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Dear Judie,Yes Civil War stories are really interesting as is what the time did to families.My Keltner stories on this period are not even my best.I was also lucky enough to have an ancestor that kept a daily journal and wrote many letters home. His 12 year old son even ran away twice to join the war .They gave up sending him home and made him a drummer boy. Sad to say the Keltner families were mostly semiliterate and illiterate and left only nearly forgotten oral traditions. To your question James A. Keltner died to the best of our knowledge on 19 Jan 1918 at Gumbo,Mo. which is in St. Francois Co. I have never been able to get a death certificate after 3 tries. I even wrote the bureaucrats an explaination of the Possible missfilings ,misspellings and handwriting problems.Possibly at that early date it was neglected even though required.I also have failed to get back to an undertaker I asked to search for his grave several years ago. I never found him on the 1870 Census if you have or do please let me know. One clue is a voter record on James A. in Iron Co. in 1867 which may be him. I doubt it was his cousin who shows up in other records that year in the Christian Co. area where he died a few years later. E nough for now. BRIAN KELTNER
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