While fishing in the Basconade River at Hartwell, MO., a water-spout burst, and before he could leave the island on which he was, the water rose so rapidly that he was drowned, together with his youngest son. This sad event occurred in the year 1885.
James A (Woods) who was a farmer, enlisted in Company E, Fifty-ninth Illinois Infantry, August 2, 1861 , during the Civil War and served until January, 1866.