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Thanks for sharing your information about the Chadwell line. Pleasant Murphy Chadwell and
Elizabeth "Betsy" Brown Chadwell are believed to have been killed during the
Civil War. One of their sons, David Crockett Chadwell, lived up into his 90's in Clay
County, KY before he died. He related the story of how he and his brothers had to hide
from armed marauders who pillaged their home for food, livestock and horses in the early
1860's. David Crockett Chadwell's older brother, Pleasant Millard
"P.M."Chadwell was forced into Turney's brigade in the last couple of years
of the war. "P.M." or Millard, as he came to be known, was captured by the
Union army at the Battle of the Wilderness and held prisoner at Elmira in NY for the last
year of the war. He and David Crockett Chadwell later migrated to KY in the 1870's.
Millard raised my grandfather. Millard died around the 1920's.
Pleasant Murphy Chadwell and his wife Betsy might have only had 'field stones' or
wooden crosses to mark their graves. The area where they are believed to have been buried
has long since been flooded by the dam projects around Clinch Mountain.