Enoch Alldredge

Alldredge, Enoch, farmer and Confederate officer, was born May 16, 1807, in Giles County, Tenn., and died November 22, 1879, in Brooksville, Blount County; son of Andrew and Leah (Chaney) Alldredge, the former a native of North Carolina, who lived in Brooksville at the time of his death in 1850; grandson of Nathan Alldredge, a Revolutionary soldier, and Jerry and May (Curby) Chaney. He came with his parents to Blount County in December, 1816, and was educated in the common schools of that county. He was elected justice of the peace about 1828; served in the Creek Indian War in Florida as a private in Capt. Musgrove's company, in 1836; was elected to the State legislature in 1836; and served in that body through twenty-six sessions. In 1862 he raised a company for the C.S. Army, and at the organization of the Forty-eighth Alabama infantry, was elected its major. He commanded the regiment at Cedar Run, and was seriously wounded, being disabled from further servce. He returned to his farm near Brooksville, and resided there until his death. He had seven sons and two sons-in-law in the C.S. Army and one of his sons was killed at second Manassas, another died in prison at Fort Donelson, and a third was permanently crippled. He was a Democrat, was a deacon and for fifty-eight years was clerk in the Primitive Baptist church. Married: November 18, 1826, to Amelia Pace, daughter of John and Ziffory Pace, who came from Virginia to Alabama and settled in Blount County. Children: 1. John P.; 2. Capt. Andrew J.; 3. Col. Jesse J. (q.v.); 4. William M.; 5. Hiram W.; 6 Garland S.; 7. Missouri A.; 8. Van B.; 9. Elizabeth; 10. James P.; 11. Taylor W.; 12. Clemons G.; 13. D.L. Last residence: Brooksville.