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QUANTRILL, THE
GUERRILLA
The Mother of the
Noted Bushwhacker Given a Reception at Blue Springs
Kansas City, Mo.,
May 12 - There was a small but select gathering of persons of both
sexes yesterday in the little town of Blue Springs, in this county, such
as has not been since the days of the civil war reigned throughout this
section of the Union. The occasion was the visit of Mrs. Caroline C.
Quantrill, the mother of William Clark Quantrill, the most noted guerrilla
of modern times. In response to a published invitation a number of his
men-at-arms assembled in the City Hotel in Blue Springs to meet for the
first time the mother of their chieftain.
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At the informal
recption given Mrs. Quantrill, who is a well preserved, plasant appearing
lady of sixty-eight years of age, in the parlors of the hotel, at Blue
Springs, yesterday, were the following members of Quantrill's band: A. J.
Walker, Leebeck, Mo.; J. Hicks George, Oak Grove, Mo.; W. W. Welch,
Blue Springs, Mo.; G. C. Parr, Blue Springs, Mo.; G. W. Holler, Blue
Springs, Mo.; L. L. Brown, Bates County, Mo.; William H. Jones, Blue
Springs, Mo.; John Koger, Grain Valley, Mo.; W. H. Gregg, Independence,
Mo.; J. S. Whitsett, Lee's Summit, Mo.; S. J. Graham, Buckner, Mo.; T. J.
Tatum, Blue Springs, Mo.; George Wigington, Lee's Summit,
Mo.
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The following
ladies were also present: Mrs. Ed. Jones, Miss Ann Barnhill, Mrs. William
Jones, Mrs. Thomas Montgomery, Mrs. Susie Wamox, Mrs. James Stanley, Mrs.
Burton, Mrs. Kimberlin, Mrs. Ed. Duncan, Mrs. C. W.
West.
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Mrs. Quantrill
stated that her son, the noted guerrilla, was born in Tuscarawas County,
O., July 31, 1837. Respecting his disappearance she said: There have been
a great number of conflicting accounts in reguard to William's death
published during the past twenty-three years. I have even seen the
statement in print recently that he is still alive in Texas and in other
parts of the South. But there is no doubt that he is dead. He was shot in
James Wakefield's barn, about five miles from Taylorsville, Nelson County,
Ky., May 10, 1865. The barn was surrounded by Captain Terrell, who had
fifteen men with him, disguised as guerrillas. William had five or six men
with him at the time, two of whom, Clark Hockensmith and Dick Glasscock,
were killed. The bullet entered his back and paralyzed his spine. He was
taken to Louisville, Ky., and placed in the hospital connected with the
military prison in that city, where he died June 6,
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