Lassiter, Jesse , d. 12/02/1862, Plot: 49 0 429,
THE FAMILY OF JESSE LASSITER
of Independence County Arkansas
AND
THE CIVIL WAR
Jesse Lassiter, born in North Carolina in 1804, came to Arkansas in 1857, bringing with him his wife, the former Mary S. Matthews and 11 of their 12 children. The family had formerly resided in McNairy Co. TN and in Tippah Co. MS and may have moved to northern AR to escape from the growing tension over slavery and secession. But the tragedy of the Civil War was to involve the Lassiters, bringing death and division as it did to so many families in this part of the country. Lassiter settled his family in Washington Township, in the Graham Community, except for his oldest son, William, who was already married with a family of his own. William and his wife, Margaret Robinson are found at Black Oak in Union Township in the 1860 census.
When the Civil War began, all the lassiter men favored loyalty to the Union. They managed to avoid Confederate conscription until the 1st AR Inf, USA, made up of Union loyalist, was orgainized in 1862. Enrolled in Company D at Jacksonport on July 1 were Jesse Lassiter and five of his sons - William, John, Francis Marion, Jesse and Thomas J.
Company D mustered in at Helena on July 20, and there Francis M. Lassiter died a month later of unknown causes. Although it saw no real action in the war, the company was devastated by diseases such as measles and dysentery. In October the men were sent to Benton Barracks in St. Louis "owing to the great amount of sickness" and on Dec 31 the survivors were mustered out. Some of the men joined other Union regiments, but the Lassiters chose to remain in the Rolla, Mo. area until the war was over. Their father, Jesse, stricken with typhoid fever, had died Dec 2 at the New House of Refuge, a hospital in St. Louis, at age 58. He lies buried in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery...
The Lassiter's returned to this area about 1868 and settled in Jefferson Township. The mother died soon after and was buried in Blackburn Cemetery near Cushman.
about Jesse Lassiter
Name: Jesse Lassiter
Service Info.: US Army
Death Date: 2 Dec 1862
Interment Date: 2 Dec 1862
Cemetery: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 2900 Sheridan Road St. Louis , MO 63125
Buried At: Section 49 Site 429
His wife was Mary Sara Mathis, born about 1812
in North Carolina.
It is believed she died 12/11/1873, and was buried in Blackburn Cemetery, Independence County, Arkansas.
Children
William M
Nancy Ann
John Allen
Francis Asberry
Mary Jane
Francis Marion
Jesse Cecil
Thomas J
Robert Franklin
Julia Ann
Peter Pryor
David Ardvine Andrew
Arvena A
His parents are disputed
William Lasater MEMORIAL ID 35743008
Susan Tudor MEMORIAL ID 19556238
Or
Micajah Benson Lassiter Sr. MEMORIAL ID 60045361
Celia Spivey 1765-1810???
Or
Harmon Lassiter ???
5/4/2023 Contributor: KatieMac (46896687) • [email protected]
Jesse Lassiter (65632304)
Suggested edit: I am working DNA matches in Ancestry. One of my matches is a descendant of Jesse and Mary. The only shared line I find is Sarah Tudor whose father is my 5th gr-grandfather. So it would seem more likely the William Lasater- Sarah Tudor parentage than Micajah Lassiter. The other siblings seem to have kept that rather odd spelling Lasater.
THE FAMILY OF JESSE LASSITER
of Independence County Arkansas
AND
THE CIVIL WAR
Jesse Lassiter, born in North Carolina in 1804, came to Arkansas in 1857, bringing with him his wife, the former Mary S. Matthews and 11 of their 12 children. The family had formerly resided in McNairy Co. TN and in Tippah Co. MS and may have moved to northern AR to escape from the growing tension over slavery and secession. But the tragedy of the Civil War was to involve the Lassiters, bringing death and division as it did to so many families in this part of the country. Lassiter settled his family in Washington Township, in the Graham Community, except for his oldest son, William, who was already married with a family of his own. William and his wife, Margaret Robinson are found at Black Oak in Union Township in the 1860 census.
When the Civil War began, all the lassiter men favored loyalty to the Union. They managed to avoid Confederate conscription until the 1st AR Inf, USA, made up of Union loyalist, was orgainized in 1862. Enrolled in Company D at Jacksonport on July 1 were Jesse Lassiter and five of his sons - William, John, Francis Marion, Jesse and Thomas J.
