Joseph Claud PEACOCK , Rev.

Birth: 9 SEP 1843 in Barnwell

Co., SC

Death: 13 AUG 1905 in

Choctaw Co., MS

Burial: Wood Springs

Baptist Church Cemetery

Event: Church Affiliation

He was a Baptist

Minister and the founder of

Wood Springs Baptist

Church in Choctaw Co.

Occupation: Minister

Event: Military Record He was a

Civil War Veteran &

Prisoner Military Service:

30th Mississippe Infantry Company I

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1850 US Census, Choctaw

Co., MS, p775
Peacock, Joseph Allen 37

M SC Farmer
Elizabeth 37 F H.W.
Achlen 12 F
David 10 M
*Joseph* 7 M
George 7 M
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Joseph Claud Peacock married

Thelda Elmira California McGarrah

and together they raised 13 children.

Joseph Claude was a civil war veteran.

He enlisted in the 30th

Mississippi Infantry Company I along with

Joseph Allen, his father, and other

members of his family.

This company of men fought in the

Battle of Lookout Mountain that

was overrun by Union troops.

During this battle on

November 24, 1863, he was

captured by enemy troops,

only six months after he was

hospitalized in Chattanooga,

Tennessee by order of the surgeon.

After his capture, he eventually

transferred to Rock Island Prison in

Illinois, where he remained until

the end of the war. After the war,

he walked home to Choctaw County

where he spent the remainder of

his

life raising his family, farming, and

attending the duties of his ministry.
Joseph Claud Peacock founded the

Woods Springs Baptist Church in

Choctaw County. He and his Wife

Theldra are buried in th cemetery there.

One of his children,

 Joseph Henry Peacock

was also a preacher and preached