Thomas Linville, Jr., more accurately described as Thomas Linville IV, was born in 1790 in North Carolina, the son and fourth child of Thomas Linville III and Jemimah Campbell. He married Charity Watkins in 1824 in Howard County, Missouri (Thomas's second marriage). The marriage was recorded in Howard Co, Missouri, but apparently did not take place there. He died on 31 Oct 1833 at Kaw Township, Jackson County, Missouri, in the opening skirmish of the "Battle of Mormons" that ran intermittently from 1833 to 1838 and ended in the complete expulsion of Mormon settlers from Missouri. Several of Thomas' brothers and cousins were ministers. They generally did not approve of the Mormon purge or of Thomas's actions in it.
[Excerpt from narratives of George White Pitkin and Amanda Eggleston in Ancestry.com]
Upon their arrival in Jackson County, the Pitkins settled in the Whitmer Settlement in Kaw Township. George built a log house near about ten other families, mostly Whitmers. There Amanda gave birth to a daughter, Martha, on 27 October 1832. Some of the Missouri citizens felt threatened by the arrival of the Mormons and trouble began. On 4 November 1833, about ten at night, a mob attacked the Whitmer village and began beating some of the men and tearing down houses. Amanda, with a one year old baby, was surely petrified. Several families gathered at the Peter Whitmer, Sr. house near the Pitkins. Lydia Whiting recalled some of the events of that frightful night.
"Their first attack was to the door and window while some mounted the house and began to throw off the roof while they were throwing stones and clubs in at every chance they could get. The women who had crawled into the chamber with their children began to scream and beg for mercy while these barbarous ruffians in the shape of human beings were whipping and hounding their husbands and fathers with clubs and stones. All got from the house and made for the woods as fast as possible, and frightened nearly out of their senses." [Mormon Redress Petitions #447]
Evidently there was some defense: Thomas Linville, Jr. reportedly was killed in this action.
[Excerpt from narratives of George White Pitkin and Amanda Eggleston in Ancestry.com]
Upon their arrival in Jackson County, the Pitkins settled in the Whitmer Settlement in Kaw Township. George built a log house near about ten other families, mostly Whitmers. There Amanda gave birth to a daughter, Martha, on 27 October 1832. Some of the Missouri citizens felt threatened by the arrival of the Mormons and trouble began. On 4 November 1833, about ten at night, a mob attacked the Whitmer village and began beating some of the men and tearing down houses. Amanda, with a one year old baby, was surely petrified. Several families gathered at the Peter Whitmer, Sr. house near the Pitkins. Lydia Whiting recalled some of the events of that frightful night.
"Their first attack was to the door and window while some mounted the house and began to throw off the roof while they were throwing stones and clubs in at every chance they could get. The women who had crawled into the chamber with their children began to scream and beg for mercy while these barbarous ruffians in the shape of human beings were whipping and hounding their husbands and fathers with clubs and stones. All got from the house and made for the woods as fast as possible, and frightened nearly out of their senses." [Mormon Redress Petitions #447]
Evidently there was some defense: Thomas Linville, Jr. reportedly was killed in this action.
Thomas Linville, Jr., more accurately described as Thomas Linville IV, was born in 1790 in North Carolina, the son and fourth child of Thomas Linville III and Jemimah Campbell. He married Charity Watkins in 1824 in Howard County, Missouri (Thomas's second marriage). The marriage was recorded in Howard Co, Missouri, but apparently did not take place there. He died on 31 Oct 1833 at Kaw Township, Jackson County, Missouri, in the opening skirmish of the "Battle of Mormons" that ran intermittently from 1833 to 1838 and ended in the complete expulsion of Mormon settlers from Missouri. Several of Thomas' brothers and cousins were ministers. They generally did not approve of the Mormon purge or of Thomas's actions in it.
[Excerpt from narratives of George White Pitkin and Amanda Eggleston in Ancestry.com]
Upon their arrival in Jackson County, the Pitkins settled in the Whitmer Settlement in Kaw Township. George built a log house near about ten other families, mostly Whitmers. There Amanda gave birth to a daughter, Martha, on 27 October 1832. Some of the Missouri citizens felt threatened by the arrival of the Mormons and trouble began. On 4 November 1833, about ten at night, a mob attacked the Whitmer village and began beating some of the men and tearing down houses. Amanda, with a one year old baby, was surely petrified. Several families gathered at the Peter Whitmer, Sr. house near the Pitkins. Lydia Whiting recalled some of the events of that frightful night.
"Their first attack was to the door and window while some mounted the house and began to throw off the roof while they were throwing stones and clubs in at every chance they could get. The women who had crawled into the chamber with their children began to scream and beg for mercy while these barbarous ruffians in the shape of human beings were whipping and hounding their husbands and fathers with clubs and stones. All got from the house and made for the woods as fast as possible, and frightened nearly out of their senses." [Mormon Redress Petitions #447]
Evidently there was some defense: Thomas Linville, Jr. reportedly was killed in this action.
[Excerpt from narratives of George White Pitkin and Amanda Eggleston in Ancestry.com]
Upon their arrival in Jackson County, the Pitkins settled in the Whitmer Settlement in Kaw Township. George built a log house near about ten other families, mostly Whitmers. There Amanda gave birth to a daughter, Martha, on 27 October 1832. Some of the Missouri citizens felt threatened by the arrival of the Mormons and trouble began. On 4 November 1833, about ten at night, a mob attacked the Whitmer village and began beating some of the men and tearing down houses. Amanda, with a one year old baby, was surely petrified. Several families gathered at the Peter Whitmer, Sr. house near the Pitkins. Lydia Whiting recalled some of the events of that frightful night.
"Their first attack was to the door and window while some mounted the house and began to throw off the roof while they were throwing stones and clubs in at every chance they could get. The women who had crawled into the chamber with their children began to scream and beg for mercy while these barbarous ruffians in the shape of human beings were whipping and hounding their husbands and fathers with clubs and stones. All got from the house and made for the woods as fast as possible, and frightened nearly out of their senses." [Mormon Redress Petitions #447]
Evidently there was some defense: Thomas Linville, Jr. reportedly was killed in this action.
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