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Obediah Smith Wells
Jan 7, 1844 - May 6, 1925
Posted by Larry Hedrick

Obediah Smith Wells was born to Nicholas Smith Wells and Harriet Luvina Vann Wells at Pendleton, Anderson District, South Carolina on January 7, 1844. His family moved to Paint Rock, Jackson County, Alabama where he was residing in 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War.

At age 17 he enlisted in the Confederate Army on August 1, 1861 and served as a private in Company H, 4th Alabama Cavalry Regiment (Russell's) attached to General Forrest's Corps. His service record includes the Battles of Shiloh, Trenton, Parker's Crossroads, Chickamauga, and the campaigns at Knoxville and Atlanta. He was wounded at the Battle of Peachtree Creek, part of the Atlanta campaign. He was honorably discharged from the Confederate Army on May 15th, 1865 in Georgia.

Obediah and his first wife, Mary, were married about 1863 or 1864 in Jackson County, Alabama and had seven children together. They were Samantha, Nicholas, William, James, Luvina, Martha, and Sally. Obediah next married Jane Elizabeth Claytor in 1882 also in Jackson County, Alabama and they had thirteen children together. They were Jacob Vann "Jake", John Dab, Earl "Obie", Anna, William, Savannah, Nora, George, Roy, Claudia, Dewey, Rosa, and Oly.

In the early 1900s Obediah and the younger members of his family moved to Grayson County, Texas and farmed there. It was there that his wife, Jane, died in 1907. In his later years Obediah lived for a while with several of his children and their spouses.

In 1924 he was living near Caddo, Bryan County, Oklahoma with his daughter Anna and her spouse D. M. Hartman. It was there that he died on May 6, 1925 at age 81 and was buried the next day in Folsom Cemetery a few miles north of Caddo. Sadly, no headstone or marker was ever placed on his grave and no one alive today knows exactly where his grave lies. 


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