ROSTER, STONE PRAIRIE HOME GUARD (BARRY COUNTY MISSOURI)
 
 
ROSTER, STONE PRAIRIE HOME GUARD
BARRY COUNTY, MISSOURI


NameRecord
Number
Discharge
Date
Notes
Officers
Captain John Sexton1200August 6, 1861(1)
1st Lieutenant Uriah P. Johnson736August 20, 1861(2) (3)
2nd Lieutenant Samuel R. Pannell1038August 20, 1861(2) (4)
Non-commissioned Officers
1st Sergeant John Ray1123August 11, 1861(5)
Sergeant Moses E. Banks51August 6, 1861(6)
Sergeant Robert C. Carson243August 20, 1861(7)
Enlisted Men, All with Rank of Private
Allen, Thomas11August 6, 1861(8)
Banks, Jacob50August 6, 1861(6)
Baxter, John82August 11, 1861(9)
Betterton, Lee77August 11, 1861(10)
Browning, Benjamin F.180August 20, 1861(11)
Bryant, Alex182August 6, 1861(12)
Cannon, William211August 20, 1861(2) (13)
Carlin, Amos212August 11, 1861(14)
Carlin, Asa213August 11, 1861(14)
Carlin, John W.214August 20, 1861(14)
Carlin, Marshall215August 20, 1861(14)
Carson, Charles241August 20, 1861(7)
Carson, John242August 11, 1861(7)
Casto, George249August 6, 1861(15)
Casto, John250August 6, 1861(15)
Casto, Robert251August 20, 1861(15)
Clement, William K.271August 6, 1861(16)
Daniel, Jackson316August 20, 1861(2) (17)
Davis, Enoch319August 20, 1861(18)
Estes, James M.430August 20, 1861(19)
Estes, Lemuel431August 20, 1861(19)
Fox, William T.459August 20, 1861(2) (20)
Goodnight, George M.504August 20, 1861(2) (21)
Goodnight, John505August 20, 1861(21)
Gow or Gun, E.510August 20, 1861(22)
Hawkins John G.561August 20, 1861(2) (17)
Hawkins, Keith562August 20, 1861(2) (17)
Henderson, Andrew589August 11, 1861(23)
Horine, Harrison653August 11, 1861(24)
Horine, Michael654August 20, 1861(2) (24)
Moudy, Silas973August 11, 1861(25)
Pannell, Thomas J.1039August 20, 1861(2) (4)
Patrick, Christopher C.1050August 11, 1861(26)
Pearson, Benjamin F.1054August 20, 1861(2) (27)
Schooling, William1138August 11, 1861(28)
Sexton, James1199August 6, 1861(1)
Swiger, Peter R.1308August 11, 1861(2) (29)

SOURCES

Register Missouri Troops, Office of the Adjutant General of Missouri, page 81.  Both the original register and a microfilm (S936) are at the Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.  The Archives also has microfilmed card files (old film #s ML238-239) detailing military service with home guard units.  The record numbers shown above are the numbers of the cards on these films.  Since the cards are merely transcriptions of the information in the register, the roster is based solely on the register itself.

National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System ("NPS S&S System").  This is an online database of men who served in the Civil War, providing name and unit only.  In a few instances, it provides first names where the above troop register supplies only initials.

NOTES

Except as detailed in the following notes, names in the above roster are given as listed in the original troop register at the Missouri State Archives.

All members of the SPHG formally enlisted and mustered at Mount Vernon on July 6, 1861.  The group disbanded in three stages:  (1) On August 6, 1861, Captain John Sexton left the group in an "irregular and disorderly manner."  His brother James, his brothers-in-law Moses E. Banks and Jacob Banks and five others left the same day.  What occasioned this breakup is unknown.  (2) On August 11, 1861, the day after the Battle of Wilson's Creek, twelve men left the group, apparently choosing not to join the retreat to Rolla.  (3) On August 20, 1861, the remaining 22 men were discharged at Rolla, and many of them joined the 24th Missouri Infantry.

(1) Captain John Sexton Jr. and private James Sexton were the sons of John Sexton and Francis Holmes.  The 1850 Barry County Census shows John Jr., age 18, and James, age 20, living with their parents and says they were both born in Kentucky.  John's military service record says instead that he was born in Greene County, Indiana, where the family is known to have lived before they moved to Missouri and settled on Capps Creek in the late 1840s.

