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Note: From "Our Family History" by Selah P Thayer: p 80. "Following the "Invasion of the Southland" in 1861, Wallace Wiggans, his brother-in-law Barton Seney, and cousin David Wiggans, were among those who volunteered and joined up with the maurading bands of Union cut-throats that made up the Federal State Militia stationed in Missouri during the so called "Civil War". The Seney-Wiggans famillies were a highly respected, honest Christian people, and from that day until the day of their death, not one of the brothers, sisters, and other relatives of these men ever spoke to them again."
According to the pension papers for his children's pension, Barton's wife died 10 May 1862 of a "brain fever", Barton enlisted Aug 1962, he caught the measles in mid October 1862, by 17 Nov 1862 he was placed ing the hospital at Benton Barracks and he died there 30 Nov 1862. The children were taken in by his wife's father William Alexander Whittaker, who gives most of the testimony in these papers.
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