CONFEDERATE VETERANS OF WRIGHT COUNTY, MISSOURI Compiled/Copyrighted by Robert D. Caudle. If you have any additions, corrections or biographical information to add, please send them to Bob or to the page host. (See email addresses at bottom of page.) Added information will be in brown. K - Z Philip Keys According to the 1860 census for Wright Co. Mo. he was a farmer, age 45 born in Tenn. During the war he shot and killed a Union man named John Key, who engaged in taking corn from his cornfield, the act being done in self defense a few days before March 9, 1862. Philip was taken prisoner in the skirmish at Mountain Grove, Mo. as part of Joe Hopper's Confederate guerrillas in March 1862. Phillip H. Kincheloe Born, Nov. 1838 Kentucky (Richmond, Va.?) He is buried in the Kincheloe cemetery. Phillip arrived in Missouri from Breckinridge Co. Ken. in early 1840. in 1849 he moved to Wright Co. Mo. and settled along the Gasconade River in Montgomery Township. In 1854 he was a County Court Judge. He was a Confederate private, in Company H, 5th Mo. Inf. enlisting 6/1863 and was discharged in 1864. He was shot in the leg and was taken prisoner during the war. He lived in Manes, Mo. after the war and on Aug. 25, 1913 applied for a pension. (At the battle of Hartville, Mo. a private Kincheloe, Confederate soldier, first name and unit unknown, died of wounds in Hartville, Mo. Jan 11, 1863. Possibly Jessie Elias Kincheloe, born 1836 ?) Elijah McRoberts Sr. He is listed as having paid taxes in Wright Co. Mo. in 1861 and was a Confederate soldier during the war and killed at the battle of Big Blue. Frances McConnell McRoberts Buried in Coon Creek Cemetery. Confederate soldier during the war who was killed at the battle Blue Eye, Mo. (Big Blue) Oct. 1864 James F. Marcum Born Nov. 1833 in Tenn. He was a Confederate private in Company H, 1st Mo. Cav. 7/1861 to 4/1865. His back was injured by a bombshell during the war. He lived in Montgomery township in Wright Co. Mo. in 1890 Daniel J. Massey Born 1845 in Tenn. Died Sept. 1864. Buried in the Claxton Cemetery. He enlisted in the Confederate army on March 1, 1864 and died in Lebanon, Missouri of wounds received in action in Wright Co. Mo. July 22, 1864. A David J. Massey age 16 is listed in the 1860 census of Wright County, Mo. he died or was Killed in 1862. Born, 1841 in Tenn. and is buried in the Claxton Cemetery John Riley Massey Born 1839 in tenn. Died, 1888 buried in the Shaddy Cemetery. John came to Wright County, Mo. with his parents between 1850 and 1860 from Tennessee. During the war he enlisted, Aug. 1, 1863 in the Confederate army originally serving in Clark's Missouri Inf. later transferring to Capt. Von Phul's Mo. Light Artillery and on Dec 2, 1863 transferred back Clark's Mo. Inf. In 1888 John was killed when a team of horses ran away with him. Thomas Jefferson Montgomerie Born, Aug. 19, 1840 - 1 Wright Co. Mo. Died, Feb. 10, 1895 Buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Thomas attend the Mountain Grove Academy in which Simian W. Phillips was one of his first teachers. When the war broke out he went South and joined the Confederate army in Cockerel's brigade and served about three years. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he returned to Missouri. Silas Moon Born, Oct. 1843 Phelps Co., Mo. Died March 5, 1935. He entered the Confederate army in Wright Co. Mo. He applied for a pension Aug. 7, 19 while living in Mansfield, Mo. James C. Moore Born 1830 age 30 in 1860 census, Wright Co. Died Nov. 20, 1863 Camp Hazard Ark. He was a confederate Private in Company D, Moore's 10th Reg. Inf. Vol's. Co. H, 10th Ark. Inf. John Jackson Moore Born June 15, 1824 Monroe Co. , Tenn. Died March 25, 1906 near Lamb, Wright Co. Mo. buried in the Moore Cemetery. In the late 1830's he moved from Monroe Co. Tenn. to Montgomery township in Wright Co. Mo. During the Civil War John served in Company E, 73rd Missouri State Guard C.S.A. Silas Moore Born Oct. 1843 in Mo. He entered the Confederate army in Lebanon, Mo. in 1861. He was living in Hartville, Mo. when he applied for a pension on Oct. 3, 1921 at age 78. John House Moseley Born 1843 Hardin Co., Tenn. John is listed in the 1860 census for Wright Co. Mo. as age 15. He was a Confederate soldier during the war. Levi Perkins Neill Born Jan. 1, 1837 in Tenn., White Co. near Sparta. Died July 31, 1914 buried in Coldwater Cemetery. He was a