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class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Samuel A. Whiteside</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Whiteside_photo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Whiteside_photo.jpg/220px-Whiteside_photo.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="317" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Whiteside_photo.jpg/330px-Whiteside_photo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Whiteside_photo.jpg/440px-Whiteside_photo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2202" data-file-height="3170" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1819–1821</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1783-04-12</span>)</span>April 12, 1783<br /><a href="/wiki/Rutherford_County,_North_Carolina" title="Rutherford County, North Carolina">Rutherford County, North Carolina</a>, US</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">January 12, 1866<span style="display:none">(1866-01-12)</span> (aged 82)<br /><a href="/wiki/Christian_County,_Illinois" title="Christian County, Illinois">Christian County, Illinois</a>, US</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Nancy Miller</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">Farmer, soldier, politician</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data">U.S. Army, Ranger</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1810-1814; 1831–1832</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data">captain (1812-1814)<br />general (1811-1812), (1831-1832)<br />corporal(1832–1833)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Unit</th><td class="infobox-data">Illinois militia</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commands</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Blackhawk_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackhawk War">Blackhawk War</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Samuel Whiteside</b> (April 12, 1783 – January 12, 1866) was an <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> pioneer. A farmer and backwoodsman, Whiteside briefly served in the <a href="/wiki/Illinois_General_Assembly" title="Illinois General Assembly">Illinois General Assembly</a> after statehood and led the Illinois militia for decades, rising to the rank of general but also enlisting as an ordinary soldier when militia calls declined at the end of wars. Whiteside fought the British in the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a> and Native Americans through the <a href="/wiki/Blackhawk_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackhawk War">Blackhawk War</a> (including in the <a href="/wiki/Illinois_Territory" title="Illinois Territory">Illinois Territory</a> before statehood and later in the <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_Territory" title="Wisconsin Territory">Wisconsin Territory</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_and_family_life">Early and family life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Whiteside&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early and family life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Samuel Whiteside was born on April 12, 1783, in <a href="/wiki/Rutherford_County,_North_Carolina" title="Rutherford County, North Carolina">Rutherford County, North Carolina</a> to the former Judith Tolley and her husband John D. Whiteside. His paternal grandfather, William Whiteside Sr., was a patriot who signed the <a href="/wiki/Tryon_Resolves" title="Tryon Resolves">Tryon Resolves</a> during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>, and whose sons Davis, James, John D., William B., Thomas, Samuel, and Adam Whiteside all fought the British at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain" title="Battle of Kings Mountain">Battle of Kings Mountain</a> in 1780. William Whiteside arrived to the American Colonies from Ireland, though he was of an Anglo-Irish background.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Davis Whiteside died of wounds suffered in that battle, previously having also signed the <a href="/wiki/Tryon_Resolves" title="Tryon Resolves">Tryon Resolves</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around 1792, Whiteside and his remaining sons moved west toward <a href="/wiki/St._Louis,_Missouri" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis, Missouri">St. Louis, Missouri</a>, to take advantage of land claims allotted to veterans. Before crossing the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a>, they settled near <a href="/wiki/Columbia,_Illinois" title="Columbia, Illinois">Columbia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monroe_County,_Illinois" title="Monroe County, Illinois">Monroe County, Illinois</a> on the abandoned Flannery Fort site protecting the important early <a href="/wiki/Kaskaskia" title="Kaskaskia">Kaskaskia</a> to <a href="/wiki/Cahokia" title="Cahokia">Cahokia</a> Trail. Flannery had been killed and scalped during an attack by Native Americans in 1783 and the site had been abandoned for a decade.