Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
"James Anthony Lusk, served in Colonel Malone's Co. of the Alabama Confederate Calvary, but deserted with his brother Joe, to the Union side, across the Tennessee River on a railroad tie. He lost his little finger to the Confederate Sentry. Although he is listed in the War Department as a deserter (Union) and a horse thief, he was actually carried to the Missour i River steamboat on a streacher, months later, the results of a bullet wound in his lung, from which he never recovered. He and his cousin Allen Lea (Lee) organized a company of Unio n men to fight under the Confederacy until they could desert over. In 1863, three years later, he and his brother were about all that was left of the original company. Allen Lea was captain of the company." (This information was obtained from Monica Carlstrom, a descendant of James and Lucy Smith Lusk.)

JAMES married SMITH LUCY ANN in 1857. LUCY (daughter of SMITH HAMPTON WADE and FRYAR SABRA (SIBBY)) was born in 1837 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

1. LUSK FATIMA was born about 1858 in Head Springs, DeKalb County, Alabama; died in 1893.
2. LUSK MARTHA ADALINE was born on 1 May 1860.
3. LUSK JOSEPH was born in 1862 in Head Springs, DeKalb County, Alabama; died in 1894.
4. LUSK WADE HAMPTON was born in 1864 in Louisville, Fayette County, Kentucky; died in Oct 1921.
5. LUSK SALVIA was born in 1867 in LeSeur County, Minnesota.