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Submitted: 10/4/23 • Approved: 10/4/23 • Last Updated: 10/8/23 • R832410-G0-S3
25 Aug 1844 MO
13 Oct 1907 Splitlog, McDonald Co MO
Son of George Washington Nutting and Margaret Price
Married Barbary Josephine Raby 31 Dec 1868 Barry, MO
*In 1862 Major Doubleday with a part of the 2nd Ohio was sent on a scouting mission in Buffalo Creek. John Dobbs and Marcus (Bud) Nutting had hidden with their horses the day before, so as not to be taken prisoner or lose their horses. They came out after the troops had passed and went home for dinner. A short distance from the upper end of the Nutting farm, they were confronted by a detachment of troops. They ran down the level road two hundred yards and left the road to start up the hill. Dobbs was shot and killed. Marcus received a minnie ball at the left of his back that came out his stomach. One ball entered the back of his hip and came out the front. A third ball gave him a flesh wound in the wrist. The Captain came up, and when he looked at Marcus he exclaimed: "Why that boy (age 18) lives back there where I got dinner. They are as fine people as I ever met!" He expressed regret at the wounding of "Bud", and spoke in very high terms of the family. Bud was taken to Neosho where he eventually recovered and went to live near Splitlog.
J.A. Sturgis "Illustrated History of McDonald County, Missouri-From the Earliest Settlement to Present Time." P 179
*Please note that Marcus or Simon is not listed on the Missouri Digital Heritage website as a CW soldier. His father George Washington Nutting and brother Francis Marion Nutting are both listed in Company H 8th Missouri Infantry Civil War Confederate. Marcus would have been around 18 and Francis was about 5 years older. Many Confederate soldiers chose not to have military gravestones for various reasons.
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