To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Arkansas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Arkansas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 9/8/08 • Approved: 12/2/20 • Last Updated: 12/5/20 • R53607-G0-S3
Arkansas
SERGENT CSA
John was the son of Francis John and Sarah Veazey Browning and married three times over his lifetime. On July 26, 1866, he married Sarah Elizabeth Beare-Harris in Clark County Arkansas. They had two children, Eunice Elizabeth and Jesse Oliver. Sarah died in 1871 and in the same year he married Martha Bunn. They had four children, Lucy Louisa (my grandmother), Sarah Frances, Permelia Charity, and Scott Browning. Martha died in 1905.
John joined the Confederate Army on September 1, 1861, five months after Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter. He served in the 4th Arkansas Battalion, later known as Rose's Battalion. His first action was in Kentucky where 24 of his comrades died, 22 fro measles. They saw action in Memphis, Tennessee; Corinth, Mississippi; Richmond, Richmond, Kentucky; Murfreesboro, Tennessee; and Farmington Arkansas.
In 1906, John moved to Texas and married Ella Vance in 1909. The couple came back to Arkansas around 1922 and lived in the Sweet Home Confederate home in Pulaski County.
He is my greatgrandfather.
Contributed on 9/8/08 by goldwing.traveler
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 53607