(Private)

(Private) married Debra Doyle. Debra (daughter of Lauren Leonard "Larry" Doyle and Mildred Louise Morgan) was born on 30 Nov 1952 in Gainesville, Alachua, Florida; died on 31 Oct 2020 in Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Margaret Elanore Esterl. Margaret (daughter of John Esterl and Anna Karoline Simmet) was born on 6 Dec 1916 in Park Falls, Price, Wisconsin; died on 22 Sep 2004 in Calvary Hospital, Bronx, Bronx, New York; was buried in Nola Cemetery, Park Falls, Price, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 6 Dec 1917, Park Falls, Price, Wisconsin

Notes:

She changed her middle name to Elizabeth.

Notes:

He was in the Army Air Corps in World War II.

Lauren married Mildred Louise Morgan on 12 Aug 1945 in First Baptist Church, Forrest City, St. Francis, Arkansas. Mildred (daughter of John Calvin Morgan and Martha Louise Watson) was born on 10 Mar 1924 in Vineyard, Jack, Texas; died on 16 May 2010 in Denison, Grayson, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was a WAC in World War II.

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• Alternate birth: 22 Sep 1888, York, Ontario
• Alternate birth: Abt 1889

Joseph married Veda Louise Payne on 12 May 1916 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Veda (daughter of Dr. Douglas Amos Payne and Mary Parthenia Thompson) was born on 8 Feb 1890 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; died on 6 Dec 1975 in Eagle River, Vilas, Wisconsin; was buried in Eagle River Cemetery, Eagle River, Vilas, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called on her birth certificate Veda Lou Dorthenia Payne.

In 1918 and 1920 she and her husband lived at 148 St Paul's Place in Brooklyn, New York.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1871
• Alternate birth: 1872, Austria
• Alternate birth: Abt 1879, Czechoslovakia

Notes:

In the 1910 census he is a saloonkeeper in Park Falls, Wisconsin. It was called the Eagle House. By the 1940 census he is managing a movie theater there, the Rex Theater.

John married Anna Karoline Simmet on 15 May 1906 in Wood County, Wisconsin. Anna (daughter of George Simmet and Anna Mlnarik) was born on 4 Nov 1883; died on 17 May 1962 in Park Falls, Price, Wisconsin; was buried in Nola Cemetery, Park Falls, Price, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 4 Nov 1882
• Alternate birth: 1885, Austria

Notes:

Also called Caroline Anna Simmet. She emigrated to America on the Kaiser Wilhelm II out of Bremen, arriving at New York 9 Aug 1905.

Notes:

Called on his tombstone Francis Condren Doyle.

Frank married Annalee Chaster Taylor on 31 Jul 1905 in Forrest City, St. Francis, Arkansas. Annalee (daughter of Jacob C. Taylor and Josephine Waterman) was born on 30 Jul 1885 in St. Francis County, Arkansas; died in 1963; was buried in Forrest Park Cemetery, St. Francis County, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Annia Chaster Taylor.

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• Alternate birth: 28 Oct 1898, Wise County, Texas
• Alternate death: 24 Jan 1977, Parker County, Texas

John married Martha Louise Watson. Martha (daughter of Turner Breckenridge Watson and Sarah Ann Flowers) was born on 27 Jul 1897 in Oklahoma; died on 27 May 1973 in Weatherford, Parker, Texas; was buried in Willow Point Cemetery, Bridgeport, Wise, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rev. married Marienne Jardine on 24 Feb 1874 in Middlesex, Ontario. Marienne (daughter of Joseph Jardine and Janet Grierson) was born in Jan 1858; died in Jan 1951; was buried in Victoria Lawn Cemetery, Saint-Catherines, Niagara, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 26 Jan 1856, Ontario

Notes:

The record of their marriage calls him "Daniel B. McDonald" and her "Mary Ann Jardine", but it's clearly their marriage; the parents of both are correctly identified.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1851
• Alternate birth: 30 May 1857, Warrenton, Fauquier, Virginia
• Alternate death: 24 Nov 1943, Chicago, Cook, Illinois

Notes:

"Dr. Douglas A. Payne. Services for Dr. Douglas A. Payne, an ear, nose and throat surgeon in Chicago for nearly 60 years who died yesterday, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 5107 North Clark street. Dr. Payne was 92 years old. A graduate of Johns Hopkins university, Dr. Payne was instructor for many years at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Veda Macdonald. His home was at 1058 Catalpa avenue." [Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov 1943, p. 39.