On July 11, 1855, at Capps Creek, John Sexton, age 23, enlisted for a term of five years in a newly formed, regular army unit, Company K of the 1st Regiment of U. S. Cavalry.  The unit register described him as 5' 8" tall with dark hair, blue eyes and a fair complexion.  He was recruited by Captain John T. Coffee, a prominent lawyer and politician from Dade County, Missouri.  Coffee was discharged from the regular army shortly thereafter on account of sickness, but later became an important Confederate officer in Missouri during the Civil War.  John served his full enlistment and was discharged as a private July 11, 1860, at Fort Larned, Kansas Territory.

In May, 1932, the Kansas Historical Quarterly published excerpts from the diary of Lambert Bowman Wolf, who served in the same Company K during part of John Sexton's enlistment, from 1857 to 1860.  It gives some idea of the service John experienced.  From May to November, 1857, Company K guarded a survey party establishing the south line of Kansas Territory, which was commanded by Lt. Col. Joseph E. Johnston, later a Confederate general during the Civil War.  From March to October, 1858, it guarded a supply train to Fort Bridger, Utah, traveling over 2300 miles on horseback.  From the summer of 1859 into 1860, it guarded immigrants and the U. S. Mail on the Santa Fe Trail, which resulted in several encounters with Kiowa and Cheyenne Indians.

John's regiment, the 1st U. S. Cavalry, was a school for many Civil War officers.  It included five future Civil War generals: Edwin V. Sumner, Joseph E. Johnston, William H. Emory, John Sedgwick and George B. McClellan.  It also included J. E. B. Stuart, who was a lieutenant in one of the regiment's companies and who became perhaps the Civil War's greatest cavalry leader.  During the years of John's enlistment, elements of the 1st Cavalry were pulled from patrol duty in the plains to quell some of the “Bleeding Kansas” troubles leading up to the Civil War, but the Wolf diary suggests that Company K may not have been directly involved.

After his discharge from the 1st Cavalry in July, 1860, John Sexton returned to Barry County and married Marthy Christopher on December 27, 1860 in a ceremony performed by Justice of the Peace Moses E. Banks (Book ABC, page 247, Barry County Marriage Records).  After dissolution of the SPHG in August, 1861, he next appears in a Civil War draft registration for Jackson County, Missouri in 1863.  The 1870 Barry County Census shows Martha, age 31, and John W. Sexton, age 5, living with her parents on Capps Creek, but her husband has disappeared.  How John spent the war after his service with the SPHG is unknown, although the age of his son in the 1870 census indicates that he survived at least until the mid-1860s.

According to the troop register at the Missouri State Archives, Captain John Sexton left the SPHG on August 6, 1861, in an “irregular and disorderly manner.”  His brother James Sexton, his brothers-in-law Moses E. Banks and Jacob Banks and five others left the unit the same day.  This was shortly before the Battle of Wilson's Creek and two weeks before the unit was formally disbanded at Rolla on August 20.

[On September 13, 1861, a John Sexton Jr. was arrested and released in St. Louis, on a charge of “general disloyalty.”  OR II, 2, 251.  This was not the same man who was captain of the SPHG.  The St. Louis John Sexton Jr. had been a member of the Missouri legislature from St. Louis and had voted for Missouri to secede from the Union, occasioning the charge of disloyalty. (Source: Union Provost Marshal Files Pertaining to Individual Citizens, Microfilm Roll 1400, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.)]

James Sexton married Emeline Banks in the early 1850s.  Emeline was the sister of SPHG members Moses E. Banks and Jacob Banks and sister-in-law of SPHG member John Goodnight Hawkins (wife Charlotte Banks).  Moses Banks, in turn, was married to Charity Sexton, sister of James and John.  At the time of the 1860 Barry County Census, James and Emeline and Moses and Charity were living next to each other in Capps Creek Township.

James Sexton, too, has not been found in a Civil War unit after the SPHG and goes missing in the 1870 census.  In the 1865-1866 period, however, he and younger brother William J. Sexton served in the post-war Barry County militia.  Then, in late 1866, he apparently left southwest MO to avoid legal problems.  One family story says he went to Kentucky and was never heard from again.  It seems likely that some or all of the legal problems grew out of the tensions of the war, but few details have survived.

In March, 1864, James Sexton and SPHG member Thomas Allen were arrested by the army provost marshal and confined to the stockade at Springfield for allegedly stealing, with the asistance of other unknown men, horses and cattle from Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Hartly and Mrs. King of Newton County in February, 1864, and from Mrs. Swan of Lawrence County in August, 1863.  Both Sexton and Allen were released on bonds signed by John S. Phelps, who was Southwest Missouri's congressman for many years before the war and who was governor of Missouri after the war, but no disposition of their cases appears in the provost marshal files.  SPHG member John Casto was one of the witnesses summoned to appear in their case.  (Source:  Union Provost Marshal Files Pertaining to Individual Citizens, Microfilm Rolls 1400 and 1462, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.)

