The first Geoghegan to arrive in Mississippi was Thomas Sellman Geoghegan. He migrated from Hardin County Kentucky sometime after 1855 with his wife, Elizabeth Johnson Geoghegan, and their eight children, Elizabeth, Ambrose Denton, Thomas Quincy, Martha Haines (Mattie), William Mason, twins John Robert & Charles Cecil and Mary Generose. Two other children,Sarah who was born in 1836 and died ?, and Elisha, born Dec, 1847 and died in Aug, 1848 did not accompany the family to Mississippi. These children died in infancy.
They settled in Jefferson County near what is now the town of Fayette, MS.
Thomas Geoghegan sent two sons to serve with the 19th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War.
Ambrose Denton (A.D.) Geoghegan
and Thomas Quincy Geoghegan served with
Company "D",
the Thomas Hinds Guards of Jefferson County.
Quincy was killed in July, 1863 at the
Battle of Gettysburg
A.D. enlisted as a private but was quickly promoted to Lieutenant.
A.D. was never sick a day, never missed a battle
that his command was in, was slightly wounded three or
four times, and on one occasion, during the fighting
around Richmond, he had three bullet holes through his
hat and coat collar.
The last eight months of the war his company was
cut down to a mere handful of men, with three officers.
The companies F and G (19th Mississippi) had no officers
and petitioned that Geoghegan be put over them. He
took Company F, and happened to be one of the unfortunates
who had to help defend Fort Baldwin and Fort Gregg at
Petersburg and was captured on the second day of April.
The prisoners were sent to Johnson's Island, and not
being the kind that would take the oath,
A.D. spent the summer on the island.
A.D. returned from the war and on January 6, 1873,
he married Miss Loucretia "Lula" Dromgoole.
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