John C. CHITWOOD

1793 - 1875  (82 years)

• Name	John C. CHITWOOD  [1]
  Birth	11 Jan 1793	Greenbrier, West Virginia   [1]
  Gender	Male
  War of 1812	Between 1813 and 1815  [2]
  	Private in the Co commanded by Capt David Musick --Mo. Militia
  Moved	1818  [2]
  	From St Louis Co., Missouri to Ralls Co., Missouri
  Residence	1840	Spencer Township, Ralls, Missouri, United States   [2]
  Residence	1850	Ralls county, Ralls, Missouri, United States   [2]
  Census	1860	Spencer Twp., Pike, Missouri, United States   [2]
  Residence	1860	Boles Township, Franklin, Missouri, United States   [2]
  Census	1870	Spencer, Ralls, Missouri, United States   [2]
  	Living in home of son
  FamilySearch ID	KL6F-FJN
  Residence	1870	New London, Ralls, Missouri, United States   [2]
  Burial	1875	Salem Cemetery, Center, Ralls County, Missouri   [1]
  Death	5 Aug 1875	Ralls County, Missouri   [1]
  Person ID	I594765212	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Lt. Richard CHITWOOD,   b. 1764, Cumberland County, Virginia, British Colony d. May 1822, Florissant, St. Louis, Missouri (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Margaret Mary CANTLEY,   b. 1769, Augusta, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 1822, Florissant, St. Louis Co., Missouri (Age 53 years)
  Alt. Marriage	1789	United States
  Marriage	3 Feb 1789	Greenbriar, Chesterfield, Virginia   [1]
  Alt. Marriage	3 Feb 1789	Greenbrier, Virginia
  Alt. Marriage	3 Feb 1789	Virginia
  Alt. Marriage	2 Feb 1798	Greenbrier, Virginia
  Family ID	F536728424	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rosanna J SEELY,   b. 29 Mar 1794, Kentucky, United States d. 19 Jul 1883, Ralls, Missouri, United States (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	19 Sep 1816	St. Ferdinand Township, St. Louis, Missouri, United States   [2]
  Children	1. Mary Elizabeth Cantley CHITWOOD,   b. 7 Aug 1817, Audrain, Missouri, United States d. 13 Dec 1909, Idaho Springs, Clear Creek, Colorado, United States (Age 92 years)   2. Elvira Elizabeth CHITWOOD,   b. 1822, Ralls, Missouri, United States d. 1896, Sivells Bend, Cooke, Texas, United States (Age 74 years)   3. Allethea Ann CHITWOOD,   b. 4 Jun 1824, Ralls, Missouri, United States d. 30 Oct 1893, Canton, Lewis, Missouri, United States (Age 69 years)   4. Serena CHITWOOD,   b. Abt 1827, Of, , Ralls, Missouri, United States d. Abt 1867 (Age ~ 40 years)   5. Milton R. J. CHITWOOD,   b. 27 Jul 1829, Ralls, Missouri, United States d. 2 Sep 1905, Stony, Denton, Texas, United States (Age 76 years)   6. Nisidda S. CHITWOOD,   b. 4 Dec 1831, Ralls, Missouri, United States d. 24 Sep 1880, Ralls, Missouri, United States (Age 48 years)   7. Roseanna Melissa CHITWOOD,   b. 16 Apr 1836, Missouri, United States d. Nov 1899, Marble Township, Madison, Arkansas, United States (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F536734118	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Find A Grave: Birthplace Greenbrier Co, VA(now WV). He was married 19 Sep 1816 St. Ferdinand Twp, St. Louis Co, MO, Rosanna J. Seely (1794-1883), dau of Jonas Seely and Elizabeth Quick. Both are buried in Salem Cemetery near New London, Ralls Co, MO. He was a son of Richard Chitwood, b 1760's VA, d 1822 St. Ferdinand Twp. St. Louis Co, MO, and Mary Cantley, b 1769 VA, d before 1822 MO. John received pension and bounty land for service in War of 1812. Pvt. in Co. of Mounted Riflemen in 1st Regt, 2nd Battalion of Missouri Militia, His father Richard was Major of the same Battalion. Other children of John & Rosanna were: Serena Chitwood (1827-1860+), m. Edmund B. Sisk (1825-?). Owned land in what is now St. Louis Missouri in the early 1800's. Interesting facts from the Missouri Supreme Court opinion: JONAS SEELY and ELIZABETH QUICK had 5 daughters, and lived in a house in St. Louis County, Missouri, 75 yards apart from their eldest daughter CATTRINA and her husband