Company D mustered in at Helena on July 20, and there Francis M. Lassiter died a month later of unknown causes. Although it saw no real action in the war, the company was devastated by diseases such as measles and dysentery. In October the men were sent to Benton Barracks in St. Louis "owing to the great amount of sickness" and on Dec 31 the survivors were mustered out. Some of the men joined other Union regiments, but the Lassiters chose to remain in the Rolla, Mo. area until the war was over. Their father, Jesse, stricken with typhoid fever, had died Dec 2 at the New House of Refuge, a hospital in St. Louis, at age 58. He lies buried in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery...
The Lassiter's returned to this area about 1868 and settled in Jefferson Township. The mother died soon after and was buried in Blackburn Cemetery near Cushman.
about Jesse Lassiter
Name: Jesse Lassiter
Service Info.: US Army
Death Date: 2 Dec 1862
Interment Date: 2 Dec 1862
Cemetery: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 2900 Sheridan Road St. Louis , MO 63125
Buried At: Section 49 Site 429
His wife was Mary Sara Mathis, born about 1812
in North Carolina.
It is believed she died 12/11/1873, and was buried in Blackburn Cemetery, Independence County, Arkansas.
Children
William M
Nancy Ann
John Allen
Francis Asberry
Mary Jane
Francis Marion
Jesse Cecil
Thomas J
Robert Franklin
Julia Ann
Peter Pryor
David Ardvine Andrew
Arvena A
His parents are disputed
William Lasater MEMORIAL ID 35743008
Susan Tudor MEMORIAL ID 19556238
Or
Micajah Benson Lassiter Sr. MEMORIAL ID 60045361
Celia Spivey 1765-1810???
Or
Harmon Lassiter ???
5/4/2023 Contributor: KatieMac (46896687) • [email protected]
Jesse Lassiter (65632304)
Suggested edit: I am working DNA matches in Ancestry. One of my matches is a descendant of Jesse and Mary. The only shared line I find is Sarah Tudor whose father is my 5th gr-grandfather. So it would seem more likely the William Lasater- Sarah Tudor parentage than Micajah Lassiter. The other siblings seem to have kept that rather odd spelling Lasater.
Lassiter, Jesse , d. 12/02/1862, Plot: 49 0 429,
THE FAMILY OF JESSE LASSITER
of Independence County Arkansas
AND
THE CIVIL WAR
Jesse Lassiter, born in North Carolina in 1804, came to Arkansas in 1857, bringing with him his wife, the former Mary S. Matthews and 11 of their 12 children. The family had formerly resided in McNairy Co. TN and in Tippah Co. MS and may have moved to northern AR to escape from the growing tension over slavery and secession. But the tragedy of the Civil War was to involve the Lassiters, bringing death and division as it did to so many families in this part of the country. Lassiter settled his family in Washington Township, in the Graham Community, except for his oldest son, William, who was already married with a family of his own. William and his wife, Margaret Robinson are found at Black Oak in Union Township in the 1860 census.
When the Civil War began, all the lassiter men favored loyalty to the Union. They managed to avoid Confederate conscription until the 1st AR Inf, USA, made up of Union loyalist, was orgainized in 1862. Enrolled in Company D at Jacksonport on July 1 were Jesse Lassiter and five of his sons - William, John, Francis Marion, Jesse and Thomas J.
Company D mustered in at Helena on July 20, and there Francis M. Lassiter died a month later of unknown causes. Although it saw no real action in the war, the company was devastated by diseases such as measles and dysentery. In October the men were sent to Benton Barracks in St. Louis "owing to the great amount of sickness" and on Dec 31 the survivors were mustered out. Some of the men joined other Union regiments, but the Lassiters chose to remain in the Rolla, Mo. area until the war was over. Their father, Jesse, stricken with typhoid fever, had died Dec 2 at the New House of Refuge, a hospital in St. Louis, at age 58. He lies buried in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery...
The Lassiter's returned to this area about 1868 and settled in Jefferson Township. The mother died soon after and was buried in Blackburn Cemetery near Cushman.
about Jesse Lassiter
Name: Jesse Lassiter
Service Info.: US Army
Death Date: 2 Dec 1862
Interment Date: 2 Dec 1862
Cemetery: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 2900 Sheridan Road St. Louis , MO 63125
Buried At: Section 49 Site 429
His wife was Mary Sara Mathis, born about 1812
in North Carolina.