Note that the statement that he was 92 years old at death is almost certainly an exaggeration; multiple records point to a birth year of 1857, making him 86 when he died.

Douglas married Mary Parthenia Thompson on 12 May 1888 in Cook County, Illinois. Mary (daughter of Samuel Thompson and Louisa M. Cilley) was born on 1 Mar 1856 in Nottingham, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died on 21 Nov 1942 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; was buried on 23 Nov 1942 in Acacia Park Cemetery, Norwood Park, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 20 Mar 1835, Bayern, Germany
• Alternate death: 9 May 1903, Fifield, Price, Wisconsin

Notes:

"Eisensteiners," posted to ancestry.com 5 Dec 2010 by user "billywestmoreland":

In the early 1880s twenty-one immigrant families from the Böhmerwald settled homestead land in northern Price County of northern Wisconsin. In the early 1900s, state approval was given to establish a new town to accommodate the request made by these German-Böhmische immigrants. They were granted the opportunity to select a name of their choice for their new town and in keeping with their desire to retain their collective name of "Eisensteiners," they named their town Eisenstein.

Ignaz Hilgart (1826-1903) & (1) Joanna Wiendl; (2) Philomena Draxler
Benedict Hilgart (1836-1911) and Franziska Stör
Johann Hilgart (1840-1909) and Walburga Draxler
Josef Hilgart (1844-1918) (wife Anna & sons died in travel)
Joseph Hilgart (1859-1915) and Theresia Hoffman
Michael Hilgart (1859-1931) and Monika Beil
Josef Wudi (1833-1906) and Franziska Wepel
Johann Wudi (1857-1918) and Maria Hilgart (1858-1906)
Georg Schmidt (1833-1913) &(1) Theresia Macht; (2) Katharina Hilgart
Jakob Schmidt (1836-1914) and Theresia Stör (or Sterr)
Johann Boyer (1857-1944) and Theresia Denk
Wenzel Boyer (1860-1941) and Anna Hilgart
Anton Kundinger (1825-1906) and Theresia Wiendl
Florian Stauber (1852-1893) and Anna Denk (1854-1926)
Joseph Bradle (1853-1923) and Mary Kundinger
Michael Wallner (1852-1944) and Anna Kundinger
Michael Bertl (1857-1931) and Rosa Hilgart
Michael Gschwendner (1855-1930) and Monika Hilgart
Ludwig Dums (1839-1936) & (1) Anna Maria Buchinger; (2) Barbara Buchinger
Pius Miesbauer (1860-1942) and Mary Schmidt
Ignatius Esterl (1835-1903) and Elisabetha Rendl

Ignatz married Elizabeth Rendl in 1872. Elizabeth was born in Feb 1844 in Austria; died in 1926; was buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Fifield, Price, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1844, Bayern, Germany

Notes:

Also called Jirí Simmet, Jirího Simmet. His daughter Rose's 1895 birth certificate (on which she is called Eufrosina Simmetová) calls him "rolník v Chalupech cp.7", a farmer in Chalupy cottage number 7. Chalupy is a village of, today, 12 cottages and about 16 residents within the town of Všeruby in the district of Domažlice in the far southwest of the modern Czech Republic.

George married Anna Mlnarik. Anna (daughter of Josefa Mlnarik and Anna Šilháckové) was born in of Rudoltice, Domažlice, Bohemia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Anna Mlnarikova, Anna Mueller. "Mueller" is German for "miller", someone who grinds grain, and the Czech for "miller" is "mlynár", so it seems entirely possible that she used all these variations at some point in her life, and possibly others as well.

Notes:

Or perhaps Peter O'Doyle. Emigrated from Ireland in 1852. According to JDM's recollection of what Debra told him, he was Patrick O'Doyle and, before he enlisted in the Union army, he was a gravestone carver.

Patrick married Ellen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have been born Ellen O'Rourke.

