Hiding In The Shade

Located at Mount Vernon City Cemetery, Mount Vernon, MO.

Ann T

Wife of G. G. Gillette

Born

Feb 10, 1807

Died

Jan 27, 1880

I Find This Sad

Located at Mount Vernon City Cemetery in Mount Vernon, MO.

This is a very nice well maintained plot with obviously two people buried here. Why is it only one has a name attached to it? 

I looked all over for a name to attach to the second grave but there was nothing to find. 

James R Martin

Born

Aug 29, 1830

Died

Nov 25, 1893

Aged 63ys 2ms 26ds

I am gonna go out on a limb and say my best guess is the second person in this plot is his wife who was Paulina (spelled Paulina, Pulina and Pulinia on the census records)  Martin who shows up on Census records with him.

1860 United States Federal Census about James R Martin

Name: James R Martin

Age in 1860: 30
Birth Year: abt 1830
Birthplace: Illinois
Home in 1860: Mount Vernon, Lawrence, Missouri
Gender: Male
Post Office: Mount Vernon
Household Members: Name Age
James R Martin 30
Pauline Martin 20
Benj Martin 62

1870 United States Federal Census about James R Martin

Name: James R Martin

Birth Year: abt 1831
Age in 1870: 39
Birthplace: Illinois
Home in 1870: Mount Vernon, Lawrence, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
James R Martin 39
Pulina Martin 33

1880 United States Federal Census about James Martin
Name: James Martin
Home in 1880: Vineyard, Lawrence, Missouri
Age: 49
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Birthplace: Illinois
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)
Spouse's Name: Pulinia Martin
Father's birthplace: South Carolina
Mother's birthplace: Tennessee
Occupation: Farmer
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
James Martin 49
Pulinia Martin 37
Nancy Kelly 50

James F. Hardin - Assassinated

Located at Mount Vernon City Cemetery in Mount Vernon, MO.

Sacred To The

Memory Of

James F. Hardin

Born

Sept 8, 1836

Assassinated

Feby 3, 1876

 1845-1890. Catalogue of Phi Alpha Society ... Illinois College, Volume 23  By Illinois College. Phi Alpha Society, Illinois College

This is from Find A Grave. (http://www.findagrave.com/; by I remember when. . ., May 29, 2011.)

"M. L. VanGilder in 1995 notes: 9 December 1875, attorney James F Hardin shot attorney William H. Phelps twice in a court room, who recovered (Phelps had been elected to state legislature in 1872). Then James F. Hardin was gunned down by blasts from shotguns on 3 February 1876 when going home. His widow signed a complaint against William H. and brother Charles H. Phelps with an arrest made. Both acquitted on 28 September, 1876."

 I found this excerpt in an article, Historic Home Auction, that was written in 2006.

"The second occupant, lawyer James F. Hardin, shot another attorney during a court proceeding in December 1875. Hardin died after he was shot in an ambush in February 1876 a short distance from his home."

This is from View From the Courthouse: Abstracts of Lawrence County, Mo., Circuit Court Documents, 1858-1869

"In 1866, James F. Hardin, son-in-law of the Honorable John C. Price, served as Circuit Attorney. Hardin undoubtedly brought some excitement into the proceedings. Following Hardin's murder in Carthage in 1876, his obituary in a Springfield paper defended his character by stating "he was a better man than his sneaking cowardly assassins because whenever he had an enemy who needed to be injured, he met them face to face in public." It was Hardin who shot William H. Phelps in the courthouse at Carthage in 1875."

Sadly I wasn't able to find out much more than this. As always if you discover anymore information please feel free to email me and let me know and I will update the post.