Samuel Burton McFerrin lived with his parents and siblings on Eight Mile Creek.
Samuel Burton McFerrin served in the Army of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. He served first in the 8th Battalion Missouri Infantry (State Guard). He also served as a Sergeant assigned to Company H, 9th Missouri Infantry, Confederate States of America. He and his father were at Lone Jack. As a member of the 9th Missouri Confederate Infantry he fought against Banks on the Red River, and against Steele in the Camden Expedition.
A Brief History of the Life of Samuel Burton McFerrin
I was the eldest child of Jackson Benton and Elizabeth McFerrinan was born February 9, 1844 in Cass County, Missouri on a farm 8 miles south of Harrisonville. My parents came from Rutherford County, Tennessee about the year 1832. There being no public schools in Missouri in those early days, opportunities for an education were very meager. Subscription schools where the three studies reading, writing and arithmetic were about all that was taught. Webster's Blue Book Speller, McGuffey's Reader and Pikes or Rays Arithmetic were considered about all the books necessary. For reading they used the New Testament. Under those conditions it could not be expected that the pupils should attain a very high education. I should state that writing was acquired by the us of goose quills pens and with poke berry ink. However, notwithstanding all these handicaps and only a 3 months length of school a year taught in a log school house with sticks and mud chimney and slit log benches to sit on and a log cut from the wall with thin muslin tacked over the space to let in light and to keep the wind and cold out. For the writing desk a slab was put under this window supported by pins put in the wall. Even under these rude conditions I acquired a very fair handwriting, a good knowledge of mathematics and became very proficient in Orthography. When I was about 17 years of age, my father aimed to have sent me off to college. But the war was coming in that year deprived me of a college course. When the horrors of war came upon our quiet and peace home, all that of college or school were past. My father being most brutally assasinated, our home burned to ashes, my mother, little sisters and baby brother thrown out into the snow storm on January 7th (midnight) 1863. And I had to flee for my life and leave my dear mother and her babies to their fate. And it was sure a hard fate. With no one to protect or help her sufferings and hardships that faithful Christian mother endured would heart rending to attempt to describe. And I shall not attempt to describe all they endured. One member of the family, a girl of 14 years, died from the exposure and hardships following the destruction of our home. But somehow they managed to survive until the close of the war. After the close of the war, I returned and hunted for my mother and sisters. They had been compelled to leave the county under the infamous Order No. 11. As many others has to do. I found them in St. Clair County where they had sought refuge from violence and persecution. To shorten
my story suffice it to say, I moved them back to what had once been a happy Christian home. But alas, little remained except ashes and a chimney to mark the spot where that happy home had been. Where I and my sisters and brother were born and where we had spent our happy childhood days. We had to begin all over again to build from the ground up. Those were hard days. But by hard work we got the farm fenced again, a house built. When the public administration sold our home by order of the court to satisfy false and unjust claims (as I believe they were) that came up against the estate consisting of 340 acres of land. Besides that the administration got away with some ten thousand dollars and notes being loaned money. They would not permit my mother to administer on my father's estate and even sold the land that had been sat off as my mother's dower. The parties guilty of these crimes were people who we had known and befriended before the war. Some had been my boyhood associated and school mates. Led on by Kansas Jayhawkers and thieves and murderers. I want to leave on record that these atrocities and murders were perpetrated by members of Col. Newgint's Regimental. Made up in Cass and Bates Counties. That they were in service of the Federal Government receiving pay and their equipment from the Lincoln Government. That their principal business at that time seemed to be in robbing and burning homes, frightening mothers and little children and murdering old men that were staying at home trying to care for their families and little helpless children. And these crimes were committed under the .... I am now an old man nearing my 82nd birthday. Father and mother and sisters have passed on. My brother and I are all that remains of that once happy but unfortunate Christian family. And we must shortly follow them to that country from whince no traveller ner returns. I have 7 children living, three sons and four daughters and a number of grandchildren and about 12 great-grandchildren at this date October 5, 1925.