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The elder William F. Whiteside was a militia captain and lived at the fort, which was called Whiteside Station until he died in 1815 (shortly before Illinois became a state). He had survived his son Thomas (who died at the fort in 1795, possibly during the Indian raid that Samuel survived and which shaped his later military career).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His son John (Samuel's father) moved his family to Bellefountaine (now <a href="/wiki/Waterloo,_Illinois" title="Waterloo, Illinois">Waterloo, Illinois</a>), also on the Kaskaskia/Cahokia trail in <a href="/wiki/Monroe_County,_Illinois" title="Monroe County, Illinois">Monroe County, Illinois</a>; his nephew another John D. Whiteside (1799–1850) would later represent Monroe County in the Illinois legislature.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around 1800 many Whiteside descendants moved to the <a href="/wiki/Goshen_Settlement" title="Goshen Settlement">Goshen Settlement</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Madison_County,_Illinois" title="Madison County, Illinois">Madison County, Illinois</a>, about 12 miles northeast of St. Louis and near modern <a href="/wiki/Edwardsville,_Illinois" title="Edwardsville, Illinois">Edwardsville, Illinois</a>. One of them was William Bolin Whiteside (1777–1833), who owned at least two slaves, became a militia captain for that area for decades and was elected the first sheriff of Madison County after statehood (and served until a scandal in 1822).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, this Samuel Whiteside and his brother Joel purchased land in what became <a href="/wiki/Maryville,_Illinois" title="Maryville, Illinois">Maryville, Illinois</a> (in Madison County about 17 miles from St. Louis) in 1802.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some Whiteside relatives would cross the Mississippi River and <a href="/wiki/Whiteside,_Missouri" title="Whiteside, Missouri">Whiteside, Missouri</a> would be named after early landowner William Whiteside. Other Whitesides (including this Samuel's children) moved inland to <a href="/wiki/Niantic,_Illinois" title="Niantic, Illinois">Niantic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Macon_County,_Illinois" title="Macon County, Illinois">Macon County, Illinois</a>. Meanwhile, Samuel Whiteside in 1804 married Virginia-born Nancy Miller (1789–1851). Their children included: Michael Whiteside (1805–1881), Judith Whiteside Waddell (1806–1876), Nancy Whiteside (b. 1808), Sarah Whiteside (b. 1810), Joel Whiteside (1811–1882), William Modrel Whiteside (1812–1864), Thomas Whiteside (b. 1815), Samuel Ray Whiteside (1820–1866), Elizabeth Ann (Eliza) Whiteside Henderson (1812–1910), John Perry Whiteside (1822–) and Mary Ann Whiteside (b. 1830).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family did not own slaves in the 1820 Federal census, nor the 1830 Federal census. In the 1850 census, Samuel Whiteside farmed in Madison County near his younger sons Samuel Ray and John Perry Whiteside and their families; the census found no slaves in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Indian_fighter,_legislator_and_farmer"><span id="Indian_fighter.2C_legislator_and_farmer"></span>Indian fighter, legislator and farmer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Whiteside&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Indian fighter, legislator and farmer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1811, during <a href="/wiki/Tecumseh%27s_War" title="Tecumseh's War">Tecumseh's War</a>, Whiteside received command of a company, in the newly formed 17th Illinois Infantry. The following year, during the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>, Captain Samuel Whiteside commanded a company of mounted infantry in the Illinois militia from August to November 1812. This company was drawn from <a href="/wiki/St._Clair_County,_Illinois" title="St. Clair County, Illinois">St. Clair County</a>, which adjoined Columbia, Illinois to the north and comprised most of the modern State. Whiteside had enlisted as an ensign (January 2, 1810) in the Illinois militia and received promotions to captain (August 22, 1812), major (February 26, 1817), colonel (May 22, 1817) and brigadier general (1819).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Once during the War of 1812, captain Whiteside saved boats of fellow soldiers who tried to cross the Mississippi to attack St. Louis, but were endangered during a retreat by shifting winds as well as the great river's current.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 1813 Whiteside received a captain's commission in the <a href="/wiki/Regular_Army_(United_States)" title="Regular Army (United States)">Regular Army</a> and led a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Rangers" title="United States Army Rangers">Ranger</a> unit. In 1814, a woman and six children near <a href="/wiki/Alton,_Illinois" title="Alton, Illinois">Alton, Illinois</a> were killed by <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native Americans</a>. Captain Whiteside and his men pursued the killers, and killed one of them found hiding in a tree. Whiteside was discharged from the Army on July 30, 1814, but was among the witnesses to treaties with the <a href="/wiki/Kickapoo_people" title="Kickapoo people">Kickapoo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage</a> in 1815.