Pylant Geneology

The Stout Family by Dr. Roy Stout:
Thomas Jefferson Stout
Cpl. Stout served from 4 July 1861 to 9 July 1865 in the 39th Reg., Ohio Volunteers. In his claim for invalid pension he was described as "5 feet 7 inches high, has dark hair and complexion and brown eyes." The claim continues, "That while in the service aforesaid, and in the line of his duty, in an engagement between the United States and rebel forces, he was shot by a Whitemoth (?) rifle ball in the neck, back of the right ear, the ball coursing downward and coming out at the neck under the chin." The wound did not heal properly and eventually was the cause of his death. For his disability, Cpl. Stout received a pension of $2 a month.

Hall, Frank, History of Colorado, The Blakely Printing Co., Chicago, 1895, Vol. IV:
My grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Stout, was born in Adams County, Ohio, in 1842. He served all through the Civil War, or until he was wounded while with Sherman on his march through Georgia. General Sherman began his march from Chattanooga to Atlanta in May, 1864. Near Dallas, Georgia, about a month later, Corporal Stout was shot through the neck. After being hospitalized at Marietta, Georgia, he was mustered out July 9, 1865.
After his marriage to Nancy Piland in Louis County, Kentucky, November 1, 1865, grandfather moved to Lawrence, Kansas. In 1872 he and his family came to Taney County, Missouri. He homesteaded some land about four miles north of Taneyville and built his home in a hollow near a large spring. The rock wall, built of rock he cut himself and placed around the spring, still remains.