Red Augustus Mitchell

Red Augustus Mitchell

• Father: Thweatt Eason Mitchell b. 2 March 1826, d. 1 January 1900
• Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Zimmerman b. February 1835

• Red Augustus Mitchell was born in 1867 in Alabama.
• Thweatt Eason Mitchell and Sarah Elizabeth Zimmerman appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Cole Station PO, Elmore County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Red Augustus Mitchell, Thweatt Mitchell and Leonora Barton Mitchell.
• Thweatt Eason Mitchell and Sarah Elizabeth Zimmerman appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Tallassee, Elmore County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Red Augustus Mitchell, Thweatt Mitchell, Leonora Barton Mitchell, Thomas Zimmerman Mitchell and Julia Estelle Mitchell.
• He served as a corporal in Company H, 5th US Volunteer Infantry Regiment, during the Spanish-American War.
• Red Augustus Mitchell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Old Elam, Montgomery County, Alabama, at the State Penitentiary Farm Prison identified as prison guard Redd A. Mitchell, born April 1872. It is an educated guess that Red Augustus Mitchill was employed as a prison guard following his service in the Spanish-American war.
• He married Sarah Ann Arthur, daughter of David Carter Arthur and Mary Jane Thornton, on 22 July 1903 in Elmore County, Alabama.
• David Carter Arthur and Mary Jane Thornton appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Elmore County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Red Augustus Mitchell, Sarah Ann Arthur, Lenora Mitchell and Kate Mitchell. Also in the household was hired man John Goree, age 27, whose origins are as yet unknown.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1910 census.
• Red Augustus Mitchell and Sarah Ann Arthur appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Baldwin County, Alabama, at Bon Secour Road. Other members of the household included Lenora Mitchell, Kate Mitchell and David Augustus Mitchell.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1920 census.
• The following appeared on 22 August 1920 in The Montgomery Advertiser: (Elmore) Miss Lenora Mitchell, formerly of Elmore, now of Bon Secour, Ala., stopped over for several days visiting friends and relatives on her way home from Birmingham, Ala.
  
• Red Augustus Mitchell and Sarah Ann Arthur appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Baldwin County, Alabama. Other members of the household included David Augustus Mitchell and Doris Mitchell.
• He was a truck farmer, according to the 1930 census.
• Red Augustus Mitchell wrote to Elizabeth Leigh Wood:
                 Foley, Ala, Feb 6 – 1932
  Dear Mrs James
       I received your letter & just received part of the records you wanted. If ?it? this is not what you or I realy want I can’t get the old bible it seems unless I go to ?Green? South Carolina after it. Yet we will not give up I know we will find it all some time. So be like ?John Abram? & wait is all we can do now. I am sending you what my sister sent me. All this was written down by my grandmother. Mary Wood Mitchell a hundred+ years ago. Gen Solomon Wood’s daughter. I can’t see any other chance only for me and the ?cousin? you spoke of to come & spend the day with us & go over those old notes. will be glad to have you & your cousin any time. Now please excuse bad writing as I told you I never went to school. A little pride caused me to learn a little about b[usiness?].
                 Yours very sincerely, Red A Mitchell.
• Red Augustus Mitchell and Sarah Ann Arthur appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Bon Secour, Baldwin County, Alabama.
• Red Augustus Mitchell became a widower at the 9 April 1941 death of his wife Sarah Ann Arthur.
• He married Mary Mitchell Cobb, daughter of John William Mitchell Cobb and Mary Lee Norris. Mary was a granddaughter of Red's first cousin Mary Wood Cobb..
• Red Augustus Mitchell died on 7 August 1965 in Pell City, St. Clair County, Alabama.
• His wife Mary Mitchell Cobb became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at Pine Rest Cemetery, Foley, Baldwin County, Alabama.

• Last Edited: 29 Sep 2012

• Charts: Descendants of WOOD William & Lydia Ballentine (#1), Descendants of WOOD William & Lydia Ballentine (#2)