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Re: Missouri State Guard Documentation

You're welcome. Any chance your John Williams also served in the Mexican War with B. C. Williams and Edward Williams? There was a big Fourth of July send off for the Miller County volunteers in 1846 at Tuscumbia. From Gerard Schutz' The History of Miller County: The men were "paraded on horseback in uniform, each having a rifle on his shoulder and a tomahawk and bowie knife in his belt. There was dinner for all in a shady grove, Mr. E. H. Gibson read the Declaration of Independence, and as he pronounced the last name of the signers, 'the blaze that shot forth from the muskets of the volunteers told that they were ready to protect that liberty which the assembly enjoyed.'"

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