Confederate Applications for Pardon and Amnesty, Virginia: Stearns, Franklin
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Moore, Thomas Verner, 1818-1871
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T.V. Moore was born in 1818 and became a minister in the Southern Presbyterian church. He served in Pennsylvania (1845-47), Richmond, Virginia (1847-68), and Nashville, Tennessee (1869-71). He was an author and received his D.D. in 1853. He was the editor and a publisher of The Central Presbyterian. The PCUS was formed by secession from the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1861 as a result of the American Civil War. After the end of the civil war in 1865, Dr Moore was...
Botts, John Minor, 1802-1869
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Botts was born in Dumfries, Virginia to prominent lawyer Benjamin Gaines Botts (1776 - 1811) and his wife Jane Tyler Botts (1782 - 1811). Both of his parents died in the Richmond Theatre fire on 26 December 1811, so John and his siblings were raised by relatives in Fredericksburg. Botts attended the common schools in Richmond, Virginia, then studied law. He married Mary Whiting Blair (1801-1841), and they had several children. Two sons (John and Alexander) died very young; their firstborn son...
Stearns, Franklin, 1815-1888
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Born in 1815 to farmer and merchant Simeon Stearns and his wife Irene Newcomb in Winhall, Vermont. When Franklin was 13, Simeon Stearns moved his family to Madison County, New York. When he was 18, Franklin Stearns moved to Richmond, Virginia and worked on the James River Canal. He married Emmy F. Haley (1818-1845), and they had one child, Zenus "Zeny" Barnum Stearns (1845-1890). On September 2, 1847, Franklin Stearns remarried, to Caroline Virginia Willey Stearns (1820 - 1877), and they had ...
