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Myrick Leonidas Ansley 1843-1892
Enlisted in Company F, 39th Georgia Infantry on March k, 1862. Captured at Baker9s Creek, Mississippi in May of 1863, Paroled at Fort Delaware, July, 1863. Received at City Point, Virginia for exchange on July 6th, 1863 and transferred to 2nd Company, 1st Confederate Infantry. Captured at the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. Escaped. Saw action at the Battle of Franklin in 1865 and was again captured.
After the war, he worked as a road master for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from Ocean Springs Mississippi to New Orleans. Along this route, he purchased a ranch where he raised cattle. Shortly before his death at age forty nine, we was President and General-Manager of the Ocean Springs Lumbar Company.
He married Mary Melissa Blackwell in I87O. She was the daughter of William Jackson Blackwell	and Sarah	Ann	Carter.
She was	the daughter of Calvin Carter	and Polly	Davis.
He was the son of William Blackwell and Rebecca Lindsay, daughter of James and Elizabeth Cunningham Lindsay of Abbeville, South Carolina. William Blackwell served in the Revolutionary War and was a farmer and Justice of the Peace in Hull County, Georgia in the 1820s. When the Cherokee Territory opened up, in the early 1830s, he settled among the Indians along Chicamauga Creek.
Blackwell poem:
They moved across my great grandfather's grave,
A. horde of Yankees more gross	than brave.
They moved to the beat of the	depraved,
Burning and looting, letting nothing be saved.
Sherman, their leader was a tyrant without shame;
They moved and burned, making infamous his name.
From the thirty-fifth parallel to the sea,
They moved and burned with wanton glee.
From Blackwell0s Cemetery to the sea,
Their acts of evil are remembered by me.
Children of Myrick Leonidas Ansley and Mary Melissa Blackwell:
MURICK EMMETT
Martin Luther married Dulcie Veazey
Ilona and Steele
Leonidas Monroe
Mary Alberta married Leland Henderson Eugene Festus
Frederick Asbury Jackson married Flora Capdepon Margaret Laura married William Pickett
Margerie, daughter: Patsy.
Lorre ine Meryle