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• Occupation: Physician

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ID: I10988
Name: Charles Sylvester BOARMAN
Surname: Boarman
Given Name: Charles Sylvester
Sex: M
Birth: 24 Aug 1816 in Baltimore, Maryland
Death: 15 Mar 1898 in Boonville, Missouri
_UID: 1DC1ABF9D60CB148BC554F769E12F58A6299
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1. http://www.mdgensoc.org/genealogyfortng/descend.php?personID=I27&tree=boarman_b000

2. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mocooper/Obituary/Obituaries_1890-1899.htm

14 Dec 1898
Dr. Charles S. Boarman
An Eminent Physician Dies
About 8 o?clock a.m. on Tuesday March 15, 1898, at his residence in this city, after a short illness, Dr. Charles S. Boarman died of pneumonia. He was one of the oldest, and best known and most distinguished physicians and surgeons in Central Missouri, but who several years ago, was compelled by advancing age, to retire from active practice. Withal he was an enterprising, public-spirited citizen, a devout member of the Catholic Church and a gentleman of the old school.

Dr. Boarman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, August 24, 1816, and in March 1841 married Miss Eliza A. Smith of Warrenton, Farqular County, Va., who died in this city in 1858. To this union 8 children were born, 6 of whom survive him, namely: John R. Boarman,attorney-at-law, Anaconda, Montana; Rev. Marshall I. Boarman, Jesuit Missionary of St. Louis;Jerome S. Boarman, Springfield, Missouri; Frank B. Boarman, Seattle, Washington; Mrs. R. H.Keith, Kansas City and Mrs. Dr. Chas. Lyon, Montoursville, Penn.

Dr. Boarman located in Boonville in February 1848, but first for a short time in Old Franklin.

In May 1861, Dr. Boarman married Miss Pauline Sloan who survives him. To this marriage four children were born, two sons and two daughters -- Misses Adelaide and Lillie and Messrs. A. R. and Thomas T. Boarman, Texarkana, Ark.
His funeral services occurred at the Catholic Church at 9:30 a.m. Thursday morning. The following persons acting as pallbearers: Active--Thomas B. Steel, R. W. Whitlow, Thomas P.Lester, W. A. Smiley, W. W. Trigg, W. Speed Stephens. Honorary--Dr. J. D. Potts, Dr. R. S. Holman, Dr. F. R. Smiley, Dr. W. H. Cooper, Dr. P. L. Hurt, Dr. C. H.VanRavensway, William Mittelbach and Col. W. F. Switzler.

After solemn and impressive services at the Catholic church conducted by Fathers Kussman, Boarman of St. Louis and Ambrose of Clear Creek (Father Boarman being a son of the deceased)the remains were followed by a large funeral cortege to Walnut Grove cemetery, where they were interred by the side of the remains of his first wife.
At the conclusion of the services at the church Father Kussman delivered a short appropriate and solemn discourse touching the life and character of Dr. Boarman. (Copied from the Boonville, MO. newspaper, the MISSOURI DEMOCRAT .
From MAJOR WILLIAM BOARMAN by Mary Louise Donnelly, p. 115 A portion of the Obituary as published on the front page of WEEKLY ADVERTISER on March 18, 1898.

?Dr. Boarman came to Boonville to live when a young man and being an intelligent gentleman, well schooled in his profession, was early engaged in a successful practice, which he maintained until a few years ago when he retired from active work. He was a skillful physician and his surgery was after the most scientific methods.
We are informed that he placed the first patient in the St. Joseph Hospital in Kansas City. For a time he was surgeon for both the Union and Confederate hospitals in Boonville. He was not only a skilled physician and a good citizen but he was a gentleman of the old school and a pleasant companion.

Last Sunday morning he was suddenly stricken with a pain in his side and immediately announced that he was ill of pneumonia and that it would prove fatal. It was but a few days until he died. Dr. Boarman was one of the most faithful members of the Catholic Church and though growing feebler year by year, he always observed its requirements and attended its services.?

?Rev. Kussman at the close of the Mass preached a beautiful and appropriate sermon in which he reviewed Dr. Boarman?s life as an honorable citizen, a skillful surgeon, and a devout Christian.?

