Happy New Year!

 HAKUNA MATATA

Hakuna matata is a Swahili phrase that translates to “no worries” or “there are no problems.” It conveys a carefee attitude and encourages people not to stress about things beyond their control. This is the perfect mantra for the new year.

As we age, we are faced with more life behind us than before us. We are faced with the loss of love and life. Yet there is space for new life, new love, and new beginnings.

I began my year with a new puppy .... yes, a puppy. I forgot what new energy that brings to your world. As I let go of the past pain and disappointments, may I look forward to new discoveries and new adventures; may I celebrate my victories and all that life has taught me. 

Hakuna matata...may I worry less about things I cannot change! AND may my new puppy, Miss Dixie Belle, lead the way.

Jefferson Parks Burial

Jefferson Parks Hulsey died on 31 March 1909

The census records for 1890 were destroyed so there are no record of Jefferson and Sarah during that time period.  But sometime before 6 March 1900, they had moved to McLennan County, Texas, where Sarah died.  Jefferson Parks Hulsey moved to Taylor County where he died on 31 March 1909.  He is buried in the King burial plot in the Abilene Municipal Cemetery with his daughter, Emily Melissa, who married William Lazarus King. Jefferson Park’s gravestone is a Civil War Marker.

I cannot find Jefferson Parks Hulsey in the 1900 census, but when he died in 1909, his son Thomas Jefferson Hulsey who lived in Abilene, Taylor County, Texas, applied for a military tombstone for which was granted. Jefferson Parks daughter Emily who married William Lazarus King was also living in Abilene. Jefferson Parks was buried in the King family plot in the Abilene Municipal Cemetery.

I was able to visit their gravesite with my mother in 1990.

Jefferson Parks Hulsey was injured in the Civil War

On 16 May 1862, in Petersburg, Virginia, Jefferson enlisted as a private in Company D, 22^nd Georgia Infantry Regiment.  The Union prisoner of war records show that he was wounded and captured on October 1, 1862 at Antietam. The Union army imprisoned him at Fort McHenry, and he received treatment at U.S.A. General Hospital, Frederick, Maryland.  He was then transferred to Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, I believe in an exchange of prisoners.  Probably in that same exchange, Jefferson was paroled at Sharpsburg, Maryland.  I believe that when he was released, he rejoined his company and continued fighting.  He was wounded there again on September 17, 1863. Later muster rolls show him absent without leave on 28 February 1865, so it is assumed that he somehow made his way back to Georgia to recuperate. There is no further military record.  He carried a minié ball in his hip until he died.           

The minie ball theory came from a man named Ray Corbin. He listed this statement on April 8, 2012.

I do not know if this was the case, but I did research on the minie ball. This is the information that I found. 

The Minié Ball is a kind of muzzle loading rifle bullet that was introduced into the Civil War and changed the way we fought war forever. It was made so that reloading and quick firing was able to be done. The bullet could go through a soldier and still kill anyone behind him.

Loading the gun was completely different than the normal musket, the soldier would rip open the cartridge with his teeth and ram the bullet into the gun which made firing quick and easy.

The Minié Ball gave victims terrible wounds on the battlefield. When shot the bullet would carve an enormous wound on impact. The bullet was able to crush through bones and doctors would usually have to cut the limb off that was wounded, to avoid death. Of around 175,000 wounded - 30,000 would have to have their wounds amputated. The bullet was named after Claude Etienne Minié.

Jefferson Parks Hulsey's Civil War Service is Honored

 

Jefferson Parks Hulsey group sheet with mother Elizabeth Byrd

 The Hulsey family : with some history of the places and times in which they lived

found on image viewer slide #69

page XXXII in book

Jefferson Parks Hulsey married Sarah Haney

 Jefferson Parks Hulsey married Sarah Haney

25 July 1847

Lumpkin County, Georgia

Sarah Haney Hulsey Remembered
This research found by Nancy Quillin Long
 
This information was found on Ancestry in a personal pamphlet titled
ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF WYATT WOOD OF GEORGIA
written by Corinne Dellinger Gordy, et al.
 

Though it is a history of the Wood family, the information that I’m connected with is on page 6. It is personal information written by Corinne about her grandfather Wyatt Wood. She gives Wyatt Wood’s information as such:

On February 1, 1884, Wyat married Sarah Jane Hulsey, daughter of Jefferson P. and Sarah Haney Hulsey.

This is confirmation that Jefferson Parks Hulsey’s wife was Sarah Haney, not Harvey, as some have her listed. She knew him personally and had vivid memories of Wyatt.

Sources for Jefferson Parks Hulsey

Sources:  JEFFERSON PARKS HULSEY
 
Interviews
King, Maude. Personal Interview, Spring 1990.
Quillin, Carolita. Personal Interview, 1989-1995.
King, Florence Haupt. King and Hulsey Families of Georgia and Texas (excellent research)
 
Hulsey Book
Pero, Lou (Mary Lou), The Hulsey Book. Bend, Ore.: L. Pero, 1989.  Digitalized in 2008 929.273
H879
 
United States Federal Census
Year: 1830; Census Place: Hall, Georgia; Series: M19; Roll: 18; Page: 120;
Year: 1850; Census Place: Barrett, Lumpkin, Georgia; Roll: 76; Page: 79a
Year: 1860; Census Place: Georgia Militia District 824, Murray, Georgia; Page: 12; Family History
 Library Film: 803132
Year: 1870; Census Place: Militia District 872, Whitfield, Georgia; Roll: M593_183; Page: 133B;
Family History Library Film: 545682
Year: 1880; Census Place: Ball Ground, Murray, Georgia; Roll: 159; Page: 461B; Enumeration
 District: 154
 
Military
Historical Data Systems, comp. American Civil War Soldiers [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
United States National Archives. Civil War Service Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
National Park Service. U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
National Archives at Washington DC; Washington DC, USA; Applications for Headstones for U.S.
Military Veterans, 1925-1941; NAID: A1, 2110-C; Record Group Number: 92; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General
http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=20740 Pvt Jefferson Parks Hulsey page.
 
Marriage
Ancestry.com. Georgia, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1754-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.
Hunting For Bears, comp.. Georgia Marriages, 1699-1944 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
 Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Ancesrty.com. Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978 [database on-
line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
  
Property Tax
Ancestry.com. Georgia, U.S., Property Tax Digests, 1793-1892 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Militia District Number: 825; Post Office: Carter
Ancestry.com. Georgia, U.S., Returns of Qualified Voters and Reconstruction Oath Books, 1867-
1869 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
 
Websites
https://geneal4real.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/jefferson-p-hulsey-and-sarah-e-haney/
https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/e/c/Sharon-K-Becker-Arizona/GENE5-0004.html
https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/111105/I01475/pleasantj-hulsey/individual? Sometimes rootsweb doesn’t load.