JOHN BUZAN. The Buzan children were NANCY (now "Mrs. WATSON"), HANNAH(married THOMAS SOUTHWORTH), and maybe some sons. There was a spring in the middle of the land between them that they both could use. Corn, wheat, and oats were cultivated every year on the 30 acre farm. December 1, 1831: Jonas Seely and Elizabeth Quick entered into a contract with their son-in-law, John Buzan. It was agreed that John Buzan would farm the land that they all lived on, and keep the Seelys supplied with firewood. At the Seelys death, the land would belong to John Buzan. Mrs. Seely, until she took sick, was described as "much the stouter of the old people." Once, when Mrs. Seely was ill, granddaughter Nancy Buzan stayed with her for several months. Later, Hannah Southworth (nee Seely) and the "Buzan boys" would take care of Jonas. After Elizabeth Quick Seely died in November of 1834, Jonas's condition was "forlorn and bad." He went to his daughter, Cattrina Buzan's house and said he was "in a suffering condition for wood, "whereat she was very much incensed, and ordered him out of her house." Afterwards, John Buzan came to [Jonas's] house and "cursed him and threatened him most insultingly." Buzan said it was impossible to please the old man (Jonas Seely). He was "impossible and childish." Jonas's sickness got worse, and so he went to stay with a friend named Laban Landon until the spring of 1835. While Jonas was there, he called his granddaughter Nancy Buzan to come visit because he was "feeble, almost helpless, and probably sick." The witness said he was "very old" and estimated he was 73 or 74. (He was actually 70). When Jonas returned to his property in the spring of 1835, he found the corn gone, the spring house torn down, and one of the houses he lived in turned into a stable. Jonas Seely was "feeble and decrepit" in 1835, and unable to cut his own firewood or do his own work. He had no slaves. In 1835, Cattrina Buzan asked witness Clement Brown to go to her father and ask him to come live with the Buzans so she could look after him. Jonas Seely went "into a passion" and said he would never set a foot inside the house because John Buzan had "turned him out." Jonas did not stay in the area long after that invitation. Jonas left St. Louis county in the spring of 1835, and went to live with son-in-law JOHN CHITWOOD in Ralls County (and presumably, his daughter, ROSANNA). John Chitwood was married to Jonas and Elizabeth's fourth daughter, Rosannah. Chitwood was a witness in the court case. On March 16, 1836, Jonas Seely sold the property to Hopkins, and recorded the deed on April 2, 1836. In 1840, John Buzan died. (Jonas outlived him by 10 years!). Cattrina Seely Buzan was alive in when the court case was filed in 1848. Cattrina did not file the lawsuit for the land on behalf of herself or her daughters. Maybe women could not sue? Thomas Southworth (the named plaintiff) was married to Cattrina and John Buzan's daughter, Hannah Buzan. Thomas Southworth brought the lawsuit on behalf of his wife, Hannah, who perhaps felt cheated out of the land her grandfather had promised to her father. In the decision published in 1848, the Missouri Supreme Court was not happy with John or Cattrina Buzan's behavior toward Jonas Seely. The court found in Jonas's favor with the words: "He who does inequity shall not have equity. Honor thy father and thy mother, and thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989 Southworth v. Hopkins' Heirs, 11 Mo. 331, 331-37 (Mo. 1848) 1848 St Louis County, Missouri, USA 1848 Decision of the Missouri Supreme Court Ancestry member Katherine McCarron originally shared this on 05 Sep 2020

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 13 Dec 2022), entry for Richard Chitwood, person ID KPQ1-MC1. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 19 Dec 2024), entry for John C. CHITWOOD, person ID KL6F-FJN. (Reliability: 3).