Buddy Mondlock’s new album features a song about his Missouri ancestors

Veteran singer-songwriter Buddy Mondlock lives in Nashville, but his newest album includes a song based on a true story of one of his ancestors who lived on a farm about 30 miles northeast of Rolla.

His album release tour has Mondlock playing close to where his great-great-grandfather Jackson Petty lived and died.

“The story of Jackson Petty has been in my family for generations, and I actually wrote the song some time ago,” Mondlock said. “But it never seemed to be the right time to record it until now.”

Mondock said his grandmother, Jackson Petty’s granddaughter, told him the story of how Petty used the corn growing on his family’s Missouri farm to save his life.

Petty was 13 at the start of the Civil War, and Mondlock’s grandmother said at that time, soldiers would come through farms like his family’s in Canaan, Missouri, looking for supplies and recruits.