[NI00146] [SittonHarrison.GED] Buried Old Alexandria Cemetery Lincoln County, Missouri. Was living with his daughter Annie Lorton at time of his death. Was living in Montgomery Co. on the U.S. Census 1880.
[NI00147] [SittonHarrison.GED] Buried Old Alexandria Cemetery Lincoln County, Missouri. Her maiden name may have been Sitton!?
[NI00148] [SittonHarrison.GED] Was living in Lincoln Co. on the U.S. Census of 1840 in Hurricane Twnsp. and had 3 boys and 2 girls at that time in addition to his wife. His letter was in probate in Troy Missouri in 1858. Was on 1830 U.S. Census St. Louis Co. Mo. Was in Lincoln Co. Missouri on 1840 Census.
[NI00150] [SittonHarrison.GED] Five of her children died in infancy. There was said to have been a lot of Typhoid and Malaria type sickness in the Davis, Lincoln County area.
[NI00151] [SittonHarrison.GED] Buried St. Peters Cemetery St. Charles, Missouri 1910 Fed Census living St. Charles Twp. St. Charles Missouri.
[NI00152] [SittonHarrison.GED] Was killed in front of Old Alexandria Church when her horse stepped on a thorn and through her.
[NI00153] [SittonHarrison.GED] Buried Wright City Cemetery, Warren Co. Missouri.
[NI00154] [SittonHarrison.GED] Said to be buried in Ohio? Lived in Foristell Missouri for a while.
[NI00160] [SittonHarrison.GED] Homeplace was about a mile or so off Hwy Y, now owned by Walter Cannon. Joseph was a farmer in the Argentville area. Clarence Sitton was told that Joe Dixon raised sheep and tobacco. Clarence remembered a tobacco drying barn on the old Dixon place. Passed away at home of his daughter Patience and Obe Sitton, Lincoln Co. Missouri.
[NI00161] [SittonHarrison.GED] She was said to have been a very large woman weighing between 300-400 pounds. She carried a bench or stool with her everywhere she went, to sit on. Most furniture would not hold up for her.
[NI00162] [SittonHarrison.GED] John Dixon had a store located on the property now owned by the Lambert Herring family, 1996. The store was a log building and stood near the road where John Herring's house stands. John Dixon and family lived in a big old house behind the store. Tradition tells us that John Dixon went to St. Charles in a wagon to get supplies for the store during bad weather, he became ill and died as a result. Applied for citizenship Troy, Missouri June 11, 1855.
[NI00163] [SittonHarrison.GED] No stone in New Salem Cemetary in 1960's.
[NI00164] [SittonHarrison.GED] Listed as a grocer. He wrote his Will on June 11, 1842, in which he mentions his surviving daughters, but names only one as the oldest daughter, Mary Ann Wilson Dixon. He also names his sons, John Matthews and Thomas Dixon. Christening Record gives his Father's name as John.
[NI00165] [SittonHarrison.GED] Christening Record gives parents names as John and Elizabeth Matthews.
[NI00166] [SittonHarrison.GED] 1861 census, Hulme, Manchester, England states 62 years old and Baptist Minister, Wilmot St. Chapel. Joseph Blackburn Gatenby, grandson, age 9 mos, born Lancashire, Manchester is listed. Occupation Corn Miller.
[NI00168] [SittonHarrison.GED] Listed as a farmer. Have copy of Death Certificate from England.
[NI00169] [SittonHarrison.GED] Have copy of Death Certificate from England dated 1860 and giving her age as 86 years at the time.
[NI00170] [SittonHarrison.GED] Passed away at family farm per Carrie Broyles Bible. Orange P. and daughter Katie on same grave stone, which is on the ground broken in several pieces but has been placed in concrete. Hard to read, August 1996.
[NI00171] [SittonHarrison.GED] Death date and place copied from page of Carrie Broyles Bible.
[NI00176] [SittonHarrison.GED] On December 9, 1861, James Yates enlisted in the Confederate Army at Sack River, St. Clair Co., Missouri. He became a private in Company B, 2nd Regiment, Missouri Infantry. On July 4th, 1863, he was taken Prisoner when Vicksburg fell. (Mississippi). He signed an Oath of Allegiance on July 6th, 1863 to the U.S.A. swearing never to take up arms again and was paroled on July 7, 1863. He was again captured and a Prisoner of War in Louisville, Kentucky. On November 15, 1864 he again signed an Oath of Allegiance. Taking up arms against the North once again, he was wounded October 3rd and 5th at Corinth, Mississippi.) He fought in many battles, among them, Lexington, Elkhorn, Farmington, Corinth, Watchie Bridge, Grand Gulf, Bakers Creek, Big Black, Vicksburg, and the Georgia Campaign. He was discharged November 1st, 1864 and ordered not to be South of the Ohio River for the duration of the War. On October 20, 1913, James Haddock Yates at the age of 76 years, applied for a Confederate Soldiers pension. At that time he was residing in Clarksville, Missouri. He listed the battles he had fought in and his final statement was - four long years.