Comments on: Ed Payne: “Collateral Damage”: Civil War Widows of Jones County, MS http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/ed-payne-collateral-damage-civil-war-widows-of-jones-county-ms/ histories of unconventional southerners Thu, 16 May 2013 11:46:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: renegadesouth http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/ed-payne-collateral-damage-civil-war-widows-of-jones-county-ms/#comment-2890 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:02:46 +0000 http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/?p=1405#comment-2890 Thanks, Ed. I will send your email address to Wanda right away.

]]> By: Ed Payne http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/ed-payne-collateral-damage-civil-war-widows-of-jones-county-ms/#comment-2889 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:58:06 +0000 http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/?p=1405#comment-2889 Wanda: thanks for your interest. Via this response I’m letting Vikki know it’s okay for her to provide you with my email address. When you get it, email me with your mailing address and I’ll send you a copy of the article.

]]> By: renegadesouth http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/ed-payne-collateral-damage-civil-war-widows-of-jones-county-ms/#comment-2888 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:19:27 +0000 http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/?p=1405#comment-2888 Wanda,

I’m so glad that you have taken the time to find and read the numerous Collinses posts contained on Renegade South. And, of course, also pleased to know you have read my books, Free State of Jones and Long Shadow of the Civil War.

I’m sure Ed will respond to you soon in regard to his article on Sarah Collins. I know that it was published in the Journal of Mississippi History, but off hand I’m not sure which issue.

Thank you for your kind words!

Vikki

]]> By: Wanda Sims http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/ed-payne-collateral-damage-civil-war-widows-of-jones-county-ms/#comment-2887 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:50:34 +0000 http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/?p=1405#comment-2887 I am enjoying this site. I have learned much about the Collins family from different postings. In the last week, I have read both of your books, Free State of Jones, and The Long Shadow of the Civil War. Very interesting. In looking back over this site, I see that Ed Payne has written an article on Sarah Collins, that I would like to read. How and where can I get it. I believe it was talked about in Dec. 2009. Thank you for all your hard work in keeping this site up and running.

Wanda Sims

]]> By: Ed Payne http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/ed-payne-collateral-damage-civil-war-widows-of-jones-county-ms/#comment-2415 Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:48:29 +0000 http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/?p=1405#comment-2415 Geneva: The talk was a much abbreviated version of an article I wrote about the life and times of Sarah (my 3 gr-grandmother) that was published in the “Journal of MS History.” If you provide Vikki your address info she’ll relay it to me and I’ll send the article.

]]> By: Geneva McCown Garrett http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/ed-payne-collateral-damage-civil-war-widows-of-jones-county-ms/#comment-2414 Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:32:03 +0000 http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/?p=1405#comment-2414 Ed, is there anyway I might get a copy of your talk on Sarah Collins.
Thanks Geneva M.Garrett

]]> By: Doris Anderson Lamb http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/ed-payne-collateral-damage-civil-war-widows-of-jones-county-ms/#comment-1755 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:26:05 +0000 http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/?p=1405#comment-1755 As a long-time Unitarian, I am very interested in the connection between the renegades and Unitarianism. I am anxious to read your book, Vicki, regarding this; also, Ed Payne’s book about the C.W. widows. (I am wondering what ever happened to Richmond Anderson’s widow, Parmalee Cornelia Deason; she didn’t come with her children to East Texas in the 1870′s, so I assume she must have died ca. 1870.) Your writing is fascinating. I see familiar names in all the comments and feel that I am related to so many of these people! Thanks again, Ed, for the article about Sarah Collins.
Doris Anderson Lamb, hdlamb@sbcglobal.net

]]> By: Ed Payne http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/ed-payne-collateral-damage-civil-war-widows-of-jones-county-ms/#comment-1034 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:07:50 +0000 http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/?p=1405#comment-1034 Tim: a summary of what I’ve pieced together about Martha Rushing will be next in the series. Stay tuned.

]]> By: Tim Sumrall http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/ed-payne-collateral-damage-civil-war-widows-of-jones-county-ms/#comment-1032 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:02:42 +0000 http://renegadesouth.wordpress.com/?p=1405#comment-1032 Dear Ed, I look forward to the continuation of this fascinating series. It was interesting to read that Eli F. Rushing enlisted in a U.S. regiment after deserting from the 8th Miss. Infantry. I believe he may have been the brother of our common ancestor Martha Rushing Walters Sumrall, based on information I found here:
http://www.fgs-project.com/georgia/p/powelljohnh.html
I cannot vouch for the veracity of this information as it is not mine, but it shows marriage connections between the Powell family and many Jones County families mentioned by you and by Vikki in her works. If correct it is another indication of how that war divided families as well as counties an states. It also indicates John H. Powell, the grandfather of Martha and Eli F. Rushing was in Texas by September 22, 1867, when he died in Alvarado, Johnson County, Texas, and some of his children were also in Texas by then. Eli F. married his second wife March 17, 1880 in Texas and died in 1903 in Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas. You may already have this information, but I wonder if this family migration to Texas may have influenced the Jacob and Martha Sumrall family to also come to Texas, some time prior to 1880. Maybe someone out there will have a clue if not an answer.
Thanks for this series!

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