A.J., Sarah and first Three Children came to Missouri in 1871 pausing briefly in Ray County finally settling southeast of Braymer.
He Served in Company C, Ninth Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry, in the Civil War, when just a boy. He did not take part in the war until rebels tried to take him captive. He hid in a hollow log until he could escape and enlist with the Union. He served three years until his honorable discharge, 11 September 1865

SERVICE: Duty at Crab Orchard Ky, till October 1863. (A Detachment on march to Cumberland Gap September 24-October 3.1863, and operations about there). Duty in District of East Tennessee at Knoxville, Nashville and on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, and at Bull's Gap, Tenn., till October, 1864. Rogersville August 21, 1864. Pursuit to Greenville August 21-23. Blue Springs August 23, Operations In East Tennessee August 29-September 4, Park Gap and Greenville September 4. Death of Gen. J. H. Morgan. Gillem's expedition from East Tennessee toward Southwest Virginia September 20-0ctober 17, Rheatown September 28, Watauga River September 9, Carter's Station September 29-October I, Operations in East Tennessee October 10-28, Greenville October 12, Bull's Gap October 16, Clinch Mountain October 18, Clinch Valley, near Sneedsville, October 21, Mossy Creek and Panther Gap October 27, Morristown and Russellville October 28. Operations against Breckenridge's advance into East Tennessee November 4-17, Russellville November 11, Bull's Gap November 11- 14. Russellville November 14, Strawberry Plains November 16-17, Flat Creek November 17. Stoneman's Expedition to SaItsville. Va., December 10-29, Big Spring, near Rogersville. December 2, Kingsport December 3, Glade Springs December 5. Marion and capture of Wythevllle December 16, Mt. Airy December 17, Engagement near Marion December 17-18, Capture and destruction of Saltsville December 20-21. Duty in East Tennessee till March 1865, Stoneman's Raid into Southwest Virginia and Western North Carolina March 21-April 25. Wytheville April 16, Shallow Ford and near Mocksville, NC April 11. Salisbury April 12, Catawba River April 17, Swannanoa Gap, NC, April 20. Near Hendersonvllle April 23. Duty in East Tennessee till September. Mustered out September 1,1865. Jim McKnight