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Two inquests were held over his body, large rewards offered and the family and friends employed detectives in an effort to ferret out the criminals and bring them to
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justice, but of no avail. The matter stands today as one of the unsolved mysteries of the county. In each of the three cases above mentioned there were clews and theories but every one of them led away from the crime instead of toward it. Robbery might have been the motive in the first two, but in the case of Mr. Pidcock it was either revenge or suicide, with the chances ten to one in favor of the former theory.
Chapter 8
RAILROAD MATTERS.
Railroad Subscriptions and Bonds .- On the 15th day of August, 1854, the county court of Dade County sub- scribed $20,000 to capital stock of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, upon certain conditions expressed in the order. Afterward the order was amended, making the stock payable in four equal installments, and Peter Hoyle was appointed commissioner to subscribe the stock and receive the dividends that might arise therefrom. After- wards, on the 3d day of November, 1856, Thomas C. Fletcher, attorney for the railroad company, appeared and moved the court to issue a warrant on the treasurer of Dade County in favor of the company, for five thousand dollars, the amount of the first installment. The motion was sustained, the warrant was issued accordingly, and the money was paid to Fletcher as the agent of the com- pany. No further amount of the subscription was ever paid, for the reason that the railroad company failed ut- terly to comply with the conditions on which the subscrip- tion was made. Taxes were levied and collected only for the installment that was paid.
On the 15th day of August, 1870, James F. Hardin, agent of the Kansas City & Memphis Railroad Company, appeared before the county court, and stated that his com- pany would agree to build their railroad through Dade County, by the way of Greenfield, provided that the court would subscribe $300,000 in bonds to the capital stock of the company. At the same time several prominent and in- fluential citizens of the county addressed the court urging it to make the subscription. Upon consideration of the matter, the court decided that upon the petition of two- thirds of the qualified voters of the county they would take further action in the premises at an adjourned term to be
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held on the 29th instant following. Accordingly, at the appointed time a petition for the making of such subscrip- tion, signed by nearly 1,200 voters, and also a remonstrance against the making of the subscription, signed by a large number, were filed, whereupon the court proposed to the railroad company to subscribe the amount of $200,000 in- stead of $300,000, upon condition that the road should be built through the county and to run within one-half mile of the court house at Greenfield, and upon other conditions pertaining to the issue of the bonds, etc., and appointed John H. Howard to confer with the railroad company, and to report his action to the court on the 12th of September following.
At the appointed time, Mr. Howard reported that the proposition to subscribe $200,000 was accepted by the com- pany, whereupon the court ordered that the County of Dade, in the State of Missouri, should "take two thousand shares of the capital stock of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Company, said shares being of the denomination of one hundred dollars each, to aid in the construction of a branch road, the name of which was 'The Kansas City & Memphis Railroad,' the subscription to be made to, in aid of, and for the use of and in the name of the Kansas City & Memphis Railroad, as provided in an act of the Legisla- ture, to aid in the building of the branch railroad in the State of Missouri, approved March 21. 1868." The court authority and power to subscribe for the stock subject to the conditions and stipulations fully set out in the order. Afterward, on the 18th day of July, 1871, the conditions expressed in the foregoing order, upon which the sub- scription was made, were modified in substance as follows: That the work of constructing the railroad should com- mence without unnecessary delay at the town of Green- field, in Dade County, and be continued in a southerly direc- tion toward Ash Grove, and that the road-bed between Springfield, in Greene County, and Greenfield, in Dade County, including bridging and masonry, should be fully completed ready for the iron and rolling-stock, by the first
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of April following; that the commissioner should at once have the bonds lithographed, of the denomination of $1,000 each. to be payable in twenty years from date, bearing right per cent interest-the interest to be payable semi- annually, and that B. S. Jacobs be (and was) appointed commissioner for the county to have custody of the bonds when signed and registered in sums not exceeding $75,000. That W. G. McDowell, D. C. Eastin and W. M. Taggart be (and were) appointed agents on the part of the county to inspect the work as it progressed, and to see that the funds were economieally applied toward the construction of the road. That the commissioner should deliver bonds to the fiscal agent or treasurer of the railroad company for the value of work executed on the road, upon monthly estimates thereof, and as fast as he should deliver bonds to the amount of $5,000, to take from the company certificates of paid-up stock for the same. That the acceptance of these (and other minor) conditions, by John M. Richardson, president of the railroad company, should have the force to bind the company to a faithful compliance therewith.
