^^mBi^^Mm: "T^miKl^i^ m^ mm^mA >i ^w^- '.V 'I • • ' '■ *, M'f- ■> '*Jl' :■ ■ 1 •'.-'-> ■■-",,' ■ :»■ .'I ■' ■ ■ •■' ■' '■• -J',' 'i^ViJ ■ ,1:' ',,.-,■ r ; ft. t: f ■• ^t ■ •■ i,'^ r ■ \ '• I ■ I ■ ■ ,'i i'<>>^ ''v•;^,^'^>^j;:>/,.:-^ 'V.;:' .;V'';^'«^^,:■•';v;V■;;:■ 1 HICKORY COUNTY ^o'^ t *o VO- ^L.*//. ^ O • » ^>o^ O -./\- ^-^^^Ji;— >5^-:>^:^--^:;^-S * '^>> > ^ (tuK? ^^-^ / ^ I /V37S Printed at the Herald Office By Wilson Bros. Hermitage, Missouri. \N^cl^ii^, f ^w^^o-^^ II Lou. ^7 ^ y , C_l^^q9ji F. MARION WILSON >«^ Hermitage, Mo., January 6th, 1907. The object of the Author in presenting this book to the people of the county is to preserve some of the local history and biography, and the only regret now is that the work was not performed twenty years ago, when many of the old people now dead were aUve. The matter for the book was not written like a real estate agent's advertisement, but to give our people as plain, inteUigent statement as to conditions in the county, and territory from which it was organized, and history of its pioneers as far as traditions and facts could be gathered. An enormous fund of information that might have been gathered, and more correctly presented has perished with the departure of the good old men and old women who were living here twenty years ago. Ours has been the difficult task of extract- ing such truths as were wanted from the few remaining old people, and meager parts of the official records preserved from fire, and it will be found that some of our dates and conclus- ions are doubtful or incorrect. Four good old men Hving in the county at the time differed in their dates about four years when giving the Author information about the destruction of the first Court House. To him who has not attempted the col- lection of historical data, the obstacles to be surmounted are unknown. Doubtful or incorrect traditions, conflicting state- ments, imperfect records, and the general obscurity which, more or less, envelopes all past events tend to mislead and bewilder, when such a task as the Author has tried to perform is undertaken. We have not furnished a history without errors. Theorists may think such a thing could be done, but thought- ful, practical people realize the contrary. We feel that all thoughtful people will appreciate our work, and that if it is preserved it will be useful to future generations. The family histories and family records came directly from members of families, and we do not expect many errors in them, but they after passing through hands of writer, copyist and printer will not be found to be without errors. Many requests were sent to members of old families for family records, that were not furnished, but the loss, if any, is not to the author of this his- tory. We have received valuable assistance from several men, which we highly appreciate. Nothing promised to be given in this volume is omitted, and many things not promised are given. We call special attention of the young people to our short sketches as to early history of settlement, manners, cus- toms, and disadvantages under which early settlers lived. In order to furnish names of all county officials, with dates and terms of office, we were compelled to search and compare scraps of old records, indices, and a bushel or so of old, musty, mice- eaten, papers, and from the same source we gathered many other facts, and conclusions. A perfectly correct statement of dates, facts, and conclusions, with the disadvantages under which we have labored can only be accomplished in the imag- ination of one who lives on theories and dreams. We used every effort that we could call to mind, and probably expended twenty dollars for postage, and stationery in trying to procure family records, and family history, which we are sorry we cannot present in this book, but the fault is not ours. We also used strong ef- forts to procure plates so that pictures of noted old and new buildings, and noted citizens could be produced in this volume, but failed to arouse sufficient interest among our people. If we should have occasion to issue a second edition of the book we may use further efforts to procure these interesting matters, but for the present have done the best we could. We submit this volume to our subscribers, with the desire that it be re- ceived, with due allowances for disadvantages under which we labored in its producton, and with thanks to friends, who have kindly given us information, and hope that it will be appreci- ated by all who have chosen Hickory county as a home in which to live, raise their families, and be hurried beneath her surface. The Author. HICKORY COUNTY. COUNTY ORGANIZATION. By an Act of the legislature approved on the 14th day of April, 1845, the boundry lines of the county were fixed as they now exist, except that the Northeast corner of the county was described as being at the Northeast corner of Section One (1,) Township 38, Range 