Joseph Persinger
Birth 17 Oct 1794
Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
Death 21 Feb 1869 (aged 74)
Boone County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Wright Family Cemetery
Boone County, Missouri, USA
Joseph Persinger married Elizabeth Branham on January 03, 1832, in Boone County, Missouri. He published a pamphlet "The Life of Jacob Persinger" in 1861 in which he
described a battle in 1813 along Bonne Femme Creek near the Missouri River (southwest of Columbia) in which 50 Indians were killed. (pp 985-986)
He settled 7 or 8 miles northeast of Columbia between 1818 and 1820 (i.e. in the
vicinity of the Wright Cemetery). (p 133) He was Captain of a volunteer company organized to fight the Mexicans in 1844 and on September 25, 1847. General Joseph Persinger's troop of horse escorted the newly returned volunteers to a public expression of appreciation. (p 355) He has been described as "the famous old hunter and pioneer who was reared by Indians". (p 735)
Sources: The History of Boone County published in 1882 by Switzler; various pages noted
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