On the 7th of August following. W. G. MeDowell, one of the county agents, filed with the court the written acceptance of the modified conditions on which the bonds should be issued, signed by the aforesaid James M. Richardson. Sub- sequently. on the 15th day of November, 1871, the court again took action in the premises, and ordered that all previous orders relative to the subscription of stock to the Kansas City & Memphis Railroad Company, and for the issue of bonds to pay for the stock, be further modified so that the two hundred $1,000 bonds provided to be issued by Dade County, should be issued at once and delivered to the commissioner of the county, and that he should be anthorized to sell the bonds, at his own discretion, and to hold the proceeds thereof subject to the order of the court.
The bonds for the $200,000 were prepared and executed accordingly-twenty-five of them being dated October 2. 1571, and one hundred and seventy-five dated December 1, 1871 ; and all being for $1,000 each. Judge J. T. Hombre,
LEVIN W. SHAFER.
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having been appointed commissioner of the county vice Howard, resigned, continued the delivery of the bonds, or otherwise dispose of them, from time to time, and on the 29th day of March, 1873, the court received and accepted certificates of paid-up stock in the Kansas City & Memphis Railroad to the full amount of the subscription-$200,000. On the 4th day of May, 1873, the commissioner, Judge Hem- bree, made his final report, showing that all of the bonds had been issued and delivered to the treasurer of the Kansas City & Memphis Railroad Company. Hence the bonds were issued and delivered years before any part of the railroad was completed, and, when the interest became due, the people finding themselves without a railroad, felt greatly disappointed, and consequently the county refused or failed to pay the interest, and the people generally entertained the hope that, inasmuch as the railroad had not been completed as contemplated, by resorting to law they might be wholly released from the payment of the bonds. But the failure to pay the interest soon caused the bringing of numerous suits in the United States court for the collection of the same. The history of these suits would fill a large volume, and is therefore beyond the scope of this work.
Refunding Bonds .- On the 12th day of December, 1881, the county court, upon the petition of numerous taxpayers of the county, ordered a special election to be held on the 24th of January following, to submit to the voters of the county the question of refunding the $200,000 in bonds, and the accrued interest and costs thereon, by issuing new bonds for the amount of seventy cents on each dollar, the refunding bonds to bear interest at the rate of six per cent, the principal to run for twenty years from date, but to be redeemable at the option of the county at any time after the first five years. The election was held accordingly, and the proposition was rejected by a majority of the votes cast. Afterward, on the 19th day of June, 1883, another petition, signed by numerous taxpayers of the county, was presented to the court, praying for measures to be taken to refund the bonded indebtedness of the county with six per
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cent twenty-year bonds. Whereupon the court made an investigation, and found that the original bonds for the $200,000 were still outstanding, and that judgments had been rendered in the United States courts against the county on account of due and unpaid interest coupons to the amount of $74,522.50, and that the total indebtedness was about $290.000. A special election was then ordered to be held on the 31st day of July following, for the pur- pose of submitting the question of refunding the indebted- ness to the voters of the county. The election was held ac. cordingly, and, when the votes were counted, it was found 1,031 had been cast in favor of refunding the debt, and 412 against it. In accordance with this decision of the people, the court provided for the issuing of new bonds to all bond- holders who would enter into the compromise and surrender the old bonds. Two hundred bonds of $1,000 each, and seventy of $500 each, were then issued, all bearing date of August 4, 1883, and oll bonds and judgments entered into the compromise were then cancelled. Since then the entire debt has been paid.
Railroads .-- The Kansas City & Memphis Railroad. now known as the Kansas City. Fort Scott & Memphis Rail- road, was completed through the county in 1881, by way of the present towns of Everton, South Greenfield and Lock- wood, thus leaving Greenfiekl, the County Seat, by way of which it was promised to be constructed when the county court made the order to subscribe stock for its construc- tion. over two miles north of its line. The length of this railroad within the county limits is abont twenty-six miles.
