Caldwell County MO Archives History .....KILLING OF HUMPHREY WELDON 
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THE KILLING OF HUMPHREY WELDON
	Narrator:  Dr. Libby Woolsey of Hamilton, Missouri

     When Dr. Woolsey was quite a small boy, the horror of the Civil War in 
Caldwell County was about him.  Many men who expressed Southern sentiments 
were slain for it.  Dr. Woolsey's brother had enlisted in the Southern Army 
and the family lived mid a bunch of Southern sympathizers near Breckenridge.  
His Uncle by marriage on his father's side was Humphrey Weldon who was known 
as a "rebel" sympathizer.  He lived a little this side of Lick Fork Church.
     June 8 1864 some Confederate prisoners had escaped from St. Joseph and it 
was reported they were making for southern friends at the Weldon Settlement 
near Breckenridge.  Two militia forces sent out to get them June 9 mistook 
each other for the enemy and attacked each other.
     That night a militia force supposed by the family to be Captain Noblett's 
men went to the Weldon home and called Humphrey out.  They asked him who was 
harboring the fugitives?  He said, "That if he knew who was harboring them, he 
would not tell."  They straight way dragged him off and shot him full of 
holes.  After firing the barn, they departed.  The Weldon family hearing the 
shots, guessed his fate and went out and found his body.  He was buried in 
Lick Fork Cemetery.
     Interviewed  July 1934.


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