Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Samuel O. McGUIRE (b. 1843)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.785

Samuel O. McGuire
A native of Kentucky, was born in Anderson county, January 22, 1843, and received his
education there. He was employed as a clerk at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, after leaving school for
two years. He left Kentucky in 1861, and came to Ray county, Missouri, and in the month of
June, the same year, he enlisted under Colonel Reeves in the Confederate army. He was at the
battles of Carthage, Wilson’s Creek, pea Ridge, Iuka, Corinth, Champion Hills and Big Black
River. At the last mentioned fight he was captured by the enemy and taken to Ft. Delaware and
thence to point Lookout, Maryland. Here he was kept six months, and then having been
exchanged, he again entered the regular service. He made the trip from Independence, Missouri,
to the Red River of the south , in 1864, with neither salt nor bread with his rations. Mr. McGuire
was paroled at Alexandria, Louisiana, in July, 1865. After the war he went out on the plains of
Nebraska and Dakota, and engaged at teaming for four years. He was in a battle with the Indians
in Dakota. Four hundred of the savages surrounding the party’s camp to which Mr. McGuire
belonged, setting fire to the long dry prairie grass, attacked the train and killed four of his
comrades, besides wounding and killing stock. Mr. McGuire fortunately escaped without a
scratch, and returned to Missouri. He stopped in Kansas City for about a year, and then going to
Vernon county, Missouri, was employed herding cattle for about eighteen months. At the
expiration of that time he returned to Ray county, Missouri, and has made his home here ever
since. Mr. McGuire was married December 22, 1870, to Miss Frances Wall, of Ray county,
Missouri. They have two children living: James B. and Claude O. Mr. McGuire has mingled
much with the world, and is an intelligent, practical minded man, a substantial farmer and an
influential citizen. 

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