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Clinton Swallow Singleton1

born about 1858, died about 1891

Facts and Notes

  • Burial: Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, USABGO1
  • Education: Westminster College, Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri, USABG1
  • Religious Affiliation: Presbyterian1
  • Birth: About 1858; Missouri, USABGO; Boone or Callaway County, according to Robert Woodson's family history1,2
  • Residence: 1860; Bourbon, Boone County, Missouri, USABGO; Age: 23
  • Residence: 1870; Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri, USABGO; Post Office: Fulton; Age: 122
  • Death: About 1891; He was "killed by a railroad engine" (hit by a locomotive?) when he was 33 years old. Cause of Death: Accident1

Citations

  1. [S436] Woodson, Robert S., Brief Family History of Robert S. Woodson, Woodson, Robert S.. Brief Family History of Robert S. Woodson. Privately held by Mary Jane Reyes, Lorton, Virginia, 2014., NOTE: Robert Woodson states that Middleton Singleton attended Missouri State University in 1847. However, he probably meant the University of Missouri, which was established at Columbia in Boone County in 1839; Missouri State wasn't established until 1905.
  2. [S471] Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1870usfedcen&h=4727951&indiv=try, Year: 1870; Census Place: Fulton, Callaway, Missouri; Roll: M593_764; Page: 333B; Image: 118236; Family History Library Film: 552263, Record for Middleton Singleton
  3. [S476] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=40878587&indiv=try, Year: 1860; Census Place: Bourbon, Boone, Missouri; Roll: M653_608; Page: 913; Image: 464; Family History Library Film: 803608, Record for M G Singleton