Biographical Sketch of Washington Bardsley, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Washington Bardsley, postoffice Odessa.  Son of Daniel B. Bardsley, of
Connecticut, who moved to Missouri about the year 1833, and was married
in 1838, to Miss Lydia Seagraves, a native of Kentucky.  Washington was
born July 7, 1840, and was married in September, 1866, to Miss Catherine
Cox, daughter of Joseph Cox.  In 1861 he enlisted in the confederate
army, and was in a number of battles, as Springfield, Oak Hill, Pt.
Gibson, and Vicksburg, where he was captured, held a prisoner until
January, 1864, then released.  He returned to the service, and served to
the end of the war.  He owns 106 acres of fine land bordering Odessa on
the south.

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