Also in March, 1864, James Sexton and SPHG member Charles Carson were indicted in Barry County for stealing a horse from Griffith Mitchell about December, 1862.  At the same time, however, Mitchell himself was indicted “for combining by force to expel a portion of the citizens from their home in the State of Missouri...”  In September, 1865, the sheriff arrested Sexton on the theft charge, but could not find Mitchell to arrest him on the other charge.  No resolution of either case appears in the surviving records, although the theft case was still active as late as February, 1867.

Along the same lines, on August 16, 1866, Peter Swiger, a SPHG member, filed a claim for $200 in the estate of John Sexton Sr. for “one mule taken by force of arms” in November, 1861.  Since John Sexton Sr. was dead no later than June, 1857, when the probate was filed, he could hardly have been responsible for a stolen mule in November, 1861.  This incident must have involved one or both of the sons.  James Sexton was administrator of his father's estate.  The probate court denied the claim.

Finally, in 1866, James Sexton was involved in a mysterious tangle of theft and arson cases in Newton County, which may ultimately have led to murder and his hasty departure for parts unknown.  Only a few intriguing details remain.

On October 5, 1865, J. H. Grindstaff and John Henry filed bail bonds in Newton County on arson charges.  On May 7, 1866, James Sexton filed a bail bond there on a grand larceny charge.  John Henry was charged with grand larceny about the same time.  Then, on September 13, 1866, James Sexton too filed a bond on an arson charge, with John Henry as one of his sureties.  John Henry's mother-in-law was Elizabeth Grindstaff Simmerley, and James Sexton's mother-in-law was Charlotte Grindstaff Banks.

In September, 1866, John Henry was tried in separate jury trials on both the grand larceny and arson charges.  He was acquitted.  Another arson charge against Henry was eventually dropped.  Before the Sexton cases could be disposed of, however, James Sexton disappeared and forfeited his bonds, apparently fleeing a murder charge.

About December 14, 1866, a man named Joseph Henry was murdered at Jollification in Newton County, which was located on Capps Creek about three miles west of the Sexton farm in Barry County.  According to Henry family researchers, Joseph and John Henry were brothers who came to Newton County from Blount County, Tennessee, in the early 1850s.  The events leading to the murder are unknown.

On January 11, 1867, the Governor of Missouri offered a reward of $300 for the capture of James Sexton, age 57, for killing Joseph Henry.  Reward Offer.  James Sexton was actually 37 at the time.  Interestingly, at the March, 1867, term of the Newton County grand jury, Sexton's mother-in-law Charlotte Grindstaff Banks was called as a witness.  It is hard to imagine what her testimony would have concerned if not the Henry killing.  Sometime in the same month, March, 1867, bounty hunters shot James Sexton on the White River in Barry County.  He escaped, his ultimate fate unknown.

John and James Sexton had a younger brother, William J. Sexton, who served in Company D of the 8th MO Cavalry and in the 14th MO Cavalry.  He was reportedly involved in a stabbing scrape while serving with the 8th and was charged in another stabbing incident in Barry County in July, 1884 .  Company G of the 8th MO Cavalry included Charles Carson (note 7) and David Casto (note 15).  In the 1890 census of Civil War veterans, the widow of William J. Sexton was living at Purdy MO.

(2) These individuals served in the 24th Missouri Infantry (mainly Company F) after their service with the Home Guard.  Most of them joined the 24th in Rolla on August 20, 1861.  There is an excellent book on the 24th which has brief biographies of its men: J. Randall Houp, The 24th Missouri Volunteer Infantry “LYON LEGION” (hereafter cited as Houp).

(3) First Lieutenant Uriah P. Johnson was born in Pendleton County, SC about 1817 and married Evaline Horine December 21, 1853, in Washington County, MO.  The 1860 Barry County Census shows them living in Capps Creek Township.  According to Goodspeed's 1888 History of Barry County (reprint, page 52), U. P. Johnson was a member of the county court in 1859.  In addition to serving with the SPHG, he served with Company M of the Greene-Christian County Home Guard and Company F of the 24th MO Infantry.  He was promoted to captain of Company C of the 24th in March, 1863, and was killed at the Battle of Pleasant Hill, LA on April 9, 1864.  See Houp for more details.  Johnson was probably related by marriage to SPHG members Michael and Harrison Horine.  Note 24.