Jacob married Josephine Waterman. Josephine (daughter of Frederick Waterman and Mary "Mollie" Hardy) was born on 17 Feb 1867 in Tennessee; died on 14 Sep 1943; was buried in Hughes Cemetery, Forrest City, St. Francis, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Margaret Ann Britt in 1885 in North Carolina. Margaret (daughter of Ezekiel Rufus "Zeak" Britt and Lydia Martha Richardson) was born on 9 Dec 1869 in North Carolina; died on 31 Aug 1957 in Perrin, Jack, Texas; was buried in Willow Point Cemetery, Bridgeport, Wise, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 15 May 1871, Grayson County, Texas

Notes:

Mysteriously, his death certificate gives his father as "Wyett S. Watson". His eldest son was named Wyatt Stanton Watson; his father-in-law was named Wyatt; but every other indication aside from the death certificate is that his father was Stanton Grainger Watson.

About U.S., Records Related to Enrollment of Eastern Cherokee by Guion Miller, 1908-1910, explanation on ancestry.com:

In 1906, the U.S. Court of Claims appointed Guion Miller from the Interior Department to determine who was eligible for funds under the treaties of 1835-36 and 1845 between the United States and the Eastern Cherokee.

In certifying the eligibility of the Cherokees, Miller used earlier census lists and rolls that had been complied by Hester, Chapman, Drennen, and others between 1835 and 1884. Copies of some of these rolls and the indexes to them are filed with the Guion Miller records and are part of this publication. There are an estimated 90,000 individual applicants from throughout North America included within this publication.

From U.S., Records Related to Enrollment of Eastern Cherokee by Guion Miller, 1908-1910 (citation details below):

Turner B. Watson being duly sworn deposes and says:

My name is Turner B. Watson. and I live in Chico, Tex. I am 56 years old. I claim 1/8 Cherokee Indian blood through my father Stanton G. Watson. He died three years ago at the age of 56. He was born in Monroe County, Ky. He came west in 1870. My father got his Indian blood through his mother, a Miss Kilman. I do not know her given name. I reckon I was about 12 years when Miss Kilman died in Ky. She must have been 1/2 Cherokee. She was quite an old lady at the time of her death. My father has often told me that my grandmother, this Miss Kilman was recognized as an Indian, but he never said that she lived with the Indians. She never got any money from the Government on account of her Indian blood. Her neighbors and friends recognized her as being an Indian.

T B Watson

Subscribed and sworn 15 Sep 1908, at Bridgeport, Texas. Recorded as rejected, 18 Apr 1911.

[His brother Edward S. Watson also applied to be recognized as part Cherokee, and was also rejected.]

Turner married Sarah Ann Flowers on 10 Aug 1893 in Healdton, Carter, Oklahoma. Sarah (daughter of Wyatt Flowers and Mary Harris) was born on 3 Nov 1876 in Arkansas; died on 25 Sep 1944 in Bridgeport, Wise, Texas; was buried in Chico Cemetery, Chico, Wise, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1819
• Alternate death: 22 Feb 1899, Middlesex, Middlesex, Ontario

Notes:

"London, Feb. 22. -- John A. McDonald, a pioneer of Middlesex county, and a cousin of Hon. Jas. McDonald, chief justice of Nova Scotia, and father of Rev. J. A. McDonald, a well known Presbyterian minister and editor of the Westminster Journal, died to-day aged 81." [Winnipeg Tribune, 23 Feb 1899, p. 5]

John married Jane Grant on 28 Dec 1848 in London, Middlesex, Ontario. Jane was born on 4 May 1825 in Pictou, Pictou, Nova Scotia; died on 12 Jul 1878 in Middlesex, Ontario; was buried in Nairn Cemetery, Nairn, Middlesex, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1820

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1828, Scotland

Notes:

He and his wife emigrated to Canada in 1851. In the 1901 census they are living in Carberry, Manitoba.

