Friends of the City Cemeteries
Villa Rica, Georgia
MANN
John Everett Mann
Born: May 29, 1833, Carroll County, Georgia
Died: 1912, Carroll County, Georgia
Age: 79
Married: Eliza Mann Bevan in 1856
Military Service: PVT Co I, 56th GA Infantry
Military History:
1862
May 10 Captured at Baker's Creek, Mississippi
1863
May 16 Imprisoned at Camp Morton, Indiana
June 20 Transferred to Fort Delaware, Delaware
July 3 Paroled for exchange
July 6 Received at City Point, Virginia
1864
May 18 Captured in Dalton, Georgia
May 20 Confined to a military prison in Louisville, Kentucky
1865
June 15 Transferred to Rock Island, Illinois
June 22 Releaseed in Rock Island, Illinois
-Information courtesy of the Sons of the Confederacy
March 2023
John and Eliza had 11 children, two boys and nine girls.
The 1880 US Federal Census records John as a farmer, living in Villa Rica with Eliza and seven chidlren.
John is listed in the GA Voter Registration Oath Books & Returns of Qualified Voters under the Reconstruction Acts of 1867. He was registered in the Villa Rica election district.
