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Re: Shannon County Jayhawkers Chronister, Chilton,

Gerald, I KNOW!! It's so puzzling, and thanks for sending the land patent info, I looked it up at the GLO site and it doesn't give anymore information beyond the coordinates of the land.

In 1850 there are these two Chronister families in Reynolds Co/Logan Twp:

CHRONISTER, James 27 MO
Winny 23 MO
James 8 MO
Geo. W. 5 MO
Elizabth 2 MO
Henry 6 months MO
Mary 63 VA
William 14 MO

CHRONISTER, William 24 MO
Mary Ann 21 TN
Martha A. 3 MO
Mary J. 1 MO
Thomas 1 month MO

See that William age 14 in the household of James Chronister? I think that's the one you found on the 1860 census, with wife Sarah age 20 and three children Charles 4, James 2 and Charlotte 8 months.

The OLDER William, who would be about 34 in 1860, I can't find. James Chronister from the 1850 census is on the 1860 census in Reynolds Co MO, and then goes to Arkansas where his widow Winnie is found on the 1870 in Johnson County. Maybe the younger William goes with him. But I don't find him there in 1870, maybe am not looking in the right place.

And you are absolutely right, what confuses things more is that 1870 census listing for the OLDER William, because the names of the children are similiar to the household which I think is the younger William in 1860, but it doesn't look like the two households were combined into one, because none of the ages match up at all.

What I was trying to nail down is which one of these Williams (the older or the younger) is the one who is called "Captain William Chronister" in the article from the Current Local. I know the older William served in Clardy's Battln, Cav, CSA, because his age at enlistment is given in the records. But perhaps the younger William is the one who is running around nabbing horses from Federal Camps? It's all very confusing. If I could only find the older William in 1860, it might help clear things up. Very frustrating.
Thanks for your help,
Cynthia

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