Melkijah^{3 6} Surratt^{3 6}

Birth	abt 18186
Occup	1848		represented Tishomingo & Prentiss Cos., Mississippi
Reside	1860
Military	1861-1863		MS Army / Captain / US Civil War 2nd MS Regiment
Death	abt APR 18836

Capt. Micajah [sic.] Surratt (deceased) was a prominent lawyer, a prosperous merchant and a very successful farmer, of Prentiss county, Miss. He was born in Alabama, graduated from the North Bend, Indiana, school, and became the husband of Miss Amanda Surrell, a native of Georgia. They became the parents of one child, Thomas, who was killed in war. Mr. Surratt was elected to the legislature from Tishomingo county a number of terms, before the war. He was a secessionist, and when the war came he volunteered in the spring of 1861 as a private in the Second Mississippi regiment infantry, under Colonel Faulkner, and B. B. Boone as lieutenant-colonel. He was promoted in the latter part of 1861 to regimental quartermaster, and continued to serve in... Read More