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REPORT OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, CIVIL WAR, VOL I UNION

ROLL OF COMPANY M, 10TH KENTUCKY VOLUNTEER CAVALRY (SERVED WITH BROTHER JACKSON DENTON, WILLIAM CLICK, AND EDWARD GRIEF RAGSDALE, brother in law of Jackson Denton) (BOOK AT IA. GENE. LIB)

ENLISTED 3 NOV 1862 MUSTERED IN 5 NOV 1862 LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY
MUSTERED OUT 17 SEP 1863 MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY

MAY 1866 CIRCUIT COURT MONROE COUNTY, TENNESSEE CASE #172 WILLIAM CLICK, JR., CHARLES AND JOHN DENTON, AND PINK GENRY, OF MONROE CO., LABORERS, FOR MURDER ON 10 APRIL 1864 OF PATRICK TROTTER BY SHOOTING; MARY TROTTER IS PROSECUTRIX.INDICTED MAY, 1866 MONROE CO. WILLIAM CLICK AND DENTON BOYS WERE COUSINS.

TRIAL WAS HELD IN MARYVILLE, BLOUNT CO. TENNESSEE. WAS CONVICTED OF 2ND DEGREE MURDER WITH 10 YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. FILED APPEAL AT TENN. SUPREME COURT. CONVICTION OVER TURNED THAT BLOUNT CO. HAD NO JURISDICTION. 1868-69 WAS TO BE TRIED IN MONROE CO.

1867 CHARLES & MELISSA BUILT A HOUSE ON 3 ACRES OF LAND GIVEN TO THEM BY MELISSA'S GRANDFATHER, SOLEN GLENN. SHE IS HEIR MENTIONED IN CODICIL OF SQUIRE SOLEN GLENN DATED 11 MAR 1867. PROBATED JAN 1871 MONROE CO. RECORD BOOK PG 381
"to granddaughter N.M. Denton and her children if she has any, three acres including house her husband O. Denton has just built."

1870 Census Monroe Co. Tennessee, Dist 16, pg 145, household #1, P.O. Bell Town
Chas Denton age 30 Tenn farmer
Malissa age 19 Tn
Elmer Clark age 20 Tn residing in household
living next door to Squire Glenn

SOLEN GLENN, NANCY MELISSA'S GRANDFATHER, PROVIDED SECURITY FOR CHARLES (PROBABLY IN MURDER TRIAL.

HE WAS IN MONROE COUNTY 29 APRIL 1872, WHEN HE GAVE AN ORAL STATEMENT TO THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION FOR CLAIM OF A MULE HE SUPPOSEDLY LOST.

Barker Files, McClung Library, Knoxville, Tenn
Charles Denton Horse Claim No. 1172
Hopewell Springs, Monroe County, Tennessee
Filed claim with the Southern claims commission on February 10, 1872 for the loss of a mule taken by Lt. James M. Giles of colonel Joseph Divine's Command on September 20, 1864 - $150.00
Proof:
The oral proof in support of the claim was taken at Madisonville on April 29, 1872 by Special Commissioner L.C. Houk (who was also United States Commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee)

The claimant, Charles Denton, said he was 33 years old and served in both Confederate and Union Armies, being first in Company C, 62nd Tennessee Infantry of the Rebel Army and then in Company M, Tenth Kentucky Cavalry of the Union Army.

Denton said that he was arrested in 1864 by authority of the United States for killing a rebel. (he gave no details)

Denton also testified that he was captured by rebels and taken to Haywood County, N.C., and tied up for execution and was shot once but broke the rope which bound him and escaped.

Denton said that he had two brothers, John and Jackson Denton who were both in the Union Army.

James M. Giles testified that Charles Denton was a loyal Union man during the war but Giles did not admit taking Denton's horse but said that while he was out on a scout with a squad from Company D, 3rd Tennessee Mounted Infantry, he met up with an officer named Betts from Patterson's Scouts and that Betts took Denton's horse.

That John Denton was riding the horse at the time and that Betts got on Denton's horse and rode him to Loudon, Tenn., where his command was camped in September, 1864.

John Denton, 28 years old, said that his brother's horse was taken at Hawkin's Mill, two miles from Hopewell Springs and 18 miles from Loudon and that Isaac Betts who was with James M. Giles took the horse from him and rode off.

Report:
Commissions of Claims reported this claim to Congress as disallowed stating that the evidence was unfavorable to claimant since he admitted going to Manassas, Va., for eight months with the Rebel Army in the spring of 1861, claiming he was conscripted but that no Rebel Conscript Law was in effect at the time and that he claimed he bought the horse in Kentucky but that same was branded U.S. and that in view of these facts they were not satisifed he was loyal to the Union OR owned the horse.