(4) Second Lieutenant Samuel Pannell was born in Lawrence County, MO about 1837 and married Nancy Todd there about 1856.  In addition to serving with the SPHG, he served with Company M of the Greene-Christian County Home Guard and Company F of the 24th MO Infantry.  While serving as a private in the 24th MO, he was briefly a confederate prisoner at Little Rock, AR.  He died in Clay County, TX in 1916.

In 1856, Samuel and others were indicted in Barry County for unlawful assembly against the peace and property of William Mulhollan.  Apparently, they brandished guns and ran Mulhollan off after some dispute involving a wedding.  Case 1, Box 58, Barry County Circuit Court files.  According to a Mulhollan family researcher, William Mulhollan married Elizabeth F. Miller in Barry County on April 10, 1856, but disappeared before the 1860 census. Nine years later Thomas Pannell married the same woman.

Samuel's brother Thomas Jefferson Pannell was born in Lawrence County, MO on September 24, 1842, and married Elizabeth F. Miller there December 17, 1865.  He too served in the Greene-Christian County Home Guard and the 24th MO and was briefly a prisoner.  He died January 28, 1875, apparently in Barry County.  See Houp for additional details on both men.

(5) John Ray was born about 1828 in Barren County, KY and moved to Barry County about 1852, where he practiced medicine and ran a mercantile business in Gadfly (later called Corsicana).  He was an active participant in the pro-Union meeting which passed the Gadfly Resolutions shortly after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, SC, on April 12, 1861.  Early in the Civil War he moved to Cassville and ran the U. S. Army Hospital for a time.  He was the appointed circuit and county clerk from 1862 to 1864.  He bought the Cassville Democrat in 1872, which he ran until his death in 1888.  Information from the biography of son Charles Ray, Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed's 1888 History of Barry County (reprint).  Civil War researcher Scott Carson called the Gadfly Resolutions to my attention.

(6) Moses Elcaney Banks, known as “Caney,” was born in Carter County, TN about 1830 and moved with his family to southwest Missouri no later than November, 1835.  He married Charity Carroll, nee Sexton, in Barry County on January 15, 1854.  In the 1860 Barry County Census, they are shown living in Capps Creek Township.  Caney was the brother of SPHG member Jacob M. Banks and the brother-in-law of SPHG members John and James Sexton and John Goodnight Hawkins.  Notes 1 and 17.

The extended Banks family had ties by marriage to Abel Landers, a prominent Democratic politician in Newton County in the 1840s and 1850s.  Caney seems to have had the political bug as well.  He was the elected constable of Capps Creek Township in 1856 and its elected Justice of the Peace in 1860.  He was the Democratic candidate for state representative from Barry County in 1864, receiving 17 of the 176 votes cast.  1864 Election Returns for Barry County.

On April 7, 1862, at Springfield, Missouri, Caney Banks joined Company H of the 14th Missouri State Militia Cavalry as a corporal under Captain Milton Burch and Lieutenant John Kelso.  After the 14th was disbanded in early 1863, he followed his officers Burch and Kelso to Company M of the 8th MSM Cavalry.

According to his military service records, Caney Banks was killed by guerrillas near Newtonia on November 10, 1864.  This was only two days after the 1864 election in which he ran as a Democrat, not a popular act, and the suspicion at least arises that this was a political murder.

Caney's brother Jacob M. Banks was born in Newton County, MO on July 17, 1842.  He married Martha Elizabeth Herman in Johnson County, KS on June 28, 1867, and was killed by lightning in Butler County, KS on July 17, 1875.  Additional information on Caney and Jacob Banks and their extended family may be found here:  The Banks Family at RootsWeb.

On August 24, 1861, Jacob enlisted in Company C of the 6th KS Cavalry, and on September 27, 1861, was mustered into service at Ft. Scott, KS.  He spent most of the war as a teamster in the quartermaster's department.  He was slightly wounded in the arm in the battle of Honey Springs, KS on July 17, 1863.  He was discharged December 1, 1864, at Leavenworth, KS.  For a first hand account of life in the 6th KS Cavalry, see Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, 1863.

Sources:  Military service records and pension files of Moses E. Banks and Jacob M. Banks, National Archives.  Certified 1864 election returns from Barry County, Missouri State Archives.

(7) Robert Gaston Carson (born about 1827), John W. Carson (b. abt. 1834) and Charles Jefferson Carson (b. abt. 1842) were brothers from the area near Gadfly. The family originally came to Barry County from Illinois.  Robert and John were both active participants in the pro-Union meeting which passed the Gadfly Resolutions shortly after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, SC, on April 12, 1861.