Chapter 9
Greenfield Post No. 75, Department of Missouri, G. A. R., was organized May 12th, 1883, with the following named comrades as charter members :
C. W. Griffith.
J. F. Lyngar.
D. B. Bailey. S. W. Long.
J. H. Howard. Mason Talbutt.
E. K. Shackelford.
E. R. Hughes.
W. C. Young.
E. T. Kennedy.
R. B. Stephenson.
J. M. Gaston.
Isaac Bardmas.
G. A. Pollard.
Twenty-two (Dead).
J. T. Hembree. Clovis Depee.
A. Helphenstine.
A. G. Everett.
A. B. Farmer.
Martin Fiddler.
J. R. Tarrant.
J. E. Scroggs.
The following is a roster of the Post from its organiza- tion :
C. W. Griffith, 1st Lieut. Co. C, 127th Ohio Inf.
C. W. Griffith, Capt. Co. K, 6th U. S. Cav. troop.
J. F. Lyngar, Private Co. F, 15th Mo. Cav. D. B. Bailey, Capt. Co. H, 76th E. M. M. J. H. Howard, Capt. Co. I, 15th Mo. Cav.
E. K. Shakelford, Co. L, 8th M. M. Cav. E. R. Hughes, Private Co. A, 6th Mo. Cav. W. C. Young, Private Co. H, 77th Ill. Inft. E. T. Kennedy, Capt. Co. C, 11th N. J. Inft. R. B. Stephenson, Major, 31st Wis. Inft. J. M. Gaston, Private Co. F, 26th Ill. Inft. G. H. Pollard, Co. G, 9th Tenn. Cav.
J. T. Hembree, 2nd Lieut Co. E, 15th Mo. Cav. Clovis Depee, Private Co. K, 1st Ark. Inft. S. W. Long, Private Co. D, 12th Ill. Inft.
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Mason Talbutt, 1st Serg. Co. 1, 15th Mo. Cav. A. Helphenstine, Private Co. F, 8th Penn. Inft. A. G. Everett, Private Co. I, 9th Ohio Cav. A. B. Farmer, 1st Serg. Co. L, 2nd Wash. Cav. Martin Fiddler, Private Co. B, 27th Ind. Inft. J. R. Tarrant, Private Co. D, 6th Mo. Cav. Isaac Bardmass. Sergt. Co. I, 1st M. S. M. Inft. J. E. Seroggs, Private Co. L, 6th Mo. Cav. Frederick Buser, Co. K, 2nd Mo. Inft. W. H Watson, Private Co. G, 6th M. S. M. Cav. J. M. Kinney, Private Co. A, 3rd Iowa Cav. Win. Lack, Private Co. L. 8th Mo. Cav. Henry Lawrence, Private Co. E, 15th Mo. Cav. Squire Roberts, Private Co. L, 9th M. S. M. Cav. G. W. Wells, Capt. Co. F. 57th Ill. Inft.
F. H. Barber, Private Co. B, 29th Mo. Inft. A. C. Brown, Sorgt. Co. A. 130th Ind. Inft. Alexander Foster, Sergt. Co. M, 8th Mo. Cav. J. T. Quick, Ist Lieut. Co. K. 72nd Ind. Mid. Inft. S. H. Farthing, Private Co. F. 63rd IN. Inft. George Courtney, Private Co. I, 15th Mo. Cav. J. H. Sterling, Private Co. L, 14th Ill. Cav. A. A. Hays. Private Co. D. 6th Mo. Cav. R. C. Divine, Private Co. E, 15th Mo. Cav. T. S. Hughes, Corp. Co. G, 13th Ken. Cav. B. C. Pemberton, Sergt. Co. A, 6th Mo. Cav. John Humphrey, Private Co. G, 13th Mo. Cav. C. W. Lowery, Private Co. E, 46th Mo. Inft. J. L. Brackett, Private Co. M, 7th Mo. Cav. D. R. Miller, Corp. Co. D. 14th Mo. Cav. J. G. Service, Private Co. K, 72nd Ohio Inft. N. H. Buck, 2nd Lieut. Co. H, 20th IN. Inft. R. C. Sanford. Private Co. A, Sth Mo. Cav. W. E. Drum, Private Co. B. 142nd Ohio Inft. Seymour Host, Private Co. A, 132nd Ill Inft. B. C. Anderson, Comp. Co. F. 80th Ill. Inft. W. K. Pyle. 1st Lient. Co. 1, 15th Mo. Cav. HI. W. Francis, Private Co F, 126th Ind. Inft. S. S. Clark, Capt. on staff of Gen. Holland.
