Samuel Moore Echols: Difference between revisions

Samuel Moore Echols
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Born	Circa 1781 (Halifax County, Virginia)
Died	June 29, 1864 (Madison County, Illinois)
Parents	John Echols (born 1736) and Lucy Annah (Moore) Echols
Spouse	Jane M. (Holloway) Echols
Children	John Washington Echols, ...

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Revision as of 05:07, 11 January 2026

Name clarification
This article discusses Samuel Moore Echols (born circa 1781). Records from the mid-19th century also reference a different individual named Samuel M. Echols, who served in the 29th Alabama, Confederate States Army, whose records have sometimes been conflated with those of the earlier individual.

Summary

Samuel Moore Echols, the son of John Echols, moved from Virginia to Northern Alabama (John Echols (born 1736)#Virginia to Alabama) along with father, mother, and siblings.

He may also be listed in the 1830 Federal Census, Alabama under the same "Sam M. Echols" in Morgan County, Alabama.

Timeline

Date	Event
Circa 1781	Born in Virginia (1850 Federal Census, Alabama)

Other individuals with the same name

Multiple records indicate the existence of a Samuel M. Echols (born around 1816, per unverified [findagrave findagrave]) from Alabama that served in the Confederate States Army (NPS); however, this must be a separate individual due to the following reasons:

Samuel Moore Echols' father would have been 80 in 1816; the supposed year of Samuel M. Echols' birth
Samuel Moore Echols' wife was born in 1783
Samuel Moore Echols would have been 83 in 1864; a year in which Samuel Echols was a PVT, Co. B, 29th Alabama

Timeline

Date	Event
Circa 1816	Born, likely in Alabama
May 16, 1864	Captured in Resaca, Georgia as a PVT, Co. B, 29th Alabama (per tombstone)
June 29, 1864	Died as a result of Typhoid Malaria (per tombstone)

Tombstone

Samuel's tombstone, in the Confederate Cemetary of Alton, Madison County, Illinois, is inscribed with the following:

Echols, Samuel
PVT, Co. B, 29th Alabama
Captured; 05/16/64, Resaca, Georgia
d. 06/29/64 Typho Malaria
Buried; State Ground

Source: findagrave

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