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The sword was in the possession of James Dysart (grandson of Col James Dysart of Kins's Mountain fame) and was taken during the Civil War from the family farm near St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. Property in Missouri from a land grant of David Ewing, a Great Uncle of the Ewing boys, married a Dysart, moved about 1863. Owned slaves. Served in the C.S.A. near Springfield. Started a Presbyterian Church, secured 22 men and women and chartered the church under a committee of Upper Missouri Presbytery, February 12, 1854. He and Colonel Carson, their wives, Nancy Lankford, were charter members and Colonel Carson and Colonel Dysart were two of the first three Elders. May 3, 1857, Providence Church organized near Dysart home. Flourished until Civil War. Helen Dysart Fogg's husband John built the Walnut Grove Church in 1872. This James (b. December 21, 1817)was the grandfather of Mima Malcolm Raffington (born just after the Civil War)through James' eldest child Sarah Jane Dysart (b. February 10, 1845). There is a website where Mima describes her mother and all of her Aunts and Uncles, i.e. "Sarah Jane Dysart, my Mother, was considered a beautiful girl, well formed, with nut brown hair and dancing black eyes. Returning from a visit to Kentucky in 1865, she met my Father, Charles S. Raffington, who was living at the Dysart home, and teaching the Walnut Grove School. He was an Englishman, born in the West Indies, and loving knowledge more than any thing in the world. They were married the next year, and he taught Latin, Greek and higher mathematics at Platte City Academy. After a time they returned to Walnut Grove and lived at Sunnyside, as he called it, given to Mother by her Father. Again he taught at Walnut Grove, teaching his young sisters-in-law, and doing much to mould their lives. In 1886, after the death of Mabel, a beloved daughter, a little girl of eleven, they moved to 1602 Faracn, St. Joseph, which has been the family home ever since. Father died in 1889, leaving her a widow at forty-four, with a large family and no means. Only her supreme faith, her strong will and patient sewing, together with the help of the kin, saw us through those difficult years; but the three older boys soon graduated from Dental college and the worst was over. Then Stanley became advertising manager for the International Harvester, and Gus a pharmacist, and I a teacher, so that her last days were untroubled. She lived to be nearly ninety eight, looked up to by the entire clan, a woman who loved, trusted and served God all of her days. She died September 24, l942. Only two of her children are living, Walter, and myself. There are six grandchildren, ten great grandchildren and four great, great grandchildren.
Mima Malcolm Raffington
St. Joseph, Missouri
1960"
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