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About Samuel Iota Fitzpatrick
His middle name was Iota … see details in photo of letter.
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Middle name: Isaac - from a transcription in "The Prairie Sleeps". Reported but not yet confirmed.
Story told to Samuel Stephen Sargent:
Worked for Stephen Sargent, for whom he worked for some time - Lived on the Sargent farm in a log house of one room which stood in what we [the Sargent family] called the bluegrass pasture. The house stood on the hill just west of the north and south line between the two 'forties', the NW of the NE and the NE of the NW section, II t 11 N R 10 s.
The story was told by John Sargent, son of Stephen, that his father always kept whiskey around the house. One day the family were gone to town and Samuel Fitzpatrick got the whiskey and became drunk in which condition he was when Stephen Sargent returned home. After that Stephen Sargent never kept whiskey around the house.
The old log house was later removed after the civil War NW about a quarter of a mile on the E and W road, near the NW corner of the NE of the NW quarter of the same section.
Knights of the Golden Circle
During the civil War this cabin was unoccupied and was used by the Union League for meetings which had to be secret due to the isolation of the cabin back in the woods it made a good meeting place. The Union League was organized in opposition to the Copperheads or Knights of the Golden Circle, an organization in sympathy with the south and which was very aggressive in this locality, due to their large numbers.
How Samuel died
“According to Deborah Ann Worrall, granddaughter reared by Deborah Ann Fitzpatrick, Samuel Fitzpatrick and William Merritt, his brother-in-law, had been to Charleston, Illinois, on horseback where Samuel had bought a mirror. They had been drinking and an argument occurred. William had dismounted. They were at his house. He pushed Samuel out of the stirrups upsetting him backwards over the horse falling and striking his head on a stump and breaking his neck. The mirror was not broken. An investigation was held and claimed it was an accident on December 10, 1862. He was buried at Whetstone Cemetery, Hutton Township.”
Samuel died while 6 sons were fighting for the Union in the Civil War.
IL Find-A-Grave; 1850 Fed census for Coles Co, IL
Accident - pushed off his horse while drunk
Samuel's stone is now missing. His birth date and death date are taken from the research of Samuel Steven Sargent. Mr Sargent's research is in the Coles County Genealogical Society arcives in Charleston, Ill. Whetstone Cemetery was recorded by either the Sally Lincoln chapter of the DAR of the Coles County, Genealogical Society and is printed in "The Prairie Sleeps cemeterys of Coles County, Ill. Vol. III." The listing lists his death date also as 10 Dec 1862. Samuel Isaac was born in Nelson County, Virginia and married Deborah Ann Bodkin on 26 Sep 1831 in Nelson County, Virginia. Samuel and Deborah had 11 children, the 6 oldest sons served in the Civil War.
- Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 3 2018, 12:01:35 UTC
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Samuel Iota Fitzpatrick's Timeline
| 1808 |
October 4, 1808
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Nelson County, Virginia, United States
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| 1832 |
1832
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Staunton, VA, United States
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| 1833 |
April 18, 1833
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Augusta County, Virginia, United States
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| 1835 |
November 14, 1835
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Warm Springs, Bath, VA, United States
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| 1839 |
1839
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Virginia, United States
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| 1844 |
May 27, 1844
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Staunton, Virginia, United States
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| 1845 |
1845
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Staunton, VA, United States
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| 1846 |
April 29, 1846
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Hutton, IL, United States
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| 1850 |
1850
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