James B Clampitt ^47,48,49

  General Notes:

JAMES B. CLAMPITT WAS A YANKEE IN THE CIVIL WAR. IN HIS DECLARATION FOR PENSION COPIED AT THE ARCHIVES THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS DESCRIBED: ON 24 APRIL 1909 HE WAS 70 YEARS OF AGE AND A RESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL MILITARY HOME IN THE COUNTY OF LEAVENWORTH, STATE OF KANSAS. HE ENROLLED AS A PRIVATE IN THE NORTHERN ARMY ON 22 FEBRUARY 1862, AND WAS ASSIGNED TO CO. B 3RD REGIMENT MISSOURI S. M. CAVALRY. HE HAD A LIGHT COMPLEXION, BLUE EYES, AND LIGHT HAIR. HE ENROLLED IN ATLAS, ILL. IN THE ARMY. IN A STATEMENT IN 1898 FOR PENSION, HE DECLARED THAT HIS WIFE WAS DEAD; AS THE STORY GOES HOWEVER SOMETIME AFTER THE WAR A CARPETBAGGER CAME ALONG TO "HARASS" JAMES, SO JAMES KILLED HIM. HE HAD TO LEAVE THE TERRITORY FOR A TIME. IN THE MEANTIME, HIS WIFE OBTAINED A DIVORCE, AND REMARRIED A WILLIAM BROWN ON 24 NOV 1887. AS SHE NO LONGER BORE THE NAME CLAMPITT, AND DIVORCE WAS NOT A FREQUENT OCCURRENCE BACK THEN, SHE REALLY WAS NOT TRACEABLE. ONE OF THE CONDITIONS OF AN OLD SOLDIER'S HOME TO SET UP RESIDENCY, IT HAS BEEN CONJECTURED TODAY, WAS TO BE WIDOWED. OR PERHAPS, JAMES WAS ASHAMED OF HIS PAST, AND ASHAMED OF THE DIVORCE.

IN JULY OF 1862 WHILE ON A MARCH FROM A FIGHT AT MOORS MILL NEAR FULTON IN CALAWAY COUNTY, MO, MY HORSE FELL WITH ME AND CAUSED MY RUPTURE WHICH I HAVE SUFFERED MORE OR LESS EVERSINCE.

?? IN 1896 DR. BRADLY OF FRANKFORD MO WORKED ON ME NOV & DECEMBER ALSO IN MARCH 1897 AND USING MEDICINE ALL THE TIME AND I CAN (NOT CLEAR) MY RUPTURE AND PILES WAS NOT CAUSED BY ANY VISCIOUS HABITS OR FROM ANY OTHER CAUSE ONLY AS I HAVE STATED. - SIGNED WITH HIS MARK "X" ON THE 20TH NOV. 1897.

ON JAN. 16 1891, HE SIGNED A DPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM FOR PENSION WHICH MADE THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL CLAIM: HE WAS DISCHARGED IN MACON CITY MO ON MARCH 15, 1865. WHILE ON DUTY IN IRONTON, MO. ON OR ABOUT THE SUMMER OF 1863 HE WAS DISABLED BY CONTRACTING CHRONIC DIARRHEA RESULTED IN A DISABILITY OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELLS, AND RECTUM; PILES HAD MALARIA DIS. OF KIDNEYS & INDIGESTION. ALSO RECEIVED INJURY TO RIGHT HIP.

AFTER JAMES LEFT FOR "INDIAN TERRITORY", SO THE STORY GOES, BECAUSE THERE WAS A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON MURDER THERE, LIZZIE WAS LEFT WITH SEVERAL MINOR CHILDREN. SHE WAS FORCED TO "FARM" THEM OUT (CORRECTION HERE - JAMES WIFE WAS NOT LIZZIE BUT EMILY). EMILY KEPT ETHEL AND LIZZIE WITH HER, AND WITHIN A FEW YEARS EMILY BOWMAN CLAMPITT MARRIED WILLIAM BROWN. BOTH OF HER HUSBANDS ARE BURIED WITH HER IN THE CEMETERY.

James married Emily Jane Bowman, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 5 Dec 1860 in Pike County, Ill. The marriage ended in divorce. (Emily Jane Bowman was born on 5 Aug 1843 in Owen Co., Indiana, died on 2 Jan 1917 in Parsons, Labette County, KS and was buried in Jan 1917 in Oakwood Cem, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas.)