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The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], A tribute to the gallant dead. (search)
General William Yonely Slack was born in Kentucky. When three years of age, his father emigrated to Boone county, Missouri, and settled near Columbia. Here he learned the tanner's trade, which he soon relinquished, and studied law. When a young man he went to Livingston county, Missouri, and commenced practicing law at Chillicothe. Soon after, he married the daughter of Major Woodward, of Richmond, in Ray country, Missouri, with whom he lived happily until her death, which occurred in January, 1856. The issue of this marriage was six children, only two of whom are living; a daughter and a son, but seventeen years of age, who has been in the service as a private since the commencement of the war, and who has done his duty as a soldier. On the 2d of December, 1857, Gen. Slack was again married to a daughter of Hon. Gustavus Bower, of Paris, Missouri, by whom he had one child, which, being born after the second retreat from Lexington, he was not permitted to see. As Captain of a