a well-known and popular farmer and stock raiser, was born in Madison County, Ala., October 9, 1821. His father, John Childers, was a native of Georgia, who moved to the State of Alabama when a young man, and was there married to Miss Rutha Cown. The parents remained in Alabama until the year 1824, and then settled in Tennessee, where they resided up to 1838, when they selected Arkansas as their future home, and located in Lawrence County. The elder Childers had an eventful history in his younger days, and was a soldier in the Black Hawk War. He reared a family of eleven children, five sons and six daughters, of whom Burrel M. Childers is the only survivor. Burrel remained with his father until he was of mature age, and then enlisted in the Mexican War of 1846. After the war was over and the treaty had been made, he received his discharge, and returned to Lawrence County. He settled on his present place in 1849, when this portion of Arkansas was nothing more than a wilderness, and has lived to see it grow up [p.780] into a populous and thriving community. Mr. Childers has since then cleared up about seventy-five acres, and put them under cultivation, besides owning 160 acres adjoining. He did, at one time, own over 1,000 acres, but has divided up with his children. When war was announced between the North and South he gave his services to the Confederacy, and joined Col. Shaver's regiment. He was elected lieutenant, and held that rank until the close of hostilities. During that time he took part in the fights at Pilot Knob, Independence, Kansas City, Big Blue and Miner's Creek, where Gen. Marmaduke was taken prisoner. After the war he returned to Lawrence County, and has since then been occupied in farming. His first marriage was to Miss Narcissa Beavers, of Illinois, who died in 1856. This wife left two children, who grew to maturity, were married, and left children of their own. Mr. Childers next married, in this county, Mrs. Hopkins, a widow lady, of Indiana, who died in 1883. There are three children living by this wife, whose names are: C. F., wife of Joseph Lollar; Julis, widow of A. B. Hogard, and Hezekiah. His present wife was united to him in 1884, her former name being Aveline Grider, a daughter of Martin Grider, one of the pioneers of Randolph County. There are three children by this marriage: Maxie, Stonewall Jackson and Chaldon. Mr. Childers is a member of the Masonic order, and is a Royal Arch Mason, belonging to the Eastern Star. He attends the Christian Church, while his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also of the Eastern Star. In the early days of his settlement in Arkansas, Mr. Childers was a hunter of no mean pretenses. He made a regular business of hunting for ten years, and together with his brother, killed thirty-six bears, six panthers and a great number of wild cats, in one spring, besides a quantity of deer. He has a record of killing eleven deer in one day, while a companion of his, a Frenchman, killed eleven deer and two bears the same day. Mr. Childers is a genial and active gentleman, though well advanced in life, and is very much thought of by his neighbors. He is full of anecdote, and it is a pleasure to listen to the reminiscences of his early days, which none can tell so well as an old settler.
WILLIAM L CHILDERS 1st Inf.Crawford's Co. Cptn.
Interned at Old City Cemetery,
Lynchburg, Va.
MILTON JOSHUA CHILDERS 2nd Inf. Co. I
Charlene Nix
Reunion pin of M.J.'s from 1911
More detailed account on Pension list-Johnston Co., NC Act of March 2, 1903 and was approved.Here are some statements from both applications:* (if different Application #2)
State of North Carolina County of Johnston Co
Milton J. (M.J.) Childers who enlisted in Co. I of 2nd. Arkansas on or about the date of April 18, 1861 (April 12, 1861), to serve in the armies of the late Confederate States, and that while in said service at Chickamauga Tenn. received a wound. Applicant. was shot through the right thigh at the battle of Chickamauga, Tenn.
7/3/1917 some of Application for the "Home for Disabled Ex-Confederate Soldiers" at Raleigh, NC. Application accepted 9/1917. Friends that signed they knew him as a Confederate solider: W. B. Cole J.T. Barham? (maybe Banham or Basham) William S. Eldridge John Stephenson I.W. Hocutt M.J. Childers respectfully shows that he is on the pension roll of Johnston County. He was a soldier in the confederate army in Co. I 2 ARK. for 4 years and was in the battle of Bentonville Johnston Co.(NC) and he has been a citizen of Johnston Co. since 1865 having married and raised a family near Smithfield,NC.