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J. W. McBride, Private Co. H, 2nd Mo. Lt. Art.
A. II. Bowers, Private Co. D, 38th Wis. Inft. M. V. B. Gehon, Sergt. Co. A, 6th Mo. Cav. Wick Morgan, Major 15th Mo. Cav.
W. B. MeGuirk, Private Co. A, Ist Inft. Jud S. King, Private Co. D, 1st Mo. Cav. J. J. Shaw, Private Co. D, 6th Mo. Cav. G. W. Evans, Sergt Co. H, 79th Ind. Inft. F. R. Pearson, Corp. Co. E, 2nd Penn. Art.
John A. Divis, 1st Lieut. Co F, 5th Iowa Cav., and Co. E, 5th Iowa Inft.
John Bell, Private Co. L, 144th Ill. Inft. L. D. Brewer, Private Co. B, 51st Ill. Inft. N. H. Fell, Corp. Co. I, 11th Ill. Inft. R. A. Gipson, Private Co. D, 51st Ohio Inft. Mark Stevans, Private Co. A, 129th Ill. Inft.
T. B. Hammond, 1st Sergt. Co. F, 52nd Ohio Inft.
E. B. Howard, Capt. Co. E, 29th Ohio Inft. John Williamson, 1st Sergt. Co. F, 6th Mo. Inft. R. S. Allen, Private Co. E, 1st Mo. Cav. J. W. Gilmore, Private Co. C, 5th Mo. Inft. G. W. Freedle, Private Co. D, 6th Mo. Cav. J. F. Harris, Corp. Co. K, 16th Kan. Cav. N. M. Gardner, Asst. Surgeon Co. E, 6th Mo. Cav. G. W. Thornton, Corp. Co. F, 31st Ind. Inft. T. B. Clark, Private Co. E, 66th Ill. Inft. J. R. Lewis, Corp. Co. L, 6th Tenn. Cav. R. J. Shipley, Private Co. M, 8th Mo. Cav. B. A. Pyle, Corp. Co. L, 6th Mo. Cav. T. W. Burlyson, Private Co. F, 46th Mo. Inft.
S. W. Baker, Ist Lieut. Co. I, 59th Ind. Inft. J. S. Tapley, Sergt. Co. B, 6th Ill. Cav.
J. S. Bryan, Private Co. A, 4th Mo. Cav., and Co. D, 16th Reserve Corps.
J. M. Marcum, Private Co. A, 2nd Tenn. Cav. E. B. Shipley, Private Co. M, 8th Mo. Cav. John Maberry, Private Co. L, 6th Mo. Cav. A. R. Reiley, Private Co. I, 102nd Ill. Inft.
