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Ref: "Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia", Vol. 1, p. 776 -
Compiled by Lillian Henderson:
DuPree, Lewis J. - 1st Lt. May 27, 1861. Elec. Capt. May 27, 1861.
Resigned Nov. 8, 1861. Elec. Capt. of Co. I, 45th Regt. Ga. Inf,
Mar. 4, 1862. Resd. Dec. 5, 1862. Appt. Post Surgeon at Griffin, Ga.,
& served in that capacity thru the War.
(Excerpted from "Muster Roll of Co. D, 6th Regt. Ga. Vol. Inf., Army
of Tenn., CSA - Butts Co. Ga. - "Butts Co. Volunteers".
Louis Jared Deupree served as a Colonel in General Bate's command,
became a journalist and editor of several publications, as well as
serving as the Consul to Honduras.
Birmingham, Ala..
Nov. 3, (18)85
Dear Cousin,
I bear the name of Lewis J. Dupree who lived 60 years in Lexington and
fifteen or 20 in Athens Ga. where he died. My Grandfather Daniel
Dupree was his uncle. In any event he used to call him "Uncle Daniel".
I lived with my Grandfather 5 miles from Lexington on the road to
Athens when I was a schoolboy at Penfield where Mercer University was
then located.
My mother was Miss Francina Boleyn Cox. She was the adopted child
of her fatherrs childless sister, Mrs. Ransom who lived on a farm next
Jack Greer's 4 miles from Athens. She had a home in Athens where I was
born fifty years ago very nearly. I was a wild boy and when at
Penfield, and afterwards at the University of Ala and afterwards at
the Law School, "Cousin Lewis:' had to send me money--not very large
sums but I needed it sadly and I was grateful and loved him always.
My Grandfather was a queer old coon. He was as generous to me and
my follies and extravagances as if he had never flattened a penny by
squeezing it; but he use to groan and I heard him tell my grandmother,
whose maiden name was Ellington that he thought I would bankrupt all
the family. Mr father grew rich despite my follies and when the war
came he owned two of the finest cotton plantations in MississiIrpi and
had $80,000 invested in a mercantile concern that paid him a rich
revenue. All this except one plantation that supports my aged mother,
is all that is left of his possessions. He died four years ago having
built the
great cotton mills at Enterprise, Miss. a few years earlier. He had
rare genius of money making and my mother was his intellectual
superior.
The Jack Greer, "Corporal" Greer, as everybody used to call him, was
a wanderful
character. He was my mother's first cousin, as was his wife, who died
last year at the old homestead 4 miles from Athens on the road to my
Grandfather's and to Lexington.
Cousin Drewry Dupree spent a year or two, long ago, with my father,
when I was a boy, on my father's plantation in Mississippi. Does he
still live? He must be a very old man, and a better one, my father
thought, did not live.
I have been an editor ever since I was grown, for many years in St.
Louis and Memphis and for -5 years past in Washingtcn City. I used to
write often for the Sunny South at Atlanta over the signature L. J. D.
I have a daughter, Mrs. Dr. C. W. Jarnagin in Atlanta and another, of
whom I spoke in former letter, in Conservatory of music.
I am here, how long to remain I don't know--but I am editing the
Birmingham Age. I started the coming conventions at Tuscaloosa,
Savannah and St. Louis relating to rivers, ports and Eads Ship
Railway; but I can't remain here I think and if I cannot effect a
permanent arrangement with the divergent and numerous proprietors of
the concern, I'll return to Washington and resume ny business as
newspaper correspondent. Mean-while I'll stop a few days with my
daughter in Atlanta and if possible see you.
Do you know anything of the sons of Joe Ellington "Dupree", Elijah,
Tom, etc., etc? They lived at Newnan. They were related to me.
I'll send a photograph as soon as I can get a supply--possibly not
till I get to Washington Meanwhile write me here.