Samuel Burton McFerrin
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m1: Jency "Jennie" E. Williams June 13 1869, Cass Co MO. Jennie was about 14 yrs old.
ch inc:
-Mabel abt 1869- m: Willis Hamby
-Willie T. 1873-1874
-Infant dau b/d 1874
-Annie Rose 1875-1959 m: James William Higgins
-Bertie 1876-1877
-Ella G. abt 1877-
-John Burton 1880-1932/NE #87411942
-Isaac Jackson May 30 1882- m: Emma Louise, living in NE 1930, 1940.
m2: Mrs. Barbara Catherine (Barnhart) Reed, in 1887, Henry Co. MO., who brought children, John, Virginia, Everett, Andrew and Henry Reed, to the marriage.
ch of Samuel and Barbara inc:
-Daisy Pea 1888-1975/OR m: Ralph Becket, Frank Shively, James Charlton
-William Burton "Bert" 1891-1972 m: Martha
As of 1925 Samuel had 3 sons and 4 daughters living.
Samuel and Jennie are in Cass Co MO 1870, and in Jackson OR 1880 with ch: Mabel, Annie R., Ella G. and John B. Samuel is shown as a Sheep Herder.
Jennie died 1884; Samuel remarried to Barbara 1887.
Samuel and Barbara are in Cass Co MO. 1900, in Bates Co MO. 1910, and in Cass Co MO. in home of son and family, William "Bert" McFerrin in 1920.
Barbara died between 1920-1925, when Samuel appears in Kansas 1925 census, age 81/widower, in home of son and family, William Burton McFerrin. In 1930 he is in NE in home of dau and husband, Mabel and Willis Hamby.
Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: Barbara C Reed
Marriage Date: 29 Sep 1887
Marriage Location: Clinton, Henry, Missouri
Spouse Name: Samuel B Mc Ferrin
Samuel Burton McFerrin served in the Army of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. He served first in the 8th Battalion Missouri Infantry (State Guard). He also served as a Sergeant assigned to Company H, 9th Missouri Infantry, Confederate States of America. He and his father were at Lone Jack. As a member of the 9th Missouri Confederate Infantry he fought against Banks on the Red River, and against Steele in the Camden Expedition.
A Brief History of the Life of Samuel Burton McFerrin
I was the eldest child of Jackson Benton and Elizabeth McFerrinan was born February 9, 1844 in Cass County, Missouri on a farm 8 miles south of Harrisonville. My parents came from Rutherford County, Tennessee about the year 1832. There being no public schools in Missouri in those early days, opportunities for an education were very meager. Subscription schools where the three studies reading, writing and arithmetic were about all that was taught. Webster's Blue Book Speller, McGuffey's Reader and Pikes or Rays Arithmetic were considered about all the books necessary. For reading they used the New Testament. Under those conditions it could not be expected that the pupils should attain a very high education. I should state that writing was acquired by the us of goose quills pens and with poke berry ink. However, notwithstanding all these handicaps and only a 3 months length of school a year taught in a log school house with sticks and mud chimney and slit log benches to sit on and a log cut from the wall with thin muslin tacked over the space to let in light and to keep the wind and cold out. For the writing desk a slab was put under this window supported by pins put in the wall. Even under these rude conditions I acquired a very fair handwriting, a good knowledge of mathematics and became very proficient in Orthography. When I was about 17 years of age, my father aimed to have sent me off to college. But the war was coming in that year deprived me of a college course. When the horrors of war came upon our quiet and peace home, all that of college or school were past. My father being most brutally assasinated, our home burned to ashes, my mother, little sisters and baby brother thrown out into the snow storm on January 7th (midnight) 1863. And I had to flee for my life and leave my dear mother and her babies to their fate. And it was sure a hard fate. With no one to protect or help her sufferings and hardships that faithful Christian mother endured would heart rending to attempt to describe. And I shall not attempt to describe all they endured. One member of the family, a girl of 14 years, died from the exposure and hardships following the destruction of our home. But somehow they managed to survive until the close of the war. After the close of the war, I returned and hunted for my mother and sisters. They had been compelled to leave the county under the infamous Order No. 11. As many others has to do. I found them in St. Clair County where they had sought refuge from violence and persecution. To shorten
