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Ambrose Hill, unassigned 1st Kansas Cavalry, died in the hospital, July 7th aged 73 (born ~1839). The funeral will take place from the Home morgue this morning, July 9th, at 8 o'clock, Chaplain Payne officiating.
(Researcher's note: Ambrose Hill enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas on March 6, 1865, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry. On November 13, 1866, John T. Murdock of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #22 for enlisted slave Adam Hill and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt.
Murdock claimed he had acquired title to Ambrose by “…the mother of said Ambrose Hill was the property of claimant and the said Ambrose Hill, the slave for whom compensation is claimed, was born the property of John T. Murdock, claimant.”Date(s) of Creation
7/9/1912
