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Elisha S. Strutton

(printed in THE MILLER COUNTY AUTOGRAM-SENTINEL in the column, 'WINDOW TO THE PAST', March 25, 2013)

Elisha S. Strutton was born in Burke County, North Carolina in 1840 and died 1922 at Hawkeye (Pulaski Co., MO).... Elisha Strutton was a son of Joseph and Christina Strutton of Burke County, No. Carolina. Elisha's first wife was Narcissa/Narcissus Cathrine Carroll, called "Sis", a daughter of Miles and Ruah (Setser) Carroll of the Madden community. The Strutton and Carroll families camed to Miller County together in a wagon train in the mid 1850s from North Carolina via Georgia, so had known each other for quite sometime.

Elisha and Narcissa were parents of 8 children, but 6 died when young. The children were:

WILLIAM H. STRUTTON 1861-1866;
JOSEPH M. STRUTTON 1863-1864;
HENRY WASHINGTON STRUTTON 1866-1952 m. Sarah J. Shelton;
CHARLES FRANKLIN STRUTTON 1869-1871;
ROBERT SYLVESTER STRUTTON 1871-1889;
ALFRED JACOB STRUTTON 1873-1922 m. Hester Brumley;
JOHN EDWARD STRUTTON
RUAH CHRISTINE STRUTTON, [twin to John Edward-- they were both born and died in 1874.]

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Elisha Strutton

Elisha S. Strutton

(Printed in THE MILLER COUNTY AUTOGRAM-SENTINEL in the column, 'WINDOW TO THE PAST', March 25, 2013)

Elisha S. Strutton was born in Burke County, North Carolina in 1840 and died 1922 at Hawkeye (Pulaski Co., MO) ... Elisha Strutton was a son of Joseph and Christina Strutton of Burke County, No. Carolina. Elisha's first wife was Narcissa/Narcissus Cathrine Carroll, called "Sis", a daughter of Miles and Ruah (Setser) Carroll of the Madden community. The Strutton and Carroll families camed to Miller County together in a wagon train in the mid 1850s from North Carolina via Georgia, so had known each other for quite sometime. Elisha and Narcissa were parents of 8 children, but 6 died when young. The children were: WILLIAM H. STRUTTON 1861-1866; JOSEPH M. STRUTTON 1863-1864; HENRY WASHINGTON STRUTTON 1866-1952 m. Sarah J. Shelton; CHARLES FRANKLIN STRUTTON 1869-1871; ROBERT SYLVESTER STRUTTON 1871-1889; ALFRED JACOB STRUTTON 1873-1922 m. Hester Brumley; JOHN EDWARD STRUTTON; RUAH CHRISTINE STRUTTON, [twin to John Edward-- both born and died in 1874.]

Narcissa died in 1887 and in 1889, Elisha married Mary Viola Sipe (1861-1931) at Iberia. He was about 20 years older than Mary Viola when they married. Elisha and Mary were parents of 6 children but I could only find record of five--- Ella Catherine 1889-1963 --never married; Jenny Belle 1891-1893; James Harrison 1893-1924 m. Iva E. Day; Joseph Benjamin 1895-1983 m. Grace Ellen Moneymaker; Bert McKinley 1897-1985 m. Rettie Arvilla Luttrell.

The 6th child was a daughter but I do not know her name nor when she was born.

Elisha w/ wife, Mary (Sipe) children: James, Benjamin, Bert, Ella.

During his lifetime Elisha was a farmer, carpenter, minister of the gospel and at one time owned a general store.

During the Civil War he served as a Sergeant in Company M. 3rd Missouri Cavalry and acted as a scout for the Union Army. He received wounds in the right shoulder and knee during one of the battles. There was a fight on the streets of Iberia in December 1865 which arose over old hatreds caused by the Civil War. The outlook and thoughts were so different between many old friends who had fought on seperate sides in the war. Several were killed in the fight, including a woman, and there was a hearing in the circuit court of Miller County concerning the afray.....Elisha Strutton was one of the witnesses. I have researched and wrote a story of that infamous fight in the little frontier town of Iberia and it sounded much like the fights in the Old West between outlaw factions.

Ella Catherine Strutton, the only surviving daughter of Elisha and Mary Viola, never married. She died on January 29, 1963 and was buried in the Crocker Memorial Cemetery but as far as determined has no grave stone to mark her grave site. The Strutton families are buried in several cemeteries in Miller and Pulaski counties.......Elisha was buried at Hawkeye (Pulaski County); his first wife, Narcissa Carroll-Strutton is in the Madden cemetery (Miller County) as is 7 of their 8 childen, his second wife, Mary Sipe-Strutton is buried at Concord Cemetery (Pulaski County); daughter Ella Catherine is at Crocker Memorial Cemetery; and other Stutton family members are at Pleasant Hill cemetery (Miller County). One of the sons of Elisha died in Oklahoma (Alfred Jacob); one in Arkansas (Joseph Benjamin); and one in California (Bert McKinley).......