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Contributed by: Roger Robertson William Robertson William was a Civil War Union veteran. Born in Breckinridge, Kentucky, he moved to Missouri with this parents when they settled in Genty County, Missouri but later moved to Grundy County and worked a farm until the war broke out. He enlisted in the Union Army at St Joseph, Missouri on August 18, 1862 at the age of 23 years. He served in the 35th Regiment, Company F, of the Missouri Infantry and was discharged from the service June 28, 1865 at Little Rock, Arkansas by reason of expiration of term of service under provision of the War Department. He served under Capt Benjamin P. Hollands. After the war, he returned to Grundy County where he married Minervia Francis McCammon, daughter of Reverend William and Rosannah Oxford McCammon. He went into partnership with his father-in-law in general farming and stock raising. This partnership was dissolved in1880 when the father-in-law retired. William and Minervia continued to live at the old homestead, which was given to her by her father, until March 1903 when they moved to Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. They returned to Grundy County, Missouri a short time before his death. Both William and Minervia are buried in the church yard cemetery of the Union Baptist Church, known as Coon Creek Cemetery, in Grundy County, Missouri |