1850

Four other McAninch families in the Southern Division of DeSoto County in 1850:  [4]

(cont.)

a. William McAninch 45 Farming b.Kentucky / Maria McAninch wife 44 b.Tennessee /

    P(arilee?) E.A. McAninch 20 b.Tenn.) / John McAninch 17 b.Tenn. Farming /

    Asbery McAninch 11 b.Miss. / Alpheus McAninch 10 b.Miss. /

    Arabella McAninch 9 F b.Miss. / Erastus McAninch 7 M b.Miss. /

    Laura McAninch 6 F b.Miss. / Zach T. McAninch 4 M b.Miss. /

    Rachael Starr 60 F b.N.Carolina (mother-in-law)

b. Elias B. McAninch 21 Farming b.Tennessee / Sarah McAninch wife 18 b.Tenn. /

    William D. McAninch son 6/12 b.Mississippi (Elias B. McAninch will go to Texas)

c. Samuel D. McAninch 28 (occ) Miller b.Tennessee / Sarah McAninch wife 25 b.Georgia /

    Martha J. McAninch daughter 2 b.Miss. / John W. McAninch son 8/12 M b.Miss.

    (Samuel D. McAninch and his family will move to Memphis in the early 1850s)

d. William G. McAninch 25 Farming b.Tennessee / Louisa J. McAninch wife 19 b.Alabama

    (William George McAninch d.1854, DeSoto Co., buried in McAninch Family Cemetery)

Geo.

“Adjacent Counties/States” Geographic note: DeSoto County, in the north-west corner of

Mississippi, is adjacent to and directly south of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, in

the south-west corner of Tennessee, neighbors on the eastern side of the Mississippi River.

1860

The probable composition of the family in the 1860 census would have been -

John H. McAninch (father), age ~35; without his wife Nellie, believed died 1850-1859; and

the four sons J. H. (James) (Henry) McAninch, age 15, Samuel, age ~14, Charles, age ~13,

and Robert McAninch, age ~12. The Census records for 1860 have not been found.     [5]

1861

Eight McAninch men who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War have already

-1865

been reported in three earlier articles - Asbery McAninch, Alpheus McAninch,

Elias B. McAninch, Erastus G. McAninch, John F. McAninch, Martin C. McAninch,

William Harrison "Harry" "Henry" McAninch, and (Zachary) Taylor McAninch.        [6]

J. H. (James Henry) McAninch of the 12th Tennessee Cavalry (in this article) and his

younger brother Robert McAninch, Mississippi Infantry (in the next article) are two more

men who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War (‘ninth’ and ‘tenth’ Confederates).

J. H. (James Henry) McAninch, 12th Tennessee Cavalry

1861

There were three different ‘12th Tennessee Cavalry’ units that fought in the Civil War -

-1865

1. 12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (“Regiment”, CSA), raised in Shelby County and

    western Tennessee, also known as “1st Partisan Rangers” and “Richardson’s Cavalry”,

    over 20 independent West Tennessee companies in 1863, reorganized in 1864, served

    thereafter in Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's corps, 3rd Consolidated Tennessee Cavalry;

2. 12th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion (“Battalion”, CSA), Lt. Col. George W. Day's battalion

    of eastern Tennesseeans, partisan rangers in eastern Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia;

3. and the 12th Tennessee Cavalry (Union), commanded by Col. George Spalding.

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James Henry McAninch, b1845 d1911, 12th TN Cav., and Robert, b1848 dUnkn, Miss. Inf.

McAninch Family History Newsletter, v.XXXIII (33) n.1   /   Dec. 2025   /   p.2025-03

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