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Robert Madison, F, 79th U. S. Colored Troops, died in the cancer ward of the hospital Sunday afternoon, aged 70 (born ~1843). The funeral is announced to take place this morning at 9 o'clock, Chaplain Payne officiating.
(Researcher's note: Robert Madison enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas, on August 20, 1862, and mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company F.
On November 24, 1866, William Lamar of Platte County, Missouri signed claim for compensation #299 for enlisted slave Robert Madison and swore an oath of allegiance before Weston, Missouri, Court of Common Pleas Clerk William F. Yocum. Lamar claimed he had acquired title by "...that he owned and raised the said Robert Madison as his slave from the infancy of said Robert Madison, being the only owner the said slave ever had.")Date(s) of Creation
5/13/1913
