Sturgills in America

Sturgill, James Jr

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James Sturgill Jr. (Jimmy) and his first wife Susan Hewlin, who was the mother of all his children, made their home in a two story log house which he built at the mouth of Kings Creek and the south fork of New River. All of his children were born in this house where he lived out his life. Jimmy was a big man who was noted for his physical strength. He was a Magistrate in Ashe Co. and a Deacon in the South Fork Baptist Church. He and his first two wives were buried in the old church cemetery on Kings Creek.-p. 72

Historical Note: During the Civil War, Jimmy Sturgill and five other older men received orders to report to a Confederate Army camp in South Carolina. This was near the end of the war and due to the fact that many renagade bands, (deserters from both armies called 'bushwhackers') were roving the country, they were advised to hide by day and travel only at night. When they arrived at the army camp about a week later they were told that they were all too old to fight and to go back home and grow food.

On the way back and anxious to get home they decided that it was safe to travel by daylight and proceeded to do so. In Iredell Co. NC they were attacked by a group of mounted renegades who fired at them. They escaped into a nearby woods which was thick with underbrush and hid until dark. Needless to say they traveled by night the rest of the way home. Some others in this group were Ira Halsey, a Parsons and a Stamper. - p. 72

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