Joseph Mark Westmoreland

b. 1827, d. 1904
  • Joseph Mark Westmoreland was born in 1827 in Alabama.
  • He married Mary Sarah McGill, daughter of Daniel McGill and Elizabeth (?), on 22 March 1849 in Macon County, Alabama, with W. T. Sharpe officiating.
  • Mary Sarah McGill and Joseph Mark Westmoreland appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Macon County, Alabama, enumerated next to Mary's parents.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1850 census.
  • On Thursday, 12 February 1852, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Bought a Sorrel Horse mule 4 years old of Mr Westmoreland, $150."
  • Green Wood recorded in his book of Misc. Financial & Slave Records, an accounting for J. Mark Westmoreland, for work done during the period 8 February through 16 August 1865 (by J. M. W. or his worker Geroge?) at $2 per day, total 24 days. And also, on April 1st, 20 bushels peas and 1 bushel ground peas, paid by Green in bacon.
         Anderson & Richards from January through March 1864. Included four 2-horse wagon loads of corn at $100; on 21 January, two ox waggon loads (105 busels at $2); on 6 February, Mr. Anderson 1 hog (240 lbs) and Maj. Richardson 2 hogs (425 lbs) at 40 cents; and on 17 March, Major Richards 50 bushels corn at $3.
  • Joseph Mark Westmoreland and Mary Sarah McGill appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Danville, Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included William Mark Westmoreland and Willie Holland. Also in the household was Margaret Green, age 12.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1870 census.
  • Joseph Mark Westmoreland died in 1904.
  • He was interred at the old Danville cemetery, Montgomery County, Texas, on present-day Shepard Hill Road, near Willis.
  • For an account of his CSA service in Company B, 24th Texas Cavalry Regiment, see his profile in Karen McCann Hett's Danville Mounted Riflemen.
  • Last Edited: 12 Aug 2015

Family: Mary Sarah McGill b. 1832, d. 1891