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Mitchell Amarantha Melvina [Female] b. 10 JAN 1837 Nicholson, Hancock, Ms/Nicholson, Pearl River County, Ms. - d. 2 AUG 1904 Nicholson, Hancock, Ms/Nicholson, Pearl River County, Ms.

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Title: Strahan Family Reunion .FTW

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[Strahan Family Reunion .FTW]

Viny's daughter, Aramantha Mitchell married William Wheat in 1856.
(As recorded by Hezakiah Wheat)
"The Civil War had not long been in progress when Yankee thieves, plunderers and rapists had made their way down as far as the Gulf waters, when they turned a battalion of the very dregs of humanity at Napoleons's Bluff. (located 3 mi. south of Gainesville - now NASA)
Our paw hastened to organize a company of (dead shots), took them down the river to Camp Clark at Shieldsboro (Bay of St. Louis) where they joined the Confederate Army as "the Gainesville Volunteers". When my Father left home he told Mama, " We will clean them all out in less than a month and I will be back home." After a month, Mama went down river to Camp Clark to make an inquiry. She was told they were all shipped out on more urgent duty. After months of silence, she received a letter telling that her husband had been seriously wounded and was in a Yankee Hospital Camp in North Mississippi. Then ____ we could find out nothing for many months.
One Day a flat boat anchored at Napolean's Bluff with whistle blowing mournfully and never ceasing, Mama ran towards it. She saw Papa on crutches, being helped from the boat. A living skeleton fell in Mama's arms. He had walked halfway home from Grenada Mississippi. His shoes were padded with rags and both feet were covered with broken blisters. He had been wounded several times. Our courageous Father did not survive long."
Military Record Wm. G Wheat, Hancock County, Mississippi Cavalry, CSA, County D, 17th Battalion.
( son of Joseph Wheat)
Bill and Amarantha had only seven years together before he died of wounds and exposure during his service. At age 27, Aramantha was left a widow with small children. When William Wheat died, Napoleon's Bluff was still a dangerous place to live, with Federal war traffic still on the river and Yankee scalawags roaming the woods. The Yankees had eaten all of Amarantha's cattle, sheep, hogs, chickens, robbed her store, smokehouse, her potato banks, and they were all starving. They were invited "to come one, come all" to live with Mama and Papa (Viny and John Mitchell), so they moved to Nicholson, where they remained until Aramantha married James Martin. He built a home at Flat Top (now part of NASA).
Source Five Descending Generations from Linda and Robert M. Mitchell compiled by Vivian Davis Bornemann
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