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RUFUS CRISP
RUFUS CRISP WAS BORN ABOUT 1820 IN BURKE, NORTH CAROLINA TO "A MAN BY THE NAME OF CRISP" AND SARAH JANE PROCK. (HIS FATHER WAS REPORTEDLY BORN ON THE OCEAN WHILE HIS FAMILY WAS COMING TO AMERICA FROM ENGLAND). HE WAS ONE OF SIX CHILDREN: HIRIM, JOE, ELIZABETH, SQUIRE AMOS, LENA AND RUFUS."
MILITARY: ON NOV. 1ST 1863 THE 16TH MISSOURI CAVALRY WAS FORMED AND RUFUS CRISP WAS LISTED ON THE COMPANY "G" MUSTER ROLL. HE WAS ALSO A PRIVATE IN COMPANY "G" WITH THE 6TH REGIMENT PROVINCIAL ENROLLED MISSOURI MILITIA WHICH WAS CALLED INTO SERVICE ON SEPTEMBER 25TH, 1864 TO REPEL PRICE'S INVASION OF MISSOURI. HE WAS PAID $100 FOR THE USE OF HIS HORSE AND EQUIPMENT FROM AUG.31, 1864 TO JAN. 1ST, 1865. THE MUSTER IN ROLL DATED AUG. 5, 1864 AT SPRINGFIELD, MO. STATED THAT HE WAS: BORN AT BURKE, NORTH CAROLINA; HIS AGE WAS 44 YRS; OCCUPATION - FARMER; AND ENLISTED JULY 20, 1864 AT HARTVILLE, MO. FOR 20 MONTHS. HIS DESCRIPTION WAS AS FOLLOWES: BLUE EYES, LIGHT HAIR, FAIR COMPLEXION, AND A
HHEIGHT OF 5'6". THIRTEEN MEN WERE KILLED AND 32 DIED FROM DISEASE. THE 1890 FEDERAL CENSUS LISTED RUPHUS CRISP AS A PRIVATE IN COMPANY "G" FROM THE 6TH MISSOURI CAVALRY WITH "RHUMATIS & HART DISEAS; NOW SUFFERING WITH LIVER TROUBLE." PENSION RECORDS LISTED RUFUS AS AN INVALID ON JUNE 30TH, 1876. HIS WIDOW, ROSELA CRISP, PETITIONED THE GOVERNMENT FOR A PENSION ON MARCH 8, 1901.
MARRIAGE & CENSUS: THE 1850 WRIGHT CO. MISSOURI CENSUS LISTED RUFUS AT 23 YEARS AND SUSANNA AT 30 AND THE 1860 CENSUS SHOWED HIS AGE AT 33 WITH MARTHA AT 33, JOHN R. AT 9, WM RW AT 4, MARTHA A. AT 3, ANDREW C. AT 2, AND MALENA AT 3/12. THE MARRIAGE OF RUFUS CRISP TO MARTHA YATES WAS RECORDED OCT. 1ST, 1854 IN THE LA CLEDE CO., MISSOURI REGSISTER. THE COLDWATER, MANES, WRIGHT CO., MISSOURI TOMBSTONE OF MARTHA LISTED HER BIRTH ON JUNE 15, 1820 AND DEATH ON JAN. 2, 1883. THE 1880 CENSUS LISTED RUFUS, AGE 64, AS A FARMER, PARENTS BORN IN N.C., WITH MARTHA HIS WIFE AND 5 CHILDREN AT HOME: COLUMBUS AT 21, JAHUE AT 19, MARY J. AT 17, SARAH C. AT 14, AND JAMES M. AT 10. RUFUS CRISP WAS SHOWN MARRIED 14 YEARS TO ROSE CRISP IN THE 1900 CENSUS, HE BEING ABOUT 85 YEARS OLD AND SHE 32. BY THEN THEY HAD 4 CHILDREN: FYAN AT 8, EMILY AT 4, RUFUS McK AT 2, AND EFFIE MAY AT 2/12. THE HEADSTONE FOR RUFUS CRISP, LOCATED IN THE EVENINGSHADE CEMETERY, NEAR MANES, WRIGHT CO., MISSOURI, LISTED HIS DEATH DATE AS FEB. 26, 1901.
PROPERTY: RUFUS' BROTHER, SQUIRE CRISP, WAS GRANTED PROPERTY IN WRIGHT CO. BY JOHN PROCK ON FEB. 28, 1859 (THEIR MOTHER WAS SARAH
JANE (PROCK) CRISP). RUFUS GRANTED PROPERTY TO WM B. TUNNELL ON OCT. 15, 1868. THE CRISP PROPERTY WAS LOCATED ON THE EAST SIDE
OF THE GASCONADE RIVER. THE FIRST PLAT MAP OF WRIGHT CO. SHOWS PROPERTY OWNED BY RUFUS CRISP DATING FROM AUG. 1, 1860, NEAR
PROPERTY OWNED BY SQUIRE CRISP & JOHN H. CRISP AND LATER, ADAM F. WOOLARD, STEPHEN WOOLARD, ROBERT T. WOOLARD, GEORGE R. CRISP,
HENRY CRISP, WILLIAM CRISP, JOHN PROCK, WM J. PROCK, AND RUFUS' SON, ANDREW C. CRISP.
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