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Thanks John. This was a good read, and well-documented. One thought: If the circuit courts were involved in this process, is it possible that in counties where the court officials were opposed to the Confiscation Act, it wasn't enforced as much?

From online records Parsons was caught in the Confiscation Act, but specific records will require a trip to the State Archives. Along with the 200 acres in Cole County, 600 acres of land in Miller County was listed. Two Miller County names listed in the Provost Marshal database are very familiar - James Johnson (Mexican-American War Veteran and Captain of the Osage Tigers, Missouri State Guard) and Daniel Cummings (Mercantile owner and into pretty much every Civil War event around Tuscumbia). I was more interested in the land Parsons owned near Herman Scheuler in St. Thomas, but I have easier access to the records in Miller County so may work on that first.

The points made in the paper tie to research about a prosperous Miller County family who lost everything in the 1870's after the father took the family savings to pay off a note he had co-signed for a relative in Virginia. Apparently, someone told the father that due to some new laws he didn't have to pay it off, but he felt obligated to do so. The greatest thing about this story is that seventy years ago a family member had the foresight, and technology, to record the son, born in 1864, telling about his life, and living in Miller County in that era.

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