19 Apl 2000 MO-Abstracts Read-Only List This is a departure, but it might benefit someone here. I found the following as part of an article while searching on the net. This had been in the 13 Feb 2000 issue of "The Gazette Weekly" which serves Buckner, Levasy and Sibley, MO. If you'd like to see the entire article, go to http://www.gazetteweekly.com/ and perform a search. Isaac Porter "Dick" Alumbaugh (1847-1937), born in Odessa, Mo. and his wife, Ella Nicholson. The Nicholson family lived in Napoleon, Mo. in the 1860's. Isaac enlisted in the Confederate cause in Lexington, Mo. Nov. 4, 1862 under General Joe Shelby and was in the battles of Lone Jack, Lexington, the Little Blue, Independence, Westport, one near Fort Scott, Kansas, and Newtonia, Mo. He remained in the Confederate service until the end of the war. He and his wife lived in Napoleon; the Alumbaugh house overlooked the Missouri River. The two men did not know each other during the war but became acquainted afterwards. Clarence recalls his mother telling of the two soldiers sitting outside of a window and talking about their wartime experiences. By listening at that window from inside she learned many interesting stories. Clarence's great uncle, Josiah "Joe" Alumbaugh, born in 1840 in Sullivan County, Indiana, originally enlisted with Capt. Wither's Company, Missouri State Guard (Union) on April 1, 1861. He enlisted on the Confederate side Aug. 18, 1862 in Lafayette County and served in the 5th Cavalry, Company G, Gordon's Regiment, Shelby's Brigade. He was considered one of General Shelby's best soldiers and a peerless cavalryman. He is the only enlisted man to be named in the book, War in the West, by John Newman Edwards, 1867. He was in the Battle of Lone Jack and family oral tradition indicates he was at the Battle of the Little Blue. He survived many others until he was killed at Marks Mill, Arkansas the last week of April, 1864. Two other family members, Daniel Wilson and Jim Sims, both from Odessa, also fought on the Southern side. Dan joined bushwackers after Shelby's retreat at the Battle of Lexington. The first Alumbaugh in this country was Peter, born in Sept., 1740; his surname appears in records as Allumbaugh, with two l's instead of one, as Alembeck, and with variations of the two spellings. He came from Germany and was the only member of his family to survive the crossing. The others died of cholera. He arrived on these shores in 1751, an 11 year old orphan, who could not speak English. He became a cooper (maker of barrels) and was a Revolutionary War soldier. Peter, the great grandfather of Isaac, went to King William County, Virginia and later to Greenbriar County, Virginia. He died in Madison County, Kentucky in 1833. The family moved to Indiana. A descendant, Jim Allumbaugh, born Oct. 11, 1820 in Kentucky, married Eliza Osborn in Sullivan County, Indiana. They moved to Lafayette County, Mo. in 1842. He was at one time the largest landowner south of Odessa.