B. Franklin Hathcock, son of Charles Hathcock, Sr., was born in Alabama in 1830 or 1831, in Bibb or Tuscaloosa County. He moved to Tennessee with his parents and appears in his father's household in Lincoln County in 1850 and in Limestone County, Alabama in 1860. B. Franklin Hathcock enlisted in the Army of the Confederate States during the early part of the Civil War and soon attained the rank of Sergeant. He enlisted in Company C of the 41st Tennessee Infantry. He was captured at the fall of Ft. Donelson in Tennessee on 16 February 1862. He was later exchanged at Vicksburg and became ill and was transferred to the Confederate Hospital at Greenville, Mississippi. There he died 19 October 1863.2243