A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Micajah Carr Sandidge
"History of Saline County, Missouri", Missouri Historical Co., St. Louis, 1881, pp. 773-774:
MICAJAH C. SANDIDGE, county recorder, P. O., Marshall. Was born in Hart county, Kentucky, April 13, 1835, and moved with his parents to this county, and settled six miles south of Marshall, where he was raised on the farm, and educated in the schools of the neighborhood. At the age of fifteen he clerked in a sto[r]e in Marshall, until 1857, when he went to Lanesville, Kentucky, and clerked two years in a grocery and commission house. In 1859 his father died, and he returned to Saline county, Missouri, and took charge of the farm. In 1861, he joined Capt. Crews' company, M. S. G. [Missouri State Guards -- Confederate], and was in the battles of Wilson Creek and Lexington, and was discharged at the end of six months. In August, 1862, he enlisted in company D, First Missouri cavalry, Jo. Shelby, colonel; then Gordon. This company was afterwards made General Marmaduke's escort, and was in the battles of Coon Creek, Newtonia, Prairie Grove, Helena, Little Rock, and Jenkins' Ferry. In May, 1864, he was sent in the Federal lines as a spy, taken prisoner, and sent, first to the Arkansas penitentiary, at Little Rock, then to Rock Island, Illinois, where he remained until February, 1865, then sent to New Orleans, and then exchanged on April, 1865; went to Shreveport, joined his command, and surrendered in June. In March, 1866, he returned to Saline county, Missouri, and sold goods for Q. O. Striker, in Marshall, and then went to farming until 1875. He then sold his farm, and engaged in milling for three years, and in 1878 was elected county recorder for four years. On the 5th of December, 1869, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Mayfield, daughter of Dr. Thomas Mayfield, of Barren county, Kentucky. She died January 25, 1875, leaving three children: John T., Elizabeth A. and Micajah C. He was again married, March 5, 1879 to Mrs. Jennie S. Sappington, daughter of Captain Mason Brown, killed at the battle of Boonville in 1861. They have had two children, only one Ida C., living.
"History of Saline County, Missouri" says on p. 329 that it was at the battle of Jenkin's Ferry that he was taken prisoner.
There is a letter written by B. H. [Benjamin Harrison] Wilson in the Union Provost Marshals’ File of Papers Relating to Individual Citizens (Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO; searchable index online at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/provost/) that says:
I saw Charles Q. Shouse of Pettis County, Mo., in regard to John N. Parker, alias Micajah C. Sandidge (now a prisoner at Rock Island, Ill.), having taken the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in 1862. He says he was present when Sandidge took the Oath. I have not been able to get into Saline to learn of others who know anything about it.
[Apparently, as a spy Micajah had taken the alias of John Parker; I’m not sure if the middle initial is N; it’s hard to read in the letter.]
Middle name of Carr is from My Southern Family (other sources just had initial "C"). Middle name of Carr is also given on daughter Louise Champlin's death certificate. Note that he was likely named for his father's older brother, Micajah Carr Sandidge, who died in 1832.
A couple of sources (including the Hal Wood information) list Micajah as son of Aaron Burr Sandidge instead of John W. Sandidge. However, information from Park Ridge Cemetery in Marshall, MO, lists his parents as Jno. W. & Maria L. Sandidge. Also, the probate case files of John W. Sandidge and Marie L. Isbell make this quite clear.
According to the Hal Wood information, he was elected Saline County recorder in 1878, 1882, 1886, and 1890, and he died in office in 1891.
In the Ridge Park Cemetery register, under birth date it says 55-11-17. There are a few other entries where they give age instead of birth date, and I think that is what this is: 55 yrs, 11 mos, 17 days. This works out to a birth date of 13 May 1835. In “History of Saline County” it gives his birth date as 13 Apr 1835, so it doesn't quite match. I'm inclined to go with May. Note that his headstone at Ridge Park Cemetery says 1855 for his birth. My best guess is that the stone was made when Micajah Jr. died in 1945, someone read 55-11-17 and thought that meant he was born in 1855, and nobody at that time knew any better.
The Diary of W. S. Myers, Miami, Saline, MO, 1891 (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~meredythspages/diary1891.htm) has the following note for Micajah:
Thurs., Apr. 30.
Mr. M. C. Sandidge, Sr., died tonight at 10:15 o’clock. Mike and Mrs. Isbell went over tonight. Mrs. Dunlap died this eve at 5:30 o’clock. Fay and I ran off one-hundred eighteen “funeral notices” tonight. It was 15-minutes after 11 o’clock when we quit.
[Mrs. Isbell would be Maria Isbell, Micajah's mother. Mike is probably Micajah Jr., who was living with Maria in the 1880 and 1900 censuses.]
Death notice in the Intelligencer (Audrain Co., MO; at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/audrain/deaths/Intelligencer_1891-1893.htm):
7 May 1891 1/6. M. C. Sandidge, Recorder of Deeds of Saline county, died at his home near Marshall April 30, of cancer of the stomach.
1850 census
Image 60 on Ancestry.com (Saline Co., MO)
Listed as Micajah C. Sandridge. Attended school within the year.
1860 census
Images 1 and 2 on Ancestry.com (Black Water Twp., Saline Co., MO)
Listed as M C Sandidge
1870 census
Images 106 and 107 on Ancestry.com (Saline Co., MO)
Listed as M. C. Sandige. Value of real estate listed as $3000, value of personal estate listed as $1500. Household consisted of Micajah (M C), Rebecca (this should be Elizabeth), and William P. Sandidge; and Dicey Sandige (domestic servant).
Note: Some of the information in these pages is uncertain. Please let me know of errors or omissions using the email link above. ...Mike Wilson
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