Reuben Childers
b. circa 1839, d. 10 July 1862
- Father: Douglas Childers b. 19 October 1819
- Mother: Amanda Cheshire b. 15 August 1822, d. 26 December 1896
- Reuben Childers was born circa 1839 in Georgia.
- Douglas Childers and Amanda Cheshire appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1840 in Stewart County, Georgia. Other (counted but unnamed) members of the household apparently included Reuben Childers.
- Douglas Childers and Amanda Cheshire appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Mockinson Gap, Stewart County, Georgia, enumerated next to Amanda's parents.. Other members of the household included Reuben Childers, Jefferson Pierce Childers, Mary James Childers, Adner A. Childers, William Franklin Childers, Henrietta L. Childers and Benjamin F. Cheshire.
- Douglas Childers and Amanda Cheshire appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery PO, Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Reuben Childers, Jefferson Pierce Childers, Mary James Childers, Adner A. Childers, William Franklin Childers, Henrietta L. Childers and Narcissa Childers.
- He was working on the farm, according to the 1860 census.
- He joined the Danville Mounted Riflemen as a private on 4 May 1861, and in April 1862 joined Capt. S. D. Wooldridge's Company B, 24th Texas Cavalry Regiment, CSA.
- Reuben Childers died on 10 July 1862 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
- 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: 24 Jan 2012