Show A MISSOURI CRAt A recent issue of the rich mono alie conservator quoting from the bonneville booneville Boo neville mo democrat con taine an interesting account of a mormon war Pons pensioner ioner 01 the well known samuel tarwater who was one of the bobbera in the ter terrible persecutions heaped upon the be saints in early days daye labbitt in that state our oar attention is called to abe item byan by an esteemed friend in this city samuel russell Boa ell who with many others still living in bus bae till still a lively recollection of the events out oat of which grow grew mr tarwater ere s distinction BB a pensioner pene ioner we quote ibb be item hem in folh A short abort time singe since we were asked by a subscriber to give some account of the act of the legislature of missouri granting a annual pension to samuel tar water of ray bay county also ot of the pensioner and to explain what service he rendered fran dered and in what war to merit so distinguished a token of the states beneficence the act granting him a pension was approved and the first section reads samuel tarwater of ray kay county coputo shall receive the sum of annually on the first day of april in each year so long as he shall continue unable adt ble b by reason of wounds received in the mormon war to make a support by manual manhal labor I 1 the second section 1 provides that the pensioner shall annually undergo an examination by two respectable practicing physicians touching his inability to secure support by manual labor under this act mr tarwater has been a pensioner for fifty four years regularly drawing from the state treasury eltoh year and so far as we know he is the only pensioner of the mormon war now living in the state or whoever who ever did live in it therefore some account of mr tarwater will prove of interest to our readers ers he was born in tennessee in 1806 ilia his parents removed to ray count county at mo in the fall of 1816 live five years bea before ore the state slate was admitted to the union and four years before the county of ray was organized he settled among the potts potta wA stomie indiana In diani who then inhabited the country samuel tarwater with his hia parents until 1824 the Y year 9 ar of his big age when he married miss mine pollie broadhurst and set up for himself after living happily together for a quarter of a century mrs tarwater died and in 1852 mr tarwater married mrs E R or phet alter after seventeen years yeara of wedded life she too died and mr tarwater married the third time in 1869 making miss sarah E mills his bis wife she lived only about two years and mr tarwater married a fourth wife mrs malinda E brown she dying in about years be was for the fifth time marri married ed may mav 15 1881 his fifth wife being mrs mary A scott the daughter of thonas thomas r and psyche kearney the fifth mrs tarwater was wan born in ray county march 20 1881 and is also dead evidently the pensioner is a much marrying man but bui whether he is seeking a sixth matrimonial alliance we are not advised he is the father of nine children by his first wife seven by the second and one by the third making seventeen in all in a fight with mormons cormons on crooked river in 1838 two ot of them attacked him at the same time with corn knives and nearly cut him to pieces he received a terrible gash on his head a out cut across the throat and a blow in the be face severing his jawbone and knocking out all of the upper teeth from the effects of these wounds he has never entirely recovered the blow in his head bead affecting his memory and the injury to his bis mouth causing an impediment of speech yet he regularly draws his pe pension ision for injuries received in the mormon war and ah d ought to be granted another for the number of times he has married |