Joseph married Janet Grierson. Janet was born on 28 Jan 1824 in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"He was a farmer, and a soldier in the Confederate Army, and was known as James Wi Payne -- the Wi being a contraction of Withers. This practice of attaching a special surname to those Payne men in this community who possessed the same baptismal name extended through several generations and resulted in some picturesque combinations that would make up an interesting chapter." [The Paynes of Virginia, citation details below]

James married Elizabeth Holtzclaw on 6 Aug 1841 in Fauquier County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Charles Holtzclaw and Clement Welch) was born in 1821; died after 1868. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Lee, Strafford, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: Abt 1814, Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: 28 May 1815
• Alternate death: 26 Dec 1892

Samuel married Louisa M. Cilley on 7 Jul 1844 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire. Louisa (daughter of Joseph Cilley and Nancy Maloon) was born on 12 Oct 1822 in Nottingham, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died on 13 Jul 1900 in Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire; was buried in Samuel Thompson Cemetery, Barrington, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1823, Nottingham, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: Oct 1823, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: 12 Nov 1823, Nottingham, Rockingham, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: Abt 1824, New Hampshire
• Alternate birth: Abt 1824

Notes:

On the 1895 birth certificate of his granddaughter Rose (on which she is called Eufrosina Simmetová) he is called, like his son and namesake Jirí/Jirího/George, a peasant in Chalupy cottage number 7.

Jirího married Margaret Baumman. Margaret was born in of Maxov, Všeruby, Domažlice, Bohemia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On the 1895 birth certificate of her granddaughter Rose (on which she is called Eufrosina Simmetová) she is called "Margarety, roz. Baummanové z Maxova cp.44", which is to say, Margaret of the Baumman family of cottage number 44 in Maxov. Maxov, like her husband's village of Chalupy, is a small village within the town of Všeruby in Domažlice. In 2011 Maxov had 38 permanent residents.

Notes:

According to the 1895 birth certificate of his granddaughter Rose (on which she is called Eufrosina Simmetová), he was "obchodníka z Rudoltic cp.7 [...] okres Domazlice", which is to say, a merchant from Rudoltice, house number 7, in the Domazlice district. This Rudoltice, one of at least six places of that name in the modern Czech Republic, is a mere thirteen miles from Chalupy, home of George Simmet who married Josefa's daughter Anna.

Josefa married Anna Šilháckové. Anna was born in of Rudoltice, Domažlice, Bohemia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Catherine Henderson. Catherine (daughter of Thomas Henderson and Mary Ann Devereaux) was born in 1833 in Tennessee; died in 1908 in Arkansas; was buried in Hughes Cemetery, Forrest City, St. Francis, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1834, Tennessee

Notes:

He was a blacksmith.

Possibly the Fred Waterman who was a private in Company C, 2nd Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry (Confederate).

Frederick married Mary "Mollie" Hardy. Mary was born on 22 Dec 1843 in Water Valley, Yalobusha, Mississippi; died on 6 Aug 1899; was buried in Hughes Cemetery, Forrest City, St. Francis, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1845, Alabama

Notes:

"Mrs.Waterman, a highly respected old lady living two miles west of Colt died Sunday, Aug. 6, 1899." [Forrest City, Arkansas Times, 11 Aug 1899]

Notes:

On 13 Mar 1862, in Moore County, he enlisted in Company D of the 48th North Carolina Infantry, Confederate. On 10 Dec 1862 he is listed as having deserted.

His death certificate calls him "married" rather than single, widowed, or divorced, so presumably he remarried after the death of Margaret Richardson in 1885.

Nathan married Margaret Roseanne Richardson on 24 May 1860 in Moore County, North Carolina. Margaret was born on 17 Dec 1843 in Moore County, North Carolina; died on 31 Jul 1885 in Moore County, North Carolina; was buried in Morgan Family Cemetery, Robbins, Moore, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Margaret Emeline.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1846, North Carolina
• Alternate birth: 1848, North Carolina

Notes:

Census records show that he and his family moved from Moore County, North Carolina to what would become Oklahoma sometime between 1880 and 1900. The same records present an entirely inconsistent record of whether he was literate.

In the 1850 census he is four years old, living with his mother Nancy, 42, father Zacheriah, 36, sister Elizabeth, 11, brother Enoch, 9, brother Henry, 6, brother William, 1, all in Moore County, North Carolina. His "cannot read and write" column is checked.