3. 1850 Missouri Census

Boonville, Cooper County

Charles S. Boarman 33 Physician b. MD
Eliza A. " 30 b. VA
Harriet O. " 7 b. MO
Charles S. " 5 b. MO
John R. " 2 b. MO

4. 1860 Missouri Census

Boonville, Cooper County

Boarman, C. S. 43 Physician b. MD
" Harriet E. 17 b. MO
" Charles 14 b. MO
" Robert W. 12 b. MO
" Mary S. 10 b. MO
" Anna I. 8 b. MO
" Marshall I. 6 b. MO
" Frank 4 b. MO
" Jerome S. 3 b. MO

5. 1870 Missouri Census

Kansas City

Boarman, Chas 54 Physician b. MD
" Pauline 32 b. KY
" Emily 27 b. MO
" Mary S. 19 b. MO
" Anna J. 17 b. MO
" Frank 15 b. MO
" Jerome S. 13 b. MO
" Eliza A. 4 b. MO
" Thomas 6 b. MO
" Elizabeth 2 b. MO
" Robinson 8 b. MO

6. 1880 Missouri Census

Boonville, Cooper County

Boarman, C. S. 63 Physician b. MD Father born MD Mother born PA
" Pauline 42 Wife b. KY Father born MO Mother born KY
" Anthony 18 Son b. MO
" Thomas 16 Son b. MO
" Eliza A. 12 Daughter b. MO
" Lily 9 Daughter b. MO
" George 9 Son b. MO
Change Date: 13 Aug 2006 at 14:09:26

Father: Ignatius BOARMAN b: 1784 in Maryland
Mother: Mary KINTZ b: in Pennsylvania

Marriage 1 Eliza Adelaide SMITH b: 1820 in Virginia
Married: Mar 1841
Children
Has Children Harriet Emily BOARMAN b: 1843 in Missouri
Has No Children Charles Sylvester BOARMAN b: 1845 in Missouri
Has Children John Robert BOARMAN b: Oct 1848 in Missouri
Has Children Mary S. BOARMAN b: 1850 in Missouri
Has No Children Anna J. BOARMAN b: 1852 in Missouri
Has No Children Marshall I. (S.) BOARMAN b: 1854 in Missouri
Has No Children Frank B. BOARMAN b: 1856 in Missouri
Has Children Jerome S. BOARMAN b: Oct 1856 in Missouri

Marriage 2 Pauline SLOAN b: 1838 in Kentucky
Married: May 1861
Children
Has Children Anthony Robinson BOARMAN b: 1862 in Missouri
Has No Children Thomas T. BOARMAN b: 1864 in Missouri
Has No Children Adelaide Eliza BOARMAN b: 1866 in Missouri
Has No Children Elizabeth Lillian BOARMAN b: 1868 in Missouri
Has No Children George BOARMAN b: 1871 in Missouri

Charles married Sloan, Pauline H in May 1861 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Pauline (daughter of Sloan, James Robert and Morton, Elizabeth Smith) was born in Aug 1837 in Kentucky, USA; died in DECEASED in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Smith, Eliza Adelaide in Mar 1841. Eliza was born on 10 Apr 1820 in Warrenton, Fauquier, Virginia, USA; died on 2 Jan 1858 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; was buried after 2 Jan 1858 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LKHG-HB2
• Residence: 1880, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1910, Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, USA

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• FSID: 9QV2-RXC

Notes:

A Brave Missouri Boy
Two hours before all avenues of approach to Vicksburg, Miss. had been closed by the Union army in 1863, two cases of gun caps, which, on a hurry call, had been forwarded by Capt. John M. Payne, Ordnance Officer at Wilmington, NC, reached that city. But even that supply in Pemberton's vigorous defense became inadequate, and additional supplies became a serious sine qua.

By some method unknown to the writer, who, at the time, was languishing in hospital No. 2, with a mangled right hand, the pressing need for more gun caps was communicated to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who was in the neighborhood of Canton. This officer intrusted the task of getting the caps delivered to Pemberton to Brig. Gen. Bob McCullough, of 2nd Missouri Cavalry Brigade, then operating in territory in rear of Sherman's Corps along the Yazoo River. Knowing how closely all roads leading into Vicksburg were guarded, McCullough hit upon the plan of wrapping the caps around the body of one of his men, and let him float down the Yazoo River, which emptied into the Mississippi about three miles below where the Federal gunboats lay at anchor. The peril of undertaking lay in the fact that both shores of the Yazoo near its adit were guarded, while vigilant patrol boats kept watch over its placid surface.

