Micajah Goodwin “Cager” Mitchell
Birth Sep 1840
Roanoke County, Virginia, USA
Death 19 Mar 1929 (aged 88)
Logan County, West Virginia, USA
Burial Mitchell Cemetery
Henlawson, Logan County, West Virginia, USA
MITCHELL, CAGER (MICAJAH B.), Bugler, Company "M", 7th Regiment W. Va. Cavalry. Enlisted 18 Oct 1864; honorably discharged August 1865. He was born in Roanoke Co., VA in 1842, the s/o Jordan & Isabella Mitchell. He married Clarinda "Rindy" White in 1866 and had the following children: Clement G., Neville S., Emma L., Caroline, Eva, Jordan, Eliza Jane, George D., & Dora. Rindy died in 1899 and Cager married Cora Toler, a woman half his age, in 1906. Their children were Cager Jr., Rindy, Lula, twins Onnie & Connie, & Johnny. Cager, Sr. was a circuit rider preacher who traveled on a mule throughout southern West Virginia. He died Mar 1929, in Gilbert W. Va., up a little creek called Staffords Branch. He is buried in a family cemetery on Elk Creek in Logan Co., W. Va., just above Verner. Tombstone The Veterans Administration provided a white marble stone for his grave, which had been marked by a rock for 70 years.
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