Son of Benjamin Franklin Short and Sarah Catherine Rogers of Fauquier Co., Virginia. Married Louisa Isabel (Fannie) Parks 6 Oct. 1874 in California, Moniteau Co., Missouri. They had one child that I know of, William Franklin Short. He married second, Katherine Virgina (Kate) Bradford before 1920. I have not yet found a marriage record.
Family tradition has it that Robert Y. Short enlisted in the Confederacy in the Civil War when he was 15, 1862. He listed his father B.F. Shortt as a reference. Benjamin Franklin Short died in 1854. He was a private in Capt. Pegram's Co. Virginia Light Artilary. When Robert enlisted, his family lived in Fauquier County, which was close to where the Civil War started. Fauquier Co., VA suffered 4 years of ransacking and destruction from the Federals during the civil war. Tradition has it that the family migrated to Missouri after the Civil War. In the 1880 census, he is listed as a Deputy Sheriff in Moniteau Co., MO. He was my great grandfather, George Thomas Short's brother...Tom M. Short II
Family tradition has it that Robert Y. Short enlisted in the Confederacy in the Civil War when he was 15, 1862. He listed his father B.F. Shortt as a reference. Benjamin Franklin Short died in 1854. He was a private in Capt. Pegram's Co. Virginia Light Artilary. When Robert enlisted, his family lived in Fauquier County, which was close to where the Civil War started. Fauquier Co., VA suffered 4 years of ransacking and destruction from the Federals during the civil war. Tradition has it that the family migrated to Missouri after the Civil War. In the 1880 census, he is listed as a Deputy Sheriff in Moniteau Co., MO. He was my great grandfather, George Thomas Short's brother...Tom M. Short II
Son of Benjamin Franklin Short and Sarah Catherine Rogers of Fauquier Co., Virginia. Married Louisa Isabel (Fannie) Parks 6 Oct. 1874 in California, Moniteau Co., Missouri. They had one child that I know of, William Franklin Short. He married second, Katherine Virgina (Kate) Bradford before 1920. I have not yet found a marriage record.
Family tradition has it that Robert Y. Short enlisted in the Confederacy in the Civil War when he was 15, 1862. He listed his father B.F. Shortt as a reference. Benjamin Franklin Short died in 1854. He was a private in Capt. Pegram's Co. Virginia Light Artilary. When Robert enlisted, his family lived in Fauquier County, which was close to where the Civil War started. Fauquier Co., VA suffered 4 years of ransacking and destruction from the Federals during the civil war. Tradition has it that the family migrated to Missouri after the Civil War. In the 1880 census, he is listed as a Deputy Sheriff in Moniteau Co., MO. He was my great grandfather, George Thomas Short's brother...Tom M. Short II
Family tradition has it that Robert Y. Short enlisted in the Confederacy in the Civil War when he was 15, 1862. He listed his father B.F. Shortt as a reference. Benjamin Franklin Short died in 1854. He was a private in Capt. Pegram's Co. Virginia Light Artilary. When Robert enlisted, his family lived in Fauquier County, which was close to where the Civil War started. Fauquier Co., VA suffered 4 years of ransacking and destruction from the Federals during the civil war. Tradition has it that the family migrated to Missouri after the Civil War. In the 1880 census, he is listed as a Deputy Sheriff in Moniteau Co., MO. He was my great grandfather, George Thomas Short's brother...Tom M. Short II
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