Under History of Clay County is the following:
Abraham Estes, was a bugler in the US Army 1st Mounted Regiment in the Mexican War and was killed West of Liberty in Clay County, during the Civil War by Federal soldiers after he killed five of them. He was the last in the family line to own slaves.
Served the in the US Army and Mexican War
Contributor: LJ Wilson (49058310)
Being so close to the MO/KS state line, and Mo and KS being on opposite sides of the Civil War, periodically rebels would come through, killing the men and boys (sometimes everyone) and taking what they wanted from the food supply and livestock, then burning the house and barn to the ground. They didn't stop to ask if the person was for the north or the south. MO had plenty of both north and south sympathizers, but came into the Union as a southern state.
Abraham Estes must have been one of these unfortunate men.
Abraham Estes, was a bugler in the US Army 1st Mounted Regiment in the Mexican War and was killed West of Liberty in Clay County, during the Civil War by Federal soldiers after he killed five of them. He was the last in the family line to own slaves.
Served the in the US Army and Mexican War
Contributor: LJ Wilson (49058310)
Being so close to the MO/KS state line, and Mo and KS being on opposite sides of the Civil War, periodically rebels would come through, killing the men and boys (sometimes everyone) and taking what they wanted from the food supply and livestock, then burning the house and barn to the ground. They didn't stop to ask if the person was for the north or the south. MO had plenty of both north and south sympathizers, but came into the Union as a southern state.
Abraham Estes must have been one of these unfortunate men.
Under History of Clay County is the following:
Abraham Estes, was a bugler in the US Army 1st Mounted Regiment in the Mexican War and was killed West of Liberty in Clay County, during the Civil War by Federal soldiers after he killed five of them. He was the last in the family line to own slaves.
Served the in the US Army and Mexican War
Contributor: LJ Wilson (49058310)
Being so close to the MO/KS state line, and Mo and KS being on opposite sides of the Civil War, periodically rebels would come through, killing the men and boys (sometimes everyone) and taking what they wanted from the food supply and livestock, then burning the house and barn to the ground. They didn't stop to ask if the person was for the north or the south. MO had plenty of both north and south sympathizers, but came into the Union as a southern state.
Abraham Estes must have been one of these unfortunate men.
Abraham Estes, was a bugler in the US Army 1st Mounted Regiment in the Mexican War and was killed West of Liberty in Clay County, during the Civil War by Federal soldiers after he killed five of them. He was the last in the family line to own slaves.
Served the in the US Army and Mexican War
Contributor: LJ Wilson (49058310)
Being so close to the MO/KS state line, and Mo and KS being on opposite sides of the Civil War, periodically rebels would come through, killing the men and boys (sometimes everyone) and taking what they wanted from the food supply and livestock, then burning the house and barn to the ground. They didn't stop to ask if the person was for the north or the south. MO had plenty of both north and south sympathizers, but came into the Union as a southern state.
Abraham Estes must have been one of these unfortunate men.
Inscription
died by the hands of assassins
"Friends, I am going home.
When I am cold and in my grave
And all my bones are rotten;
Perhaps then you'll Remember me
Or I will be forgotten"
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