Footnotes for letters 61

Footnotes for Letters 61 - 70: 1861 -1865 - The Civil War Years (Revised 9/2006)

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1. Dissatisfied Confederate supporters founded a colony in Mexico. William McKendree Gwin , a California politician actively sought support from Napoleon Bonaparte in France and Emperor Maximillan in Mexico for a Confederate colony in Senora. He did not succeed but other leaders, such as General Joseph Shelby, Upton Hay’s former commander did lead groups to settle in Mexico and South America.

2. Van Hays (1820-about 1864) was a cousin of Upton Hays. He and his brothers Wade and Preston were stockmen in California, another brother Seth Hays operated a trading post in Kansas and another brother, May Hays lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico..

3. William Bryant (1795-1861) a former neighbor in Missouri. The son was probably Chapman Bryant (1827-?)
4. scarce
5. Andrew Jackson Watts
6. Rebecca Hamilton Berry, her sister-in-law who lived in Tulare Co., California.
7. Hugh Hamilton, Rebecca Hamilton Berry’s brother
8. Charles Hamilton
9. Half Moon Bay on the California coast south of San Francisco.
10. The Kings’ River or Mussle Slough area was in Tulare Co., now Kings Co., California
11. Wade Hays (1828-?). His wife was Mary Susan (1836-?) and the daughters were Emma (1857) and Ida (1863)
12. James B. and Mary B. Berry Yager
13. Richard Francis Yager

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14. Phebe Stevens Hays

15. Richard Hays (1826-1861). His wife was Elizabeth Curtright Scholl (1833-1888)

16. James B. Yager. He and his wife and daughters were exiled from Jackson Co. in 1863 by Order 11. He was imprisoned in St. Louis then released in June 1864 after posting $1000 bond.

17. Lou. Louisa Catherine Yager

18. Caleb Ewing Berry

19 The Plains tribes of Native Americans were attacking settlers and travelers in the west.

20. Samuel Hays, Upton Hays’ brother in Jackson Co., Missouri

21. Laurinda Halloway Hays

22. Mary B. Berry Hays

23. Amazon Hays

24. Uncle Caleb Ewing Berry

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25. Infectious Hepatitis

26. Mary B. Berry Yager

27. Jane Upton Hays

28. Mary RacheYager Harper.

29. Mary Fuqua Vaughn (1818-?) Her daughters were Sarah L. Watts, Martha Jane Lindsey, Margaret and Susan E. Vaughn.

30. Elizabeth Ramsey Berry, widow of Richard D. Berry. The child was Richard D. Berry, Jr.

31. Dian Berry (?-1918) was a slave who stayed with Liz Berry until Liz’s death in 1895. She inherited half of Liz Berry’s estate and took care of Liz’s mentally retarded niece.

32. Linville Hays

33. Amazon Hays

34. Phebe Stevens Hays

35. Elizabeth Curtright Scholl Hays

36. Eliza Watts Dickerson

37 Margaret’s companion until 1863. A Mrs. Mary Wesley Cunningham married James W. Cunningham 26 September 1865 in Boone Co., Missouri not far from where Margaret was living in Callaway Co.

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38. The Civil War ended April 9, 1865.

39. John Nathan Hays

40. James B. Yager

41. Virginia Fulkerson Berry

42. Edward Gaither Berry

43. Sally Ann Galbreth Berry (1810-1867)

44. The Civil War ended April 9, 1865 with the surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox, Virginia.

45. Phebe Stevens Hays

46. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on the 1st of Januray, 1863 did not free slaves in Missouri since it applied only to seceded states. At the end of the war the former slaves were free to leave their former masters.

47. Elizabeth Curtright Scholl Hays (1833-1888)

48. Probably Ella Hays (1858-?)

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49. Ella Dickerson (1855-?) the daughter of Warrington C. Dickerson

50. William R. Dickerson (1806-before 1900) [65]

51. Warrington C. Dickerson (1834-1914)

52. Mary Elizabeth Watts Berry (1823-1845) Eliza sister and Margaret’s half-sister was married to Margaret’s uncle Richard C. Berry. Their sons were James Samuel Berry and John Edward Berry.

53. Letty Watts Rowland

54. Mrs. Maupin

55. Mary J. Lowe (1845-?)

56. Jordan R. Lowe (1810-after 1880)

57. Notes written on Eliza Dickerson’s letter by Mary Elizabeth Hays Moutrey: Letty Roland wife of George, Jordan Low; Eliza C. Dickerson, William Dickerson your father, father and mother; Grandfather Watts called Jorden Low brother.

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58. exposure

59. Presbyterian

60. Cumberland Presbyterian

61. foreign

62. Bishop Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh ((1802-1882) of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He served as the Bishop of California in the 1850's and 1860's. A strong Confederate supporter he served as the Chaplin to the Confedrate Army during the Civil War.

63. Burchard

64. John D. Berry (1803-1854), Elizabeth Watts' brother had lived in Osage Co., Missouri

65. Margaret Mitchell Berry Dunham (1805-?), Elizabeth Watts' sister

66. John S. Watts, Jr.

67. Richard C. Berry, Elizabeth Watts' brother.

68. Merced River, California

69. Rev. Cornelius Yager, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Elizabeth Watts' cousin and brother-in-law.

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70. Samuel H. Berry

71. Edward Gaither Berry

72. Robert Mitchell Berry

73. Samuel Hays in Jackson co., Missouri

74. Henry Harper

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75. Elizabeth Ramsey Berry

76. Mrs. Duncan

77. Lobbs

78. Moores

79. Keeneys

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80. Mariam Hays McMurtry, Margaret's sister-in-law.

81. Malaria

82. Amazon Hays

83. James Samuel Berry

84. John Edward Berry

85. Clayton Bane