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Re: Burial Location of Joseph P. Elliott Capt 5th

Terry,

The last thing I could find on the Captain Joseph P. Elliott of Company E, 5th MO Cav was that he signed a parole at Shreveport, Louisiana on 15 Jun 1865 at war's end.

No, wait. In the online records of the Missouri Secretary of State's website of the Missouri State Archives, particularly in the United Daughters of the Confederacy records has Captain Elliott of Gordon's 5th MO Cav attending a reunion of Ex-Confederates at Marshall, MO, in 1886. According to the Missouri Historical Society records, the same captain also attended another reunion at Marshall on 21 July 1902.

Since that Joseph P. Elliott was in Marshall in 1902, that tends to eliminate him from the newspaper article you have dated 9 Oct 1901, that I think you indicate names J. P. Elliott already buried in Highland Cemetery, Wichita, Kansas.

However, the Missouri State Archives has one card about Capt. Jos. P. Elliott of Company E, 5th MO Cav (Confederate) with a last-known address as Korn, Washita County, Oklahoma, according to Oklahoma Pension Records. I see that Washita County, OK is in the SW corner of the state, quite a distance south of Wichita, Kansas. If that is correct, that may very well be the burial place of Captain Elliott of the 5th MO Cav, unless somebody got sloppy with the records for different Confederate veterans named " J. P. Elliott." In other words, we cannot assume the grave you have in Wichita, Kansas is the same J. P. Elliott who was the captain under General Shelby. I have already seen records for several Missouri Confederates named Joseph or J. P. Elliott or similar names, not to mention the ones you found in SC and Tennessee units.

If I get any more ideas, I will try again, but I didn't help you much.

Bruce Nichols

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