Notes for: John MCFADDEN

John was appointed guardian of his minor brothers and sisters following the death of his mother ca. 1817. In 1828 he removed to Owensville, Indiana, after the death of his first wife. In 1844, John moved his family to Lexington, Lafayette Co., Missouri. He and his son, John, are said to have gone to California for the gold rush but were back in Missouri by 1854. John was taken from his home and into a cornfield and killed by Union sympathizers at his home in in Lexington, Missouri, in October 1862 allegedly for being an outspoken Southern sympathizer and flying the "Stars and Bars" of the Confederacy. [David McFadden email5/5/00]