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 "James M. CHEUVRONT - is a son of Isaac and Catherine (Childers) Cheuvront ...during the war between the States, James M. Cheuvront was a member of Company F, 4th Virginia Cavalry, enlisting in July, 1863, and receiving discharge in March, 1864. In February, 1865, he enlisted again in Company F, 7th Virginia Cavalry, serving until August, 1865. He owns and carries on a good farm in Grant district, and his post office address is Lockhart, Jackson county, West Virginia.   This James M. Cheuvront, Confederate from Monroe County, brother of Lemuel G.II and Moses E. Cheuvront (s/o JosephIII and Hannah McInnis Rouse) was only recently verified via a researcher at the National Archives. In a letter of 1863, Lemuel mentioned "a brother" who died on Nov. 24, 1862 at a hospital in Giles County, and it had been assumed that this was Andrew, another brother who was said to have died around the beginning of the Civil War. There was no record of Lemuel having a brother named James until now, and Mike Cheuvront's theory for that is this: Fearing he'd be denied a pension, Lemuel went to great lengths to cover up his Confederate Army service when he applied for a Union veterans pension. As late as 1912, the pension board was still questioning his brother Moses about service in the Confederate Army, (despite the fact that, unlike Lemuel, Moses had only served in the Union Army). The theory is that, for the sake of their pensions, they must have decided that neither of them would mention their dead Confederate brother James M. Cheuvront. (information provided by Michael Cheuvront) mchevy@earthlink.net SEE ALSO: LEMUEL CHEUVRONT  from the WLCheuvront text: (s/o CALEB, b Feb 10, 1792-May 15, 1865 and Rebecca Covert, b. Uniontown PA Nov. 18, 1829; died Sept. 1, 1863, age 33 years. He was a physician and surgeon, unusually successful in the treatment of dyphtheria that was once considered a scourge. [He died on the way to Wilmington, OH., where he'd planned to marry his cousin's daughter, Virginia Darbyshire, a granddaughter of Ann Covert Darbyshire, a wealthy brick and tile producer in Wilmington. He caught Erysipelas en route, "a contagious skin disease caused by streptococci which causes vesticular and bulbous lesions"]. He became sick upon arrival in Wilmington and died before he could be married. He was buried in Wilmington, OH, where a small marble slab marks his grave. [He had been a soldier in the Federal Army of the Civil War, and W.L. Cheuvront notes that Will H. Cheuvront had in his possession the "fine hacksaw" with which Dr. Jesse amputated the leg of one Manley Morgan, whose leg had been crushed by a log.] |