Daughter of William and Lousinda "Lucy" King.
Married Edward James Chastain on October 27, 1853, in Tishomingo County, Mississippi.
James and Louisa had 4 children:
Pleamon Alexander Chastain - born 1856
Henry Monroe Chastain - born 1860
Missouri Frances "Fannie" Chastain Hickerson - born 1865
William Chastain - born 1870
The paternity of Missouri Frances Chastain and William Chastain is in question, due to the severe disease and paralysis James suffered during the last 16 years of his life. He developed scurvy in the Spring of 1864 and unknowingly contracted syphilis in the fall of 1863 when he was inoculated against smallpox, mandated by an army doctor during service in the Civil War. It was later determined James contracted syphilis through a lancet that had been used on another soldier who had syphilis. Because penicillin had not yet been developed, there was no treatment for syphilis and James was pensioned because of the horrible ulcers and paralysis that resulted from this disease. All of this information is documented in James Chastain's pension file, located at the National Archives and Records Administration. For further reading, see this article: https://www.passporthealthusa.com/2017/02/smallpox-vaccines-and-spreading-syphilis-in-the-civil-war/
In addition, DNA evidence of descendants of Missouri Frances Chastain support that she had a different father from James Chastain. DNA evidence does support that Louisa King was the mother of Missouri Frances Chastain.
Louisa is listed as a witness to the facts in a petition her husband, James, filed with the U.S. Southern Claims Commission on January 11, 1873, to claim $2,530 for reimbursement of 700 bushels of corn, horses & cows taken for use by the Union Army in 1863-64 during the Civil War, while living in Crawford County, Arkansas. Louisa can be found in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 federal census. In her husband's military pension file, it states Louisa died in October, 1873 in Franklin County, Arkansas. Her exact burial location is unknown.
Married Edward James Chastain on October 27, 1853, in Tishomingo County, Mississippi.
James and Louisa had 4 children:
Pleamon Alexander Chastain - born 1856
Henry Monroe Chastain - born 1860
Missouri Frances "Fannie" Chastain Hickerson - born 1865
William Chastain - born 1870
The paternity of Missouri Frances Chastain and William Chastain is in question, due to the severe disease and paralysis James suffered during the last 16 years of his life. He developed scurvy in the Spring of 1864 and unknowingly contracted syphilis in the fall of 1863 when he was inoculated against smallpox, mandated by an army doctor during service in the Civil War. It was later determined James contracted syphilis through a lancet that had been used on another soldier who had syphilis. Because penicillin had not yet been developed, there was no treatment for syphilis and James was pensioned because of the horrible ulcers and paralysis that resulted from this disease. All of this information is documented in James Chastain's pension file, located at the National Archives and Records Administration. For further reading, see this article: https://www.passporthealthusa.com/2017/02/smallpox-vaccines-and-spreading-syphilis-in-the-civil-war/
In addition, DNA evidence of descendants of Missouri Frances Chastain support that she had a different father from James Chastain. DNA evidence does support that Louisa King was the mother of Missouri Frances Chastain.
Louisa is listed as a witness to the facts in a petition her husband, James, filed with the U.S. Southern Claims Commission on January 11, 1873, to claim $2,530 for reimbursement of 700 bushels of corn, horses & cows taken for use by the Union Army in 1863-64 during the Civil War, while living in Crawford County, Arkansas. Louisa can be found in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 federal census. In her husband's military pension file, it states Louisa died in October, 1873 in Franklin County, Arkansas. Her exact burial location is unknown.
Daughter of William and Lousinda "Lucy" King.
Married Edward James Chastain on October 27, 1853, in Tishomingo County, Mississippi.
James and Louisa had 4 children:
Pleamon Alexander Chastain - born 1856
Henry Monroe Chastain - born 1860
Missouri Frances "Fannie" Chastain Hickerson - born 1865
William Chastain - born 1870
The paternity of Missouri Frances Chastain and William Chastain is in question, due to the severe disease and paralysis James suffered during the last 16 years of his life. He developed scurvy in the Spring of 1864 and unknowingly contracted syphilis in the fall of 1863 when he was inoculated against smallpox, mandated by an army doctor during service in the Civil War. It was later determined James contracted syphilis through a lancet that had been used on another soldier who had syphilis. Because penicillin had not yet been developed, there was no treatment for syphilis and James was pensioned because of the horrible ulcers and paralysis that resulted from this disease. All of this information is documented in James Chastain's pension file, located at the National Archives and Records Administration. For further reading, see this article: https://www.passporthealthusa.com/2017/02/smallpox-vaccines-and-spreading-syphilis-in-the-civil-war/
In addition, DNA evidence of descendants of Missouri Frances Chastain support that she had a different father from James Chastain. DNA evidence does support that Louisa King was the mother of Missouri Frances Chastain.
Louisa is listed as a witness to the facts in a petition her husband, James, filed with the U.S. Southern Claims Commission on January 11, 1873, to claim $2,530 for reimbursement of 700 bushels of corn, horses & cows taken for use by the Union Army in 1863-64 during the Civil War, while living in Crawford County, Arkansas. Louisa can be found in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 federal census. In her husband's military pension file, it states Louisa died in October, 1873 in Franklin County, Arkansas. Her exact burial location is unknown.
Married Edward James Chastain on October 27, 1853, in Tishomingo County, Mississippi.
James and Louisa had 4 children:
Pleamon Alexander Chastain - born 1856
Henry Monroe Chastain - born 1860
Missouri Frances "Fannie" Chastain Hickerson - born 1865
William Chastain - born 1870
The paternity of Missouri Frances Chastain and William Chastain is in question, due to the severe disease and paralysis James suffered during the last 16 years of his life. He developed scurvy in the Spring of 1864 and unknowingly contracted syphilis in the fall of 1863 when he was inoculated against smallpox, mandated by an army doctor during service in the Civil War. It was later determined James contracted syphilis through a lancet that had been used on another soldier who had syphilis. Because penicillin had not yet been developed, there was no treatment for syphilis and James was pensioned because of the horrible ulcers and paralysis that resulted from this disease. All of this information is documented in James Chastain's pension file, located at the National Archives and Records Administration. For further reading, see this article: https://www.passporthealthusa.com/2017/02/smallpox-vaccines-and-spreading-syphilis-in-the-civil-war/
In addition, DNA evidence of descendants of Missouri Frances Chastain support that she had a different father from James Chastain. DNA evidence does support that Louisa King was the mother of Missouri Frances Chastain.
Louisa is listed as a witness to the facts in a petition her husband, James, filed with the U.S. Southern Claims Commission on January 11, 1873, to claim $2,530 for reimbursement of 700 bushels of corn, horses & cows taken for use by the Union Army in 1863-64 during the Civil War, while living in Crawford County, Arkansas. Louisa can be found in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 federal census. In her husband's military pension file, it states Louisa died in October, 1873 in Franklin County, Arkansas. Her exact burial location is unknown.
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