Robert Thompson of Ft. Smith.  and John Ferguson of Greenwood.

Harriett Davis says she is 35 years old.  She is the sister of Joseph and a daughter of John.  She lived about 1 mile from her father when items were taken.  Her husband was in the Fed. army, 2nd Ark Cav.

Lucinda Ballinger was 17 years old.  Joseph is her uncle and John was her grandfather.  Her grandmother was also decd' at time of her testimony.

Francis Dunn was 48 years of age.  Her acquaintance with John began about 1850.  She lived about 2 miles from them.

Thomas S. Kensey age 50.  He is a farmer and merchant.  Acquaintance with decd' began about 1854.  Lived about 10 mi from him.

Margaret Jackson is 28 years old.

Joseph is 35? years old and a farmer.  From the 1st of April 1861 until the 28th day of Feby 1862 he resided at home with his father on a rented farm in Sebastian Co., Ar then he crossed the Arkansas river with four other Union men and went to the Federal lines at Cassville Mo when he enlisted as a teamster in the Federal army and was so occupied until some time in the fall of 1862. ....."My father remained at home nearly all the time and sometime in the winter of 1863 he was accosted by the Rebels on account of his Union sentiments, was taken to Ft. Smith and imprisoned about three weeks then taken to Little Rock and was kept in prison for some ten weeks and was released by the influence of some of his neighbors, John D. Arbuckle and James Pearl."

Joseph had one brother younger than him in the confederate army for about a year when he died of sickness.  He was but 15 years old when he joined the service.  His name was Michael M. Daugherty.