James P. Childers

James P. Childres drummer/private  Co. I, ,  26th MO Inf 

The following information provided by Donna Birkey dbirkey@mac.com

Name:      James P. Childers^1,2
Birth:        14 Apr 1805        Pendleton Co., KY^3,1
Death:      28 Jan 1882        Franklin Co. MO³
Burial: Franklin Co. MO
Census:   1830 Boeff Twp., Franklin Co., MO
Census:   1840 Boeff Twp. Franklin, MO
Census:   1850 Franklin Co. MO
Census:   1880 Boone Twp. Franklin, MO
Census:   1890 Beaufort, Boone Twp., Franklin Co., MO
Occupation: Farmer, until disability set in
Education: Could read and write
Cause of Death: Chronic rheumatism and heart disease incurred in the line of duty.
Military Service: Civil War, Union, Co. I, 26th MO Infantry
Flags:      Military
Father:     Robert Childers (~1762-1831)
Mother:    Nancy Pryor (~1766-)
Spouses

1: Susanna Huffman^4,1
Birth: 28 Feb 1800, Garrard Co., KY
Death:      10 Dec 1872        Franklin Co. MO^4,1
Burial:      Franklin Co. MO
Father:     William Huffman (~1764-~1850)
Mother:    Sarah Childers (~1764-<1850)
Marriage: 14 Apr 1825        Grant Co., KY4,1
Children: 

Cleresa Jane (~1830->1880)
Sarah (1830-)
James (1837-)|
Henry (1843-)
Thomas (1846-)

 2:  Elizabeth Jamieson1
Birth:  1833³
Death:      26 Jul 1903        Franklin Co. MO⁵
Cause of Death: Cancer¹
Marriage: 12 May 1881, Spring Bluff, Franklin Co. MO^3,6

Notes for James P. Childers

James and Susannah were first cousins.

1861 -  Served in Capt. John McFalls Co. I, of the 26th Infantry Regiment of MO Volunteers, as musician (drummer) in Civil War at the age of 57.  7  He was enlisted by Lieut. Wiley C. Wiseman at Union  on the 21st day of Sept. 1861, to serve 3 years. James was mustered into service on 26 Dec 1861, at Pacific, MO, and was present for the months of Jan and Feb, 1862.  Mar and Apr was absent for sick furlough (lame right hand and rheumatism of leg).  Discharged for disability by  order of Gen. Halleck (sciatica and contracted tendon of middle finger of right hand, declared the Surgeon of the 26th MO. Vol.) April 17th, 1862 on board steamer City of Alton, a Private.

1873, 21 Dec.  applied in person for military pension (Pension File No. 186,199) while living in Luther, MO.  He claimed to be totally disabled because of exposure at Birds Point, MO about Feb 1862 when he was exposed to a heavy rain all day while doing service. About a week later he was sent to a hospital in Charleston, MO. for about 14 days, then sent to Cairo, IL, where he was examined and discharged.  His signature is on the Declaration.

Notes for Elizabeth (Spouse 2)
Widows declaration for Pension, dated 6 Aug 1886.⁸

Elizabeth Jamieson first had been married to Smith.  Her second husbands name was John Rhodus but she was divorced from him on Dec 2, 1876, and reverted to her first husbands name of Smith.  She claimed to have five living children by a former husband, the youngest now 11 yrs. of age, and that she had not remarried since JPs death.  She was living in Beaufort and signed with her mark.

Notes for ELIZABETH JAMIESON:1

John Rhodus, Leslie, age 26, was the son of Mrs. James Childers by her second husband and Joseph Smith was her son by her first husband.  On Monday evening July 13, 1903, Smith was beaten in a hard fight with Martin Kenser and Rhodus who was in Leslie for medical treatment, went without supporting Smith, who angry and intoxicated, went home later and quarreled till about bedtime when he shot Rhodus in the abdomen and made a hole extending from the left kidney to the navel and about two inches in diameter.  Rhodus ran toward August Remmert and called loudly for help and fell.  He suffered intensely and begged to be killed.  Dr. Paul W. Fayn saw that the wound was mortal and soothed him as much as possible.  He died the next morning.

The mother enfeebled by cancer, begged for peace between her sons and died the same evening of the frightful shock. 

Joseph Smith, age 41, born in MO, weight 160 pounds, a laborer, was an uneducated man of intemperate habits and pled guilty to second degree murder and was given fifteen years from November 11, 1903 and served from November 19, 1903 to February 10, 1915 when he was discharged under the three-fourths law for good conduct and he returned to his former home to live with relatives and friends.

Sources

1. Childers Research Records, Lucille Adams Smith, Aug 1999, Childers File.
2. Pension Record of James P. Childers, 1874, Cert. #246931, Franklin Co., MO, Copy on File, Copy on file.
3. Ibid.
4. Cemeteries of Missouri, St. Louis Genealogical Quarterly, 1999, Joe Miller.
From St. Louis Genealogical Quarterly Cemeteries  (taken from grave stone?)
5. Pension Record of James P. Childers, 1874, Cert. #246931, Franklin Co., MO, Copy on File, Certificate  No. 246931.
6. Childers Research Records, Lucille Adams Smith, Aug 1999, Childers File, MO Marriage Record Book D, page 474.
7. Pension Record of James P. Childers, 1874, Cert. #246931, Franklin Co., MO, Copy on File, Copy on file.
8. Ibid. on file.