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Samuel Gleason, Private Co. B, 82nd Penn. Inft. J. W. Eldridge, Private Co. A, 71st N. Y. Inft. John J. Derby, Private Co. C, 72nd Mtd. Inft. Wm. Landreth, Corp. Co. K, 29th Mo. Inft. J. L. Brockman, Private Co. F, 13th Kan. Cav. R. A. Bell, Private Co. B, 14th Ill. Cav. R. P. Underwood, Private Co. H, 2nd Mo. Lt. Art. George Carroll, Private Co. D, 69th Ind. Inft. M. B. Mitchell, Private Co. M, 8th Mo. Cav. Henry Hoffman, Private Co. K, 64th II Inft. H. E. Staten, Private Co. H, 144th Ind. Inft. W. H. Greer, Private Co. D, 45th Mo. Inft. A. J. Hembree, Private Co. E, 14th Inft. M. L. Mitchell, Private Co. L, 6th Mo. Cav. J. F. Moseley, Corp. Co. D, 110th Ill. Inft. John H. Carlyle, Private Co. 1, 88th Ohio Inft. John V. Thomas, Private Co. H, 48th Iowa Inft. N. A. Dakin, Private Co. K, 6th Calif. Cav. Minor Gentry, Private Co. L, Sth M. S. M. Cav. V. M. Batts, Private Co. G, 54th Ill. Inft. C. Z. Russell, 2nd Lieut. Co. I, 21st Mo. Inft. W. J. Self, Private Co. I, 26th Ken. Inft. J. W. Henry, Private Co. A, 7th Ill. Cav. Reuben Brown, Private Co. L. Brd Iowa Cav. John Griffin, Corp. Co. I, 1st Mo. Inft. Jolm Spong, Private Co. H, 39th Ill. Inft. G. S. Willson, Musician Co. F, 18th U. S. Inft. Jonathan Hess, Private Co. K, 12th Mo. Cav. W. T. Wright, Private Co. E. 15th Mo. Cav. D. R. Richie, Corporal Co. H, 3rd Mo. Cav. G. N. Stanley.
G. W. Hamic, Private Co. D. 1st Tenn. Inft. Levi Johnson, Private Co. E 1st Ark Cav. J.' D. Andrews, Corporal Co. L. 9th M. S. M. Cav. J. Il. Griggs, Tenneys' Independent Battery, Kas. J. F. Harris, Corporal Co. K. 16th Kan. Cav. John MePatterson, Private Cos. E and F. 34th Ind. Inft.
Joseph Lanham, Private Co. K, 8th Ind. Inft.
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J. J. Roberts, Private Co. G, 35 E. M. M. and Troop B 1st U. S. Cav.
Hugh Daugherty, Private Co. A 2nd Ark. Cav.
W. F. Click. Private Co. C, 12th Ken. Cav. A. R. Whiteman.
J. W. McDowell, Corp. Co. M. 8th Mo. Cav.
J. M. Morris, Private Co. 1 15th Mo. Cav. John Patterson, Private Co. F. 43rd Ohio Inft. W. A. Hall, Private Co. G, 8th Iowa Cav. Nicholas Bender, Private Co. C, 13th U. S. luft. Alfred Carender, Private Co. K, 12th Mo. Cav. M. D. Merrick, Private Co. 1, 7th Provisional E. M. M. M. S. Tuttle, 2nd Lietat. Co. B 1st Col. Cav. (and A 1st Neb. Cav.)
James Hudson, Private Co. K, 52nd Ohio Inft. John Weaver, Private Co. B, 47th III. Inft. Leander Pyle, Private Co. E, 7th Mo. Inft. William Campbell, Private Co. G, 19th Iowa Inft. T. D. Kirby, Private Co. L. 6 Mo. Cav. F. M. Mckown, Private Co. A 7 Iowa Cav. David Carson, Serg. Co. G, 49th Mo. Inft.
E. P. Taylor, Private Co. H. 19th Iowa Inft. J. M. Travis, 1st Sorgt. Co. H, 2nd Mo. Light Art. Jerome Dano, Private Co. A 127th III. Inft. E. E. Reed, Private Co. K, 53rd Mass. Inft. Jesse Cartwright, Private Co. H, 76th E. M. M. & I. 7th Pro. E. M. M.
Francis Lord, Private Co. HI 35 Wis. Inft.
C. W. Ridgeway, Capt. Co. A 116th Ohio Inft.
W. B. Eagles, Private Co. L. 28th Ind. Cav. G. H. Kilgore, Private Co. E. 149th Ohio Inft.
J. D. Games, Private Co. D. 54th Ind. Inft. and II 1st. W. V. Art.
J. F. Gregory, Private Co. D 80th Ill. Inft. D. T. Wilkins, Corp. Co. D 136 Ohio Inft. Sans Lampheer, Private Co. E 3rd Wis. Cav. W. II. Ellis, Private Co. C 44th Mo. Inft. David Evans, Private Co. F 34th Ind. Inft. James Smith, Private Co. I, Ill. Inft.