The applicant is now 75 years old. That on or about the date of April 1, 1917 the applicant was stricken with pneumonia which followed by measles.............. We have carefully examined the application of M.J. Childers and find him a worthy solider and totally disabled and we commend his advancement to the wholly disabled
some of military records from Bradley Co. Arkansas MILITARY RECORD Pvt. Joshua M. Childers, 2nd.Arkansas Infantry Regiment, Comp. I, CSA Below are the military records of your ancestor, transcribed by our cousin, in Benton, AR. Pvt. Joshua M. Childers, 2nd.Arkansas Infantry Regiment, Comp. I, CSA Private/ Private/ some of 9+5 other cards (1) 28 Feb 1863 to 30 Apr 1863/ enlisted at Warren by Capt. McKenney 8 Jan for war /present 52pier? caps, 78 cts. stoppage? (5) 31 Oct 1863 to 31 Dec 1863/ absent/ wounded at battle of Chickamauga 19 Sep 1863 (6) 31 Dec 1863 to 29 Feb 1864/ last paid by Hospital 31 Oct /absent (9) paroled at Greensboro NC 1865 }
Cynthia Milliner and Alsey Sellers had a daughter named Jane Ann Sellers. She married Milton Joshua Childers in 1865. They had a daughter named Dora Lee Childers. My Mother (who is still alive)told me that Dora Lee Childers (my G Grandmother)told her many times that the town of Selma was built on Seller property. ========================= The final spin on this is that Dora Lee Childers said Alsey Sellers offered M.J. Childers work, and a place to stay because he had no way to get back to Arkansas after the war. So if any of you are experts(which I am not) on the Battle of Bentonville does anyone know when the Army of Tn. (consolidated units of Arkansas) came into the area to get ready for the battle? Page 24-25 of the "Heritage of Johnston Co.,NC," (1985) book states that the troops were coming as soon as March 13, 1865. }
M.J. Childers took out a marriage bond on March 28, 1865. The BONDSMAN was Elisha Moore. Anyone know if he is related? JOHNSTON CO., NC MARRIAGE BONDS BOOKS PAGE 44 Joshua Meilton (correct spelling in Milton Joshua)Childers married Jane Anne Sellers MARRIAGE APRIL, 1865 WITNESS James H. Parker, Clk. ======================= April 28, 1865 Johnston County, NC LDS IGI #67342
JOHN HALE CHILDRESS/CHILDERS Co. D., 3rd. Ark. Inf.
born c1835;
married Sarah E. Mock in Ashley county, Arkansas, September 23, 1864. 1842-1927,
buried Lane Cemetery.
Enlisted in Co. D, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, at Selma,
Arkansas, June 20, 1861
wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863;
captured near Cashtown, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1863; paroled, August 1863;
furloughed to Petersburg, Virginia, in 1863; dropped from the rolls for absence
without leave, August 31, 1864
JOHN W. CHILDRES
4th inf. a.k.a.--McNair's Co.C Sgt
Enlisted August 17, 1861 at Mt Vernon, MO.
Deserted 22 Jul 1863
SQUIRE CHILDERS
7th Inf Co.D
disch-nov. 16, 1861
A.M. CHILDERS(CHILDRESS) 7th Inf Co.G a.k.a. Shaver's
Age 18, at enlistment
CROCKETT CHILDERS 8th Inf Co.A
Age 18.
Enl 29 Aug1861 at Pocahontas, AR. Died
before 31 Apr 1862.
J.A. CHILDRESS
10th inf. Co.K
Enl 11 Jun 1861 at Springfield, AR. Captured 9 Jul 1863 at Pt
Hudson, LA and paroled 12-13 Jul 1863.
W.P. CHILDERS 10th Inf Co.K
Enl 11 Jul 1861 at
Springfield, AR. Furloughed from Columbus, MS Hospital 17 Feb 1862.
Deserted.
