MITCHELL (VETERAN CSA), MOSES CALOWAY (CLOSEUP) - Benton County, Arkansas | MOSES CALOWAY (CLOSEUP) MITCHELL (VETERAN CSA) - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

Moses Caloway (closeup) MITCHELL (VETERAN CSA)

Decatur (Decatur) Cemetery
Benton County,
Arkansas

FIRST SERGEANT
Company C 11th Georgia Cavalry
Civil War Confederate
February 21, 1822 - December 29, 1896

*Obituary
Decatur Advance
Friday, January 1, 1897

MITCHELL, Moses Caloway - Moses Caloway Mitchell was born in Burk county, North Carolina in 1822, died from heart failure in Decatur, Ark., Dec. 29, 1896. He was united in marriage to Nancy Meadows in 1843 and emigrated to the old Creek Nation, Union Co., Georgia in 1844. Deceased was the father of eight children, all of whom survive him. He professed religion and united with the Missionary Baptist Church in 1852 and became a member of the Masonic fraternity soon after. He served two years in the Confederate army and in 1869 settled in Benton county where he has since resided. He was a loving husband and a kind father with a disposition as gentle as a child and a heart that beat in sympathy for humanity. Was a human being in distress, no hand was ever more ready to sooth their sorrow. It can truthfully be said that he had not an enemy. Universally beloved, his death has cast a cloud of sorrow over the entire community. To the sorrowing wife and children we would say, weep not for your husband and father for he has certainly earned an eternal residence in that beautiful Home above.

*Obituary
Decatur Advance
Friday, January 1, 1897

At his home on Harmony Hill, Decatur, Benton County, Ark., Brother Mitchell, Uncle Mose, as we called him, died Monday night Dec. 28, 1896 and was interred in the Decatur cemetery Dec. 30th. Bloomfield Lodge No. 243 F. & A.M. performed the ceremonies of interment in the presence of a host of his friends.

*Source: Sons of Confederate Veterans, Benton County, Arkansas 2009
Compiled by William W Degge

Contributed on 12/17/09 by wfields55
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Submitted: 12/17/09 • Approved: 9/3/23 • Last Updated: 9/6/23 • R270185-G0-S3

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