On September 18, 1820, in Amite County, Mississippi Seaborn Jones Cotten was born. Seaborn was the son of Samuel Cotten and Elizabeth Sullivan, his great grandmother was a full-blooded Choctaw Indian. Seaborn lived in Amite County till becoming a young adult where he moved to Livingston Parish, Louisiana. He would meet his wife Frances in 1840 and together they would have more than ten children. Two of which would follow their Father into service in the Confederate Army in 1862. Seaborn and his sons would join the 9th Louisiana Battalion Company C. They would see many large battles but, none more noted than the siege at Port Hudson. He and his sons endured a 48-day siege with 7,500 Confederates against nearly 40,000 Federals. Over 10,000 Federals died and over 1,000 Confederates were killed in the battle. After the surrender, Seaborn returned home with his sons. Both his sons would return to the fight until 1865. Shortly after the fall of the Confederacy, Seaborn would become very ill from smallpox and pass away. He would be buried in an unmarked grave in Livingston Parish. His wife and many of their children would move to Saline county, Arkansas. After the passing of Frances, a Confederate grave marker was placed in the memory of Seaborn Jones Cotten for his service in the late war. Today Seaborn Jones Cotten's 4th great-grandson Koltin Massie serves as the camp commander of the camp named after his 4th great grandfather.

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