The cemetery record does not show the removal of Elias B Davidson and reburial in the family cemetery in Knox County, Missouri as passed down through family legend and the following paragraph from the History of the 21st Missouri. Proof being that had the body been removed from the National Cemetery the gravestone would also have been removed. Perhaps it was the intent of the family, but never realized.
An excerpt from "The Twenty-First Missouri" by Dr. Leslie Anders quotes: "Sergeant Elias Davidson of Company D died on June 29 at Louisville, bringing down the curtain on a pathetic family drama. Lucinda Cunningham Davidson had been in her grave beside their infant daughter less than a year in the Cunningham family cemetery back in Knox County near Greensburg. Grief-ridden old Robert Cunningham would in quieter years see his lost daughter's family forever reunited in their companion graves back home."
Elias died in a Confederate prison hospital in Louisville, Kentucky The gravestone erected in the Cunningham Cemetery in Knox County, Missouri which reads Elias B Davison Died in Hospital in Louisville, Ky is to be considered as a cenotaph and was placed there by his father-in-law Robert Cunningham.
See memorial for Elias B Davison.
.......
Married Lucinda Cunningham August 7, 1859 in Knox County, Missouri.
Child: Rosalie
.......
First record of enlistment in the Civil War. Note there are two spellings of his surname.
DAVIDSON, Elias B
1st Sergeant
Civil War - Union
Home Guards
2nd N. E. Missouri Home Guards
Company G
Enlisted July 15, 1861
Mustered in July 15, 1861
Served to Oct 7, 1861
Office of Adjutant General
Record of Service Card
Civil War, 1861-1865
Box 20
Reel s00887
The Twenty-first Missouri Volunteer Infantry was formed on December 31, 1861, when Special Order #15 merged the understrength First and Second Northeast Missouri Regiments.
DAVISON, Elias B
21st Mo Co D
Enlisted July 15, 1861
Millport, MO
Mustered in February 1, 1862
Canton, MO
Died June 29, 1862
Louisville, KY
Record of Service Card,
Civil War, 1861-1865
Box: 21
Reel: s00857
The Adjutant General's Office memorandum dated April 8, 1868 states that "he is reported died of disease at Lousiville Ky, June 29, 1862-a Sergt."
An excerpt from "The Twenty-First Missouri" by Dr. Leslie Anders quotes: "Sergeant Elias Davidson of Company D died on June 29 at Louisville, bringing down the curtain on a pathetic family drama. Lucinda Cunningham Davidson had been in her grave beside their infant daughter less than a year in the Cunningham family cemetery back in Knox County near Greensburg. Grief-ridden old Robert Cunningham would in quieter years see his lost daughter's family forever reunited in their companion graves back home."
Elias died in a Confederate prison hospital in Louisville, Kentucky The gravestone erected in the Cunningham Cemetery in Knox County, Missouri which reads Elias B Davison Died in Hospital in Louisville, Ky is to be considered as a cenotaph and was placed there by his father-in-law Robert Cunningham.
See memorial for Elias B Davison.
.......
Married Lucinda Cunningham August 7, 1859 in Knox County, Missouri.
Child: Rosalie
.......
First record of enlistment in the Civil War. Note there are two spellings of his surname.
DAVIDSON, Elias B
1st Sergeant
Civil War - Union
Home Guards
2nd N. E. Missouri Home Guards
Company G
Enlisted July 15, 1861
Mustered in July 15, 1861
Served to Oct 7, 1861
Office of Adjutant General
Record of Service Card
Civil War, 1861-1865
Box 20
Reel s00887
The Twenty-first Missouri Volunteer Infantry was formed on December 31, 1861, when Special Order #15 merged the understrength First and Second Northeast Missouri Regiments.
DAVISON, Elias B
21st Mo Co D
Enlisted July 15, 1861
Millport, MO
Mustered in February 1, 1862
Canton, MO
Died June 29, 1862
Louisville, KY
Record of Service Card,
Civil War, 1861-1865
Box: 21
Reel: s00857
The Adjutant General's Office memorandum dated April 8, 1868 states that "he is reported died of disease at Lousiville Ky, June 29, 1862-a Sergt."