Robert Carson married Susan Charles in Barry County on September 25, 1851.  After his service with the SPHG, he joined Captain Wood's Company of Kansas Rangers at Rolla on August 18, 1861.  This was one of the units that retreated with the Union army from the Battle of Wilson's Creek and eventually became Company G of the 6th MO Cavalry.  Robert died February 1, 1863, on the hospital steamer Fannie Bullet during the siege of Vicksburg.

According to family tradition, John W. Carson (left) was murdered by bushwhackers at his farm near Gadfly about May, 1862.  His death is confirmed by the pension affidavit of John Casto, although it puts the event in June, 1861, and relates it to Carson's service in the SPHG.  The 1862 date is believed to be correct.  The Casto affidavit also says John Carson was 1st lieutenant of the SPHG before being replaced by Uriah P. Johnson.  The official roster only shows Johnson.  See The Casto Affidavits.

Charles Carson (right) served with Company B of the 72nd Enrolled Missouri Militia and then Company H of the 6th Provisional EMM in Greene County.  His military records indicate he was paroled as a prisoner of war during this service.  Finally, he joined Company G of the 8th MO Cavalry at Springfield on December 29, 1863.  John Casto also served in the 72nd EMM.  David Casto and William J. Sexton also served in the 8th MO Cavalry.  Charles and fellow SPHG member James Sexton were indicted for horse theft in Barry County in March, 1864.  See Notes 1 and 15.

Scott Carson, a descendant of John W. Carson, called to my attention the Gadfly Resolutions and the pre-Civil War service of John Sexton in the regular army. He also provided the photographs and additional biographical information for this note.

(8) In the 1860 Barry County Census, Thomas Allen is shown in Capps Creek Township, age 45, born NC, wife Maginca, occupation farmer.  In 1861, he was charged with perjury in Barry County with respect to a sworn statement made in front of Peter Swiger, another SPHG member and then a justice of the peace for McDonald Township.  The exact circumstances and disposition of this case are unclear, but the circuit court file contains references to SPHG members John Goodnight and Asa Carlin as witnesses.  Case 1, Box 49, Barry County Circuit Court Records.  In March, 1864, Allen and SPHG member James Sexton were arrested by the army provost marshal and confined to the stockade at Springfield for allegedly stealing cattle and horses in Newton and Lawrence counties.  See note 1 for details.

(9) After his service in the SPHG, John M. Baxter served as a corporal and then sergeant in Company H of the 14th Missouri State Militia ("MSM") Cavalry and as sergeant and then 2nd lieutenant of Company M of the 8th MSM Cavalry.  Moses Banks, Lee Betterton and Lemuel Estes of the SPHG served in the same units.  Lt. Baxter was killed in action near Center Creek in Jasper County on February 20, 1865.  According to Goodspeed's 1888 History of Barry County (reprint), in 1887, the Purdy MO post of the Grand Army of the Republic was named the Lt. John N. (sic) Baxter Post, No. 338.  Peter Swiger and Michael Horine, SPHG members, were members of this post.  Wiley Britton's Account of the Death of John Baxter.

(10) Lee Betterton.  The SPHG troop register spells the last name "Batterton," but the NPS S&S System says "Betterton." After his service in the SPHG, Leeland Betterton served as a private in Company H of the 14th Missouri State Militia ("MSM") Cavalry and Company M of the 8th MSM Cavalry.  Moses Banks, John Baxter and Lemuel Estes of the SPHG served in the same units.  Leeland Betterton is buried in the Bethel Cemetery south of present day Monett, where his tombstone records his service in the 8th MSM Cavalry.

(11) Benjamin F. Browning.  Goodspeed's account of the SPHG shows a W. R. Browning and George W. Browning with the unit, but does not list Benjamin.  No other information available.

(12) In the 1860 Barry County Census, Alexander Bryant is shown in Capps Creek Township, age 20, born IN, occupation blacksmith.  He is living with his parents.

(13) In the 1860 Barry County Census, William Cannon is shown in McDonald Township, age 47, born NC, wife Matilda, occupation farmer.  In addition to serving with the SPHG, he served with Company M of the Greene-Christian County Home Guard and Company F of the 24th MO Infantry.  He contracted measles while serving in the 24th MO and was left partially blind.  He reportedly died in MO about March 1886.  See Houp for additional details.

(14)) Amos Carlin was born March 28, 1816, in Harrison County, VA (now Barbour County, West VA) and married Amanda J. Brewster about 1839.  After living in Ohio and Illinois, he came to Barry County in 1841, and in the 1860 Barry County Census, was shown in McDonald Township, occupation farmer.  Amos moved to Newton County after the war.  According to his biography in Goodspeed's History of Newton County, he cast the only vote for Abraham Lincoln in Barry County in 1860.  He died June 20, 1890.

