Private? John Payton Mayberry (Maberry)
F Company
(It's possible that the second of these photos are incorrectly labeled and the older photo is J. M. Mayberry, 8th Tennessee Cavalry (Dibrells).)
Born on the 17 May 1842 in Jackson County, TN, the son of Jesse and Matilda Mayberry.
Enlisted 9 June 1861 in the Regiment.
Wounded at the Battle of Perryville (Chaplin Hills), 8 October 1862, shot in right shoulder. He was captured at this time.
He was subsequently wounded in the last engagement that they had at Beulah, North Carolina on 11 April 1865.
He escaped from prison and joined 8th Tennessee Cavalry (Dibrell’s) ‘first chance he got’, 1864?
He married Margaret Sellers Matheny (widow of Joseph L. Grimsley) on 28 December 1862, they had either 6 or 8 children.
He filed pension #836 on the 4 January 1892 which was accepted.
He was to die, at home, on the 22 July 1922 (2 January 1922) in Jackson County, TN, two of his brothers had died in the war.
