bible that her house was burned by the Rebels November 12, 1864.
Sheridan was wounded during these treacherous times and his mother, Jane, nursed him back in health. When he was strong again she dressed him up like a woman and went with him back to his company.
M C
December 4, 1851 - June 1, 1929
Mahalia Catherine Laferry was the daughter of John Wesley Laferry and Elizabeth (Pridgen) Laferry.
Mahalia Catherine Laferry married Sheridan Wesley Plunkett on 08 NOV 1868 in the Rose residence in Prairie View, then Johnson County, now Logan County, Arkansas, and later married W. Archibald Rowland on 12 OCT 1895 in Yell County, Arkansas.
Contributed on 10/6/23 by Billsully060
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