It is believed she died 12/11/1873, and was buried in Blackburn Cemetery, Independence County, Arkansas.
Children
William M
Nancy Ann
John Allen
Francis Asberry
Mary Jane
Francis Marion
Jesse Cecil
Thomas J
Robert Franklin
Julia Ann
Peter Pryor
David Ardvine Andrew
Arvena A
His parents are disputed
William Lasater MEMORIAL ID 35743008
Susan Tudor MEMORIAL ID 19556238
Or
Micajah Benson Lassiter Sr. MEMORIAL ID 60045361
Celia Spivey 1765-1810???
Or
Harmon Lassiter ???
5/4/2023 Contributor: KatieMac (46896687) • [email protected]
Jesse Lassiter (65632304)
Suggested edit: I am working DNA matches in Ancestry. One of my matches is a descendant of Jesse and Mary. The only shared line I find is Sarah Tudor whose father is my 5th gr-grandfather. So it would seem more likely the William Lasater- Sarah Tudor parentage than Micajah Lassiter. The other siblings seem to have kept that rather odd spelling Lasater.
THE FAMILY OF JESSE LASSITER
of Independence County Arkansas
AND
THE CIVIL WAR
Jesse Lassiter, born in North Carolina in 1804, came to Arkansas in 1857, bringing with him his wife, the former Mary S. Matthews and 11 of their 12 children. The family had formerly resided in McNairy Co. TN and in Tippah Co. MS and may have moved to northern AR to escape from the growing tension over slavery and secession. But the tragedy of the Civil War was to involve the Lassiters, bringing death and division as it did to so many families in this part of the country. Lassiter settled his family in Washington Township, in the Graham Community, except for his oldest son, William, who was already married with a family of his own. William and his wife, Margaret Robinson are found at Black Oak in Union Township in the 1860 census.
When the Civil War began, all the lassiter men favored loyalty to the Union. They managed to avoid Confederate conscription until the 1st AR Inf, USA, made up of Union loyalist, was orgainized in 1862. Enrolled in Company D at Jacksonport on July 1 were Jesse Lassiter and five of his sons - William, John, Francis Marion, Jesse and Thomas J.
Company D mustered in at Helena on July 20, and there Francis M. Lassiter died a month later of unknown causes. Although it saw no real action in the war, the company was devastated by diseases such as measles and dysentery. In October the men were sent to Benton Barracks in St. Louis "owing to the great amount of sickness" and on Dec 31 the survivors were mustered out. Some of the men joined other Union regiments, but the Lassiters chose to remain in the Rolla, Mo. area until the war was over. Their father, Jesse, stricken with typhoid fever, had died Dec 2 at the New House of Refuge, a hospital in St. Louis, at age 58. He lies buried in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery...
The Lassiter's returned to this area about 1868 and settled in Jefferson Township. The mother died soon after and was buried in Blackburn Cemetery near Cushman.
about Jesse Lassiter
Name: Jesse Lassiter
Service Info.: US Army
Death Date: 2 Dec 1862
Interment Date: 2 Dec 1862
Cemetery: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 2900 Sheridan Road St. Louis , MO 63125
Buried At: Section 49 Site 429
His wife was Mary Sara Mathis, born about 1812
in North Carolina.
It is believed she died 12/11/1873, and was buried in Blackburn Cemetery, Independence County, Arkansas.
Children
William M
Nancy Ann
John Allen
Francis Asberry
Mary Jane
Francis Marion
Jesse Cecil
Thomas J
Robert Franklin
Julia Ann
Peter Pryor
David Ardvine Andrew
Arvena A
His parents are disputed
William Lasater MEMORIAL ID 35743008
Susan Tudor MEMORIAL ID 19556238
Or
Micajah Benson Lassiter Sr. MEMORIAL ID 60045361
Celia Spivey 1765-1810???
Or
Harmon Lassiter ???
5/4/2023 Contributor: KatieMac (46896687) • [email protected]
Jesse Lassiter (65632304)
Suggested edit: I am working DNA matches in Ancestry. One of my matches is a descendant of Jesse and Mary. The only shared line I find is Sarah Tudor whose father is my 5th gr-grandfather. So it would seem more likely the William Lasater- Sarah Tudor parentage than Micajah Lassiter. The other siblings seem to have kept that rather odd spelling Lasater.
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