James KINCANNON

Father - Père: Francis Locke KINCANNON
Mother - Mère: Mary Ann GARNER

Family - Famille1: Araminta Minerva CONNOR
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  1. +James Clayton KINCANNON 
                                                   _Andrew KINCANNON _
                            _James KINCANNON _____|
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 _Francis Locke KINCANNON _|
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|--James KINCANNON 
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|_Mary Ann GARNER _________|
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BIOGRAPHY: James, born June 30, 1832, at Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee, was baptized on July 15, 1835, according to records of the First Presbyterian Church of Fayetteville. After his father's death (in 1836 or 1837), James' mother, Mary Ann Garner Kincannon, made arrangements to take him and his two brothers to live with their uncle Andrew Armstrong Kincannon in Columbus, Mississippi. With a colored man (slave?) and woman servant, she loaded a wagon and joined a wagon train on her journey South. Along the route, at Selma, Alabama, Mary was stricken ill and died. She was buried in an unmarked grave in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The servants continued the journey with the boys and brought them to their uncle at Columbus, Mississippi. Uncle Andrew became their guardian. (Andrew's wife was Agnes Garner, maybe a sister of Mary.) Before the death of their grandmother, Elizabeth Armstrong Kincannon, she made provision for the boys' education back in Virginia if they chose to return. They apparently did not.
James Kincannon spent his boyhood in Columbus. When a boat load of volunteers left for the Mexican War (in 1847), the future Captain Kincannon, then a "schoolboy" of fifteen with blue eyes, light hair, and fair complexion, hid himself on the boat and went off to war. He was enrolled on Dec. 31, 1847, at New Orleans. He was enlisted as a Private on Jan. 6, 1848, at Mobile, Alabama. During the war, James served in Company A, 2nd Mississippi Infantry. After being transferred to Reyonosa, Mexico, James and some other young men were detailed to load supplies for transportation to Camargo. He and another young man became engaged in horseplay, and James was thrown to the ground, dislocating his left elbow. By the time he could get medical attention, the elbow was so swollen and stiff that it was permanently damaged. James remained in the hospital at Mier, Mexico, for several months before being returned to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he was mustered out on July 8, 1848.
When he returned, he was appointed clerk of the Chancery Court which then sat at Columbus. At that time the state was divided into Chancery Districts and courts were held at only point [?] for all the counties in the district, Captain Kincannon being clerk for the whole district. The court was moved to Macon, and James accompanied the records in the back of a wagon. James thus came to Macon, with Major Joseph Koger, sitting on a trunk full of court records.
He married Minerva Araminta Connor on Dec. 2, 1856, near Macon, Mississippi. James was the census taker for District 5, Noxubee County, MS, in 1860. He and Minerva had (at least) two boys. On Feb. 22, 1861, James enlisted in the "Noxubee Rifles", a militia company. This company was attached to the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment and was sent to Virginia, where James' company was one of two from the regiment which took part in the Battle of First Manassas (also called First Bull Run) under "Stonewall" Jackson. In the spring of 1862 the army in Virginia was reorganized. On April 1, 1862, James was back in Macon, where he signed a petition addressed to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. When the 41st Mississippi Infantry Regiment was formed from other Mississippi companies that had been in Virginia, James enlisted in this new regiment. He was appointed acting quartermaster through the campaigns that followed. In Feb. 1863, James was recommended for promotion to quartermaster, but he resigned before the appointment could be confirmed. According to the surgeon's report, James suffered from anchylosis (stiffness) in his elbow, as well as "extensive hempisy" in his feet and legs. [I have no idea what that means.]
After the war, James and Araminta lived at Columbus, Brooksville, and Macon at various times. They moved to Verona about 1870. He applied for and was granted $12 per month pension for his Mexican War service, beginning in July 1889. In April 1898, "Captain" Kincannon became editor and owner of The Daily Journal, a newspaper published at Tupelo. James, in a newspaper article, described himself as "a Democrat by heredity, by unbroken affiliation, and by principle". He died Sept. 26, 1905, in Lee County, Mississippi. James, Araminta (who died Nov. 19, 1928), his brother Hugh, Hugh's two wives, and many of their children and grandchildren are all buried at Verona, Mississippi.
(All details kindly provided by Margaret Kincannon, who is currently [July 2001] writing a book about the family's service in the Civil War.)

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