my story suffice it to say, I moved them back to what had once been a happy Christian home. But alas, little remained except ashes and a chimney to mark the spot where that happy home had been. Where I and my sisters and brother were born and where we had spent our happy childhood days. We had to begin all over again to build from the ground up. Those were hard days. But by hard work we got the farm fenced again, a house built. When the public administration sold our home by order of the court to satisfy false and unjust claims (as I believe they were) that came up against the estate consisting of 340 acres of land. Besides that the administration got away with some ten thousand dollars and notes being loaned money. They would not permit my mother to administer on my father's estate and even sold the land that had been sat off as my mother's dower. The parties guilty of these crimes were people who we had known and befriended before the war. Some had been my boyhood associated and school mates. Led on by Kansas Jayhawkers and thieves and murderers. I want to leave on record that these atrocities and murders were perpetrated by members of Col. Newgint's Regimental. Made up in Cass and Bates Counties. That they were in service of the Federal Government receiving pay and their equipment from the Lincoln Government. That their principal business at that time seemed to be in robbing and burning homes, frightening mothers and little children and murdering old men that were staying at home trying to care for their families and little helpless children. And these crimes were committed under the .... I am now an old man nearing my 82nd birthday. Father and mother and sisters have passed on. My brother and I are all that remains of that once happy but unfortunate Christian family. And we must shortly follow them to that country from whince no traveller ner returns. I have 7 children living, three sons and four daughters and a number of grandchildren and about 12 great-grandchildren at this date October 5, 1925.
Samuel Burton McFerrin
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m1: Jency "Jennie" E. Williams June 13 1869, Cass Co MO. Jennie was about 14 yrs old.
ch inc:
-Mabel abt 1869- m: Willis Hamby
-Willie T. 1873-1874
-Infant dau b/d 1874
-Annie Rose 1875-1959 m: James William Higgins
-Bertie 1876-1877
-Ella G. abt 1877-
-John Burton 1880-1932/NE #87411942
-Isaac Jackson May 30 1882- m: Emma Louise, living in NE 1930, 1940.
m2: Mrs. Barbara Catherine (Barnhart) Reed, in 1887, Henry Co. MO., who brought children, John, Virginia, Everett, Andrew and Henry Reed, to the marriage.
ch of Samuel and Barbara inc:
-Daisy Pea 1888-1975/OR m: Ralph Becket, Frank Shively, James Charlton
-William Burton "Bert" 1891-1972 m: Martha
As of 1925 Samuel had 3 sons and 4 daughters living.
Samuel and Jennie are in Cass Co MO 1870, and in Jackson OR 1880 with ch: Mabel, Annie R., Ella G. and John B. Samuel is shown as a Sheep Herder.
Jennie died 1884; Samuel remarried to Barbara 1887.
Samuel and Barbara are in Cass Co MO. 1900, in Bates Co MO. 1910, and in Cass Co MO. in home of son and family, William "Bert" McFerrin in 1920.
Barbara died between 1920-1925, when Samuel appears in Kansas 1925 census, age 81/widower, in home of son and family, William Burton McFerrin. In 1930 he is in NE in home of dau and husband, Mabel and Willis Hamby.
Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: Barbara C Reed
Marriage Date: 29 Sep 1887
Marriage Location: Clinton, Henry, Missouri
Spouse Name: Samuel B Mc Ferrin
Samuel Burton McFerrin lived with his parents and siblings on Eight Mile Creek.
