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- taken from history compiled by Ruth Richardson Kennedy and others.
He moved with his family to Saline County, Missouri in 1853. During the Civil War hw was an officer in the Union Army. He commenced his service as a recruiting offficer and then was made Captain of the 45th and 50th Volunteers.
He married first a Miller, who had a heart attack and died a few weeks after their marriage. His second wife was Elizabeth Zinn. They had two children John Thomas Fulkerson and an infant.
Rebel Quantrell and his band are said to have frightened the young wife so she would tell the whereabouts of her husband . She and the newborn baby soon died. Tom went back to his grandparents, Fredrick and Sarah Fulkerson, to live - or to his Zinn grandparents.
(Per Earl T. Fulkerson 12/88 :) Great Grandpa Fulkerosn was in the Civil War , starting as a recruiting officer and was captain of the 45th and 50th Volunteers.
James' third marriage was to Ellen Worthington I847 d. 189?. Ellen lived in Saline County, MO and was a friend of the Fulkerson family. (She probably lived at their home with a group of families banded together for protection).
In the late 60's or early 70's they moved to San Francisco and ran a hotel for several years. They became homesick for Arkansas and land.
Civil war
Missouri was North and Arkansas South
raiding parties
Great grandma died during Price's raid
Farms, land, character buy land
Berryville was an island in the White River. Parents retreated to Jefferson City during War and Jessie may have been born there. Birth certificate shows Jessie was born in Carroll City near Eureka Springs.
Plumlees lived there and developed a fruit drying process.
California period had property and a farm. (per E.T. Fulkerson 12/88}
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1832 - 1887 (55 years)