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Jonathan Montgomery, Private Co. A 16th Mo. Cav. John Clipinger, Private Co. D 23rd U. S. Inft. I. K. Zook, Private Co. L 7th Ind. Cav. Frank Hallowell, Sorgt. Co. K, Ist Neb. Inft. E. C. Culver, Private Co. B 88th Ind. Inft. William Kelley, Private Co. A 16th Mo. Cav. O. E. F. Lindsay, Private Co. F 8th M. S. M. Cav. W. C. Cole, Private Co. A, 24th Ind. Inft. N. E. Moore, Corp. Co. D. 39th Ohio Inft. William Wilson, Private Co. F 6th Mo. Cav. W. C. Johnson, Private Co. E. 15th Mo. Cav. L. D. Hargis, Private Co. D 14th Mo. Cav. Thomas Miller, Private Co. H 16th Ill Cav. Wesley Smith, Private Co. F 7th Mo. Cav. James Clayton, Private Co. D, 46th Mo. Inft. G. H. Turner, Private Co. C, 115th Ill. Inft. C. W. Farrand, Private Co. F, Ist Michigan Inft. G. W. Daigh, Private Co. E, 114th Ill. Inft. J. M. Hoskinson, 1st Lieut. Co. H. 44th Mo. Inft. J. M. Piekett, Private Co. L 8th M. S. M. Cav. Patrick Coyne, Private Co. G, 39th Jowa Inft. I. A. Humbert, Corp. Co. A, 6th Mo. Cav. J. HI. Hargrave, Private Co. D, 6th Mo. Cav. II. D. Noble, Private Co. HI, Ist Mo. Inft. J. R. Brewer, Private Co. A, 133rd Ind. Inft. J. R. Martin, Corp. Co. 1, 15 Mo. Cav. T. J. Lowe, Private Co. C, 1st Ken. Cav. T. H. Rose, Private Co. B. 76th Ohio Inft. N. A. Carroll, Private Co. II. Ist Iowa Cav. J. W. Tyson, Private Co. G, Ist U. S. Inft. Albert MeKinley, Private Co. F, 26th Ill. Inft. L. A. Miller, Private Co. B, 39th Iowa Inft. Lewis Redman, Private Co. E, 122nd, Ill. Inft. I. T. Sloan, Private Co. L. 6th Mo. Cav. S. M. Shaw, Corp. Co. D, 6 Mo. Cav. 11. M. Robinson, Private Co. 11, 41st Ill. Inft. (". H. Martin, Private Co. H, 8th Mo. Cav. .J. W. Scott, Private Co. B, 12th Mo. Cav. John Getz, Private Co. D, 50th Ill. Inft.
CHARLES WALKER GRIFFITH.
JOHN FLETCHER JOHNSON.
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E. A. Garrison, 2nd Lieut. Co. D, 3rd Ark. Cav. William Harper, Private Co. E, 8th Wis. Inft. Thomas Gouty, Private Co. E, Stb Mo. Cav. Jonathan Houck, Teamster Co. K, 46th Ohio Inft. W. W. Slinker, Sergt. Co. I, 14 Kas. Cav. W. E. Shaw, Ist Serg. Co. D, 6th Mo. Cav. J. W. Wilkins, Private Co. L, Sth M. S. M. Cav. D. R. Baird, Sergt. Co. E, 80th Ohio Inft. Isom Wilson, Private Co. HI, 21st Ill. Inft. William Miller, Private Co. 1, 45th Mo. Inft.
E. P. Hedgelen, Private Co. C, 10th Mich. Inft.
E. J. Owens, Private Co. E, 114th Ill. Inft.
E. F. Seroggs Farrier, Co. L, 6th Mo. Cav. Co. A Phelps Regt. Mo. Cav.
G. W. Hoover, Private Co. 1, 6th Kan. Cav.
J. P. Stoltz, Private Co. F, 5th Ill. Cav. John Jewell, 2nd Lient. Co. II, 11 Mo. Cav.
C. D. Boisseau, Private Co. A, 7th M. S. M. Cav.
J. P. Fanning, Blacksmith Co. D 6th Mo. Cav.
B. F. Thomas, Sergt. Co. F., 52nd, Ohio Inft. J. M. Salling, Private Co. M, Sth Mo. Cav. J. E. Smith, Private Co. H, 44th Mo. Inft.
