This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SMB.2ACI/1367.1 Message Board Post: From Breshears article, pp 34c-35c, Vol 1, History of Benton County: "In addition to their own children, Henry and Atsey raised William Carroll Green Breshears as their own. He was 13 years old when he was orphaned on the trip to Missouri and joined the Henry Breshears family. William Carroll Green Breshears died while a soldier in Company C, Osage County Home Guards during the Civil War. Court records show his widow Mary Orleana Rice Breshears was given an 80 acre homestead May 20, 1873. His children were: Ike, Wm. Carroll Jr., Francis Marion, Martha Jane, and Peggy."