Captain Simeon Harvey Sutton

Captain Simeon Harvey Sutton was the 7th child of George Sutton and the 7th child born to Hannah Gard. Captain Simeon Harvey was born 2 Mar 1821 in Ohio when Aaron was 14 years old, Noah was 12 years old, John was 10 years old, Sarah was 7 years old, Samuel was 5 years old and Letitia was 2 years old. Captain Simeon Harvey married Hannah Morton on 1853 at the age of ???. . Captain Simeon Harvey died 21 Oct 1908 at the age of 87.

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Simeon Harvey Sutton From The History of Missouri Illustrated 1888 Military History Pg. 334 - Company E, Forty-third Infantry, This company was made up wholly of Harrison County men, and was recruited in the fall of 1864. The organization was effected with the following commissioned officers: Simeon Sutton, captain. Pg. 337 - Formation of the Fifty-seventh Regiment Enrolled Militia in July, 1962. Company B - Simeon Sutton, captain. Biographical Appendix Captain Simeon Sutton, a farmer and mechanic of Cypress Township, was born in Preble County, Ohio, in 1821, and is the eighth of eleven children of George and Hannah (Gard) Sutton, who were married in Pennsylvania in 1805, and the same year removed to Ohio, thence to Hamilton County, thence to Butler County, and finally to Preble County, where the father died in 1861, and the mother in 1862. Mr. Sutton served as second sergeant under General Harrison in the War of 1812; his father was one of the minute men in the Revolutionary War, while his grandfather was one of the first to settle west of the mountains in Pennsylvania, having gone there prior to the French and Indian War, and locating near where General Braddock was defeated. Captain Sutton received but a limited education, and in 1853 was married to Miss Hannah, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Morton. This marriage has resulted in five children, all living; Benjamin M.; Emma F., wife of J.C. Howe; Mary F., wife of John F. Selby; Sarah J. and Noah E. In 1854 he went to Knox County, Illinois, from there in 1859 to Daviess County, and two years later located in Cypress Township, Harrison County, where he has since resided, living seven miles south of Bethany, on a fine farm of 136 acres, all under cultivation. When the war broke out, he was made captain of Company B, of the East Missouri Militia, which he commanded till 1864, operating in Harrison and Daviess Counties. In 1864 he was made captain of Company E, Forty-third Missouri Infantry, and operated along the Missouri River till the close of the war, being captured at Glasgow in September 1864, and taken to St. Louis, where he was held prisoner several weeks; was then released and resumed operations. In politics he was formerly a Whig, casting his first vote for Henry Clay, but since the war has been a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and he is also a member of the G.A.R. Always an advocate of all educational enterprises, he has taken great pleasure in giving his children the benefit of a good college education, the elder son being a practicing physician at Bridgeport, and the younger a teacher.

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Last data update: Sep 27, 2018.

Ancestry of Sutton and Ratliff from Harrison Country, Missouri, rootsweb.com genealogy, Kevin Sutton, contact, database: k_l_sutton, Citation post date: 2007-02-27