The cemetery record does not show the removal of Elias B Davidson and reburial in the family cemetery in Knox County, Missouri as passed down through family legend and the following paragraph from the History of the 21st Missouri. Proof being that had the body been removed from the National Cemetery the gravestone would also have been removed. Perhaps it was the intent of the family, but never realized.
An excerpt from "The Twenty-First Missouri" by Dr. Leslie Anders quotes: "Sergeant Elias Davidson of Company D died on June 29 at Louisville, bringing down the curtain on a pathetic family drama. Lucinda Cunningham Davidson had been in her grave beside their infant daughter less than a year in the Cunningham family cemetery back in Knox County near Greensburg. Grief-ridden old Robert Cunningham would in quieter years see his lost daughter's family forever reunited in their companion graves back home."
Elias died in a Confederate prison hospital in Louisville, Kentucky The gravestone erected in the Cunningham Cemetery in Knox County, Missouri which reads Elias B Davison Died in Hospital in Louisville, Ky is to be considered as a cenotaph and was placed there by his father-in-law Robert Cunningham.
See memorial for Elias B Davison.
.......
Married Lucinda Cunningham August 7, 1859 in Knox County, Missouri.
Child: Rosalie
.......
First record of enlistment in the Civil War. Note there are two spellings of his surname.
DAVIDSON, Elias B
1st Sergeant
Civil War - Union
Home Guards
2nd N. E. Missouri Home Guards
Company G
Enlisted July 15, 1861
Mustered in July 15, 1861
Served to Oct 7, 1861
Office of Adjutant General
Record of Service Card
Civil War, 1861-1865
Box 20
Reel s00887
The Twenty-first Missouri Volunteer Infantry was formed on December 31, 1861, when Special Order #15 merged the understrength First and Second Northeast Missouri Regiments.
DAVISON, Elias B
21st Mo Co D
Enlisted July 15, 1861
Millport, MO
Mustered in February 1, 1862
Canton, MO
Died June 29, 1862
Louisville, KY
Record of Service Card,
Civil War, 1861-1865
Box: 21
Reel: s00857
The Adjutant General's Office memorandum dated April 8, 1868 states that "he is reported died of disease at Lousiville Ky, June 29, 1862-a Sergt."
An excerpt from "The Twenty-First Missouri" by Dr. Leslie Anders quotes: "Sergeant Elias Davidson of Company D died on June 29 at Louisville, bringing down the curtain on a pathetic family drama. Lucinda Cunningham Davidson had been in her grave beside their infant daughter less than a year in the Cunningham family cemetery back in Knox County near Greensburg. Grief-ridden old Robert Cunningham would in quieter years see his lost daughter's family forever reunited in their companion graves back home."
Elias died in a Confederate prison hospital in Louisville, Kentucky The gravestone erected in the Cunningham Cemetery in Knox County, Missouri which reads Elias B Davison Died in Hospital in Louisville, Ky is to be considered as a cenotaph and was placed there by his father-in-law Robert Cunningham.
See memorial for Elias B Davison.
.......
Married Lucinda Cunningham August 7, 1859 in Knox County, Missouri.
Child: Rosalie
.......
First record of enlistment in the Civil War. Note there are two spellings of his surname.
DAVIDSON, Elias B
1st Sergeant
Civil War - Union
Home Guards
2nd N. E. Missouri Home Guards
Company G
Enlisted July 15, 1861
Mustered in July 15, 1861
Served to Oct 7, 1861
Office of Adjutant General
Record of Service Card
Civil War, 1861-1865
Box 20
Reel s00887
The Twenty-first Missouri Volunteer Infantry was formed on December 31, 1861, when Special Order #15 merged the understrength First and Second Northeast Missouri Regiments.
DAVISON, Elias B
21st Mo Co D
Enlisted July 15, 1861
Millport, MO
Mustered in February 1, 1862
Canton, MO
Died June 29, 1862
Louisville, KY
Record of Service Card,
Civil War, 1861-1865
Box: 21
Reel: s00857
The Adjutant General's Office memorandum dated April 8, 1868 states that "he is reported died of disease at Lousiville Ky, June 29, 1862-a Sergt."
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