Pvt. Merritt Daniel Ledford, (CSA)

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Meritt Daniel Ledford married Elizabeth Jackson when she was only 12 years old.

ID: I1482 •Name: Merrit Daniel LEDFORD •Sex: M •Birth: 1842 •Death: 1930 •Note: Merrit Daniel served in the Civil War as a private, Co. B 7th Battalion, N.C. and transferred to Co. F 65th Reg. N.C. Troops (6th Reg. of N.C. Calvary) He was captured with his horse July, 1863 while on picket in Kentucky and recaptured on 8/11/1863. Merrit's grandfather was the Revolutionary War soldier from Clay County born in Randolph Co. N.C.

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4YB-8LQ : accessed 8 December 2015), Jason D Ledford, Cherokee county, part of, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States; citing family 328, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

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