Samuel Burton McFerrin served in the Army of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. He served first in the 8th Battalion Missouri Infantry (State Guard). He also served as a Sergeant assigned to Company H, 9th Missouri Infantry, Confederate States of America. He and his father were at Lone Jack. As a member of the 9th Missouri Confederate Infantry he fought against Banks on the Red River, and against Steele in the Camden Expedition.
A Brief History of the Life of Samuel Burton McFerrin
I was the eldest child of Jackson Benton and Elizabeth McFerrinan was born February 9, 1844 in Cass County, Missouri on a farm 8 miles south of Harrisonville. My parents came from Rutherford County, Tennessee about the year 1832. There being no public schools in Missouri in those early days, opportunities for an education were very meager. Subscription schools where the three studies reading, writing and arithmetic were about all that was taught. Webster's Blue Book Speller, McGuffey's Reader and Pikes or Rays Arithmetic were considered about all the books necessary. For reading they used the New Testament. Under those conditions it could not be expected that the pupils should attain a very high education. I should state that writing was acquired by the us of goose quills pens and with poke berry ink. However, notwithstanding all these handicaps and only a 3 months length of school a year taught in a log school house with sticks and mud chimney and slit log benches to sit on and a log cut from the wall with thin muslin tacked over the space to let in light and to keep the wind and cold out. For the writing desk a slab was put under this window supported by pins put in the wall. Even under these rude conditions I acquired a very fair handwriting, a good knowledge of mathematics and became very proficient in Orthography. When I was about 17 years of age, my father aimed to have sent me off to college. But the war was coming in that year deprived me of a college course. When the horrors of war came upon our quiet and peace home, all that of college or school were past. My father being most brutally assasinated, our home burned to ashes, my mother, little sisters and baby brother thrown out into the snow storm on January 7th (midnight) 1863. And I had to flee for my life and leave my dear mother and her babies to their fate. And it was sure a hard fate. With no one to protect or help her sufferings and hardships that faithful Christian mother endured would heart rending to attempt to describe. And I shall not attempt to describe all they endured. One member of the family, a girl of 14 years, died from the exposure and hardships following the destruction of our home. But somehow they managed to survive until the close of the war. After the close of the war, I returned and hunted for my mother and sisters. They had been compelled to leave the county under the infamous Order No. 11. As many others has to do. I found them in St. Clair County where they had sought refuge from violence and persecution. To shorten
my story suffice it to say, I moved them back to what had once been a happy Christian home. But alas, little remained except ashes and a chimney to mark the spot where that happy home had been. Where I and my sisters and brother were born and where we had spent our happy childhood days. We had to begin all over again to build from the ground up. Those were hard days. But by hard work we got the farm fenced again, a house built. When the public administration sold our home by order of the court to satisfy false and unjust claims (as I believe they were) that came up against the estate consisting of 340 acres of land. Besides that the administration got away with some ten thousand dollars and notes being loaned money. They would not permit my mother to administer on my father's estate and even sold the land that had been sat off as my mother's dower. The parties guilty of these crimes were people who we had known and befriended before the war. Some had been my boyhood associated and school mates. Led on by Kansas Jayhawkers and thieves and murderers. I want to leave on record that these atrocities and murders were perpetrated by members of Col. Newgint's Regimental. Made up in Cass and Bates Counties. That they were in service of the Federal Government receiving pay and their equipment from the Lincoln Government. That their principal business at that time seemed to be in robbing and burning homes, frightening mothers and little children and murdering old men that were staying at home trying to care for their families and little helpless children. And these crimes were committed under the .... I am now an old man nearing my 82nd birthday. Father and mother and sisters have passed on. My brother and I are all that remains of that once happy but unfortunate Christian family. And we must shortly follow them to that country from whince no traveller ner returns. I have 7 children living, three sons and four daughters and a number of grandchildren and about 12 great-grandchildren at this date October 5, 1925.
