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     Lewis Gentry Bagwell was born on 16 March 1910 in Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina.^1,2 He was the son of John Mansell Bagwell and Sarah Edna Moore.¹ Lewis served in the U.S. Navy between 30 September 1942 and 4 November 1945.² Lewis Gentry Bagwell died on 17 August 1972 in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia, at age 62.² He was buried at Rest Haven Memorial Gardens, Washington County, Georgia.²

     (?) Cawthon married Essie Ailer Bagwell, daughter of William Alfred Bagwell and Leanna Anna Lesley, after 1910.¹

     Artie Elizabeth Holder was born on 7 April 1891 in South Carolina.¹ She married George Oscar Bagwell, son of William Alfred Bagwell and Leanna Anna Lesley, circa 1907.^1,2 As of circa 1907,her married name was Bagwell. Artie Elizabeth Holder died in September 1980 in Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina, at age 89.

     Edward Earl Bagwell was also known as Eddie Earl Bagwell. He was born on 6 February 1909 in Pickens County, South Carolina.^1,2 He was the son of George Oscar Bagwell and Artie Elizabeth Holder.¹ Served in the US Navy Reserve as a fireman aboard the USS Diphda (USS Diphda (AKA-59) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship) during World War II. Edward Earl Bagwell married Vera Marie Holliday after 1925.³ Edward Earl Bagwell married Essie Christine Fowler after 1945. Edward Earl Bagwell died on 7 July 1962 in VA Hospital, Oteen, Buncombe County, North Carolina, at age 53.² He was buried on 8 July 1962 at Pickens View Cemetery, Pickens County, South Carolina.²

     William Clayton Bagwell was also known as Billie Bagwell.¹ He was born on 8 July 1914 in Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina.^1,3,4 He was the son of George Oscar Bagwell and Artie Elizabeth Holder.¹ William Clayton Bagwell married Josephine Lenora “Josie” Hughes before 1937.⁴ William Clayton Bagwell died on 19 February 1986 in Easley Baptist Hospital, Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina, at age 71.^3,4 He was buried on 22 February 1986 at Pickens View Wesleyan Church Cemetery, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina.^3,4

     Walter Leroy Bagwell was born on 22 July 1916 in Pickens County, South Carolina.^1,2 He was the son of George Oscar Bagwell and Artie Elizabeth Holder.¹ Walter Leroy Bagwell married Margaret Aleen Hill after 1936. Walter Leroy Bagwell died on 15 November 1967 in Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina, at age 51.² He was buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina.²

     Alice Rosie Bagwell was born on 10 February 1919 in Laurens County, South Carolina.^1,2 She was the daughter of George Oscar Bagwell and Artie Elizabeth Holder.¹ As of after 1935,her married name was Ellison. Alice Rosie Bagwell married George A. Ellison after 1935. Alice Rosie Bagwell died on 5 February 2013 in Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina, at age 93.² She was buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina.²

     Ethel I. Bagwell was born in 1921 in Pickens County, South Carolina.^1,2 She was the daughter of George Oscar Bagwell and Artie Elizabeth Holder.¹ Ethel I. Bagwell died on 22 January 2012 in Pickens County, South Carolina.² She was buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina.²

     Marge Bagwell was born on 2 April 1925 in Pickens County, South Carolina.^1,2 She was the daughter of George Oscar Bagwell and Artie Elizabeth Holder.¹ As of after 1945,her married name was Roper. Marge Bagwell married Wideman Franklin Roper after 1945. Marge Bagwell died on 27 February 2014 in Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina, at age 88.² She was buried at Bethlehem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Pickens County, South Carolina.²

     Lorine Bagwell is the daughter of George Oscar Bagwell and Artie Elizabeth Holder.¹ Lorine Bagwell married (?) Hall after 1946.

     Earl Charles Bagwell was born on 10 March 1923 in South Carolina.^1,2 He was the son of George Oscar Bagwell and Artie Elizabeth Holder.¹ Private, First-Class in the United States Marine Corp (Service ID: 403103). Earl Charles Bagwell died on 21 July 1944 at age 21 Died in action during World War II (mostly likely in the Battle of Guam) with the 4th Marines Regiment, 1st Provisional Marine Brigade.^3,2 He was buried at Pickens View Wesleyan Church Cemetery, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina.²

     Vera Marie Holliday was born on 28 September 1908.¹ She married Edward Earl Bagwell, son of George Oscar Bagwell and Artie Elizabeth Holder, after 1925.¹ As of after 1925,her married name was Bagwell. Vera Marie Holliday died on 25 July 1945 in Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina, at age 36.¹ She was buried at Pickens View Wesleyan Church Cemetery, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina.¹

     George Oscar Bagwell was born on 6 July 1907.¹ He was the son of George Oscar Bagwell and Artie Elizabeth Holder. George Oscar Bagwell married Agnes Elizabeth Roper before 1933. George Oscar Bagwell died on 23 November 1965 at age 58.¹ He was buried at Pickens View Cemetery, Pickens County, South Carolina.¹

