Description
Robert Madison 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."
Jesse T. Hall and Thomas Beaumont testified under oath that Lamar had owned Robert for "his whole life." L. R. Ringo (Post Master Ludlow R.) and G. W. (Grame W.) Hood of Weston, Platte County, swore that Lamar was loyal to the U.S. Government and had defended it against the Confederate States of America. Weston, Missouri, Court of Common Pleas Clerk William F. Yocum certified that Lamar, Hall, Ringo, Beaumont, and Hood had personally appeared before him and swore an oath to the truth of the claim. William Lamar gave power of attorney to the law firm of James Craig of St. Joseph, Missouri, to prosecute his claim for compensation.Date(s) of Creation
11/24/1866