J. W. Davenport, Private Co. M, 8th Mo. Cav. J. C. T. Wood, Private Co. L, 15th Mo. Cav. T. D. Combs, Searge. Co. D, 6th Mo. Cav. Jasper O'Neal, Private Co. 1, 2nd Mo. Light Art.
W. C. Wood, Private Co. K, Mass Inft.
Baptist Freedle, Private Co. L. 6th Mo. Cav. Total dead 111
Total Number
Number remaining in good standing this date. 26
HISTORICAL MEMORANDA.
By request I will give the object of the United Con- federate Veterans association. It was organized at Rich- mond, Virginia, February 13th, 14th and 15th, 1889. The object and purpose of this organization was to be strictly socially literary, historical and benevolent, to unite in our general federation all associations of confederate veterans,
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soldiers and sailors who were then in existence, to culti- vate the ties of friendship that should exist among those who have shared common danger, suffering and priva- tions. To see that the disabled are cared for, that a help- ing hand is extended to the needy confederates widows and orphans. No political or religions discussion are per- mitted in said organization.
HISTORY OF JOHN M. STEMMONS CAMP NO. 1044, U. C. V., GREENFIELD, MO.
On the 13th day of September, 1897, pursuant to a call published in the Dade County Advocate and the South- west News, a number of Confederate veterans met at the Court House in Greenfield for the purpose of organizing a Camp of Confederate Veterans. Captain B. M. Neale was chosen chairman and Lieutenant-Colonel O. S. Rag- land, secretary. Upon taking the chair Captain Neale ex- plained the purpose of the meeting and the following Con- federate soldiers present enrolled their names as charter members:
Lewis Renfro, Co. A, 3rd Mo. Cav. Patrick MeLemore, Co. F, 3rd Mo. Cav.
J. M. Burton, Co. A, 3rd Mo. Cav. J. R. Pointdexter, Co. G., Texas Cav. J. M. Sturdy, Co. G, 4th Mo. Cav. J. J. Winkle, Co. F, 3rd Mo. Cav. R. L. Butterworth, Co.A, 3rd Mo. Cav. Isaac Preston, Co. C, 6th Mo. Inf. . J. B. Calfee, Co. E. 59th Tenn. Inf. J. M. Carlock, Co. G, 16th Mo. Inf. Charles Winkle, Co. G, 16th Mo. Inf. J. R. Finley, Co. G, 16th Mo. Inf. J. P. Duncan, Co. D, 63rd Ten. Inf. T. B. Rountree, Co. G, 16th Mo. Inf. W. A. Dale, Co. G, 16th Mo. Inf. Jesse J. Hiatt, Co. K, 6th Mo. Cav. Joseph Roseman, Co. E, 49th N. C. Inf. B. M. Neale, Capt. Co. B, 1st Mo. Cav.
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O. S. Ragland, Lieutenant-Colonel 3rd Bat., G. M. Inf.
S. H. Howard, Co. 6th Ala. Cav.
On permanent organization of the camp the following officials were elected:
Commander-Lewis Renfro.
Lieutenant Commander-J. R. Finley.
Adjutant-O. S. Ragland.
Chaplain-J. M. Sturdy.
Surgeon-R. L. Butterworth.
After organization the name "John M. Stemmons" was unanimously selected for the Camp name, in honor of Captain John M. Stemmons, a Greenfield lawyer, who was afterward Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th Mo. Inf.
By-Laws were then adopted and after the business was finished, Congressman Hon. David A. De Armond of the 6th District being in the city accepted an invitation and addressed the Camp in his eloquent and entertaining manner.
The Camp then adjourned to meet the 2nd Saturday in October, 1897.
CAPTAIN B. M. NEALE, Chairman. O. S. RAGLAND, Secretary.
Three ministers of the gospel have been members of this camp. Rev. J. B. Fly, Rev. G. W. Oldham and Rey. I. A. Blevans. Two Captains-B. M. Neale and J. M. Wills. One Lieutenant Colonel-O. S. Ragland. Three Lieutenants-C. J. Stephenson, A. J. Ross and Lewis Renfro. One Orderly Sergeant -- F. A. Wills.
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