Claunch and Stewart Families - Colvard, Rufus Winfield

Events

Event	Date	Place	Description
Birth	August 8, 1832	Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States	North Carolina

Death	July 15, 1891	Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States	North Carolina

Burial	1891	Wilbar, Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States	Rufus Colvard Family Cemetery

Relation to the center person (Claunch, William Nathan) : first cousin three times removed (up)

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Colvard, Wade Hampton	July 9, 1805	June 29, 1880
Mother	Vannoy, Phoebe	July 27, 1816	November 30, 1892
	Colvard, Rufus Winfield	August 8, 1832	July 15, 1891
Brother	Colvard, Wiley Thomas	December 23, 1838	June 12, 1918
Brother	Colvard, William Henry Harrison	September 2, 1841	July 9, 1908
Brother	Colvard, Payton Monroe	July 6, 1844	September 10, 1893
Brother	Colvard, Thomas Jefferson	September 9, 1847	September 19, 1885
Brother	Colvard, Charles Cicero	January 21, 1849	July 5, 1876
Sister	Colvard, Sallie Elvira	January 17, 1843	December 29, 1876
Sister	Colvard, Rachel Ann	January 23, 1846	June 22, 1891
Brother	Colvard, John	1853	1865
Brother	Colvard, Jesse A.	1837	September 11, 1864
Brother	Colvard, James W.	1835	March 31, 1865

Media

Pvt Rufus Winfield Colvard

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Civil War Service:

Colvard, Rufus W.
BATTLE UNIT NAME: 1st Regiment, North Carolina Cavalry
SIDE: Confederacy
COMPANY: A
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Private
SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Private
ALTERNATE NAME:
FILM NUMBER:
M230 ROLL 8
PLAQUE NUMBER:
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https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=3ACF2C8F-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A

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Biographical Sketch

First Child of Wade Hampton Colvard and Phebe (Vannoy) Colvard.

Rufus enlisted at Jefferson under Capt. Crumpler, in Company A, First Regiment, North Carolina Cavalry. 9th Reg. Stste Troops [Became 1st Regiment, North Carolina Cavalry]. After the war he was appointed in 1879 by the Governor, a member of the Board of County Commissioners of Wilkes County NC. He was elected chairman in 1882 and continuously elected until his death. Rufus was also a school teacher in both Ashe and Wilkes County. He had 8 brothers and 2 sisters.

He married Nancy Elvira (Whittington) February 17, 1867
They had 7 known children
Mary Ida Colvard 2/16/1868 - 5/26/1946
Anna May Colvard 5/21/1871 - 9/19/1945
Fritz Rufus Colvard 5/6/1873 - 8/8/1892
Benjamin Hamilton Colvard 2/18/1876 - 8/22/1930
Sallie Virginia (Jennie) Colvard 8/1/1878 - 12/11/1963
Judge Fowle Colvard 9/9/1881 - 4/30/1902
William Edgar Colvard 1/24/1884 - 3/15/1946

Taken from "The Chronicle" Wilkesboro, NC July 22, 1891;
In every sphere, soldier, citizen, or civil official, he was kind, gentlein disposition, pure of motive, devoted to duty and in his honesty as rigid and rugged as the rocky spurs beneath whose shadows his life began and ended. As County officer, he was careful, accurate, conscientious, a good financier, and his place will be hard to fill. His death is an irreparable loss to the county as well as to the home circle. "THE CHRONICLE"

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48231229/rufus-winfield-colvard

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Unit Details:

1st Regiment, North Carolina Cavalry
9th Regiment Volunteers-1st Cavalry was organized at Camp Beauregard, Ridgeway, North Carolina, in August, 1861. Its companies were from the counties of Ashe, Northampton, Mecklenburg, Watauga, Wayne, Warren, Cabarrus, Buncombe, Duplin, and Macon. Ordered to Virginia, the regiment was brigaded under Generals Hampton, L.S. Baker, James B. Gordon, and Barringer. It fought in many campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia, including the battles at Frayser's Farm, Malvern Hill, Fairfax Court House, Sharpsburg, Stuart's raid into Pennsylvania, Hampton's raid to Dumfries, Brandy Station, Aldie, Upperville, Carlisle, Gettysburg, Mine Run, The Wilderness, Todd's Tavern, Reams' Station, Hampton's Cattle Raid, and Five Forks. The 1st Cavalry had 407 effectives at Gettysburg and 8 at Appomattox. The field officers were Colonels Lawrence S. Baker, W.H. Cheek, James B. Gordon, Robert Ransom, Jr., and Thomas Ruffin; Lieutenant Colonels Rufus Barringer and William H.H. Cowles; and Majors Thomas N. Crumpler, George S. Dewey, Marcus D.L. McLeod, and John H. Whitaker.

https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CNC0001RC