Aug 19, 1864:
Five Days, or the Uncertainty of Human Affairs in North-west Mo.
On Sabbath last – the 7th – Mr. Columbus Whitlock, a quiet and peaceable citize
of this county, formerly in service in the E.M.M., being engaged to be married
at 3 o'clock of that day, to Miss Angeline J. Cox, of Platte county, left his
residence for that purpose, in company with his sister-in-law; and having met
the minister who was to marry him, and other friends – but from some cause he
was unavoidably delayed, so that he did not arrive at the residence of Mr. Cox
until ten minutes past 5 o'clock. The company had given him out, and had eaten
supper and started home; his appearance however, set things right again, and he
was married at twenty minutes after 5 o'clock.
As he and his lady were going home the next day, they were taken prisoners by
bushwhackers, but released soon after. On Wednesday morning he started to
Smithville for a physician for his mother, and was taken prisoner again by the
bushwhackers, detained awhile and then shot with two or three balls, causing
immediate death. He was found and taken to Smithville, and on the following
day he was conveyed by a procession of ladies and an escort of soldiers to the
graveyard at Mrs. Rollins' where he was placed in his final resting place. He
leave his young widow together with three small children (by a former wife) to
mourn his loss – his sad untimely fate.
Thus it is with North-West Missouri. Unhappy people! How long shall such be
your condition. Vie Infelix.
Aug 19, 1864:
Five Days, or the Uncertainty of Human Affairs in North-west Mo.
On Sabbath last – the 7th – Mr. Columbus Whitlock, a quiet and peaceable citize
of this county, formerly in service in the E.M.M., being engaged to be married
at 3 o'clock of that day, to Miss Angeline J. Cox, of Platte county, left his
residence for that purpose, in company with his sister-in-law; and having met
the minister who was to marry him, and other friends – but from some cause he
was unavoidably delayed, so that he did not arrive at the residence of Mr. Cox
until ten minutes past 5 o'clock. The company had given him out, and had eaten
supper and started home; his appearance however, set things right again, and he
was married at twenty minutes after 5 o'clock.
As he and his lady were going home the next day, they were taken prisoners by
bushwhackers, but released soon after. On Wednesday morning he started to
Smithville for a physician for his mother, and was taken prisoner again by the
bushwhackers, detained awhile and then shot with two or three balls, causing
immediate death. He was found and taken to Smithville, and on the following
day he was conveyed by a procession of ladies and an escort of soldiers to the
graveyard at Mrs. Rollins' where he was placed in his final resting place. He
leave his young widow together with three small children (by a former wife) to
mourn his loss – his sad untimely fate.
Thus it is with North-West Missouri. Unhappy people! How long shall such be
your condition. Vie Infelix.
Gravesite Details
Son of Tarlton Whitlock and Winnefred Dunlap Whitlock
Family Members
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William Whitlock
1810–1848
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Preston William Whitlock
1815–1875
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Judith Whitlock Hamblen
1816–1881
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James Whitlock
1818–1892
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Mitchell Whitlock
1822–1898
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John Harrison Whitlock
1824–1891
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Mary Ann Whitlock Morgan
1827–1899
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Lorenzo Randolph Whitlock
1828–1898
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William O. Morgan
1829–1899
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Martha Jane Whitlock Hagedorn
1830–1911
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Alexandria Hamilton "Alexander" Whitlock
1834–1917
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