Cullen W. Edwards - CO K 2nd Texas Cavalry

 

 

 

Pvt. Cullen W. Edwards

 

Cullen W. Edwards enlisted on January 1, 1862 in Brownsville, Texas. ( Ft. Brown ) His enlistment offficer of Capt. John Donelson.

On the March record he is noted to be on recruiting service.

On the Muster Roll of October 1862  it notes that he has been promoted to 3rd Sargeant. His horse is valued at $ 75 and his equipment at $ 40. He is paid $ 24.40 for the use of his horse. He has also reenlisted while stationed near Helena , Texas.

On June 1863 his record shows that he is on sick furlough. By February 1864 he is on a detail with the horses as of Feb. 3rd. On the Muster Roll of November 1863 it notes that he was wounded in action on June 21, 1863 while serving in Frio County.
 

 

Submitted by Michael Tope  

 


Veteran's Name: Cullen W. Edwards

Date of Birth: Dec 12, 1839

Birth County/State or Country: Travis County, Texas

Date of Death: 6 Nov 1906

Death County/State or Country: Ventura, CA

Name of Cemetery: don't know

Spouse's Name: , Amanda Lovina Tumlinson,  Mary Jane Jones

Additional Information: He told his grandson, my father, that a drawing of a Confederate soldier, lying on his back on a bale of cotton, with a bayonette through his midsection was a drawing of him, and how he was wounded. He also said he had married the woman who had been his nurse as he recovered from the injry.  He also told of how more experienced soldiers had played a trick on him by telling him to stand behind the cannon to light it to fire, and the recoil caused it to back over him.  They had told him he had the "honor" of firing the cannon.  When he returned home from service, he found his father and brother had been murdered by the same man, who was not going to be prosecuted, so he took western justice on the man, and killed him. Then he went to the family ranch. The sheriff rode out to the ranch and told my great-grandfather that the next morning he was going to return with a posse to arrest him.  My great-grandfather took the hint, and left that day for California, going by ship to the Isthmus of Panama, walking across, and catching a ship on the other side.  He became a rancher in southern CA, married twice, had 12 children, and died at the age of 67 of complications of longstanding of his war wound.


Submitted by Carolyn Edwards Wright


AMANDA LOVINA5 TUMLINSON (JOHN JACKSON4, JOHN JACKSON3, JAMES TAYLOR2, UNKNOWN1) was born 1844, and died Abt. 1869. She married CULLEN W. EDWARDS September 27, 1864 in Atascosa Co., Texas. He was born December 12, 1839 in Travis Co., Texas, and died November 6, 1906 in Ventura, California.

More About CULLEN EDWARDS and AMANDA TUMLINSON:

Marriage: September 27, 1864, Atascosa Co., Texas

 

Children of AMANDA TUMLINSON and CULLEN EDWARDS are:

i. MARY EMILY6 EDWARDS, b. 1867, California; m. WILLIAM BARTLETT BRADEN, October 29, 1884, Ventura Co., California.

More About WILLIAM BRADEN and MARY EDWARDS:

Marriage: October 29, 1884, Ventura Co., California

ii. MARTHA ANN EDWARDS, b. 1868, California.

Received from Bert Bell

24 Aug 2005

 


 

 

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