In the 1860 census he is 13, living with his father (the name as written looks like "Lachara"), age 40, a 40-year-old woman named Elizabeth (presumably his stepmother), brother Enoch, 18, brother Henry, 17, and brother William, 11, all in Moore County, North Carolina, post office Good Spring. His "cannot read" column is unchecked.

In the 1870 census he is 22, living in Bensalem, Moore County, North Carolina with wife Lydia, 21, son Henry, 3, daughter Margaret, 5 months, and Elizabeth Pool, age 70. His "cannot read" and "cannot write" columns are unchecked.

In the 1880 census he is 33, living in Shuffield, Moore County, North Carolina with wife Lydia M, 34, daughter Margret, 10, son Henry F., 9, daughter Nancy C., 7, son John C, 4, and daughter Mary A., 1. His "cannot read" and "cannot write" columns are checked.

In the 1900 census he is 53, living with wife Lydie M., 54, and son Ezkil R., 11, all in Township 4, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. The word "yes" appears in his "can read" and "can write" columns.

He last appears in census records in 1910, 63 years old (mistranscribed on ancestry.com as "69"), living with wife Lydia M., 64 and granddaughter Bonnie (born in Oklahoma), 12, in Burnett, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. The word "no" appears in his "can read" and "can write" columns.

Ezekiel married Lydia Martha Richardson in 1864. Lydia was born in Nov 1845 in Moore County, North Carolina; died on 6 Jan 1931 in Dougherty, Murray, Oklahoma; was buried in Dolberg Cemetery, Roff, Pontotoc, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1846, North Carolina
• Alternate birth: 1849, North Carolina

Notes:

Unlike her husband, she is consistently marked in census records as able to read and write.

The Nov 1845 birthdate given on her Find a Grave page is consistent with the 1880, 1900, and 1910 census records showing her as 34, 54, and 64, respectively, since those records would have been made well before November of their specific years.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1848, Tennessee

Stanton married Martha Ann Brown. Martha was born on 12 Feb 1851 in Kentucky; died on 28 Feb 1930 in Chico, Wise, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her death certificate confirms that her maiden name was Brown and that she was born in Kentucky. but we are unconvinced that she was, as widely asserted, the Martha Brown born 17 Feb 1852 in Knox County, Kentucky to Thomas Brown and Nancy Witt. "Martha Brown" is a relatively common name, and this one's birth date is given as 12 Feb 1851 in multiple sources.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1870

Notes:

Private, Company I, 2nd Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, Confederate.


DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS,

At a stated Term of the District Court of the United States of America for the Western District of Arkansas, begun and holden at the City of Van Buren, within and for the District and Circuit, aforesaid, on the 13th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty five and continued by adjournment from day to day, and including the eighteenth day of November in the same year.

Western District of Arkansas, SS.

The Grand Jurors of the United States of America within and for the District and Circuit aforesaid, on their oath present, that Wyatt Flowers in the State of Arkansas, in the District and Circuit aforesaid, Wyatt Flowers, being an inhabitant of and resident within the United States, and under the protection of the laws of the United States, and owing allegiance and fidelity to the United States, not weighing the duty of his said allegiance, but wickedly devising, and intending the peace and tranquility of the said United States to disturb, and to stir, move and excite insurrection, rebellion and war against the said United States, on the tenth day of January, A.D. 1863, at the county of Franklin in said State of Arkansas, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, unlawfully, falsely, maliciously and traitorously did compass, imagine and intend to raise and levy war, and did raise, levy and carry on war, insurrection and rebellion against the United States: and in order to falfill and bring to effect the said traitorous compassings, imaginations and intentions of him the said Wyatt Flowers, afterwards, to wit, on the tenth day of December, A.D. 1863, at the county of Franklin in said State of Arkansas, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, with a great multitude of persons, (whose names to the grand inquest aforesaid are at present unknown), to the number of thirty persons and upwards, armed and arrayed in a warlike manner, that is to say, with guns, swords, dirks and other warlike weapons, as well offensive as defensive, being then and there unlawfully, maliciously and traitorously assembled and gathered together, did falsely and traitorously join and assemble themselves together, against the said United States, and then and there, with force and arms, did falsely and traitorously, and in a hostile and warlike manner, array and dispose themselves against the United States; and then and there, on the tenth day of December, A.D. 1863, at, to wit, the county and State aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, in pursuance of such their traitorous intentions and purposes aforesaid, he the said Wyatt Flowers, with the said persons so as aforesaid traitorously assembled, armed and arrayed in manner aforesaid, most wickedly, maliciously and traitorously did ordain, prepare and levy war against the said United States, contrary to the duty of the allegiance and fidelity of the said Wyatt Flowers, against the peace and dignity of the United States, and contrary to the form of the statute of the United States in such case made and provided.

