Josephus S. Slaughter

1848-1939 · Indiana

Born 1848, Indiana

Died 1939

Children include Olive

Josephus S. Slaughter was born on 2 September 1848. Every census of his childhood says he was born in Indiana. In 1850 he was two and living in Liberty Township, Hendricks County, Indiana, the township of the village of Clayton, west of Indianapolis.

He grew up in the household of Pleasant Slaughter, a Virginian, and his wife Elizabeth, from Tennessee. The family was in Liberty Township in 1850, in Boon Township, Cass County, in 1860, and in Van Buren Township, Clay County, in 1870, where Josephus was twenty one.

In the spring of 1873 he took out a license in Hendricks County to marry Ida P. Thomas, who was not yet sixteen. Their daughter Olive Jane was born in October 1874. James Angus followed in 1879, Sarah Agnes in 1881 and Bertha Elizabeth in 1884. Olive married James Bullock in Douglas County, Illinois, in 1891.

Josephus worked as a miner. The family later lived at Galena, a lead and zinc mining town in Cherokee County, Kansas, where Ida died in October 1921.

By 1930 he was living in Joplin, Missouri, just across the state line. In his last years he lived at 2804 Joplin Street, in the home of his grandson Wayne Bullock. He died there at eight in the evening on 17 November 1939, aged ninety one years, two months and fifteen days. The doctor wrote senility and arteriosclerosis. His funeral was held on 19 November, and he was taken back across the line and buried in Oak Hill Cemetery at Galena beside Ida. The Kansas City Times ran the news the next morning under the headline "Rites for Mining Pioneer". It said he had come to the district to go into mining forty five years before, about 1894.

Wayne Bullock gave the facts for the certificate. He said his grandfather had been born at Clayton, Illinois, and that his father was Aaron Slaughter, also of Clayton. He did not know the mother's name. Wayne had himself been born at Clayton, Indiana, in 1892, and the Clayton the family knew was almost certainly that one.

Children

Olive Jane Bullock (1874-1962)

Sources

Missouri Division of Health, standard certificate of death, Jasper County, 1962, file no. 6855; Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1975.

Missouri State Board of Health, certificate of death, Jasper County, 1939, file no. 39951; Missouri State Archives, Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1975.

Douglas County, Illinois, marriage register, 18 October 1891, p. 166; FamilySearch 1:1:QK92-FQH6.

United States census, 1850, Liberty Township, Hendricks County, Indiana, household 123; NARA M432; FamilySearch 1:1:MHJN-NKR.

Missouri death certificate, 1939, Jasper County, file 39951; 1850 United States census, Liberty Township, Hendricks County, Indiana, household 123, FamilySearch 1:1:MHJN-NKR; 1860 census, Boon Township, Cass County, Indiana, FamilySearch 1:1:M4FN-NPW; 1870 census, Van Buren Township, Clay County, Indiana, FamilySearch 1:1:MXXW-RQM; Indiana marriages, Hendricks County, 1873; Missouri death certificate of Olive Jane Bullock, 1962, file 6855; Find a Grave memorial 27939948

Galena Evening Times, Galena, Kansas, 21 October 1921, p. 1; clipping on Find a Grave memorial 27939941, added by Margaret Pickett.

Kansas City Times, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 November 1939, p. 6; clipping on Find a Grave memorial 27939948.

Find a Grave, memorial 27939948, Oak Hill Cemetery, Galena, Cherokee County, Kansas; photograph added by Betty Saltenberger, 15 April 2014.

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