Simeon Sutton (1821 - 1908)

Born 2 Mar 1821 in Preble County, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Morton) Sutton — married 20 Dec 1853 in Preble County, Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 21 Oct 1908 at age 87 in Bethany, Harrison County, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Capt Simeon Sutton served in the United States Civil War.
Side: Union
Regiment(s): 57th Enrolled Missouri Militia

Simeon was born in 1821. He is the son of George Sutton and Hannah Gard. He passed away in 1908.

Captain of Volunteers in Missouri; Captured by the enemy at the Battle of Glasgow.^[1]

From The History of Missouri Illustrated 1888, Military History Pg. 334 - Company E, Forty-third Infantry, This company was made up wholly of Harrison County men, and was recruited in the fall of 1864. The organization was effected with the following commissioned officers: Simeon Sutton, captain. From Pg. 337 - Formation of the Fifty-seventh Regiment Enrolled Militia in July, 1962. Company B - Simeon Sutton, captain.

Biographical Appendix^[2]

Captain Simeon Sutton, a farmer and mechanic of Cypress Township, was born in Preble County, Ohio, in 1821, and is the eighth of eleven children of George and Hannah (Gard) Sutton, who were married in Pennsylvania in 1805, and the same year removed to Ohio, thence to Hamilton County, thence to Butler County, and finally to Preble County, where the father died in 1861, and the mother in 1862.

Mr. Sutton served as second sergeant under General Harrison in the War of 1812; his father was one of the minute men in the Revolutionary War, while his grandfather was one of the first to settle west of the mountains in Pennsylvania, having gone there prior to the French and Indian War, and locating near where General Braddock was defeated.

Captain Sutton received but a limited education, and in 1853 was married to Miss Hannah, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Morton. This marriage has resulted in five children, all living; Benjamin M.; Emma F., wife of J.C. Howe; Mary F., wife of John F. Selby; Sarah J. and Noah E. In 1854 he went to Knox County, Illinois, from there in 1859 to Daviess County, and two years later located in Cypress Township, Harrison County, where he has since resided, living seven miles south of Bethany, on a fine farm of 136 acres, all under cultivation. When the war broke out, he was made captain of Company B, of the East Missouri Militia, which he commanded till 1864, operating in Harrison and Daviess Counties.

In 1864 he was made captain of Company E, Forty-third Missouri Infantry, and operated along the Missouri River till the close of the war, being captured at Glasgow in September 1864, and taken to St. Louis, where he was held prisoner several weeks; was then released and resumed operations. In politics he was formerly a Whig, casting his first vote for Henry Clay, but since the war has been a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and he is also a member of the G.A.R. Always an advocate of all educational enterprises, he has taken great pleasure in giving his children the benefit of a good college education, the elder son being a practicing physician at Bridgeport, and the younger a teacher.

Sources

1. ↑ Alice Samp
2. ↑ The History of Missouri Illustrated 1888, Military History

• "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX79-M4F : accessed 9 May 2015), Simeon Sutton in household of George Sutton, Dixon, Preble, Ohio, United States; citing family 1908, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH8M-QM2 : accessed 9 May 2015), Simeon Sutton, Salem Township, Daviess, Missouri, United States; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing p. 82, household ID 33, NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 803,617.

• "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M46Q-TN8 : accessed 9 May 2015), Simeon Sutton, Missouri, United States; citing p. 11, family 75, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,277.

• "United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6X7-ZDC : accessed 9 May 2015), Simion Sutton, Cypress, Harrison, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district 303, sheet 210C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0689; FHL microfilm 1,254,689.

• "United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3CG-D58 : accessed 9 May 2015), Simeon Suttan, Bethany Township Bethany city Ward 1-2, Harrison, Missouri, United States; citing sheet 11A, family 254, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,857.

• "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2QHJ-XQJ : accessed 9 May 2015), Simeon Sutton and Hannah Morten, 20 Dec 1853; citing Preble, Ohio, United States, reference ; county courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 564,963.

• "United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJD3-TJX5 : accessed 9 May 2015), Simeon Sutton, 1907-1933; citing NARA microfilm publication M850 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,636,244. Image

• "United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJD3-T6YF : accessed 9 May 2015), Simeon Sutton, 1907-1933; citing NARA microfilm publication M850 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,636,243. Image

• Soldiers' Records: War of 1812 - World War I

• Cemetery marker [1]

• Find A Grave: Memorial #20189747