Matthew DeLoach

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DELOACH, MATHEW - Cumby, Hopkins Co., Texas, Aug. 12, 1922 - Mathew DeLoach,
merchant, land owner and banker, died at the residence of his nephew, R. K.
Cross, in this place, Tuesday night, Aug. 8, after several months of illness.
Mr DeLoach was born near Marietta, Pike Co., Georgia, July 31, 1843. When he
was 3 months old his parents moved to Brooksville, Ala., where he lived until
the opening of the war between the States. In Feb., 1862, he enlisted in Co.
B. 46th Ala. Infantry, Confederate States Army. Captain J. R. Cross was in
command of the company and M. L. Ward of Montgomery, Ala., was Colonel of the
regiment. He served in the Army of Tennessee and participated in the battle of
Cumberland Gap, Richmond, Ky.; Lexington, Ky; Harrisburgh, Tenn.; Caddo,
Baker's Creek, Big Black, Murfreesboro and several others. When Grant began
his encircling campaign for the reduction of Vicksburg, his regiment retired
behind the defenses of the city, that was under the immediate command of Gen.
Pemberton. During the siege of Vicksburg, on June 1, 1963, his right leg was
shot off by a shell from the Federal batteries. Prior to this he had been
wounded three different times. After the surrender of Vicksburg, he was sent
to New Orleans, and thence to mouth of Mobile Bay and shortly exchanged, when
he immediately went to Dalton, Ga., and offered for re-enlistment, but was not
accepted on account of loss of one leg. He assisted in the organization of the
First National Bank of Sulphur Springs in 1885 or 1886 and from its inception
was one of its directors and had been vice-president of the bank for many
years prior to his death. His body was buried in Cumby Cemetery Thursday
evening, Aug. 10th. His funeral services were conducted by the Rev. H. M.
Cowling, pastor of the Methodist Church at this place. (Dallas Morning News,
Aug. 13, 1922)

Matthew married Harriet Elizabeth Cross on 6 Apr 1871 in Hopkins County, , , Texas. Harriet was born on 14 Mar 1846; died on 16 Aug 1917 in Tarrant County, , , Texas; was buried in Cumby Cemetery, , Hopkins County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]