Samuel McPherson

Title

Samuel McPherson

Aliases

Samuel Fraser

Date

10 July 1890-6 February 1936

Description

Regiment: 21st United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: I
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 10 September 1864 at Hilton Head Island, Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 25 April 1866 at Morris Island, South Carolina, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: Morris Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States; James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States; Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States; Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, United States; Olustee, Baker County, Florida, United States; Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
Comrades mentioned: George Green; Antony Bailey; John Williams; Sharper Miller; Jesse Nash; Thos Hickinbotton; James Caraway; Dick Polite; Abram Purchase; James Fiall; Morris Pinckney; Joseph Pinckney; Frank Verdier

Name(s) of spouse(s): Eliabeth Gruber McPherson
Children: Rinah Fraser (born 26 March 1886); James Edward Fraser (born 24 November 1887); Mary Ann Fraser (born 6 October 1891); John Newman Fraser (born 3 April 1897)

Veteran's birth date and location: ~1846 at Pinckney Island, Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Death date and location: 7 May 1924
Plantation(s): Pinckney Island
Enslaver(s): Harriott Pinckney

Parents of veteran: Antony McPherson
Other listed family members: Not listed

Wife's place of birth: Walterboro, Colleton, South Carolina, United States
Wife's enslaver: Not listed
Wife's parents: David Gruber and Elizabeth Bowen Gruber
Wife's other family members: Hern Gruber (half-brother); Alice Singleton; Rosella Mike; Carrier Jane, Clara Gill (half-sisters)

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.