farmer, justice of the peace and postmaster of St. George, Mo. Levi served as a private and first sgt. of Company E, 25th Tenn. Inf. He fought in the battle o Shiloh, Tenn., April 1862, Logan's Cross Roads, Ken. Jan. 1862 Nashville, Tenn. 1864 and Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 1863. He applied for a pension Aug. 18, 1913, age 76. Thomas James Neill Born 1841 in N.C. Died, Aug. 28, 1916 buried in the Coldwater Cemetery. He changed his name to James Thomas. He was a farmer, Methodist and a Democrat. During the war he served in Company K, Tenn. Reg. Mounted Inf. Thomas changed his belief from the Confederate to union army. When the family moved to Missouri he dressed in women's clothing in order to hide from Bushwhackers. After leaving Competition, Mo. Thomas bought a farm near St. George, Elk Creek Township, Wright Co., Mo. Mikeal Newbery He was a Confederate soldier who lived in Mountain Grove, Mo. in 1890. Alexander Newton Born, Sept. 30, 1810 Va. Died Dec. 20, 1878 Buried in Aneock Cemetery. Alexander was a confederate soldier during the Civil War. James Newton He is listed as having paid taxes in Wright Co. Mo. in 1861 and was a Confederate soldier who was hanged by Federals 8 miles west of the courthouse. James Newton, age 19 according to the 1860 census for Wright Co. Mo. Henry Nickle He migrated to Wright Co. Mo. from Tenn. Henry was a Confederate soldier during the war and was never heard form and presumed killed in action. William Nickle Born 1840 Tenn. Died 1920 William migrated to Wright Co. Mo. from Tenn. by way of Shelby Co. Ill. shortly before the Civil War. He was a Confederate soldier during the war. He returned to Wright County after the war and taught school and studied law becoming a lawyer. He was elected to two tms as probate judge of Wright Co. from 1907 to 1914. Samuel Thomas Nunn also known as "Dick". Born April 2, 1846. Died March 19, 1922 Presley, Texas. Samuel received his education in Wright County, Mo. and helped his father with the farm. In Feb. 1863, just short of his 17th birthday, he joined the Confederate army, in Company G, 3rd Missouri Cavalry with his friend, T. J. Merrell in Howell County, Mo. He served under Capt. Peter Sanders who would later become his father- in-law. He fought in Gen. Price's army, surrendering May 11, 1865 at Jacksonport, Ark. After the war Samuel was a farmer, a dedicated member of the Church of Christ, and a faithful member of the Masonic Order. He moved to Arkansas and in the late 1880's moved to Texas. Morris S. Oliver Born May 184-. Died 1892 buried in the Bethel Cemetery. Morris was a Confederate soldier in Company E, 22nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment. In 1863 he was captured in the retreat from the Battle of Gettysburg, Penn. and was a prisoner of war until next Spring, when an uncle, Morris H. Oliver of Indiana, took him out of prison and carried him to his home in that state, where he remained until the end of the war. He moved to Iowa and after spending one year there moved to Weight Co., Missouri where he bought land settled on the Gasconade River. William John Paden Born, (1846 Ala.? 1844 Tenn.) Died 1921. Hillcrest Cemetery. He lived Ash Flat, Sharp County, Arkansas before the war. He went to Alabama to visit relatives when the war broke out, while there he was conscripted by the Confederate army serving till 1865. He returned to Ash Flat after the war. In 1869 he and his family moved to a farm two miles north of Dunn, Texas co. Mo. In 1883 they moved a few miles Southwest to Mountain Grove, Mo. where he became a partner in a store and helped organize the Mountain Grove bank and was director for 30 years. John Patterson Born 1846. He was a Confederate soldier during the war. His father, Alfred and his brothers possibly fought in the war also. Simeon W. Phillips Simeon founded the academy in Mountain Grove, Mo. and taught there until moving to Hartville, Mo. in 1861. He joined the Missouri State Guard as Quartermaster Sgt., 3rd Mo. Battery. organized by Emmitt McDonald's Battery. Sgt. Phillips was detailed as musician at Brigade headquarters and remained on this duty during the remainder of the war. He was captured at Vicksburg, Miss. and was paroled and was captured again at the battle of Franklin, Tenn. 1864. He is listed as living in Wright Co. Mo. in the 1870 census for Wright Co. as age 36. Thomas Henderson Poindexter Jr.