L. CHILDERS 13th
Inf Co.D
Enlisted Aug. 1, 1861, Madison, Ark. Captured Sept. 1, 1864, near
Jonesboro, Ga.
WILLIAM CHILDERS
Co. G 14th Inf.
Enlisted 8 Nov 1861 at Pocahontas, AR.
ANDREW S. CHILDERS, Co. E 16th Inf.
Enl 19 Oct 1861 at Carrollton, AR.
Killed at
Corinth, MS 3-5 Oct 1862.
BURRELL CHILDERS
Co.E 16th. Inf Sgt
Enl 19 Oct 1861 at Carrollton, AR.
Captured 9th of
July 1863 and paroled 12-13 Jul 1863 at Port Hudson, LA.
S A CHILDERS Co. D 18th Inf.
Enlisted at Pine
Bluff, Arkansas, March 1, 1862
died, April 20, 1862.
W.D. CHILDERS
20th Inf. Co. E Cpl
Enlisted at Washington, Arkansas, March 1,
1862
reduced to ranks.
WILLIAM CHILDERS
Co. F 21st Inf.
Captured, sent to Rock Island, IL,
Joined US
Army.
ALBERRY CHILDERS
Co. G 24th Inf.Sgt. also the 3rd AR Cav
Enl 28 Jun 1862 at Camden, AR.
Captured 11 Jan 1863 at Arkansas Post, AR
sent to military prison at Camp
Douglas, IL
paroled 3 Apr 1863 and delivered to City Point, VA 10 Apr. 1863
released. Transferred to the 3rd AR Cav 17 Jul 1863.
MARRION CHILDERS
24th Inf Co.G Sgt.
Enl 14 Jul 1862 in Dallas, AR.
WILLIAM W.CHILDRESS/CHILDERS 25th Inf Co.D
Mustered into service at Pocahontas,
Randolph Co.
FRANCIS M. CHILDRES 31st Inf Co A
Enlisted age 35 at Jacksonport, Arkansas,
November
3, 1861
died of disease, May 8, 1862.
RUBIN CHILDRES
31st Inf Co.A
Enlisted age 31 at Jacksonport, Arkansas, November 2,
1861
died of disease, April 22, 1862.
THOMAS CHILDRESS
31st Inf Co.A
Enlistedage 44 at Jacksonport, Arkansas, November 2,
1861
reportedly died of disease in November 1861.
ANDREW J. CHILDERS Co.G 15th Militia also in Co. I, 35th Inf.
Enl 20 Jun 1862 at Dover,
AR. Co. I 35th Inf.
Discharged 6 Jul 1862.
JOEL CHILDRESS
35th Inf Co. H
Enl 20 Jun 1862 at Dover, AR.
Deserted 3 May 1863 at
Little Rock, AR.
Ht 5' 10", eyes blue, hair lt, complx fair
farmer, age
33, born in Giles Co, TN.
RICHARD C. CHILDERS 35th Inf Co I , also Co G 25th milita Fourth Corporal
Enl 20 Jun
1862 at Dover, AR.
Present 29 Feb. 1864
Ht 5' 8", eyes gray, hair lt,
complx drk,
farmer, age 29, born in IN.
SOLOMON CHILDERS
35th Inf Co. I Cpl.
Enlisted 2 Jan 1862 at Little Rock, AR.
Deserted to
the enemy 10 Sep 1863.
TIMOTHY CHILDRESS 35th Inf Co, H
Enl age 24, 20 Jun. 1862 at Dover, AR.
Died on the
Big Mulberry 10 Nov. 1862.
Ht 5' 8", eyes gray, hair drk, complx fair,
farmer
born in Giles Co, TN.
WILLIAM CHILDRESS 35th Inf Co.H
Enl age 34, 20 Jun 1862 at Dover, AR.
Present 31
Oct 1862.
Ht 5' 10", eyes blue, hair lt, complx fair, farmer,
born in
Giles Co, TN.
T.B. CHILDRESS Co. A 46th Inf. a.k.a. Crabtree's Regiment
Enlisted--age 19 -
Batesville - AR
B.M. CHILDRES
37th Inf Co.K Sgt.