Fortunately, the spring rise in the Mississippi had subsided, the water of the Yazoo was well within its banks, and had a current of about two and one-half miles per hour. It was easy, therefore, to figure out by time the speed the hour at which time the bearer must pass guards and patrols to escape detection, and death or capture.

The big requirement, however, was the man to carry out this perilous plan. To settle this, volunteers were called for. The first to step out was Charley Boarman, of Booneville, Missouri. McCullough knew his man and readily accepted him.

With a detail of commands, young Boarman proceeded to the bank of the Yazoo, and soon preparations were completed for the venture. Timing the start so as the reach and pass the Union sentinels during the darkest hour of the night, he let himself down between two floats set so low in the water that visibility was lost in less than fiftly yards, and, answering the "God Bless you", and "Good Luck", of his comrades with a wave of his hand was on his way.

Night soon came, and the firmament glittered with stellar glories. A crescent moon obtained a few glimpes through interestices of leaf and bough, then sank from sight. Wondering owls screamed out their fright at sight of a human head floating 'neath their perches, and an occasional "cotton mouth", that most dreaded of all moccasins, came weaving in graceful convolutions, to be driven away by a stroke of the convenient cudgel, his only weapon of defense. Haynes' Bluff is passed, then where the saffron-hued waters of the Sunflower are emptied into the Yazoo. The mouth of Deer Creek, drainer of Mississippi's vast delta, is left behind, and the intrepid young hero knows he is drawing near where vigilant soldiers in blue are on guard.

Increasing darkness warns him that it is the last hour before dawn. Shoreward he sees flickering lights of smoldering camp fires, on that flat surface on the river beacon lights of patrolling scows. He is almost at his journey's end and at the apex of danger. Lying flat on his back and allowing only his face above water, he drifts with the river's silent current. He feels that the fate of the beleagured city is in his hands, and he thrills with that it is so. On, still on, and yet unseen by Grant's keen-eyed watchers, the turgid waters bear him, and just as Aurora paints with pearly finger the coming dawn, he swings into shore, where "Whistling Dick", that brave old cannon, stands guard over the broad Father of Waters. Eager hands pull him to land, relieve him of his water-soaked vestments, clothe him with a dry uniform, and an ambulance is summoned to take him to General Pemberton's Headquarters.

The story that a man had floated down the Yazoo River and landed with a hundred and fifty thousand caps tied around his body went the rounds, then was dismissed. The name of the man did not come to my ears. Had it done so, I would easily have recognized it as that of an old-time boy friend.

I returned to my home in Kansas City in 1866. At a Christmas festival that year, given in honor of returned Confederate soldiers, I met a sister of Charles Boarman and asked about him.

"Poor brother Charley," she said, with a quiver in her lips, while tears welled up in her beautiful eyes, "is almost blind. You may not know it, but he is the soldier who took a lot of gun-caps into Vicksburg during the siege, by floating down the Yazoo River, passing the Federal picketts at night. The exposure affected his eyes. The doctors give us no hope that they can ever be cured."

Originally Published in Vol. 40, 1932 issue of the Confederate Veteran magazine. Republished 1999 in volume II, "Missouri Sons of the South"
by the Missouri Division Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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• FSID: LHHW-K55
• Residence: 1850, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA

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• FSID: LZY1-KKD
• Residence: 1900, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA

Mary married Keith, Richard Henry on 22 Apr 1878 in St Charles, St Charles, Missouri, USA. Richard was born in UNKNOWN; died on 17 Oct 1905 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: 9QVL-2QF
• Occupation: Jesuit Missionary
• Residence: St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA

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• FSID: LRYH-S8V
• Residence: Springfield, Greene, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1900, Springfield, Greene, Missouri, USA

Notes:

Married Charles L. Lyon who was born in 1822 in Pennsylvania.

Family/Spouse: Lyon, Charles. Charles was born in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Nickname: Frank
• FSID: 9QVL-TW6
• Residence: 1926, Seattle, King, Washington, USA