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Re: Jim Jackson & David Plunket

Maybe this will help--

From “Historical Sketch of the Sixties in Chariton County, Missouri,” by Louis Benecke, 1909, p. 17 (citing a December 1864 story from the Missouri Republican newspaper, which in turn was citing a story from the Jefferson City Times)

“We learn that on Christmas Eve, the noted bushwhacker, Jim Jackson, and his men killed six men in Chariton county, a part of whom resided in Muscle Fork and th others on Bee Branch. Three of them, old man Lowe and son and a Mr. Jackson, where killed at home, and our informant supposed the others whose names are not given, were also. The murdered men were all Radical Unionists. We are told that this Jackson and his band of fiends, roam almost at pleasure over the counties of Chariton, Howard and that region of country.”

And then on page 18 (in documenting general depradations in the county committed by both sides)--

“...Among the property destroyed by fire, were the houses of Captain Herreford, Martin Hurt, Duncan Lock, Mr. Plunkett, Jackson J. Milles (Postmaster at Keytesville), and the tavern belonging to the Moore estate.... Not any of the above property was burned by bushwhackers or Southern soldiers. On the contrary, the destruction of life and property, not named above as committed by bushwhackers, was done by militia in the Federal service, from Putnam and Sullivan counties, as we are credibly informed by persons well acquainted with the fact....”

Note the name Plunkett there, as well as the reference to Putnam County, Missouri, which is a stone’s throw from Davis County, Iowa.

Perhaps David Plunkett was referred to by his middle name, and he shows up in the census reports as a middle initial D. Just a thought. In addition, perhaps a close search of “The History Of Howard and Cooper Counties, Missouri” (1883) and “The History of Howard and Chariton Counties, Missouri” (1883) will shed light on the subject of Plunket/Plunkett. Regretably, I do not have ready access to either publication at this time.

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