Samuel Burton McFerrin
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m1: Jency "Jennie" E. Williams June 13 1869, Cass Co MO. Jennie was about 14 yrs old.
ch inc:
-Mabel abt 1869- m: Willis Hamby
-Willie T. 1873-1874
-Infant dau b/d 1874
-Annie Rose 1875-1959 m: James William Higgins
-Bertie 1876-1877
-Ella G. abt 1877-
-John Burton 1880-1932/NE #87411942
-Isaac Jackson May 30 1882- m: Emma Louise, living in NE 1930, 1940.
m2: Mrs. Barbara Catherine (Barnhart) Reed, in 1887, Henry Co. MO., who brought children, John, Virginia, Everett, Andrew and Henry Reed, to the marriage.
ch of Samuel and Barbara inc:
-Daisy Pea 1888-1975/OR m: Ralph Becket, Frank Shively, James Charlton
-William Burton "Bert" 1891-1972 m: Martha
As of 1925 Samuel had 3 sons and 4 daughters living.
Samuel and Jennie are in Cass Co MO 1870, and in Jackson OR 1880 with ch: Mabel, Annie R., Ella G. and John B. Samuel is shown as a Sheep Herder.
Jennie died 1884; Samuel remarried to Barbara 1887.
Samuel and Barbara are in Cass Co MO. 1900, in Bates Co MO. 1910, and in Cass Co MO. in home of son and family, William "Bert" McFerrin in 1920.
Barbara died between 1920-1925, when Samuel appears in Kansas 1925 census, age 81/widower, in home of son and family, William Burton McFerrin. In 1930 he is in NE in home of dau and husband, Mabel and Willis Hamby.
Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: Barbara C Reed
Marriage Date: 29 Sep 1887
Marriage Location: Clinton, Henry, Missouri
Spouse Name: Samuel B Mc Ferrin
Samuel Burton McFerrin served in the Army of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. He served first in the 8th Battalion Missouri Infantry (State Guard). He also served as a Sergeant assigned to Company H, 9th Missouri Infantry, Confederate States of America. He and his father were at Lone Jack. As a member of the 9th Missouri Confederate Infantry he fought against Banks on the Red River, and against Steele in the Camden Expedition.
A Brief History of the Life of Samuel Burton McFerrin
I was the eldest child of Jackson Benton and Elizabeth McFerrinan was born February 9, 1844 in Cass County, Missouri on a farm 8 miles south of Harrisonville. My parents came from Rutherford County, Tennessee about the year 1832. There being no public schools in Missouri in those early days, opportunities for an education were very meager. Subscription schools where the three studies reading, writing and arithmetic were about all that was taught. Webster's Blue Book Speller, McGuffey's Reader and Pikes or Rays Arithmetic were considered about all the books necessary. For reading they used the New Testament. Under those conditions it could not be expected that the pupils should attain a very high education. I should state that writing was acquired by the us of goose quills pens and with poke berry ink. However, notwithstanding all these handicaps and only a 3 months length of school a year taught in a log school house with sticks and mud chimney and slit log benches to sit on and a log cut from the wall with thin muslin tacked over the space to let in light and to keep the wind and cold out. For the writing desk a slab was put under this window supported by pins put in the wall. Even under these rude conditions I acquired a very fair handwriting, a good knowledge of mathematics and became very proficient in Orthography. When I was about 17 years of age, my father aimed to have sent me off to college. But the war was coming in that year deprived me of a college course. When the horrors of war came upon our quiet and peace home, all that of college or school were past. My father being most brutally assasinated, our home burned to ashes, my mother, little sisters and baby brother thrown out into the snow storm on January 7th (midnight) 1863. And I had to flee for my life and leave my dear mother and her babies to their fate. And it was sure a hard fate. With no one to protect or help her sufferings and hardships that faithful Christian mother endured would heart rending to attempt to describe. And I shall not attempt to describe all they endured. One member of the family, a girl of 14 years, died from the exposure and hardships following the destruction of our home. But somehow they managed to survive until the close of the war. After the close of the war, I returned and hunted for my mother and sisters. They had been compelled to leave the county under the infamous Order No. 11. As many others has to do. I found them in St. Clair County where they had sought refuge from violence and persecution. To shorten
