John Moody Outland [2440] ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military: Company K, 1st North Carolina Junior Reserves, Abt 1860-1865, North Carolina. ³ Enlisted as a Private in Company K, 1st North Carolina Junior Reserves (Infantry) . The regiment was organized 25 May 1864 and mustered out 4 Jul 1864, at Weldon, North Carolina, by consolidating the 1st and 6th Junior Reserves Battalions which had just been organized. It contained men between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, and were drawn from the counties of Warren, Franklin, Nash, Granville, Wake, Randolph, Chatham, Martin, Northampton, and Chowan. Assigned to the Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, the unit skirmished in the Roanoke River and Kinston areas. Later it served in L.S. Baker's Brigade, saw action at Bentonville <http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/nc020.htm>, and surrendered with the Army of Tennessee. The field officers were Colonel Frank S. Armistead, Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Broadfoot, and Major Walter M. Clark.
---http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm

• He appeared on the Federal census in 1880 in Rich Square, Northampton County, North Carolina. ⁴

• He appeared on the Federal census in 1870 in Rich Square, Northampton County, North Carolina. ⁵

• He appeared on the Federal census in 1850 in Northampton County, North Carolina. ⁶

• He worked as a farmer 1860 to 1880 in Rich Square, Northampton County, North Carolina.

• He was buried at the Outland Cemetery in Gatesville, Gates County, North Carolina in 1898. John Moody Outland's stone reads: "Servant of God well done rest in thy saviors joy". Sarah Holloman Outland's stone reads: "He giveth His beloved sleep".

John and Sarah have a tall stone. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/nc/gates/cemeteries/outland159gcm.txt

John married Sarah F. Holloman [2441] [MRIN: 686]. (Sarah F. Holloman [2441] was born in 1847 in North Carolina, died on 18 Mar 1909 in North Carolina and was buried in 1909 in Gatesville, Gates County, North Carolina ².)