Event: Military discharge. Military Discharge. Benton Brooks, Missouri. Resided. Event Spring Creek Twnshp Dent Co. Missouri.
Buried Lay Cemetery, Dent Co. Missouri.
Occupation: Preacher. Farmer and blacksmith.
Note: #N1486.
Marriage Husband Rice W. Whitaker. Wife Martha (Patsy) Vermillion. Child: Margaret Frances Whitaker. Child: Joseph W. Whitaker. Child: John V. Whitaker. Child: William T. Whitaker. Child: Jesse Berry Whitaker. Child: Rice W. Whitaker. Marriage 01 FEB 1853. Claiborne Co., Tennessee, USA. [1]
Sergeant, Co. B, 32nd Missouri Volunteer Inf. & Co. A, 5th Rgt.
veteran reserve corps. Fought at Vicksburg Mississippi.
Baptist Minister.
In later years he was white headed. He was a very small man in stature.
"Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD32-K9Q : 11 February 2018), Rice Whitaker and Patsy Vermillion, 01 Feb 1853; citing Claiborne,Tennessee, reference ; FHL microfilm 898,393.
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