Lewis Blackburn Scudder

1839 - 1902  (62 years)

• Name	Lewis Blackburn Scudder
  Nickname	Dixie
  Birth	27 Oct 1839	Forsyth county, Georgia   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Oct 1902
  Burial	Texanna, McIntosh, Oklahoma   [4]
  Person ID	I1439	Scudder
  Last Modified	28 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	Alfred Scudder,   b. 28 Feb 1813, Forsyth county, Georgia d. 23 Aug 1845, Forsyth county, Georgia (Age 32 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Blackburn,   b. 1813, Forsyth county, Georgia d. 31 Mar 1890, Texanna, McIntosh, Oklahoma (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	23 Mar 1833	Forsyth county, Georgia   [1]
  Family ID	F567	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Malinda Elmira Kelly,   b. 28 Jun 1850, Georgia d. 10 May 1909 (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	5 Apr 1870	Forsyth county, Georgia
  Children	1. Jacob McCartney Scudder,   b. 24 Feb 1871, Forsyth county, Georgia d. 1960 (Age 88 years)   2. Narcissa Josephine Scudder,   b. 3 Jun 1873, Forsyth county, Georgia d. 11 Mar 1903 (Age 29 years)   3. Cherokee Georgia Henrietta Scudder,   b. 15 Nov 1880, Forsyth county, Georgia d. 30 Mar 1965, Texanna, McIntosh, Oklahoma (Age 84 years)   4. Alfred Benjamin Scudder,   b. 26 May 1884, Whitfield county, Georgia d. 3 Mar 1909, Oklahoma (Age 24 years)   5. Lewis Blackburn Scudder, Jr.,   b. 15 Oct 1886, Whitfield county, Georgia d. 13 Feb 1892, Oklahoma (Age 5 years)   6. Maggie Bess Scudder,   b. 22 May 1890, Whitfield county, Georgia d. 23 Dec 1969, Cleveland, Pawnee, Oklahoma (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F591	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Lewis served in Company B, Cobb's Legion, Georgia cavalry, during the Civil War. This unit was composed primarily of young men recruited from Bowden College, which was founded as "Bowdon Collegiate Institute" in May 1856. The charter for the college was actually granted by the Georgia legislature on December 22, 1857. At the conclusion of classes in May 1861, seven graduates, along with some 130 lower classmen and volunteers, formed a military company and elected Charles Addison McDaniel, their college president, as their captain. When Cobb's Legion was organized near Atlanta, McDaniel offered the services of his volunteers and the group from Bowdon became Company B. of Cobb's Legion, which later distinguished itself at Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. At the time of the 1880 census, Lewis listed his occupation as farmer.

  
  

• Sources

  [S272] Jacob M. Scudder of Georgia: Merchant, Miller, and Government Cherokee Indian Agent, Vol. II, No. 1, p. 9. [S289] Readers Write, Vol. V, No. 1, p. 6. The writer cites Emmet Starr, Old Cherokee Familes (University of Oklahoma, 1972), listed under the Daniel Family. [S325] 1880 United States Census, FHL Film 1254147; National Archives Film T9-0147; Page 377D. [S1329] Find a Grave Index, 1600s to Current.