John Wesley Carlin, son of Amos Carlin, is shown as age 17 in the 1860 census, born MO.  After serving with the SPHG, he joined Company G of the 6th MO Cavalry.  He was captured shortly after his enlistment and approved for a prisoner exchange in a letter dated March 7, 1862.  However, he never returned home, and his fate is unknown.  The family only learned that he had been captured through recent research.  SPHG members Robert G. Carson and William Clements also served in the 6th MO Cavalry.

Goodspeed's account of the SPHG also shows Amos Benton Carlin, another son of Amos Carlin, in this unit.  He later served with Company G of the 15th MO Cavalry.  See my Roster, Company G, 15th MO Cavalry for more information.  He was born July 23, 1845 and died December 3, 1915.

Asa Carlin, brother of Amos, was born August 4, 1820, in Harrison County, VA, married Maria Gifford about 1838 and came to Capps Creek Township in Barry County about 1856.  Asa was a Baptist minister and pastor of the New Site Baptist Church both before and after the Civil War.  He died December 25, 1888.  He is also mentioned in Note 8.

William Marshall ("Marsh") Carlin, son of Asa Carlin, was born in Harrison County VA December 19,1839, and married Nancy Haddock July 28, 1859, in Barry County MO.  After service with the SPHG, he enlisted in Company I of the 1st AR Cavalry (Union) at Springfield MO on August 12, 1862, and mustered into service on October 1, 1862.  He later transferred to Company L of the same regiment.  He fought in the battle of Fayetteville AR and, during his service, frequently carried mail along the Old Wire Road in northwest AR and southwest MO.  He mustered out of service on August 23, 1865. He died April 5, 1916.

In April, 1871, Asa Carlin and Marshall Carlin were charged in Barry County with disturbing the peace of a person, P. H. Ripley.  The case was eventually dropped.  In October, 1871, Marshall Carlin was indicted for disturbing religious worship.  In a church meeting, he apparently cursed several persons and called them liars.  He was acquitted of the charges by a jury.  Both files are in Case 1, Box 66 of the Barry County Circuit Court Records.

Goodspeed's account of the SPHG also shows Asa's sons Thomas Carlin and Gilbert Carlin in this unit.  Thomas was born January 14, 1848, and died January 23, 1925.  In the 1870s, he was a publisher of a newspaper in Pierce City, Lawrence County MO.  Gilbert ("Gib") was born February 6, 1842 and died June 8, 1869.

There are biographies of Asa and William Marshall Carlin in the Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed's 1888 History of Barry County (reprint).  Information on the Carlins and others active in the New Site Baptist Church comes from a church history by Inez Haddock, based on original church records.  Additional information for this note was provided by Frankie Meyer, a Carlin descendant.

(15) John G. Casto was born in VA March 25, 1805, moved to MO about 1833 and married Jeston Coots at Waynesville about 1837.  He died in Benton County, AR on April 7, 1903.  His sons George and Robert were born in Missouri about 1840 and 1843 respectively.  All were living in Barry County by the time of the 1850 census.  George W. Casto married Sarah F. Sears in Barry County on October 20, 1859, and died in MO in 1880.  Robert Casto married Letitia Sears during the war and died in Bourbon County, KS in February, 1880.

After serving in the SPHG, John Casto served in Company B of the 72nd Enrolled Missouri Militia in Greene County.  George and Robert served in Company C of the 6th Kansas Cavalry, the same company joined by fellow SPHG member Jacob Banks.  Note (6).  George was discharged from the 6th KS in 1862 after a lengthy illness at Fort Scott, but joined the 14th KS Cavalry the next year and served out the war attaining the rank of Corporal.  George and Robert had a younger brother, David Casto, who served with the 8th MO Cavalry.  William J. Sexton, the younger brother of John and James Sexton, also served in the 8th.

Sources:  Pension file of John G. Casto, National Archives, and information contributed by Jane Cart, Scott Carson and David E. Casto, a descendant of John and David Casto.

(16) William K. Clement.  The NPS S&S System gives the middle initial as "T."  A William Clements purchased land in northwest Barry County from the estate of John Montgomery in June 1848.  A William R. Clements served in the 6th MO Cavalry, a unit that also included SPHG members Robert G. Carson and and John Wesley Carlin.  Scott Carson provided information on Clements service in the latter unit.

