Don:
William Brownlee Lotspeich
2nd Cav Co A MSG
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Quantrill's Company
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Entry in SOS file from Brownlee Grey Ghosts..
He was born 3 Jan 1836 in Tennessee died 3 OCT 1863 in Baxter Springs, Kansas.
From Bob? Young...
"In the middle 1850's the Lotspeich's moved from Cocke Co. Tennessee to eastern Cass Co. and western Henry Co., north of Creighton, Missouri.
There was the father James A. Lotspeich and his second family along with three grown sons by his first wife and their families.
Among the grown sons were George Atherton, Valentine Sevier, Roten Fleming and William B.
1. Valentine & Roten bought some land and established a store in what became the city of Grant.
2. In 1857, George who had married is 1st cousin Martha Lotspeich bought a farm south of Grant near where Wadesburg was later established.
3. William B. farmed with his father in Henry Co..
Of course we all know the troubles of Cass Co. residents during the Civil War.
The Lotspeich's were know for their outspoken nature and were Pro slavery. In Oct of 1861 the word got out that some of the locals were going to kill the Lotspeich's. The two brothers (Valentine and Roten) that owned the store gathered their families and what goods they could and came by George's and said they were going back to Tenn. and wanted him to go with them. He told them this was his home and he was staying. That night Oct 13,1861 some riders rode up and one called to George. George recognized the man's voice and thought he had come to warn or help him.
George went outside and realized he was wrong and turned to get his gun, just inside the door. He was shot in the back three times. Leaving his wife and three small children. One of those children, James George, was my grandfather. George A. was buried in Pemberton Cemetery in Johnson Co. because of fear of his grave being molested. (Grant cemetery was just a mile or so north of his home and many Lotspeich's are buried there). The cabin was not lived in for over two years. The family bible was placed in the rafters before they left. I have that Family Bible.
From the book "Military Operation of the Civil War Volume V. Trans-Mississippi and Pacific Coast Theaters of Operation. On page 97 it list 9-July-1862 a skirmish at the Lotspeach Farm near Wadesburg. (Of course this was with Quantrell which you have read the accounts at the Sears farm later). One of the participants of this skirmish was the Iowa 1st Cavalry. One of the soldiers in the Iowa 1st Cavalry was Hosea F. Lotspeich, a 1/2 brother of Martha Lotspeich, George's wife.
Another skirmish at Wadesburg happened on 24-Dec-1861 with the Cass Co. home guard, Cavalry Co. A. Two rebels were killed and two of the home guards were wounded.
In a diary of the Civil War by Cyrus Brooks Lotspeich in Dec 1861, he mentions the Red Legs from Kansas and Sandy Lowe from Wadesburg in Cass Co., a man who had killed many people in that country, made it dangerous for one of his stripe to stay there. (He was talking of his home near Rose Hill on Panther Creek). After the war C. B. Lotspeich became the postmaster at Index.
I have no proof, but I have always thought that Sandy Lowe had something to do with George Lotspeich's death.
William B. Lotspeich a brother of George's apparently distraught over the death of his brother evidently joined Qunatrell and his men. That was one of the reasons Qunatrell was on the Lotspeich Farm in July 1862. William was killed near Fort Scott, Kansas when Qunatrell was on his way south to the Indian Nation.
Lotspeach, William + Quantrill Killed 1863
Had a farm on Sugar Creek, near Wadesburg, Cass Co.. On 10 July
1862, Maj. James O. Gower with a detachment of 1st Iowa Cavalry,
and 65 men from the 7th MO Cavalry under Capt. William A. Martin
from Harrisonville, along with 63 men from the 1st MO Cavalry
under Capt. Martin Kehoe attacked the guerrilla camp nearby."
Father James Axley Lotspeich b b: 24 MAY 1801 in Greenville, Greene Co.,
Mother Malinda FARNSWORTH
Above listing matches 1860 Census Dwelling 618, Grand River, Henry, Missouri. He is listed as farming with James as HOH.
Name: James Axley LOTSPEICH
Birth: 24 MAY 1801 in Greenville, Greene Co.
Death: 13 APR 1886 in Greene, TN 1
Note:
[Young.FTW]
Father: Johann Christopher LOTSCHBERG b: 11 JUL 1750 in Frankenthal, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany
Mother: Rebecca Barbara HARTLEY b: 1755
Marriage 1 Elizabeth WHITTENBERG b: 1797-1817
Marriage 2 Malinda FARNSWORTH b: 1782-1807
Married: 7 SEP 1818 in Greene, TN
Children
Alexander Lewis LOTSPEICH b: 7 JUL 1820 in TN
Valentine Sevier LOTSPEICH b: 3 JAN 1822 in Greene, TN
Amos Wells LOTSPEICH b: 19 JAN 1824
George Atherton LOTSPEICH b: 5 DEC 1825 in TN
Newton Hearn LOTSPEICH b: 4 OCT 1827
Minerva Jane LOTSPEICH b: 11 APR 1829
Roten Fleming LOTSPEICH b: 7 MAR 1831 in TN
Malinda Emmaline LOTSPEICH b: 14 OCT 1832
James Oliver LOTSPEICH b: 13 FEB 1834 in TN
William B. LOTSPEICH b: 3 JAN 1836 in TN
John R.