Here are Civil War enlistment and muster records for Lawson Mantooth (Sarah E. [Mantooth] Burke's father). Click for a look:

(a) Lawson's ENLISTMENT RECORD at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky on January 28, 1864, where he is shown to be a blacksmith, have black eyes, black hair, dark complexion and stand 5' 8" tall;

(b) Nov/Dec 1864 COMPANY MUSTER ROLL for Company K, 8th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry, showing Pvt. Lawson Mantooth "absent without leave" (AWOL) from muster on December 31, 1864 ;

(c) Jan/Feb 1865 Company K, 8th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry RETURNS, showing Pvt. Mantooth absent without leave since December 21, 1864, and also "absent in prison, Knoxville, Tennessee"; and

(d) Sep 11, 1865 MUSTER-OUT ROLL showing Pvt. Mantooth was last paid on August 31, 1864, so it seems he went a year without being paid. Was that because he was in prison? I don't know why he, personally, was in prison, but his Regiment surrendered to Union forces and was held until the war was over.

Note that there is a discrepancy in his listed age on the Muster-Out Roll sheet, as Lawson would have been about 39 years old, not 29 as written. Does anyone understand what the note "Bounty paid $25; due $275" refers to??? [Let me know by e-mail at Jeff Price.]

Here is a great picture from James "Jimmy" Mantooth's personal collection - he is holding an oval-framed MANTOOTH PORTRAIT. The portraits are a hand retouched photo enlargement. I was able to get close enough with my macro-lens to get pretty good 35mm camera shots of both JAMES MADISON MANTOOTH and his wife, ELIZABETH CAROLINE (SIMPSON) MANTOOTH. A James M. Mantooth FAMILY PORTRAIT .

Jimmy has quite a large photo and document collection on Mantooth and related names, including J.M. Mantooth's presentation family Bible with many names and significant dates listed. It was worth the trip to Aetna, AR just see and hold the Good Book, plus, he and his gracious wife "Jimmie" were great hosts and great people. Check out the GENEALOGISTS, Jeff Price and Jimmy Mantooth, in busy downtown Aetna, AR.

ANDREW JACKSON MANTOOTH and brother THOMAS JEFFERSON MANTOOTH.

Mantooth researcher Brenda Schwall, sent along this picture of the earliest known photographed Mantooth she has come across so far, NANCY MANTOOTH FORD (born in 1818) and husband Benjamin Jackson Ford. According to Brenda, Nancy was the out-of-wedlock daughter of Letty Virginia Mantooth and John Lilliard, as they apparently never married. Letty went on to marry William Hall (as his second wife). Benjamin Jackson Ford's brother, James Wilson Ford, is Brenda's direct ancestor. James married Elizabeth Mantooth, daughter of Thomas Mantooth, Jr. and Letitia Dillon.