     Ronald W. Bagwell is the son of William Clayton Bagwell.^1,2

     John Marc Bagwell is the son of Ronald W. Bagwell.¹

     Ronald W. Bagwell Jr. is the son of Ronald W. Bagwell.¹

     Richard Bagwell is the son of Ronald W. Bagwell Jr.¹

     Agnes Elizabeth Morrison was also known as Elizabeth Morrison. She was born on 11 August 1814 in Iredell County, North Carolina.² She married Lorenzo Dow Bagwell, son of Nathaniel Bagwell and Margaret McConnell, after 31 October 1838. As of after 31 October 1838,her married name was Bagwell. Agnes Elizabeth Morrison died on 6 January 1897 in Alexander County, North Carolina, at age 82.² She was buried at Rocky Springs United Methodist Church Cemetery, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina.

     Amanda R. Bagwell was born on 21 July 1839 in Rocky Springs, Alexander County, North Carolina.¹ She was the daughter of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison. Amanda R. Bagwell married James S. Perry after 1850. As of after 1850,her married name was Perry. Amanda R. Bagwell died on 19 February 1889 in North Carolina at age 49.¹ She was buried at Rocky Springs United Methodist Church Cemetery, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina.¹

     James S. Perry was born circa 1839. He married Amanda R. Bagwell, daughter of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison, after 1850.

     Temperance Anne Bagwell was born on 11 August 1841 in Rocky Springs, Alexander County, North Carolina.¹ She was the daughter of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison. As of 7 March 1861,her married name was Poindexter. Temperance Anne Bagwell married Pleasant Henderson Poindexter on 7 March 1861. Temperance Anne Bagwell died on 12 November 1913 in East Bend, Yadkin County, North Carolina, at age 72.¹ She was buried at Macedonia Cemetery, East Bend, Yadkin County, North Carolina.¹

     Pleasant Henderson Poindexter was born on 7 March 1837 in Surry County, North Carolina.¹ He married Temperance Anne Bagwell, daughter of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison, on 7 March 1861. Enlisted on 15 September 1862 in Yadkin Co. NC as Private in I Co. 6th NC Infantry, transferred to G Co. 28th NC
Inf., wounded 1 Jul 1863 Gettysburg on first day of fight, probably facing
Union Gen.'s Buford and Reynolds. Surrendered 9 April 1865 Appomattox. Pleasant Henderson Poindexter died on 18 May 1913 in Yardin County, North Carolina, at age 76.¹ He was buried at Macedonia Cemetery, East Bend, Yadkin County, North Carolina.¹

     Mary Adeline Bagwell was born on 24 January 1844 in Rocky Springs, Alexander County, North Carolina.¹ She was the daughter of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison. As of 21 March 1866,her married name was Deal.² Mary Adeline Bagwell married Calvin Jones Deal on 21 March 1866.² Mary Adeline Bagwell died on 26 February 1884 in Alexander County, North Carolina, at age 40.¹ She was buried at Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Alexander County, North Carolina.¹

     Thomas Archibald Bagwell was born on 9 November 1846 in Rocky Springs, Alexander County, North Carolina.¹ He was the son of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison. Served as an unassigned conscript from North Carolina for the Confederate Army. Thomas Archibald Bagwell died on 23 September 1864 in Camp Douglas, Illinois, at age 17 Camp Douglas was a Union training camp and later prisoner-of-war camp in Chicago, Illinois, USA, during the American Civil War.

In 1861, a tract of land at 31st Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago was provided by the estate of Stephen A. Douglas for a Union Army training post on the original site of the first University of Chicago. The first Confederate prisoners of war, more than 7,000 from the capture of Fort Donelson in Tennessee, arrived in February 1862 by the Illinois Central railroad which ran along the shore of Lake Michigan just to the east of the camp. Eventually, over 26,000 Confederate soldiers passed through the prison camp, which eventually came to be known as the North's "Andersonville" for its inhumane conditions.

Deaths:
It is estimated that from 1862–1865, more than 6,000 Confederate prisoners died from disease, starvation, and the bitter cold winters (although as many as 1,500 were reported as "unaccounted" for). The largest number of prisoners held at any one time was 12,000 in December, 1864. Accounts vary as to precise numbers. According to 80 Acres of Hell, a television documentary produced by the A&E Network and the The History Channel, the reason for the uncertainty is that many records were intentionally destroyed after the war. The documentary also alleges that, for a period of time, the camp contracted with an unscrupulous undertaker who sold some of the bodies of Confederate prisoners to medical schools and had the rest buried in shallow graves without coffins. Some were even dumped in Lake Michigan only to wash up on its shores. Many, however, were initially buried in unmarked pauper's graves in Chicago's City Cemetery (located on the site of today's Lincoln Park), but in 1867 were reinterred at what is now known as Confederate Mound in Oak Woods Cemetery (5 miles south of the former Camp Douglas).

Nobody was ever held accountable for the conditions and actions at Camp Douglas, in fact the only Union general to gain the rank without seeing combat was an overseer of Camp Douglas. This is also to this date the largest mass grave in the western hemisphere, as documented by the book To Die in Chicago.

