Notes for Silas Gilbright Orr, Jr.




			The Ancestors of D O N N A J O Y J O H N S O N of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

Notes for Silas Gilbright Orr, Jr.

Enlisted in CSA in Mecklenburg County on February 24, 1865. Present or accounted for through February, 1865.

In 1910, Silas G. Orr was enumerated as head of a household which included his sister Jennett and his 93 year old aunt Susan Miller. The next family enumerated was that of Edward Poteat and Mollie Orr, daughter of Jennett.

Survivors of Company L
At the veterans picnic Thursday, there was a little reunion of considerable interest. It was a meeting of the remnant of Co. I, Thirty Seventh North Carolina Troops, that left Charlotte on September 3, 1861, under Capt. Jack Harrison. Of the original company, seventeen members made up the reunion party at the park Thursday. They were: Lieutenant A. F. Yandle; Sergeant Joe Orr; Private C. M. Orr, and Corporals, J. G. A. Orr, S. G. Orr, J. O. Alexander, G. W. Williamson, T. B. Henry, R. A. Sharp, J. W. Barnhill, ? C. McCall, A. J. Speares, D. L. McCord, J. W. Hunsucker, J. A. Hunsucker, James Manning, James --?--mery (probably Montgomery). [from the collection of Marge Dawson.]

Obituary dated 15 June 1927:
S. G. ORR, VETERAN OF GRAY RANKS, IS DEAD
Silas G. Orr, 78, one of six brothers who fought through the Civil War in Company I, 37th North Carolina Regiment, died Wednesday at his home at Lakewood Park. He was found dead in bed Thursday morning. He had not been ill other than from the infirmities of advanced age.
Mr. Orr was an uncle of W. S. Orr, manager of Lakewood park, and Walter B. Orr, former chief of police of Charlotte. His father was Silas G. Orr, a well-known school teacher of Sugaw Creek community of the county.
Mr. Orr was born and reared in the Sugaw Creek community and was a member of Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church, where funeral services will be conducted this morning at 10 o'clock by Rev. M. E. Peabody, pastor of the church. Members of Mecklenburg Camp of United Confederate Veterans will be pall bearers.
Mr. Orr is survived by numerous relatives, including nieces and nephews. He was never married.

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