Regiment: 128th USCT
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date: 6 March 1865 in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 10 October 1866 at Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Regiment: 127th
Company: F
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 31 August 1864 at West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 8 September 1865 at Brazos Santiago Pass, Texas, United States
Regiment: 33rd USCT
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in Date and Place: 8 April 1863 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out Date and Place: 31 January 1866 at Morris Island, South Carolina, United States
Joseph C. Sheffey, Jr., the son of Daniel Henry Sheffey, Jr. (1844-1914) and Jane A. White (1860-1912), was born on 25 September 1881.
He married 1) Nannie E. Buford, and 2) Susan "Susie" Julia Roane.
Joseph C. Sheffey, Jr. was a professional African American jockey in his young adulthood. He is pictured here wearing his winter jockey silks. He was known to have jockeyed in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and New Jersey. While he lived in Virginia, New Jersey and New York over the course of his life, he passed in 1959 in his native Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia.
Regiment: 128th USCT
Company: A
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date: 28 March 1865
Mustered-out Date & Place: 3 March 1866 in New York City, New York, United States
Regiment: 13th USCT
Company: H
Rank: Private
Mustered-in Date and Place: 2 November 1863 at Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Mustered-out Date and Place: 10 January 1866 at Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Regiment: 2nd United States Colored Light Artillery (USCLA)
Company: G
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date: 1864
Mustered-out date and place: 1866 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
Joseph P. Sumter (about 1848-1920). He was born, raised, and died in Sumter County, SC, and also served in 104th USCT.
The photograph belonged to my mother Mary Louise Burgess Ghee (1924-2014) who was born and raised in Sumter, SC. She spent the last 60 years of her life in New York City.
Regiment: 36th USCT
Company: G
Rank: Corporal
Mustered-in date and place: 7 June 1864
Mustered-out date and place: 28 October 1866 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Regiment: 10th USCT
Company: G
Rank: Private
Mustered-in Date and Place: 17 August 1864 at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Mustered-out Date and Place: 27 February 1867 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
ulia Ella Bates, the daughter of David "Davy" Bates (1853-1920) and Ella Young (1844-1914) of Varina, Henrico County, Virginia, was born on 6 May 1876 in Varina.
She married Leonard Wilson Roane on 1 April 1896 in Varina, Henrico County, Virginia. They were the parents of two daughters Susan "Susie" Julia Roane and Ella Bates Roane.
Julia (Bates) Roane died on 16 December 1901.
Julianne and her parents, Paul and Harriet, were enslaved by the brothers Octave and Numa Cornay of the Calumet Plantation. The plantation was in Patterson, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana and was a large sugar mill. During the Civil War, Julianne went with the Cornays to Lafayette, Louisiana, where she had one son by a man she was not marry to but had a "shacking" relationship to breed children. After the Civil war, Julianne returned to Patterson, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana and was a laundress. She met and married Vilmont Schexnayder on 4 January 1883 in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana. Julianne had at least 15 children, 14 of them with Vilmont Schexnayder.