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following Illinois' statehood in 1818, Whiteside served on the commission to select a new site for the Illinois State Capital, selecting <a href="/wiki/Vandalia,_Illinois" title="Vandalia, Illinois">Vandalia, Illinois</a> at the confluence of the <a href="/wiki/Kaskaskia_River" title="Kaskaskia River">Kaskaskia</a> and Mississippi Rivers and the end of the <a href="/wiki/National_Road" title="National Road">National Road</a>; it would remain the state capital until Abraham Lincoln and other legislators secured a move inland to <a href="/wiki/Springfield,_Illinois" title="Springfield, Illinois">Springfield</a> in 1839. Meanwhile, voters elected Whiteside as a delegate in the first <a href="/wiki/Illinois_General_Assembly" title="Illinois General Assembly">Illinois General Assembly</a>; he served from 1819 to 1821 and did not seek re-election. Instead, he returned to farming and leading the Madison County militia. </p><p>In 1827, after drunk boatman abducted and raped several <a href="/wiki/Ho-Chunk" title="Ho-Chunk">Ho-Chunk</a> (Winnebago) women near what became <a href="/wiki/Prairie_Du_Chien,_Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" title="Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin">Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin</a> (then <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_Territory" title="Wisconsin Territory">Wisconsin Territory</a>) and their menfolk rescued them in a skirmish in which both Native Americans and whites died, Whiteside and his militiamen, along with Generals <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Cass" title="Lewis Cass">Lewis Cass</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Atkinson_(soldier)" title="Henry Atkinson (soldier)">Henry Atkinson</a> and Col. <a href="/wiki/Henry_Dodge" title="Henry Dodge">Henry Dodge</a> pursued the Winnebago warriors. Chief <a href="/wiki/Red_Bird" title="Red Bird">Red Bird</a> surrendered at <a href="/wiki/Portage,_Wisconsin" title="Portage, Wisconsin">Portage</a> on the condition that his people would suffer no reprisals, but died in prison a year later.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From April 26 to June 30, 1832, during the <a href="/wiki/Black_Hawk_War" title="Black Hawk War">Black Hawk War</a>, Governor <a href="/wiki/John_Reynolds_(Illinois_politician)" title="John Reynolds (Illinois politician)">John Reynolds</a> commissioned Whiteside as a brigadier general in the Illinois militia. Whiteside in turn commissioned 23-year-old <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> as a militia captain (and Lincoln would serve a month until this phase of the war ended); future governor <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ford_(politician)" title="Thomas Ford (politician)">Thomas Ford</a> also served under Whiteside. In late April, U.S. Army General Henry Atkinson at <a href="/wiki/Rock_Island,_Illinois" title="Rock Island, Illinois">Rock Island</a> sent Reynolds, Whiteside and their militia up the <a href="/wiki/Rock_River_(Mississippi_River)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rock River (Mississippi River)">Rock River</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sauk_Trail" title="Sauk Trail">Sauk Trail</a>, planning to join forces at <a href="/wiki/Prophetstown,_Illinois" title="Prophetstown, Illinois">Prophetstown, Illinois</a>, home of <a href="/wiki/Wabokieshiek" title="Wabokieshiek">Wabokieshiek</a> (White Cloud), one of Black Hawk's chief advisors and who had created the settlement after Black Hawk had been barred from his native village <a href="/wiki/Saukenuk" class="mw-redirect" title="Saukenuk">Saukenuk</a> at the confluence of the Mississippi and Rock Rivers. On May 10, 1832, Whiteside gave the order to burn the abandoned Prophetstown, and proceeded upriver to secure <a href="/wiki/Dixon,_Illinois" title="Dixon, Illinois">Dixon's ferry</a>, a relatively new settlement and post office where the Peoria/Galena wagon road crossed the Rock River. Although Whiteside initially remained at Dixon waiting for the regular army, at Governor Reynolds' urging, he sent a scout company under Major <a href="/wiki/Isaiah_Stillman" title="Isaiah Stillman">Isaiah Stillman</a> to seek out Black Hawk's British Band. Stillman's men imprisoned some of Black Hawk's emissaries, but fled after the British Band attacked; General Whiteside led the small group which buried the 11 dead militiamen after what became known as the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stillman%27s_Run" title="Battle of Stillman's Run">Battle of Stillman's Run</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the militia troops were discharged as the war's Rock River valley phase ended in June 1832, Whiteside volunteered to continue as a private and fought until the war's end.