Database: rdball dated 21 Mar 2021
- Sex: M
- Born: 19 Feb 1809 in Barren County, Kentucky
- Died: 1870 in Missouri
- Alt. Birth: 19 Feb 1809 in Barren County, Kentucky3
- Alt. Birth: 19 Feb 1809 in Monroe (Barren) County, Kentucky4
- Alt. Death: 1870 3
- Census: 1850 in Cooper County, Missouri5, 3
- Notes:
Census Missouri 1850 Cooper County
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Census
Page: 138B Dist 23
Text: Enumeration done Oct 12, 1950 by E E Bukner Film B432_397 line14
Chism, Michael age 41 M W Farmer $3,000 born KY
Chism, Dadami age 43 F W born KY
Chism Priscilla J age 15 F W born MO in school within the year
Chism, Jacob age 13 M W born MO in school within the year
Chism, Mary age 11 F W born MO in school within the year
Chism, Isaac M age 9 M W born MO in school within the year
Chism, George age 5 M W born MO in school within the year
Chism, Unity J age 3 F W born MO
Chism, James F age 1 M W born MO
History of Cooper County, Missouri:
Sometime during the year 1832, the people of this neighborhood became alarmed by the report that the Osage Indians were about to attack and massacre all the settlers in this vicinity. This report started first by some means at old Luke Williams on Cold Camp creek. The people became almost wild with excitement. They left their plows in the fields, and fled precipitately in the direction of the other settlements towards Boon- ville. Some of them took refuge in a fort at Vincent Walker's, some at Sam Forbes', and others at Collin Stoneman's and Finis Ewing's. Hats and caps, shoes and stockings, pillows, baskets and bonnets might have been seen along the old military road to Boonville, lying scattered about in beautiful confusion all that day and the next, until the excitement had ceased. Fortunately the scare did not last long, as it was soon ascer- tained that the alarm was false, and that the Osage Indians had not only not contemplated a raid on the white settlements, but that they had actually become frightened themselves and fled south of the Osage River. But the panic was complete and exceedingly frightful while it lasted. A fellow by the name of Mike Chism lived near the Bidstrup place. Mike had a wife and two children. They were already preparing for a flight. Mike's wife was on horseback and had one child in her lap and one behind her and Mike was on foot. At this moment, a horseman came galloping up in great trepidation, and informed the little family that the Indians were coming by the thou- sands and that they were already on this side of Flat creek. On receiving this intelligence, Mike, in great terror, said to his wife, "My God, Sallie, I can't wait for you any longer', and suiting his actions to his words, took to his scrapers in such hot haste that at the first frantic jump he made, he fell at full length, bleeding and trembling on the rocks. But the poor fellow did not take time to rise to his feet again. He scrambled off on 'all fours' into the brush like some wild animal, leaving his wife and children to take care of themselves as best they could. He evidently acted upon the principle that 'It is better to be a live coward than a dead hero.
Repository:
Call Number:
Media: Census
Page: 138B Dist 23
Text: Enumeration done Oct 12, 1950 by E E Bukner Film B432_397 line14
Chism, Michael age 41 M W Farmer $3,000 born KY
Chism, Dadami age 43 F W born KY
Chism Priscilla J age 15 F W born MO in school within the year
Chism, Jacob age 13 M W born MO in school within the year
Chism, Mary age 11 F W born MO in school within the year
Chism, Isaac M age 9 M W born MO in school within the year
Chism, George age 5 M W born MO in school within the year
Chism, Unity J age 3 F W born MO
Chism, James F age 1 M W born MO
History of Cooper County, Missouri:
Sometime during the year 1832, the people of this neighborhood became alarmed by the report that the Osage Indians were about to attack and massacre all the settlers in this vicinity. This report started first by some means at old Luke Williams on Cold Camp creek. The people became almost wild with excitement. They left their plows in the fields, and fled precipitately in the direction of the other settlements towards Boon- ville. Some of them took refuge in a fort at Vincent Walker's, some at Sam Forbes', and others at Collin Stoneman's and Finis Ewing's. Hats and caps, shoes and stockings, pillows, baskets and bonnets might have been seen along the old military road to Boonville, lying scattered about in beautiful confusion all that day and the next, until the excitement had ceased. Fortunately the scare did not last long, as it was soon ascer- tained that the alarm was false, and that the Osage Indians had not only not contemplated a raid on the white settlements, but that they had actually become frightened themselves and fled south of the Osage River. But the panic was complete and exceedingly frightful while it lasted. A fellow by the name of Mike Chism lived near the Bidstrup place. Mike had a wife and two children. They were already preparing for a flight. Mike's wife was on horseback and had one child in her lap and one behind her and Mike was on foot. At this moment, a horseman came galloping up in great trepidation, and informed the little family that the Indians were coming by the thou- sands and that they were already on this side of Flat creek. On receiving this intelligence, Mike, in great terror, said to his wife, "My God, Sallie, I can't wait for you any longer', and suiting his actions to his words, took to his scrapers in such hot haste that at the first frantic jump he made, he fell at full length, bleeding and trembling on the rocks. But the poor fellow did not take time to rise to his feet again. He scrambled off on 'all fours' into the brush like some wild animal, leaving his wife and children to take care of themselves as best they could. He evidently acted upon the principle that 'It is better to be a live coward than a dead hero.
Father: Jacob Chism, b. 22 Jan 1782 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Mother: Priscilla Howard, b. 25 Oct 1783 in Fairforest Creek, Union County, South Carolina
Family 1: Didamy Smith, b. 1807 in Bourbon County, Kentucky
- Married: 4 Feb 1830 Cooper County, Missouri6
- Priscilla Chism, b. 11 Jun 1835 in Cooper County, Missouri
- Jacob Chism, b. 26 Aug 1837 in Kentucky
- Mary Chism, b. 1839 in Cooper County, Missouri
- Isaac M. Chism, b. 1841 in Cooper County, Missouri
- George Chism, b. 1845 in Cooper County, Missouri
- Unity J. Chism, b. 1847 in Cooper County, Missouri
- James F Chism, b. 1850 in Cooper County, Missouri
Family 2: Francis Kavanaugh Woods, b. 12 May 1795 in Albemarle County, Virginia
- Married: Aft 1854
Sources:
- 1993755.ged.
- Genealogical Information collected by Doug Moore.
- Ellen Kerley, varecia.ged, Varecia@nn.rr.com.
- dougmoore.ged.
- Census Missouri 1850 Cooper County (138B DIST 23).
- Cooper County, Missouri: Marriages (1819-1850) & Wills (1820-1870) [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001 (860).