my story suffice it to say, I moved them back to what had once been a happy Christian home. But alas, little remained except ashes and a chimney to mark the spot where that happy home had been. Where I and my sisters and brother were born and where we had spent our happy childhood days. We had to begin all over again to build from the ground up. Those were hard days. But by hard work we got the farm fenced again, a house built. When the public administration sold our home by order of the court to satisfy false and unjust claims (as I believe they were) that came up against the estate consisting of 340 acres of land. Besides that the administration got away with some ten thousand dollars and notes being loaned money. They would not permit my mother to administer on my father's estate and even sold the land that had been sat off as my mother's dower. The parties guilty of these crimes were people who we had known and befriended before the war. Some had been my boyhood associated and school mates. Led on by Kansas Jayhawkers and thieves and murderers. I want to leave on record that these atrocities and murders were perpetrated by members of Col. Newgint's Regimental. Made up in Cass and Bates Counties. That they were in service of the Federal Government receiving pay and their equipment from the Lincoln Government. That their principal business at that time seemed to be in robbing and burning homes, frightening mothers and little children and murdering old men that were staying at home trying to care for their families and little helpless children. And these crimes were committed under the .... I am now an old man nearing my 82nd birthday. Father and mother and sisters have passed on. My brother and I are all that remains of that once happy but unfortunate Christian family. And we must shortly follow them to that country from whince no traveller ner returns. I have 7 children living, three sons and four daughters and a number of grandchildren and about 12 great-grandchildren at this date October 5, 1925.
Samuel Burton McFerrin
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m1: Jency "Jennie" E. Williams June 13 1869, Cass Co MO. Jennie was about 14 yrs old.
ch inc:
-Mabel abt 1869- m: Willis Hamby
-Willie T. 1873-1874
-Infant dau b/d 1874
-Annie Rose 1875-1959 m: James William Higgins
-Bertie 1876-1877
-Ella G. abt 1877-
-John Burton 1880-1932/NE #87411942
-Isaac Jackson May 30 1882- m: Emma Louise, living in NE 1930, 1940.
m2: Mrs. Barbara Catherine (Barnhart) Reed, in 1887, Henry Co. MO., who brought children, John, Virginia, Everett, Andrew and Henry Reed, to the marriage.
ch of Samuel and Barbara inc:
-Daisy Pea 1888-1975/OR m: Ralph Becket, Frank Shively, James Charlton
-William Burton "Bert" 1891-1972 m: Martha
As of 1925 Samuel had 3 sons and 4 daughters living.
Samuel and Jennie are in Cass Co MO 1870, and in Jackson OR 1880 with ch: Mabel, Annie R., Ella G. and John B. Samuel is shown as a Sheep Herder.
Jennie died 1884; Samuel remarried to Barbara 1887.
Samuel and Barbara are in Cass Co MO. 1900, in Bates Co MO. 1910, and in Cass Co MO. in home of son and family, William "Bert" McFerrin in 1920.
Barbara died between 1920-1925, when Samuel appears in Kansas 1925 census, age 81/widower, in home of son and family, William Burton McFerrin. In 1930 he is in NE in home of dau and husband, Mabel and Willis Hamby.
Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: Barbara C Reed
Marriage Date: 29 Sep 1887
Marriage Location: Clinton, Henry, Missouri
Spouse Name: Samuel B Mc Ferrin
Family Members
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Mabel Claire McFerrin Hanby
1870–1950
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Willie T. McFerrin
1873–1874
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Infant Girl McFerrin
1874–1874
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Anna Rose McFerrin Higgins
1875–1959
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Bertie McFerrin
1876–1877
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Grace Evelyn McFerrin Doss
1878–1932
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John Burton McFerrin
1880–1932
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Daisy Pea McFerrin Charlton
1888–1975
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William Burton "Willie" McFerrin
1891–1972
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