DeJARNETTE, William O. (Private, Company G, 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment)  The son of James Terry and Elizabeth Ann Dismukes, William was born October 26, 1836 in Alabama. He was living with his parents and brother, Cornelius, in the 1850 and 1860 census in Autauga County Alabama. In 1860, William's occupation was Clerk. He enlisted on June 2, 1861 at Corinth Mississippi for a term on 1 year. He was 21 years old, a Merchant, address was Autaugaville, Alabama and he was single. The Regiment was ordered to Manassas Virginia where he was the first of Company G to die. He died June 30, 1861, of camp fever, near Sangster Cross Roads, Fairfax County, Virginia. William O. DeJarnette is buried in the DeJarnette Family Cemetery in Autauga County, Alabama located next to the Autaugaville United Methodist Church on the corner of Autauga and Tyus Streets, two blocks North of Alabama State Hwy. 14 in downtown Autaugaville, Autauga County Alabama. The stone reads "Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM O. DeJARNETTE son of J. T. & E. A. DeJarnette who was born October 26, 1836 and died at Sanysler's (sp. Sangster) Cross Road Fairfax County Virginia. in the Service of the Confederate States of AMERICA June 30th, 1861."  "Mr. Terry Dejarnette, who had two sons, W. O. and C. R. Dejarnette was with us until the first death in our company, his son, W. O., and took his body home. "Autauga Rifles; Contributed by Carolyn Golowka 

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