General Nathan Bedford Forrest

1821 - 1877  (56 years)

• Name	Nathan Bedford Forrest  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Prefix	General
  Birth	13 Jul 1821	Bedford, Tennessee, USA   [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1850	Northern Division/DeSoto, Mississippi, USA   [8]
  Residence	1860	Ward 3/Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA   [5]
  Military	1 May 1861	Tennessee, USA   [3]
  Family Search ID	M541-6ZJ
  Family Search Link	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/M541-6ZJ
  Burial	1877	Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA   [4]
  Death	29 Oct 1877	Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA   [2, 3, 4, 6]
  Person ID	I9048	Clan Montgomery
  Last Modified	5 Aug 2017

  
  

  Family	Mary Ann Montgomery,   b. 2 Oct 1826, Middle/Franklin, Tennessee, USA d. 22 Jan 1893, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	25 Sep 1845	Hernando, DeSoto, Mississippi, USA   [6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Captain William Montgomery Forrest,   b. 26 Sep 1846, Hernando, DeSoto County, Mississippi, USA d. 7 Feb 1908, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA (Age 61 years)   2. Fanny Forrest,   b. 1847   d. 1852 (Age 5 years)
  Family ID	F2996	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Aug 2017

  
  

• Event Map		Marriage - 25 Sep 1845 - Hernando, DeSoto, Mississippi, USA Burial - 1877 - Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA Death - 29 Oct 1877 - Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Histories

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford (1821-1877) Website link to article in "Wikipedia"

  
  

  Photos

  Forrest, Nathan Bedford (1821-1877)

  
  

• Notes

  He was a merchant and slave trader. More famous as the dashing General in the Confederate Army who's motto was "Get there first with the most men."

  
  

• Sources

  [S2501] Bio Info on Forrest Nathan Bedford, (Name: Name: Wikipedia; Location:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Be dford_Forrest;;). [S2502] Weant, Kenneth E., comp, Lincoln County, Missouri Deaths, 1866-1936, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Dat e:2004;;), Database online. (Reliability: 0). Record for Nathan Bradford, Gen. Forrest [S2505] Historical Data Systems, comp., American Civil War Soldiers, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 199 9;), Database online. Side served: Confederacy; State served: Tennessee;Enlistment date: 1 May 1861. (Reliability: 0). Record for Nathan Forrest [S455] Ancestry.com, Web: Tennessee, Find A Grave Index, 1796-2011, (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave, 2012. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 31 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave, 2012. http://www.findag;;), Database online. (Reliability: 0). Record for Nathan Bedford Forrest [S2506] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; D ate: 2009;;), Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: Memphis Ward 3, Shelby,Tennessee; Roll: ; Page: 91; Image: 188. (Reliability: 0). Record for W B Forrest [S2449] Anderson, Beulah Henry, John and Esther Montgomery, 1719-1973, (Name: Name: Brazos Printing Company; Location: Maryville, Blount, Tenn essee,USA; Date: 1974;;), Chapter 3, Family of James Houston Montgomery and Margaret ElizabethWeir (Reliability: 0). [S1351] Montgomery, Erick Dale, The Montgomery Family of Franklin County, (Name: Franklin County Historical Review; Location: Franklin County, Tennessee, USA; Date: Jan 1978;). [S615] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern Division, DeSoto, Mississippi; Roll: M432_371; Page: 368A; Image: 323 (Reliability: 0). Record for Bedford Forrest