Enl 7 Jun 1862 at Camp Hindman.
KIA Helena, AR 4 Jul
1863.
C.T. CHILDRESS
37th Inf Co.H
Enl 15 May 1862 at Arkadelphia, AR.
Wounded 7 Dec 1862 at
Prairie Grove, AR.
WILLIAM CHILDRESS 37th Inf Co.H or E
Enl 8 May 1862 at Princeton, AR.
Captured 4
Jul 1863 at Helena, AR.
sent to Military Prison Alton, IL.
Died 8 Sep
1863.
B.M. CHILDERS 38th Inf Co A 2nd lt
Enl- July 9 1862- disch June 2, 1863 at
Lauratown, AR
J.M. CHILDERS
38th Inf Co.A
Enl July 9, 1862 at Lauratown, AR.
deserted July 25, 1863
from hospital at Camden AR.
SQUIRE CHILDERS
38th Inf Co. C
Enl 19 Jul 1862 at Camp Adams, AR.
Died of disease 20 Apr
1863 at a camp near Little Rock, AR.
JAMES R.CHILDERS
38th? Cpt.
Enl 9 Jul 1862 at Lauratown, AR.
Died 16 Jun 1863 of pneumonia
at Monroe, LA.
FRANCIS MARION CHILDERS Napoleon Rifles 6th Militia
Enlisted at Camp Jackson, Missouri,
September 19, 1861
captured at Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 8,
1862;
confined at U.S. Military Prison, Alton, Illinois
exchanged at Fort
Pillow, Tennessee, May 19, 1862
captured at Barboursville, Kentucky,
September 4, 1862,
where he died on September 11, 1862.
George Washington Childers Napoleon Rifles 6th Militia
Enlisted at Camp Jackson,
Missouri, September 19, 1861
wounded at Lovejoy Station, Georgia, August 29,
1864
no record after August 31,1864.
JOEL CHILDERS
Co. C 7th Mil. Fifer
Period of Service: February 22 to March 19,
1862,
later enlisted in Co. H, 35th Arkansas Infantry.
B.M. CHILDERS
Co. G 50th militia Sgt.
The only records this unit consist of one muster
card per individual.The records indicate that the men were mustered in on 7 Mar
1862 and mustered out on 9 Mar 1862 during the Battle at Pea Ridge.
ROBERT T. CHILDRESS-Independence County Home Guard-1861. Washington township.
UNKNOWN
REGIMENTS
CHILDERS, ABSOLEM T., PVT - enr 20 Oct 1861 Camp Reeves, TX (see 11th TX Cavalry)
CHILDERS, HIRAM C, PVT - age 25 - enr 9 Jun 1861 Ft Smith, AR KILLED 10 Aug 1861 Oak Hills
CHILDERS, JAMES R., 3rd LT- age 23 - enr 9 Jun 1861 at Ft Smith, AR
CHILDERS, WILLIAM H, PVT - age 17 - enr 9 June 1861 Ft Smith, AR - see McCarver's 14th AR Inf.,- discharged 10 Sep 1861
Other Childers/Childress
John Houston Busby, Private-Enlisted in Co. D, 6th Arkansas Cavalry, at Washington, Arkansas, May 22, 1862; died, November 10, 1862; appears in list of indigent families of soldiers in Hempstead county; married Clarinda H. Childers in Hempstead county, Arkansas, December 29, 1861.
Martha Emaline Childers Garner Moore is my great-great-great-grandmother. She was born (according to records I have on her)
23 Oct 1849 in Springfield, MO and died 26 Dec 1940 in Ft. Smith, AR. She is buried in Washburn Cemetery in Ft. Smith.
The following is an undated newspaper article sent to Irene Cooter by Jessie Parks of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Jessie Parks
is also a (granddaughter) of Martha. Estimated date is 1939. It was re-typed by Sharon Jones on 26 April 1999.
Sharon is a descendent of Lucinda Childers Powell, one of Martha's sisters. Sharon and I met through the CHILDERS-L mailing list hosted by rootsweb.com. She sent a lot of stuff on Martha and the CHILDERS family and gave me permission to put the newspaper article on my site.
