Billingslea, B. C.

Biographical notes:

Mrs. Nancy Davenport was the mother of Mrs. Ann Crittenden and Mrs. Nancy D. Harvey. John Crittenden, from Notasulga, Alabama, was a schoolteacher before enlisting as a First Sergeant in Co. E of the Thirty-Fourth Alabama Infantry Regiment in March 1862. During the Battle of Nashville (1864), he went missing in action and presumed killed. His brother, William D. Crittenden, enlisted in the 1st Alabama Cavalry but received a medical discharge in 1863.

Source: “Guide to the John Crittenden Papers.” Special Collections and Archives, Auburn University. http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/findingaids&CISOPTR=99&CISOBOX=1&REC=15 (accessed on November 22, 2010)

From the guide to the Davenport, Crittenden, and Harvey Papers, 1806, 1827-1894, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

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