The following information was sent to me by a fellow researcher. If you drop by and read this, perhaps you will be able to provide information that will be of help. It will be greatly appreciated.
John H. Hughes was born circa 1826 in South Carolina, maybe Laurens or Pickens County. He married Nancy Bramlett or Bramblett before the 1850 Pickens Co., S.C., census. She may be daughter of Frances and Rutherford Bramblett of Laurens and Pickens counties. John H. Hughes, 24, farming, and wife, Nancy, 21, both born South Carolina, lived in the Eastern Division of Pickens Co., S.C. (NARA Film M432:857:473B). They did not have children in 1850 or in 1860 after they moved to Alabama. J. H. Hughes, 34, farmer, $500 real estate, $400 personal estate, and wife, Nancy, 23/33 (actually about 31), both born South Carolina, are listed in the 1860 Bluff Springs P.O., Talladega Co., Ala., census (NARA Film M653:24:932). John served as a Confederate soldier, first entering the Camp of Instruction at Talladega in December 1862 for training and unit assignment. He then served as a private in Company C, 59th (later 61st) Regiment, Alabama Infantry. He enlisted June 29, 1863, at Tallapoosa, Ala., and served until he died in 1864. His military records indicate he was "Wounded and in the hands of the enemy Winchester, Va., 19 Oct./64". He was last paid to June 30, 1864 (NARA Compiled Service Records Film 311 Roll 469). He may have been buried in Virginia.
I would also like to place Nancy Bramlett with her family. She was born July 2, 1829, in South Carolina and died Aug. 5, 1897, in Newsite, Tallapoosa Co., Ala. She is buried beside her second husband in Bethel South Baptist Church Cemetery, Clay Co., Ala. When she and John lived in Pickens Co., S.C., in 1850, Frances and Rutherford Bramblett and family and two sons (Lewis and William B.) were living in the same county. Nancy's 1897 will mentions four siblings as heirs, and her probate records name one of them: William B. Bramlett. Rutherford's son William B. Bramlett lived in Pickens County from 1850 to 1900. Nancy and her two husbands did not have surviving children. Other heirs named in the will are descendants of her second husband.
After John H. Hughes died, Nancy second married Augustus D. Sentell on Dec. 21, 1865, in Alabama. His descendants have documented his lineage. He was born May 16, 1819, in Jasper Co., Ga., the son of Sallie Cheek and Joseph J. Sentell. (The father served as a private in Nash's Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, during the War of 1812. They lived in Laurens Dist., S.C., in 1815 before moving into Georgia.) Augustus D. Sr. died Feb. 4, 1894, in Clay Co., Ala. He and his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Cargile, had several children. One, Augustus D. Jr., served in the same unit as his father during the Civil War: Hilliard's Legion, which later became 10th Confederate Cavalry. Nancy Bramlett Hughes Sentell applied for a widow's pension based on his war service in 1894.
Please contact me to share or obtain more information about Nancy Bramlett: Deb Dennis
Contact the following for more information about the Sentell/e family:
Sam P. Sentelle, Hurricane, W.V.,