*****MOTHER OF 20 CHILDREN REMEMBERS DAYS OF CIVIL WAR*****
An unusual woman has been visiting Arnett recently. One who raised 20 children, 12 of them her own, saw her father
and brother being taken away to be shot during the Civil War, was driven to town by "Bushwhackers",
washed clothes with "battling sticks", spun her family's clothing, and one who could butcher a two-year-old
heifer almost single handed or drive an ox team in the field.
She is Mrs. Martha Moore of Fort Smith, Arkansas the great aunt of J. S. Childers,
140 East First Avenue, at whose home she is making a visit.
Despite her 90 years, she sees fairly well and declared she doesn't mind making auto trips.
When the suggestion was made she go back to Fort Smith in an airplane, she replied, "You'll not send me in an airplane.
You'll have to tie me in one if you do."
Mrs. Moore was born October 23, 1849, near Springfield, Mo., and moved several times with her family, settling with
them finally near Dardanelle along the banks of the Big Piney river in Arkansas. They lived there during the last
two years of the Civil War.
The feminine pioneer recalls vividly many of the names and incidents in her life as a girl during the War. Three of her
brothers fought, one of them with the Union Army, the other two with the Confederates. She remembers the occupation of
Dardanelle by Shelby's army and related seeing General Price in a carriage while his Confederate army was there for
a three day sojourn burning the pontoon bridges across the Big Piney.
Family hardships continued throughout the War. At the beginning, "bushwhackers" roving raiders and bandits, made life so
precarious that clothing and food were hidden in the walls and taken out only when the need arose. Finally the family was
driven to town. During their life there, the men fought and the women raised what vegetables they could in vacant lots.
Occasionally they brought out a pig cached in the woods and butchered it.
Near the end of the War, the Confederates came along and took her father and brother and shot them because they were
believed to be Northern sympathizers. Members of the family were not allowed to go out and look for their bodies.
From that time onward and after the Civil War was over, the work of farming, housekeeping and manufacturing household
supplies fell largely to the women in the family. Mrs. Moore said she and her mother "made crops" with their oxen and
she had to work like a man to gather firewood with the team.
She married Jim Garner and bore six children. At his death she married again, this time to T. F. Moore. Six children
were born to the couple and Mrs. Moore said "besides raising two sets of my own, I raise five of one of my daughter's
and one of another daughter's."
At Mr. Garner's death she became manager of the farm, the family provider as well as the cradle rocker. Sugar was made
from sap drained from maple trees and boiled down to a solid form. Salt came at a premium and many families of Mrs.
Moore's acquaintance scooped up the dirt from smoke house floors and drained water through it. The resultant liquid was
a salty brine that worked as good as salt.
Though Mrs. Moore never attended public school, she saw to it that all her children and the grandchildren she
raised were trotted off to learn their readin', writin' and arithmetic classes. She remembers as a girl that her
mother cooked over a fireplace and each family ground the wheat they grew into flour. Clothing was homespun and
"hog meat" and beef were smoked as a means of preservation. One she, with the help of a Mrs. Fry, tied a heifer to a
tree, killed it, and carried the meat to the house. When asked if she had any great grandchildren, Mrs. Moore retorted,
"Oh Lord, I reckon I have, half the state of Arkansas." She now lives with one of her sons in Fort Smith and proudly
asserts the house is equipped with a gas stove, washing machine, refrigerator, all the modern conveniences. "I guess
they are all right," she said about the new contrivances. "If I had my life to live over again the way I lived it,"
she concluded, "I couldn't do it."