(17) Keith Hawkins was born about 1808-1812 in Darlington County, SC and married Rachel Goodnight May 8, 1832, in Montgomery County, IL.  In the 1850 census, they are shown in Greene County, MO, and in 1860, they are shown in Capps Creek Township in Barry County.  In addition to serving with the SPHG, he served with Company M of the Greene-Christian County Home Guard and Company F of the 24th MO Infantry.  He was discharged from the 24th for disability in October, 1862, and died in Greene County on December 27, 1862.

Keith was the father of SPHG member John Goodnight Hawkins and the father-in-law of SPHG member Jackson Daniel (wife Nancy Hawkins).  John Goodnight Hawkins (wife Charlotte Banks) was tied to the Banks and Sexton members of the unit by marriage.  Most likely, the two Goodnights in the unit were relatives of Rachel Goodnight Hawkins.

John Goodnight Hawkins (pictured at left) was born in Williamson County, IL about 1833 and married Charlotte Banks in Newton County, MO on March 4, 1854.  The 1860 Barry County Census shows them in McDonald Township.  While serving with the 24th MO, John was briefly a confederate prisoner and was slightly wounded at the Battle of Pea Ridge, AR.  He was discharged for disability in December, 1862, and died October 31, 1887, apparently in the Choctaw Nation, Atoka County, Indian Territory.

Jackson Daniel was born about 1830-32 in Roane County, TN, and married Nancy E. Hawkins in Green County, MO on January 16, 1853.  The 1860 census shows them living in Capps Creek Township in Barry County and says the family was mulatto, but a note on the Barry County Rootsweb site suggests he was Cherokee.  He was discharged from the 24th MO for disability in November, 1862, married a second wife Manda M. Ince in Dade County, MO on January 27, 1886 and died December 9, 1886, in Arkansas.

See Houp for additional information on all three of these men.  Also see the Civil War pension file of John Goodnight Hawkins, National Archives.

(18) In the 1860 Barry County Census, Enoch Davis is shown in McDonald Township, age 28, born IN, wife Hariet J., occupation farmer.  According to Goodspeed's account of the SPHG, the unit also included Lewis Mattingly and M. L. Tate.  Mattingly was Enoch Davis' father-in-law, and Tate was Mattingly's brother-in-law.  Information on these family relationships was provided by K. Harper, a descendant of Lewis Mattingly.

(19) James M. & Lemuel Estes.  Lemuel Estes served in Company H of the 14th Missouri State Militia Cavalry and Company M of the 8th MSM Militia.  SPHG members Moses E. Banks, John M. Baxter and Lee Betterton served in the same units.

(20) William T. Fox.  The NPS S&S System spells the last name "Fax."  In the 1860 Barry County Census, William T. Fox is shown in McDonald Township, age 19, born MO, occupation farm laborer.  He is living in the household of Gideon Jackson, who was also a member of the unit according to Goodspeed's account.  In addition to serving with the SPHG, he served with Company M of the Greene-Christian County Home Guard and Company F of the 24th MO Infantry.  He died at Little Rock, AR about early April, 1864, while serving with the 24th.  See Houp for additional information.

(21) George M. Goodnight was born September 1, 1845, in Greene County, MO and moved with his parents to McDonald Township in Barry County about 1855.  In addition to serving with the SPHG, he served with Company M of the Greene-Christian County Home Guard and Company F of the 24th MO Infantry.  He was discharged from the 24th for disability in April, 1863.  He married Elizabeth McCoy July 5, 1864.  He was later sheriff of Barry County for many years, a merchant in Cassville and postmaster of Cassville from 1896 until his death March 10, 1904.  See Houp for additional information.  [There was a second George M. Goodnight (born about 1828) in Barry County at this time, who served with Company L of the 76th Enrolled Missouri Militia and Company G of the 7th Provisional Enrolled Missouri Miliita.]

In the 1860 Barry County Census, the SPHG George was shown living with his father John Goodnight.  John was born September 15, 1815, in Giles County TN and married Mary Ann Stockton November 9, 1842 in Christian County MO.  He died September 20, 1880 in Barry County MO.  He is also mentioned in Note 8.  George and John were probably related by marriage to SPHG members Keith and John Hawkins and Jackson Daniel.  Note 17.  There are biographies of both Goodnights in the Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed's 1888 History of Barry County (reprint).

According to Goodspeed's account of the SPHG, another of John Goodnight's sons, Francis Marion, also served in the unit.  If so, he would have been the unit's youngest member.  He was born August 14, 1847, and died January 19, 1890.

Donna Cooper and Scott Carson provided information for this note.

