Name: Joseph Shurtleff BARTLETT
Sex: M
Change Date: 12 MAR 2007
Birth: 14 APR 1796 in Kingston, Plymouth County, MA
Death: 25 AUG 1875 in Todd County, KY
Census:
Note: 1830 -1840 Williamson County, TN; 1850-1860 Washington County, AR
Religion: Methodist
Note: He was listed among Methodist missionary/teachers in Cherokee Schools in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1847, with a salary of $333.33 1/2 for each of 2 yearly sessions. 1
Burial: AFT 25 AUG 1875 McColpin Cemetery, near Allegre, Todd County, KY
Event: Milit-Beg 1863
Note: Joseph S. Bartlett fled Washington Co. AR early in the Civil war because of hostility of his Confederate neighbors. He went to Dunklin County MO where son George was then living. In spite of his Union leanings, he enlisted as a Chaplain in the MIssouri 7th Cavalry, Confederate, in which his son George was serving as a surgeon. The unit was formed in July 1863 and in September 1863 Joseph S. Bartlet submitted his resignation and was relieved of duty in October 1863. Two other sons also served in the Confederate Army.
Note: SOURCES: VITAL RECORDS OF KINGSTON MASSACHUSETTS TO THE YEAR 1850 pub. 1911
Note: Marriage Records Williamson Co. TN.
Note: KINGSTON BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS 1768-1844, Vol 2, pp 50-51 by Jan Mack Holbrook (1992) (sent to me by David T. Robertson of Descendants of Robert Bartlett.)
Note: Deem, David Bruce, HISTORY OF BUTLER COUNTY MISSOURI, 1st ed. 1925, p. 123-124 (article about son George S.)
Note: DEATH: Deem, p. 124.
Note: GOODSPEED'S HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, p. 1065. This source says that he had 9 children. However, there are 10 likely children which leaves a puzzle. Perhaps in interviewing George for the article he was asked how many sisters and brothers he had, and the notes of the interviewer failed to adjust the number to include George himself. Or perhaps one is a grandchild.
Note: COUNTY OF TODD, KENTUCKY, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Editors J. H. Battle, Todd County History Society, 1884. (article about son J. W.)
Note:
The following is from an obituary of Samuel Houston Mays who says his father Samuel Mayes who was b. TN, immigrated to Indian Territory in 1837 and settled at . . .
"Muddy Springs, about three miles from the present town of Stilwell, at which afterwards was a school operated by the Cherokee Government, and at that place a Methodist camp ground. The following persons taught at this school: William Penn Adair, William Fields, Joel B. Mayes, Sophia Vann, a man from Arkansas by the name of Bartlett, a Yankee from New England by the name of Edison, another Yankee from New England by the name of Gilbert, Mrs. Carrie Bushyhead Qaurrels and Warren Adair. He and his brothers were educated at this school and at the Cherokee Male Academy, near Tahlequah."
Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol 6, #2, June 1928, p. 229.
Note:
On the 1870 census of Logan County he is listed as Joseph Bartlet (Ancestry.com has him indexed as Bartles)

Gordonsville Precinct, Logan County KY p. 372B
Joseph Bartlet 73 school teacher b. NC [not true, he was born in MA]
Martha 47 keeping house b NC
Kitty Wells 9

[living next door was the family of Frank Wells 26 b. KY]
Note: In 1844, and 1847, J. S. Bartlett was listed as a teacher in the Cherokee Nation's Public Schools. In 1844 and 1845 he is listed in Skin Bayou District [present day Sequoyah County]. In 1844 he was at school #1 in Skin Bayou; There were two schools in Skin Bayou - one at Sweetwater and one at John Benge's. Later in 1844 he is listed as the teacher at Muddy Springs in Flint District. The 1847 list is linked by number to a map which is missing in the Oklahoma State Archives. Bartlett was listed as being at school #11. Material found in the desk of Dr. Joseph Warren Bartlett says that in 1850 he was teaching at "Clear Springs."
Note:
Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri, in an article about George T., states that the family moved to Arkansas in 1842 and moved to Dunklin Co. MO because of the hostility of his neighbors in Washington Co. It further states that 4 of the sons of Joseph were in the Confederate army. Five of the sons were of an age to be in the war: These would be John P., George, Joseph W., William and Burtholf.
This biography of George also states that there were 9 children of Joseph S. Bartlett. Ten are listed with them on census records. The last child Bertolf. was born when Amanda was 47.

Father: John BARTLETT b: 19 FEB 1748/49 in Kingston, Plymouth County, MA c: 22 MAR 1751/52 in Kingston, Plymouth County, MA
Mother: Bathsheba SHURTLEFF b: 11 MAY 1752 in Plymouth County, MA c: 31 MAY 1752 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, MA

Marriage 1 Amanda F. PORTER b: 11 APR 1809 in TN
Married: 11 MAY 1828 in Williamson, TN
Children
John Porter BARTLETT b: 29 JAN 1829
Benjamin B. BARTLETT b: APR 1856 in Washington County, AR
George Thomas BARTLETT b: 09 SEP 1830 in Smyrna, Williamson, TN
Joseph Warren BARTLETT b: 27 JUL 1833 in Williamson Co., TN
Bathsheba Ann BARTLETT b: 11 DEC 1836 in Williamson, TN
Serena J. BARTLETT b: 1838 in Williamson Co., TN
William BARTLETT b: BET 1839 AND 1841 in Williamson Co., TN
Burtholf BARTLETT b: ABT 1842 in AR
Erastus D. BARTLETT b: 20 FEB 1848 in Washington County, AR
Walter BARTLETT b: 1852 in Washington Co., AR

Marriage 2 Martha Jane HILL b: ABT 1823 in NC
Married: 19 DEC 1867 in Todd County, KY

Sources:
Title: Cherokee Ghost Dance
Abbrev: McLoughlin
Author: William G. McLoughlin
Publication: Mercer University Press, 1984
Page: p. 501
∼Union but served with son as MO Confederate Chaplain.