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Charles C. CHILDERS "As a public official Hon. Charles C. CHILDERS has given most loyal and
effective service both in Arkansas and Oklahoma, in which latter state he
represented Garfield County in both the Fourth and Fifth General Assemblies of
the Legislature. He is one of the broad-minded, appreciative, and progressive
citizens of Oklahoma, is here the owner of valuable farm property and has
identified himself most worthily with the industrial and civic affairs of the
state. In addition to giving a general supervision to his own farm properties he
has for several years past had charge of the farm connected with the Oklahoma
State Home for the Feeble Minded, at Enid, in which thriving little city, the
judicial center of Garfield County, he maintains his residence. Charles Clarence
CHILDERS was born in Lawrence County, Arkansas, on the 1st of September, 1872,
and is a son of William and Clara (WELLS) CHILDERS, the latter of whom died at
the age of forty-two years. William Childers likewise was born and reared in
Lawrence County, Arkansas, a representative of a sterling pioneer family of that
state, and he was long one of the honored and influential citizens of Lawrence
County, where he served as county treasurer and for two years in the dual office
of sheriff and tax collector. In the Civil war he was a valiant soldier of the
Confederacy, and in the command of Gen. Sterling PRICE he took part in numerous
engagements, including the battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi. He continued to
reside in Lawrence County until his death, at the age of sixty-one years, and he
passed away in 1907. His first wife, mother of the subject of this review,
passed her entire life in Lawrence County, her parents having removed from their
native State of Louisiana and become pioneer settlers in Arkansas. William
Childers contracted a second marriage and of the children of the first union
five are now living, five children of the second marriage likewise surviving the
honored father. Of the first marriage the surviving children other than he whose
name initiates this article are: William S., who was foreman of concrete
construction in the erection of the fine Oklahoma State Capitol; John C. is
clerk of Lawrence County, Arkansas; Grover C. is a farmer at Plant City,
Florida, and there also resides the one sister, Mrs. Mollie COFFMAN. Of the
children of the second marriage it may be recorded that Thurman M., Carlisle and
App T. reside in Grant County, Oklahoma; Nelson remains in Lawrence County,
Arkansas; and Clara Lee maintains her home in Oklahoma City. In the public
schools of his native county Charles C. CHILDERS gained his early education,
which was supplemented by a course of study in the high school in the City of
Memphis, Tennessee. Thereafter he was a student in the University of Arkansas
until the close of his junior year, in 1893, when he returned to his native
county and assumed a clerical position in the office of his father, who was then
sheriff and tax collector of the county. He was elected as his father's
successor in this dual office, of which he continued the incumbent for two terms
of two years each, and had the distinction of being the youngest sheriff in
Arkansas. He was then elected district clerk and ex-officio register of deeds of
Lawrence County, and he held this position likewise for four consecutive years,
his long and effective service in public office in his native county showing the
estimate placed upon him and that in his case there could be no application of
scriptural aphorism that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own
country." In 1908 Mr. Childers came to the new State of Oklahoma and settled on
a farm near Billings, Noble County. Two years later he removed to a farm near
Covington, Garfield County, and after there remaining one year he established
his residence in Enid, where he has since given much of his time and attention
to the active supervision of the farm of the State Home for the Feeble Minded.
He is the owner of a well improved farm in Grant County and also of a valuable
farm property in Roger Mills County, and city property in Enid. In 1912 Mr.
Childers was made democratic nominee for representative of Garfield County; in
the State Legislature to which he was elected without opposition. During the
session of the Fourth Legislature he was chairman of the Committee on Levees,
Ditches, Drains and Irrigation; was the author of the law that substituted
electrocution for hanging in this state, and of the bill that was enacted and
provides for and authorizes the organization of farmers' mutual insurance
companies. It was primarily due to his earnest efforts, also, that an
appropriation was secured for the erection of an additional building at the Home
for Feeble Minded, an institution in which he has taken the deepest interest. In
the Fifth Legislature Mr. Childers was chairman of the Committee on Insurance,
and was associated with Senator William A. CHASE, of Nowata, in the authorship
of a bill providing for free textbooks in the public schools, besides which he
was especially active in the promotion of measures designed to establish a
minimum wage scale for women employed, to place the school land income in the
direct jurisdiction of the state treasurer, to enable county attorneys to adjust
probate matters, to establish hospitals for railroad workers, and to pension the
widows of men who were killed in a fight between officers and prisoners in the
State Penitentiary at McAlester, in