I am fraternally
Yr cousin
Louis J. Dupree"
(over)
Continued -
"Atty Gen'l Sam Lumpkin of Lexington is the son of my first cousin
Sally Lumpkin, whose mother was my father's sister. I am so accustomed
to writing: with a pencil that I cannot use a pen. It costs too much
time when I must insert it in the ink bottle. Everybody loves Mss
Jack. She is (Note: This part torn off letter).
Lucia Hunt Hacker, Marion Apts., Griffin, Ga. 30223, has in her
possession a small business card on which is inscribed the following:
'I have resumed the practice of Medicine at Indian Springs. Thankful
for past favors
I respectfully solicit continuance of the same.
L. J. Dupree, M. D.
Indian Spring. Butts Co., Dec. 1, 1861"
His great grandfather was Lewis Deupree, son of Thomas Deupree of
Lunenburg Co., Va. These relationships are proven conclusively
elsewhere herein. Thomas Deupree's father also was Thomas who married
Margaret Easley. The latter Thomas did die in Henrico Co., Va., ca.
1725, but there is great doubt that he ever owned more than a small
grant (Patent) of land. His wife inherited 150 acres in Henrico Co.
from her father, Robert Easley. It's
possible that some of the acreage owned by either could have come down
to their son, Thomas of Lunenburg Co; however, there are no Henrico
records to support this. Lewis, the father of Daniel, sold his
holdings in Lunenburg and Mecklenburg Counties in the early 1790s and
removed to Laurens Co., S. C., where he died ca. 1799. This was Louis
J. DuPre's great grandfather. He must have disposed of most of his
property before death, as the inventory of
his estate, filed by his son, Drury the administrator, showed a modest
amount of property. - Some interested descendant might learn much
about the early ancestry of this family by delving into the Court
records of Henrico Co. I suggest that sane information might be found
under "Land Causes". Old letters can be a treasury of information;
however, take the "leads"
they give and prove them.
The two letters below were copied from a manuscript file at the
Virginia Historical Society Library, 428 N. Boulevard, Richmond, Va.,
File Classification: Mss 1 B 1463b 5514-5765. Box 23 of 197, The Bagby
Family Papers, Section 46 (DU-GIB). The letters were written by Louis
J. Dupree of Clinton, Miss., to the wife of George W. Bagby and to the
Virginia State Library, respectively, both of Richmond, Va. (Letters
inadvertently reversed below):
Note: George William Bagby (1828-1883) was Publisher of the
Lynchburg Express; wrote for Harper's New Monthly Magazine; was Editor
of the Southern Literary Messenger; and was an author and a lecturer,
generally in the light vein.
Each of the letters referred to bore a 1 x 1 picture of their
author pasted on the upper left corner of the first page, under which
he had signed his name as shown above, but omitting the "J". Only the
signature to the second letter shows the "J".
The first letter was written on letter-head stationery captioned,
"Editorial Rooms Daily News, Birmingham, Ala." Birmingham, Ala., had
been
struck through, and the letter was headed Clinton, Mississippi",
#1: "Mch 22/91
To the Librarian
When I was last in Richmond Mrs D'r Geo. W. Bagby filled the office to
which you have been assigned. I had met her at her house in Richmond.
Her husband & I were associated for a time as Journalists in the 'Old
Whig' office, 'bello flagrantion' in Richmond. I hope she still serves
the State & will be kind enough to answer the questions I propound.
With great respect I am
yrs very truly
Louis DuPre"
(Note: The questions he referred to were not with this letter, nor
were they located).
The second letter was typewritten, double spaced, on legal size paper.
#2:
"Clinton, Mississippi April 6th 1891
Dear Mrs Bagby;
My acquaintance and friendly relations with Dr. Bagby began even in
my boyhood. He and I and the late Sunset Cox of glorious memory met in
Washington at Buchanan's inauguration. I remained some weeks in the
Fed. capital while whe (sie) Dr. was there only a day or two. But we
never forgot the accident and good fortune involved in this day spent
so joyously with the most brilliant youth, as Mr. Cox was then
esteemed, of his time. But he and Tom Corwin were inveterate jesters
as matchless orators and I had the good fortune to hear Corwin tell my
late father-in-law, James C. Jones that if he had never "cracked a
jode he would have been
President.
