William Leonard Sooter, Sr.
Birth: Jul. 7, 1835
Arkansas, USA
Death: Nov. 9, 1863
Missouri, USA

Was Bush-Wacked during the Civil War. Confederate army, Co. H, 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles Volunteers, Soldier's Rank; Pvt.
The son of Edward Greenberry Sooter Sr. and Martha Patsy Fly. His wife was Margaret Elizabeth Russell Sooter (who later married David Olney Sherwood). They had 5 children together: James Alexander (m: Tennesee Hodge), Martha Ann "Mat" (m:Willis Oliver Cromwell Sherwood), Mary Jane Sooter(married to John Wesley Sherwood), Nancy, and William Leonard Jr.(m: Sarah Jane Smith).

Margaret Elizabeth Russell Sooter Sherwood
Birth: Apr. 7, 1838
Bedford County, Tennessee, USA
Death: Jun. 15, 1925
Anderson
McDonald County
Missouri, USA

David Olney Sherwood
Birth: Jan. 21, 1833
Death: Nov. 20, 1912
Anderson
McDonald County
Missouri, USA

Son of Jonathan Sherwood and Kesiah Elrod Sherwood. Husband to Priscilla DeButts (she died 1872, they had 5 children) and Margaret Elizabeth Russell Sooter Sherwood (married 1873, they had 5 children together, Margaret had 5 children from 1st husband William Leonard Sooter Sr.).

Regiment Name; 6 Missouri, S.M. Cav., Union Army Company M ,Soldier's Rank; Pvt.

Obituary: November 20, 1912
Olney Sherwood died at the home of O.D. Crosby four miles west of Anderson. Thursday Nov 20th. Mr. Sherwood had been a resident of McDonald County 38 years and had he lived till Jan. 21, 1913 he would have been 80 years.

David Olney Sherwood and Margaret Elizabeth Russell Sooter Sherwood were married 5-1-1873 (2nd marriage for both).

David's first wife was Priscilla DeButts married 9-23-1852, she died June 1872.

Margaret's first husband was William Leonard Sooter Sr. married 9-1-1854, he was bushwacked 11-9-1863 while returning home from the war.

(William Sooter was a Confederate in Co. H, 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles Volunteers and David Olney Sherwood was in the Union, Co. M,6 Missouri S.M. Cav.6-13-1864 discharged ...I don't think they ever met).

David's son John Wesley Sherwood married Margaret's daughter "Mamie" Mary Jane Sooter, married 1881.

(John Wesley and Mamie's children were Olney, Ida Wilson, George, and Lillie Sherwood.)