Conditions

Henry Whitney Bellows, president of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, wrote to Colonel Hoffman his superior after visiting the camp: "Sir, the amount of standing water, unpoliced grounds, of foul sinks, of unventilated and crowded barracks, of general disorder, of soil reeking miasmatic accretions, of rotten bones and emptying of camp kettles, is enough to drive a sanitarian to despair. I hope that no thought will be entertained of mending matters. The absolute abandonment of the spot seems to be the only judicious course, I do not believe that any amount of drainage would purge that soil loaded with accumulated filth or those barracks fetid with two stories of vermin and animal exhalations. Nothing but fire can cleanse them." (in the documentary 80 Acres of Hell).

According to the History Channel documentary, the commander before Sweet imposed the following harsh conditions: 3oz daily meat portions, sitting naked in the winter, crippling sittings on a sawhorse device, and beating or shooting of those trying to circumvent food rations — even, for example, to punish the eating of snow.

During Colonel B.J. Sweet's command of Camp Douglas, he used reduced food rations — removing vegetables and decreasing the 3oz daily meat portions — to control the prison population and reduce escape attempt numbers. The reduced rations increased instances of diseases such as scurvy and helped to increase mortality rates. Sweet rewarded guards for shooting prisoners, restricted prisoner movement, and enforced nightly quiet hours. Acting on rumors of a pre-election Camp Douglas Conspiracy to break prisoners free, Sweet extended martial law from the blocks surrounding Camp Douglas to the city of Chicago and arrests about a hundred citizens suspected of treason (reference: 80 Acres of Hell).

Prisoners were tortured to try to extract information. Prisoners were hung by their thumbs or forced to ride the "wooden horse" or "mule", with weight hung on their feet to make the experience more painful (reference: 80 Acres of Hell).¹ He was buried at Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois; Died at Camp Douglas, Illinois on December 23, 1864, at the age of 18.

He was originally buried at the Chicago City Cemetery in Block 2 Grave 310. After the war and the closing of the city cemetery his remains were removed to the Confederate Mound at Oak Woods Cemetery.¹

     John Tillett Bagwell was born on 7 April 1849 in Rocky Springs, Alexander County, North Carolina.¹ He was the son of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison. John Tillett Bagwell married Margaret E. Casey after 1867. John Tillett Bagwell died on 27 December 1914 in Oklahoma at age 65.¹ He was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma.¹

     Margaret E. Casey was also known as Margaret E. Campbell. She was born in July 1850 in North Carolina. She married John Tillett Bagwell, son of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison, after 1867. As of after 1867,her married name was Bagwell. Margaret E. Casey died in 1916 in Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma.¹ She was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma.¹

     Edward Baxter Clegg Bagwell was born on 20 October 1851 in Rocky Springs, Alexander County, North Carolina.¹ He was the son of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison. Edward Baxter Clegg Bagwell married Sarah Carson Mays on 23 December 1870 at Alexander County, North Carolina. Edward Baxter Clegg Bagwell married Nora Moore on 30 December 1908 at Iredell County, North Carolina. Edward Baxter Clegg Bagwell died on 24 September 1918 in Concord Loray, Iredell County, North Carolina, at age 66 by a train (Charolette to Taylorsville) stuck him.¹ He was buried on 26 September 1918 at Concord Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.¹

     Sarah Carson Mays was also known as Sarah Carson Mayes. She was born on 21 December 1849.¹ As of 23 December 1870,her married name was Bagwell. She married Edward Baxter Clegg Bagwell, son of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison, on 23 December 1870 at Alexander County, North Carolina. Sarah Carson Mays died on 18 July 1907 at age 57


Landmark of Statesville
7-19-1907

Mrs. E.B. Bagwell died suddenly at her home at Loray at 9 o'clock last night from heart disease. While she had been sick for some time, the condition had not been alarming. She was better yesterday than usual. She was about 60 years old. Her husband, three sons and two daughters survive. One of the sons lives in Oklahoma and another in Georgia. The interment will be at Concord graveyard this afternoon.

Sarah was the daughter of Sheriff Hiram W Mays and Eliza Scroggs. Sarah married Edward Baxter Bagwell. Sarah and Edward had at least four children.¹


She was buried at Concord Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina.¹

     William Morrison Bagwell was born on 13 March 1854 in Rocky Springs, Alexander County, North Carolina.¹ He was the son of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison. William Morrison Bagwell married Alice Rebecca Moore on 15 July 1875 at Burke County, North Carolina. William Morrison Bagwell married Elizabeth Catherine Quartermus on 17 April 1902 at Martin, North Carolina. William Morrison Bagwell died from 1920 to 1922 in Alexander County, North Carolina.¹

     Alice Rebecca Moore was born on 1 January 1857 in Johnson County, Tennessee.¹ She married William Morrison Bagwell, son of Lorenzo Dow Bagwell and Agnes Elizabeth Morrison, on 15 July 1875 at Burke County, North Carolina. As of 15 July 1875,her married name was Bagwell. Alice Rebecca Moore died on 2 July 1934 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, at age 77.¹ She was buried at Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina.¹