Then again, in 1863 when for a time I was Clerk of a Com. on
Military affairs of the Confed. Congress, I made Dr. Bagby's my office
which was that of Mr, Moseley Ed, of the Old Richmond Whig. Do you
remember Mr. Moseley? What a frank, confiding, generous old gentleman
he was! I was introduced to him by Dr. B. as a "newspaper man". An
hour later Mr. Moseley was summoned to the country. I was still in in
Dr. B 's "telegraph" apartment. He approached me saying, "you have
been reading the Whig and know what it advocates and
opposes". " want you to run it for me till I return',. Do you know
that I will be more boastful of this trust reposed and of the fidlity
(sie) and skill. With which I executed it than of laudation conceded
by the Dep't of State when
I served it in an international embroglio By the way, Mr. Moseley
--and. Gov. Jones were singularly alike in person, stature -
singularly tall and slendor -- and their photographs were fac similes.
Jones was born at the Hermitage in Tenn. but his father and mother
were Virginians as are these all of people that get to heaven I humbly
imagine - when writing to a loyal Virginenne And this leads me to
inquire whether, in delveng (sie) amon:g old books or pamphlets which
I exploited somewhat when I was Committee clerk, as aforesaid State
Library, you ever encountered any allusion to persons of:--- name
grandfather, Dan'l DuPre was, in his youth, a soldier under LaFayette
to be 90 years old dying, in 1848, in Lexington Va. I used to hear and
see the the old gentleman when he was "fighting all his battles o'er
again". The old man never loved Geo. Washington, He said that he and
and LaFayette starved out (p. 2) Cornwallis and finally cooped him up
in Yorktown. Then came DeGresse and Hochambeau, and when the French,
under LaFayette, an land, and under De-Grease, at sea, had won the
victory, 'the good and great G. W. hustled down from Tappul were (sie)
he had been hanging poor Andre far six or 8 months, and nodestly
received Cornwallis' sword reporting to Congress a greet Victory for
she Country,s paternal ancestor, so-called.
Many thanks, Mrs Bagby, for answers to to those historical and other
questions propounded The others, unanswered are immaterial.
It occurs to me at the moment, that I have a letter from Hon. Henry
L. Bentley of Abeline Texas - the matchless orator of those parts -
inquiring about the history and deeds of my grandfather. Bentley's
grandfather was also named Dan'l DuPre. He was forty years Pres't and
Cashier of the state Bank Of N. C. at Raleigh. He and my grandfather
(sie), I opine, were first cousins. Their father or grandfather came,
with senator Bayard's people, to Phil'a about
1670. That's all I know about them.
My great grandfather owned thie site of the present town of
Manchester your Richmond suburb. He sold 99 year leases, These expired
about thirty years ago. Christian and Carrington were employed by the
heirs of this old Dan'l DuPre, my grandfather, to sue for the
property. All records had been burned twice or thrice. We could prove
nothing, and the
legislature of Va properly legislatd to quiet titles and very properly
I was suppressed. However I am pleased to tell you that I am the
hereditary owner of much realty about Richmond. The additional fact
remains to be stated that my mother's name was Francine Bolling Cox
and this fact induced me to seek the acquaintance of Sunset Cox, as
heretofore stated.
