Nathan Bedford Forrest Living Relatives

Ap relatives of confederate general nathan bedford forrest are demanding 30 million from the city of memphis tennessee and a nonprofit to move his remains from a park and. Nathan bedford forrest grandfather nathan bedford forrest ii august 1871 march 11 1931 was an american businessman who served as the 19th commander in chief of the sons of confederate veterans from 1919 to 1921 and as the grand dragon of the ku klux klan for georgia. Genealogy for lt gen.

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A year after memphis took down its confederate monuments nathan bedford forrest s folks are suing it for.

Nathan bedford forrest living relatives. People projects discussions surnames. Edward phillips and attorneys representing descendants of confederate general nathan b. His father william was of english descent and most of his biographers state that his mother mariam was of scotch irish. Forrest filed suit today in a memphis court seeking the return of the charlesniehausstatue removed december 2017 from health sciences park in the city.

Forrest was the first son of mariam beck and william forrest. Nathan bedford forrest was born on july 13 1821 to a poor settler family in a secluded frontier cabin near chapel hill hamlet then part of bedford county tennessee but now encompassed in marshall county. Nathan bedford forrest was born to a poor family in bedford county tennessee. He and his twin sister fanny were the two eldest of blacksmith william forrest s twelve children with wife miriam beck.

Nathan bedford forrest csa 1821 1877 family tree on geni with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Forrest s descendants say removing his statue caused them pain. The forrest family had migrated to tennessee from virginia via north carolina during the second half of the 18th century. Nathan bedford forrest confederate cavalry commander in the american civil war who was often described as a born military genius he is also one of the most controversial figures from the civil war era having led a massacre of african american troops and having served as the first grand wizard of the ku klux klan.