(22) E. Gow or Gon.  The NPS S&S System gives this name as "Elcaoah Gase."  No information available.

(23) The SPHG troop register lists "A. Henderson," while the NSP S&S System shows "Andrew J. Henderson."  In the 1860 Barry County Census, Andrew J. Henderson is shown in McDonald Township, age 26, born KY, wife Nancy, occupation farmer.  He later served in Company L of the 76th Enrolled Missouri Militia, Company G of the 7th Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia and Company G of the 15th MO Cavalry, all important units in Barry County in the latter half of the war.  For details of this service, see my Roster, Company L, 76th EMM, Roster, Company G, 7th PEMM and Roster, Company G, 15th MO Cavalry

Goodspeed's account of the SPHG shows a P. P. Henderson with the unit, but not Andrew.

(24) Michael Horine was born October 23, 1839, in Washington County, MO and married Nancy Samantha Fly January 30, 1868, in Barry County.  In addition to serving with the SPHG, he served with Company M of the Greene-Christian County Home Guard and Company F of the 24th MO Infantry.  He was the appointed sheriff of Barry County in 1865.  He was clerk of the New Site Baptist Church in 1867.  Later, he was a Cassville merchant and the Barry County circuit clerk and recorder.  He was a founder of the Cassville Advocate newspaper.  He died December 24, 1926, in Cassville.

In the 1860 Barry County census, Michael Horine is shown in McDonald Township, living with his parents Elias and Mary.  Also in the household is Harrison Horine, age 18, born MO, occupation farmer.  The SPHG troop register lists "H. Horine," while the NPS S&S System shows "Harrison Horine."  Harrison was clerk of the New Site Baptist Church in 1872.

Goodspeed's account of the SPHG lists a W. Horine with the unit, but not Michael or Harrison.

See Houp for additional details on Michael Horine.  Also, there is a biography of him in the Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed's 1888 History of Barry County (reprint).

(25) The SPHG troop register lists "Silas Monday," while the NPS S&S System shows "Silas Mandy."  In the 1860 Barry County Census, Silas Moudy is listed in Capps Creek Township, age 49, born VA, wife Elizabeth, occupation farmer.  He was a moderator of the New Site Baptist Church in 1866.  In addition to Silas, Goodspeed's account of the SPGH shows a T. Moudy with the unit.

(26) Christopher C. Patrick.  The SPHG troop register lists "C. C. Patrick," while the NPS S&S System shows "Christopher C. Patrick." After his service with the SPHG, Christopher Patrick served in Company C of the 14th Missouri State Militia Cavalry.

(27) The NPS S&S System spells the last name "Pierson." Benjamin F. Pearson was born in Adams County, PA about 1818 and gave his residence as Barry County in his enlistment papers for the 24th MO.  In addition to serving with the SPHG, he served with Company M of the Greene-Christian County Home Guard and Company F of the 24th MO Infantry.  He was wounded in the leg in the Battle of Pea Ridge and discharged in September, 1862.  See Houp for additional information.

(28) In the 1860 Barry County Census, a William Schooler is listed in Capps Creek Township, age 26, born IN, wife Elizabeth, occupation farmer.  In the 1870 census, William Schooling is listed with the same information.  After his service in the SPHG, he served in Company G of the 7th Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia and Company G of the 15th MO Cavalry.  For details of this service, see my Roster, Company G, 7th PEMM and Roster, Company G, 15th MO Cavalry.  The descriptive roll of the 15th MO Cavalry says William Schooling was born in Edgar, Indiana, and was 5' 5" tall, with blue eyes, light hair and a fair complexion. In 1865, Schooling failed to appear as a witness before the Barry County grand jury.  He was arrested on a warrant for contempt, but no disposition of the charge is shown in the file.  Case 1, Box 60, Barry County Circuit Court Records.

(29) Peter Swiger was born September 14, 1826, in Clay District, Harrison County, VA (now West VA) and married Anna Allen September 8, 1845.  After serving in the SPHG and 24th MO, he transferred to Company C of the 21st MO.  He was Justice of the Peace for McDonald Township in 1861 and Capps Creek Township in 1867 and was active in the New Site Baptist Church.  He may have had some association with the Carlins, who were from the same area in VA and active in the same church.  Swiger is also mentioned in Notes 1, 8 and 10.  See Houp for additional information.

If you have additional information on these men, please let me know:  Bob Banks.  The following types of information are welcome:  (1) basic biographical data (birth, death, marriage); (2) Civil War service; (3) public service or other noteworthy biographical facts.  If you would like to make detailed family information available, please post a family group sheet on the Barry County site at RootsWeb.

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