MONROE CO. TENN CHANCERY COURT RECORDS 1832 - 1878 BY REBA BAYLESS BOYER PG 174
RECORD BOOK PG 441 FILED 4 NOV 1872 (GONE FROM MONROE CO. TENN - HE MUST HAVE LEFT MONROE CO. BETWEEN APRIL 1872 AND 4 NOV 1872)

ELBERT DELASHMITT VS JOHN C. VAUGHN ET AL
S. S. GLEN HAS DIED LEAVING AS HIS ONLY HEIRS:
DOLLY M. WIFE OF REUBEN GILES;
NANCY M. WIFE OF CHARLES DENTON
MARTHA A WIFE OF GEORGE HOWARD
MARY L. HILL (ALL FOUR ARE FORMERLY DONOHOO)
DOLLY E AND SQUIRE T. GLEN, MINORS OF MONROE CO.
AND FRANCIS, SQUIRE T. , SARAH, AND GLEN ANNA DONOHOO MINORS OF TEXAS
IN NOV 1860 THE GILLILAND FARM ON LICK CREEK, MONROE CO WAS SOLD TO JOHN C. VAUGHN AND S. S. GLEN AS LANDS OF N. J. SPILLMAN & COMPANY
IN FEBRUARY 1861 VAUGHN AND GLEN SOLD SAME TO DELASHMITT BUT GAVE NO DEED. GLEN HAS DIED LEAVING HEIRS ABOVE.

******** DENTON HAS ABSCONDED

PG 128
RECORD BOOK PG 166 FILED 7 MAY 1866 DEBT
GUILFORD CANNON VS. DORCAS DENTON, EXE OF ALFRED DENTON, DECEASED ET AL

IN FEB 1864 CHARLES DENTON, A SON OF ALFRED AND DORCAS, ATTEMPTED TO PAY NOTE WITH CONFEDERATE MONEY.

JUNE 1868 CANNON MAKES OATH THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO HAVE TESTIMONY OF A. T. BURRISS, SON IN LAW OF ALFRED DENTON

PG 170
RECORD BOOK PG 418 FILED 28 MAR 1872
CHARLES DENTON VS. PEYTON HUDSON, WILLIAM R. WEBB ET AL

SUIT CONCERNS JUDGEMENTS - 1875 ISAAC LINDSEY IS ADMINISTRATOR OF CHARLES DENTON ESTATE

JUNE 1874, DEATH OF DENTON IS PROVEN.

WILLIAM WEBB IS FATHER OF WILLIAM R. MARY A. WEBB IS WIFE OF WILLIAM R.
SUIT COMPROMISED 1878.

Ref: On motion ISAAC LINDSEY was appointed administrator of CHARLES DENTON deceased. Thereupon came the aforesaid ISAAC LINDSEY into open court and entered into bond which is in the words and figures to wit

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS THAT WE, ISAAC LINDSEY, JOHNSTON W. HOWARD, AND JOHN LINDSEY are bound unto the State of Tennessee in the penalty of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS. Witness our hands this 7th day of June, 1875.

The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the above bound ISAAC LINDSEY has been appointed of CHARLES DENTON, deceased.

Now if the said ISAAC LINDSEY shall well and truly as such administrator perform all the duties which are or which may be required of him by law then this obligation shall be Void otherwise to remain in full force and virtue

ISAAC LINDSEY (SEAL)

J.W. HOWARD (SEAL)

JOHN LINDSEY (SEA)

And the said ISAAC LINDSEY was qualified as the law directs and Letters of Administration ordered to issue accordingly.

Ref: Monroe Co. Tennessee Record Book Monday June Term 1875 Page 547

RESEARCHED AND TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN WHITAKER

1880 District 16, Monroe, Tennessee
Source: FHL Film 1255272 National Archives Film T9-1272 Page 129D
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Milissey DENTON Self F W W 35 TNOcc: Keeping House Fa: TN Mo: TN
Margarett SKIDMORE Other F S W 13 TNOcc: Servant Fa: TN Mo: TN

MONROE CO. TENN DOCKET BOOK GUARDIANS & ADMINISTRATORS
7 JUN 1875 ISAAC LINDSEY, ADMINISTRATOR OF CHARLES DENTON ESTATE
$500 BOND BY JOHNSTON HOWARD (JOHN DENTON'S FATHER IN LAW)
AND JOHN LINDSEY

Tried and convicted of murder for killing Patrick Trotter with his brother John Denton and his cousin, William Reginald Click.

He supposedly ran from the law and died in Texas Co. Missouri where some of his siblings and aunt, Rachel Click Murr, were living.