Everett Jackson Josey

1847-1914 · Georgia

Born 1847, Washington County, Georgia

Died 1914

Children include Henry

Everett Jackson Josey was born in Washington County, Georgia, on 25 January 1847. His son's death certificate gives Washington County as his birthplace. He was seventeen in 1864, the year the Confederacy enrolled boys of seventeen and men between forty-five and fifty in reserve regiments for home defense. He served as a private in Company C of the 5th Georgia Reserves.

On 8 July 1869 he married Lucinda Harrison, also of Washington County. They lived near Riddleville and had at least ten children over twenty-seven years: Henry Lewis in 1872, William Lee in 1875, Dennis in 1878, James Everett in 1881, Forest Hamilton in 1884, Allen McDuffie in 1885, Leah Pearl in 1887, Edwin Talmadge in 1890, Windom Harrison in 1897 and Lawson Dewey in 1899. Allen died in 1887, aged two.

In 1911, under Georgia's pension act of 1910, he applied to the state for a Confederate soldier's pension as E. J. Josey of Washington County, Company C, 5th Georgia. The application was marked "Amended" and filed in 1911.

Everett Jackson Josey died on 2 February 1914, aged 67. He was buried at New Bethel Cemetery in Washington County, where his son Henry and Henry's wife Belle were later laid. His stone reads "E. J. Josey, Jan. 25, 1847, Feb. 2, 1914," with a verse beneath. A photograph of him survives, kept by his granddaughter Evie Lou Josey Smith, who wrote on the back: "Everett Jackson Josey. My grandfather."

Children

Henry Lewis Josey 1873-1939

Sources

Find a Grave, memorial 31118950, Everett Jackson Josey, photograph added by Matt Smith, 8 January 2012

Georgia Department of Public Health, certificate of death, state file 31657, Henry L. Josey, 1939; Georgia, Deaths, 1928-1943, FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:QJX9-7C8N

Find a Grave, memorial 31118950, Everett Jackson Josey, New Bethel Cemetery, photograph added by Matt Smith, 1 April 2011

Georgia Confederate Pension Applications, E. J. Josey, Washington County, 1911, Georgia Archives; image added to Find a Grave memorial 31118950 by Jay Clifton, 25 May 2023

Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers from Georgia, 5th Georgia Reserves, E. J. Josey, National Archives; image added to Find a Grave memorial 31118950 by Jay Clifton, 25 May 2023

Georgia death certificate of his son Henry L. Josey, 1939; Confederate compiled service record envelope, E. J. Josey, Company C, 5th Georgia Reserves; Georgia Confederate pension application, E. J. Josey, Washington County, 1911; Find a Grave memorial 31118950, with photograph and gravestone

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