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Whiteside again returned to farming in Madison County, Illinois. In 1854, three years after burying his wife, he sold the farm and moved inland to <a href="/wiki/Christian_County,_Illinois" title="Christian County, Illinois">Christian County, Illinois</a>, where several of his children had moved. He lived with son-in-law William Henderson, his daughter, Elizabeth and their children and hired help.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Whiteside&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Whiteside_Grave_2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Whiteside_Grave_2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="101" height="135" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="101" data-file-height="135" /></a><figcaption>Gravesite of General Samuel Whiteside in Hunter Cemetery Christian County, Mosquito Township Illinois.</figcaption></figure> <p>Brigadier General Samuel Whiteside died at his daughter's home in Mt. Auburn in Christian County on January 3, 1866. He is buried at Hunter Cemetery, in Christian County. </p><p>During his lifetime, Illinois legislators created several counties along the Rock River from lands cleared for settlement during the Blackhawk War. They named the county which included Prophetstown <a href="/wiki/Whiteside_County,_Illinois" title="Whiteside County, Illinois">Whiteside County, Illinois</a> to honor this Samuel Whiteside. His sons Joel Whiteside and Samuel Whiteside would fight for the Union in different Illinois infantry units during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. Joel received bullet wounds in both thighs during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh" title="Battle of Shiloh">Battle of Shiloh</a>, which ended his military career, although he and his brother both survived the war. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Whiteside&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://whiteside.siue.edu/biography#reference5%7C">https://whiteside.siue.edu/biography#reference5%7C</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://members.tripod.com/mmkasik/id23.htm">Whiteside family signers of the Tryon Resolves</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071231165043/http://www.dar.org/natsociety/pi.cfm">Daughters of the American Revolution Patriot Index</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mmkasik.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=mmkasik&view=0&rand=867481703&pid=68">Great granddaughter's genealogy website</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">1850 U.S.Federal Census for Township 3 North R8 West, Madison County, Illinois, family 99 (p. 11 of 21); ancestry.com indicates the county has no slave schedules for that census</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://illinois1812warsociety.org/samuel.html">"Illinois Society War of 1812"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Illinois+Society+War+of+1812&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fillinois1812warsociety.org%2Fsamuel.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASamuel+Whiteside" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://illinois1812warsociety.org/samuel.html">"Illinois Society War of 1812"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Illinois+Society+War+of+1812&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fillinois1812warsociety.org%2Fsamuel.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASamuel+Whiteside" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Louis Houck, History of Missouri (Chicago, RR Donnelly & Sons), Vol. 2 Ch. 22 (1908) p. 398</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Winnebago uprising" in url=<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=96330&itemid=WE52&articleId=209191">https://online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=96330&itemid=WE52&articleId=209191</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Battle of Stillman's Run" in William B. Kessell, Encyclopedia of Native American Wars and Warfare (2005), available online</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thomas Ford, A History of Illinois: from its commencement as a state in 1818 to 1847 (annotated and introduced by Rodney O. Davis; University of Illinois Press 1995) pp.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">1860 U.S. Federal Census for Christian County, family 1690 (p. 196 of 227)</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ul><li>Baldwin, Carl R. <i>Echoes of their Voices</i>, (1978), LC Classification 78-71849. corporal(1811–1812)</li> <li>Baldwin, Carl R. <i>Captains of the Wilderness: The American Revolution on the Western Frontiers</i> (1986), (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9997484665" title="Special:BookSources/9997484665">9997484665</a>) (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a 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