Two of my' mother's uncles were in the battle at Monmouth Court
House, N. J. One was wounded and remained in tht (sie) State and was
married there. I fancied that Sunset Cox (barn in N.J.) might be my
cousin. I mentioned the matter once. He only laughed at the
odd conceit saying "I always knew that I was of royal blood." My
mother's mother was named Cabinesse.; her grandfather was John Cox to
whom the Crown issued a grant on parchment from King Charles, I think
it was, conveying to 'John Cox Gent'. the County of Dinwiddie. My
father's home was destroyed bello flagrante with every old book and
heirloom of the house. I wish to answer Mr. Bentley's letter. Before
doing so I would gladly hear
from you. There is something in that old Library about every old
family of the old Dominion.
I am, with sincere regard,
Yrs sincerely
Louis J. DuPre"
On the reverse of the last page of the above letter was the following
in long-hand:
"You had an admirable portrait of Henry Clay & I have his watch. Don't
you remember the conversation evoked by these facts at your home?
(Also) Gov. 6( U. S. Senator James C. Jones was named James
'Chamberlayne' Jones. See what is said of him within."
OGLETHORPE COUNTY:
Marriages, 1793-1877 (Ga. Archives, M/f Reel 46-5):
p. 247.- Lewis J. Dupree and Keziah Woody. #1307. Lic. Feb. 20, 1815 -
id. 2 Feb. 1815 by Sam'l Strong (no title). (Orig. Bk. A, p. 46)
p. 206 - Deupree, John and Polly Carter. #737. License Sept. 20,
1806.
(Orig. Bk. A, p. 2). "Fact of Marriage", 2 Oct. 1806. Rec.
24 Oct. 1806. - Robert Freeman J. P.
p. 215 - William Deupree and Betsy Embry #871. Lic. June 1, 1808.
(No Fact of Marriage record)
p. 291 - Joseph Deupree and Caroline Spratling. #1901. Lic. Jan. 6,
1824.
(No fact of Marriage record).
p. 252 - Betsy Deupree and Josiah Hainey. #1377. Lic. Mar. 9, 1815.
Mar(ried) 9 Mar. 1815 by Jas. Luckie, J. P. (Orig, Bk. A, p. 46).
p. 259 - Lucy Deupree and James Johnson. Lic. May 12, 1817. Mar.
13 May 1818 by Isham Goss, M. G. (Bk A, p. 58). Note: This
microfilm was made from a "transcribed record'', and it is possible
the date was transcribed incorrectly).
p. 271.- Susan Dupree and Joseph Crawford. Lic. Jan. 18, 1820.
Mar, 20 Jan. 1820 by Isham Goss, M. G. (Bk. A, p. 77).
p. 305 - Nancy Deupree and Ambrose M. Gathright. #2085 Lic. Sept,
12,
18 26. (No fact of marriage. Note: The groom's given name may
have been Auburn instead of Ambrose).
p. 306 - Elizabeth Deupree and Elisha Landrum. #2096. Lic. Dec. 5,
1826.
(No Fact of Marriage).
Marriages, 1830-1902 (Ga. Archives, M/f Reel 46-6) -
p. 4 - Daniel T. Dupree and Elizabeth Ann Lee. M. 12 Nov. 1829 by
F. Calloway, M. G.
p. 99 - Wm. H. Dupree and Jane A. Goodrich, m. 24 Decr 1839 by
N. M. Lumpkin V. D. M. Rec. 11 Jan 1840.
p. 14 - Elijah Dupree and Eliza Wayne m. 6th April 1831 by
F. Calloway, M. G.
p. 96 - Elizabeth S. Dupree and Jesse M. Spratling m. 7 Nov. 1839
by
Early Varner, J. P. Rec 9 Nov. 1839.
p. 252 - Mary Louise Dupree and B. F. Palmer m. 2 October 1857- by
Rec. 18 Dec. 1857.
Ref: Biblical Recorder (Baptist) -(Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem,
N. C.):
Obituary, issue of 19 Aug. 1848:
Dupree, Mrs. Sarah E., Oglethorpe Co., Ga.
1800 U. S. Census, - Capt. McCarley's District:
Daniel Dupree: Males - 2 und. 10 Females - 1 und. 10
1 - 26/45 (6 Slaves).
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