Fr. Joseph Thomas Jarobe b. 6-29-1806 in Washington Co., Ky. Son of John Thomas Jarboe, and Dorothy Hill >From the 1962 National Catholic Register "It was the day after the Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7,1862), and Fr. Joseph, O.P. a chaplain to Confederate troops, was being taken out to be shot by Union soldiers. He had crossed the Federal line to administer the Last Rites to some dying Union soldiers when he was arrested as a spy." "But happening to ride by at that moment was Gen. Phil Sheridan, who had served Mass for Fr. Jarboe in Ohio before the war. In Language said to have been more vigorous than polished, her ordered the priest's immediate release. The account is carried by the Tennessee Register in connection with the Shiloh Centenary, marked by a special U.S. postage stamp." "Fr. Jarboe distinguished himself not only as a chaplain, but as a great missionary in Ohio, KY, & TN. His health so poor at ordination in 1830 that he had to be supported by another priest to receive the sacrament, he yet outlived all his contemporaries and died in 1887 at the age of 81, after 57 strenuous years as a priest. It is generally accepted that only deafness prevented his becoming a Bishop." "As child he was enrolled in the recently opened Dominican school at St. Rose, Ky, where he was a pupil of marked ability. He was ordained 6-28-1830 at St. Rose by Bishop Edward Fenwick, OP." "In 1839 at St Rose, Fr. Jarboe gave instruction in the catholic faith to the Puritan Yankee, Henry Vincent Brown, who became one of the famous priests in Tennessee." "In the 1840s' Fr. Jarboe was assigned to the mission in Ohio, and then became head of the college at Sinsinawa, Wi. His name was among those submitted to Rome in 1859 by the Bishops of St. Louis Province as recommended to be Bishop of one the new dioceses to be erected." "When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Fr. Jarboe, again at St. Rose, immediately volunteered to minister to the troops and was in some of the bloodiest battles of the war and distinguished himself in caring for the wounded." "At the height of the Battle of Shiloh, comrade of Fr. Jarboe were falling on all sides while he was busy administering to the dying. Finding a young soldier suffering from a mortal wound, Fr. Jarbe was preparing to cut away his boots for the anointing of the when a bullet shattered the knife he held in his hand. Before the priest recovered from this shock an exploding shell struck the injured soldier and hurled his body some distance across the field. As it did so, a penknife dropped from one of the soldiers pockets and was put to use by the chaplain. Fr. Jarboe always thought this second knife was sent to replace the one shot from his hand. He kept the knife as a memento of the war and would often show it to his friends." "During the latter part of the battle, solicitude for the spiritual welfare of the union soldiers led Fr. Jarboe across the lines under a flag of truce. His mission of mercy ended, he tried to return to his regiment but was seized by pickets of the Federal Army and brought before Gen. Wm. Nelson." "One accounts says the priest was recognize by Provost Marshall, John G. Key. But, Miss Lula Timmons, of Lebanon, Ky, a life long friend and relative of Fr. Jarboe, writing in 1909, give this account: "He was being taken out to be shot when the party was met by Gen. Phil Sheridan, who recognized Fr. Jarboe, for whom he had serve Mass in Somerset, Oh. Sheridan immediately ordered his release and is said that the language used by the General on that occasion was more vigorous than polished." "From the end of the war in 1865 to 1884 Fr. Jarboe labored in TN, and was Vicar General of the diocese form 1869-1884. In 1884 infirmities of age and deafness caused his retirement. He went to the Dominican monastery in Somerset, Oh where he died 3-27-1887." <(.¿.)> Randy Dunavan Longview, Tx http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/u/n/James-R-Dunavan/index.html