Clement Reade VENABLE
Clement Read Venable, b. at "Scott-Greene," Prince Edward Co., Va., Feb. 27, 1840; d. May 9, 1888. A.B., A.M. Hampden-Sidney College, 1858; studied at the Univ. of Va. later; C. S. A., volunteered as a private in Co. I., 23d Va. Reg., Stonewall Jackson's Division, promoted, 1864, to Lieut. and transferred to Co. H., ist Regiment Confederate Engineers. His health was entirely wrecked by his war experience-what we today might call "shell shock"-and he died after a lingering illness. He married Feb. 8, 1867, Alice McGehee of "Prairie Home," Lownds Co., Ala.
Clement married Alice McGEHEE on 8 Feb 1867. |
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