John Belford Milam

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John Belfield Milam

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Birthplace: Abbeville District, South Carolina, United States
Death: January 19, 1842 (43-52)
Beaverton, Hickman, Tennessee, United States
Place of Burial: Milam Branch Road, Hickman County, TN, 37033, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Jordan Samuel Milam and Mary Milam
Husband of Levica Louise Milam
Father of Isaac Belfield Milam; Capt. Dudley Milam; Rebecca "Beckey" Baughman; William Milam; Drury Milam and 1 other
Brother of Dudley Milum; Samuel James Milum; Nancy Milan; Dudley Milan; William Bluford Milam and 7 others
Half brother of Edward Sharpe Milam

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About John Belford Milam

GEDCOM Note

John Belfield Milam fought as a private in the war of 1812 and was at the Battle of New Orleans. He was in the company of Captain Samuel Caruthers and in the second regiment of Tennessee Militia, commanded by Colonel John Cock and Lt. Col. Robert Jarman. He was drafted about November 1, 1814 for six months and honorably discharged at Nashville about May 13, 1815.
John was a blacksmith, wood workman and a farmer. He was described as an "old time Democrat".
John and Levica Louise Hamby Milam are both buried in the Milam Cemetery, Centerville, Tennessee.

SOURCES:
Jordan Milam(Milum) and the Descendants of his son John Milam: A New Record, Eunice Hockey, 1978
Robert Wilbanks IV

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John Belford Milam's Timeline

1794
1794
Abbeville District, South Carolina, United States
1820
November 1, 1820
Tennessee, United States
1820
Age 26
Hickman, Tennessee, USA
1822
1822
1823
1823
1826
February 9, 1826
Hickman County, Hickman County, Tennessee, United States
1828
1828
Hickman, Smith, TN, United States
1830
1830
Hickman, Smith County, TN, United States
1842
January 19, 1842
Age 48
Beaverton, Hickman, Tennessee, United States