Pvt. Reuben James Giles
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Farmer
Notes:
• We have seen three spellings for his first name: Reubin, Reuben, Rubein. - Editor's Note
• "Son of Richard Edward Giles (1920 -) and Eliza Eldridge. Husband of Cordelia Elizabeth Bragg (Sept. 13, 1850 - March 22, 1903). Father of Anna Eliza Giles Parker, Johnie Daniel Giles (1871 - 1923), Clemmie Clay Giles (1874 - 1960), Rose Etta Giles Preston, Willie Sue Giles, William W. Giles (1884 - 1927), Jimmy Luther Giles, and Ina Kate Giles. Served as a Private in Company C, 50th Alabama Infantry, Confederate States Army. Recipient of Southern Cross of Honor." - Find A Grave
• Reuben James Giles & Cordelia Bragg obtained a marriage license February 20, 1868 in Madison County, AL. - MCRC
• "The Giles' came to this area of Madison County in the mid 1800's from Virginia. Rubein Giles loved this part of Madison County so well he wanted to make his home here, while other Giles brothers went on to Texas to settle.
Rubein married Cordilla Bragg, and they had a family of seven children. Rubein fought in the Civil War, and survived. Their children grew up in the same area and all of them married local people with the exception of two. One of the girls married and moved to Mississippi (Kate) and Luther married a girl from Mississippi and moved to Texas. ClemmieClay and his brother Johnny like their father loved the area and to help with making a living and improving the community, they built a small country store. Then in later years, 1900, Clemmie built a larger store that stood as a landmark in Hurricane Valley until 1983.
A blacksmith shop was built some feet away from the store that Sam Nayman and Jim J. Harbin operated. They could make anything or repair anything a person needed in those days. A big boiler was parked by the shop building for many years. The boiler was purchased for use on the farm for a sawmill and to run a wheat thrasher.
The store served as a post office for families living on the mountain and places the mail carrier could not get to. Clemmie Giles drove a covered wagon to peddle his merchandise in surrounding territories for people to buy and trade their wares for whatever they needed for their family.
Clemmie would blow a conch shell for a horn on the wagon to let the people know that the peddler was near their home. He would stay overnight with different families on the route before returning for more supplies for the next trip.
The store was used as a voting place for that part of the district. Later years a telephone was installed, and scales were installed in a building behind the store to weigh cattle, cotton wagons, and etc. Cattle were driven on foot to market.
In January 1902 Clemmie Clay Giles married Ada Ava Speck. They had a family of five boys; only one of which is still living. Pat Giles lives in the ClemmieGiles home place in Hurricane Valley." - McCord
• Pvt. Confederate States Army - Veterans Gravesites
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| Born: | October 23, 1842, New Market, Madison County, Alabama |
| Died: | December 4, 1905, New Market, Madison County, Alabama |
| Buried: | Bragg Family Cemetery, New Market, Alabama |
Notes:
• We have seen three spellings for his first name: Reubin, Reuben, Rubein. - Editor's Note
• "Son of Richard Edward Giles (1920 -) and Eliza Eldridge. Husband of Cordelia Elizabeth Bragg (Sept. 13, 1850 - March 22, 1903). Father of Anna Eliza Giles Parker, Johnie Daniel Giles (1871 - 1923), Clemmie Clay Giles (1874 - 1960), Rose Etta Giles Preston, Willie Sue Giles, William W. Giles (1884 - 1927), Jimmy Luther Giles, and Ina Kate Giles. Served as a Private in Company C, 50th Alabama Infantry, Confederate States Army. Recipient of Southern Cross of Honor." - Find A Grave
• Reuben James Giles & Cordelia Bragg obtained a marriage license February 20, 1868 in Madison County, AL. - MCRC
• "The Giles' came to this area of Madison County in the mid 1800's from Virginia. Rubein Giles loved this part of Madison County so well he wanted to make his home here, while other Giles brothers went on to Texas to settle.
Rubein married Cordilla Bragg, and they had a family of seven children. Rubein fought in the Civil War, and survived. Their children grew up in the same area and all of them married local people with the exception of two. One of the girls married and moved to Mississippi (Kate) and Luther married a girl from Mississippi and moved to Texas. ClemmieClay and his brother Johnny like their father loved the area and to help with making a living and improving the community, they built a small country store. Then in later years, 1900, Clemmie built a larger store that stood as a landmark in Hurricane Valley until 1983.
A blacksmith shop was built some feet away from the store that Sam Nayman and Jim J. Harbin operated. They could make anything or repair anything a person needed in those days. A big boiler was parked by the shop building for many years. The boiler was purchased for use on the farm for a sawmill and to run a wheat thrasher.
The store served as a post office for families living on the mountain and places the mail carrier could not get to. Clemmie Giles drove a covered wagon to peddle his merchandise in surrounding territories for people to buy and trade their wares for whatever they needed for their family.
Clemmie would blow a conch shell for a horn on the wagon to let the people know that the peddler was near their home. He would stay overnight with different families on the route before returning for more supplies for the next trip.
The store was used as a voting place for that part of the district. Later years a telephone was installed, and scales were installed in a building behind the store to weigh cattle, cotton wagons, and etc. Cattle were driven on foot to market.
In January 1902 Clemmie Clay Giles married Ada Ava Speck. They had a family of five boys; only one of which is still living. Pat Giles lives in the ClemmieGiles home place in Hurricane Valley." - McCord
• Pvt. Confederate States Army - Veterans Gravesites
Related Links:
• Ancestry.com - Page can be viewed only with an Ancestry.com paid subscription. (Originally found at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/6763286/person/-1230559204.)
• McCord - Article on the Giles family by Dot Giles McCord, October, 1984, for Memories and History of New Market, AL, collected by New Market Volunteer Fire Department, page 134.
• MCRC - Madison County Records Center
• Veterans Gravesites - Viewed through an Ancestry.com paid subscription. (Originally found at http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=VAcemeteries&h=4343109&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=4192.)