And the Jurors aforesaid, on their oath aforesaid, do further present, that on the 14th day of April, A.D. 1861, and long before, and continually from thence hitherto, unto and 'till the first day of May, A.D. 1865, an open and public war was waged and carried on between the United States of America, and certain persons within certain States thereof, to wit, the States of South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolina and Virginia, who then and there incited, set on foot, and engaged in an armed rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States Government, and in such rebellion pretended to assume and exercise certain powers of government, within the limits of the said United States, which they styled the Confederate States Government, and under which pretended style of Government, such open and public war was waged and carried on, by the persons aforesaid, against the authority of the United States of America and the laws thereof, and, that Wyatt Flowers of the county of Franklin in the State of Arkansas, and a citizen of the United States, well knowing the premises, but not regarding the duty of his allegiance, but as a traitor against the United States, and wholly withdrawing the allegiance, fidelity and obedience, which every citizen of the said United States of right ought to bear towards the Government, people, and laws thereof, and conspiring, contriving and intending, by all the means in his power, to aid and assist the persons exercising the powers of said pretended government of the so-called Confederate States, in the State aforesaid, and being enemies of the said United States, and the laws thereof, in the prosecution of the said war against the United States, heretofore, and during the said war, to wit, on the tenth day of June, A.D. 1863, aforesaid, and on divers other days and times, as well before as after that day, the said Wyatt Flowers, with force and arms, to wit, the county of Franklin, in the State of Arkansas, maliciously and traitorously, did adhere to assist, engage with, and give aid and comfort to the said persons exercising the said powers of the so-called and pretended Confederate States Government, in the States aforesaid, then being enemies of the said Government and laws of the United States; and that in the prosecution, performance and execution of this the said Wyatt Flowers's treason and traitorous inciting, adhering to, assisting or engaging in such rebellion or insurrection, and to fulfill, perfect and bring the same to effect, he, the said Wyatt Flowers as such traitor as aforesaid, during the said war, to wit, on the tenth day of June, A.D. 1863 aforesaid, and on divers other days and times, as well before as after that day, at the county of Franklin the State of Arkansas, with force and arms, maliciously and traitorously did conspire, consult, consent and agree with one Jefferson Davis, one Robert E. Lee, and divers other false traitors, whose names are to the Jurors aforesaid unknown, to aid and assist, and to seduce, coerce and procure others, citizens of the said United States, to aid and assist the said persons engaged in the rebellion or insurrection aforesaid, and exercising the powers of said pretended government of the so-called Confederate States, within the States aforesaid, and being enemies to the United States as aforesaid, in a hostile invasion of the dominions of the United States, and in the prosecution of the said rebellion and war against the said United States; against the peace and dignity of the said United States, and contrary to the form of the Statute of the United States, in such case made and provided.

Jw. Young
Acting United States District Attorney
for the Western District of Arkansas

**********

Appearing in person before the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas in May term, 1866, Wyatt Flowers said that the United States "ought not further to prosecute the said indictment against him, the said Wyatt Flowers, because he says, that on the 27th day of April 1866, before George C Alden, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, in the State of Arkansas, he, the said Wyatt Flowers, did take and subscribe the oath prescribed by Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, in his Public Proclamation of general amnesty and pardon", etc.

We find no record of the ultimate outcome of the case, but history tells us that most of the small fry like Wyatt Flowers who were initially prosecuted in Arkansas were ultimately let off. And Flowers was definitely alive as late as early 1876, when his daughter Sarah Ann Flowers was conceived.

Wyatt married Mary Harris on 26 Sep 1859 in Franklin County, Arkansas. Mary was born about 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]