DAVID EDWARD (ED) ROTEN
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On May 4, 1861, Ed enlisted in the Danville Mounted Riflemen under Capt. S. D. Wooldridge.
The Danville Riflemen was a local Montgomery County militia unit and was part ot the Seventeenth Brigade, Texas State Troops.
Two of Ed's brothers, Larkin Roten and William W. Roten, later served under Captain Wooldridge, both of them joining Company B of the Second Texas Lancers, in the spring in 1862.
At he time he was mustered in, Ed was described as being 5 feet 5 inches tall, with blue eyes, dark hair and dark complexion.
Ed returned to Montgomery County after the war, and his name appears on a list of voters who took the amnesty oath in Montgomery County in 1865.
On 14 March 1866 in Madison County, Ed married Alice Anderson Whitten. She was the daughter of Alfred Whitten and Mrs. Nancy Ann Malone and was the sister of cavalrymanJohn D. Whitten. She was also the sister of Mary Jane, wife of E. A. Anderson and of Sarah Eleanor, wife of M. A. McCrory. Alice was born 10 December 1845 in Fayette County, Tennessee, and came to Montgomery County, Texas, with her parents at the age of five.
Alice and Ed settled in Madison County after their marriage. They were living in Midway at the time of the 1870 census. In 1889 they moved with their seven children to Rusk in Cherokee County and lived there for the remainder of their lives.
Ed died on 10 September 1917 due to being hit by a falling tree. Alice died on 10 November 1937. They are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Cherokee County, Texas.
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David Edward (Ed) Roten (Rotten, Rottien) was born 1 May 1834 in Edgefield District, South Carolina, according to his descendants. He was the son of Thomas Roten and Lavicia Permenter and came to Texas with his mother and siblings after the death of his father. He was living in Montgomery County, Texas, by 1860 and was employed as a mechanic.
Ed left the militia unit by fall of 1861. He was mustered into regular Confederate service on 10 October 1861, in Co. I Fifth Regiment Texas Volunteers. This was a regiment of volunteers which was formed to build fortifications at Galveston under General Paul Octave Hébert and is usually known as the Ninth (Nichols'). Company I was comprised of men who were primarily from Montgomery and Walker Counties.
The Ninth Nichols' was a six-month regiment, and when the men were mustered out, many of them joined Col. Henry Elmore's Twentieth Texas Infantry. Ed joined Elmore's as a private in Company K.
In 1862 he was promoted to First Corporal and then to Sergeant of Company K. From 1863 to the close of the war, he was in detached service in the ordnance department as a carpenter, making wheels for casons.
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