LUSK JAMES ANTHONY

Abt 1836 -

• Name	LUSK JAMES ANTHONY  [1]
  Born	Abt 1836	Tennessee   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I28534	Gynzer's Genealogy Database
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2005

  
  

  Father	LUSK UNKNOWN
  Family ID	F09895	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	SMITH LUCY ANN,   b. 1837, North Carolina
  Married	1857  [1]
  Children	1. LUSK FATIMA,   b. Abt 1858, Head Springs, DeKalb County, Alabama ,   d. 1893  (Age 35 years) + 2. LUSK MARTHA ADALINE,   b. 1 May 1860   3. LUSK JOSEPH,   b. 1862, Head Springs, DeKalb County, Alabama ,   d. 1894  (Age 32 years)   4. LUSK WADE HAMPTON,   b. 1864, Louisville, Fayette County, Kentucky ,   d. Oct 1921  (Age 57 years)   5. LUSK SALVIA,   b. 1867, LeSeur County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F09901	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.)

  
  

• Sources

  [S096727] Larry Herrin/penengr2/@/aol.com.