20, instead of the Northeast corner of Section Twelve (12,) same Township and Range. The act pro- vided that three commissioners; Henry Bartlet, William Lemon and James Johnson, should meet at Judge Joel B. Halbert's residence, then located on the Warsaw and Buffalo road, one mile South of where the town of Cross Timbers is now situated, on the first Monday in May, 1845, for the purpose of organizing the county. Prior to the date of this meeting, on April 25th, 1845, John C. Edwards, Governor of the State, appointed Joel B. Halbert, President of the county court, Jonas Brown and Amos Lindsey, associate justices. Jonas Brown Uved about two miles North . of what is now the town of Pittsburg, where Napoleon D. Lewis now fives, and was buried near his old resi- dence about 1865. Amos Lindsey resided on the East side of the county, n^ar the county fine in Section 12, Township 36, Range 21, about five miles Southeast of the town of Preston. John S. Wilfiams was appointed sheriff and collector; Thomas Davis, treasurer; and Alfred H. Foster, clerk of the county court and clerk of the circuit court, probably May 6th, 1845. These officials, and the commissioners appointed by the Act of the legislature met at the residence of Judge Halbert in May, 2 HICKORY COUNTY 1845, and transacted quite a large amount of business. A great deal of the county records having been burned in the destruc- tion of two court houses by fire it is impossible to tell where the county court again met after May 1845, until August 1846, but it probably met at the residence of John Heard, about half a mile North of what is now the town of Wheatland, on the 10th day of August 1846. Having been elected judges of the county court, Amos Lindsey was commissioned as President of the court, and Jonas Brown and Armstead Runyan, associ- ate judges, and it is believed that the court thereafter met at the residence of Thomas Davis, county treasurer, near the Southeast corner of the original town of Hermitage, in the old log buildings now belonging to Mrs. Eva Liggett-Crowley. On the 23d day of December, 1846, the legislature passed an Act appointing William Greene, of Camden county, William Divern, of Polk county, and Charles H. Yeater, of St. Clair county, as commissioners to locate a permanent county seat fpr the county to be named, and known as "Hermitage." These com- missioners met and selected the present town of Hermitage sometime in 1846 as the permanent county seat, which action of these commissioners was ratified by a majority of the peo- ple, but the good people of the west side of the county continued to advocate county seat removal until 1396. On August 10th, 1846, Jacob A. Romans, who was afterwards a member of the county court was appointed county seat commissioner, and as soon as the county seat location was settled, and the North- west one-fourth of the Southeast quarter of Section 23, Town- ship 37, Range 22, was surveyed and laid out into lots, streets and alleys, he proceeded with the sale of lots, and from the receipts of the sale of lots paid into the county treasury in the end $840.21 1-2. County accounts at that time were kept to one-fourth of a cent. With this money and $200. borrowed from the "Internal Improvement Fund" May 3d, 1848, a court house was built on the West end of Lot 2, Block 8, in Hermit- age, where the iron building owned by the widow and heirs of Ezekiel D. Blair now stands. It was a two-stoi;y frame build- ing and was destroyed by fire in 1860, the lower room being used for school. The jail was of heavy logs hewn with the broad-ax, and had double walls, and was built on the South end of Lot 4, in Block 3, the lot on which Harry M. Lopp's photograph gallery now stands. It was abandoned about the close of the Civil War and shortly afterwards was sold and HICKORY COUNTY 3 torn down, and some of the logs are now a part of a bam standing on Lot 2, Block 15, in Hermitage, while other of the logs are in an ice house near the same place. A second court house was built in 1860, on the South side of the public square, South of where the present court house stands. It was a sub- stantial brick, two stories high, 40 by 42 feet, and built very near on the same plan as the present court house, and was destroyed by fire January 6th, 1881, with important records of circuit court, county court, and deed and mortgage records. The Records of the probate court and the collector's books were not destroyed. The roof and part of the upper story of this court house were blown away by a cyclone in April 1879, and repairs had been finished only a little more than a year when it was destroyed by fire. In 1870-71 the stone jail now standing in the Northwest corner of the public square was built by Philip Schleifer, of Polk county, James A. Brakebill super- visor, at a cost of $4,500. It was unroofed by the cyclone of 1879, and joists and roof burned out in 1899, and it was re- paired on the inside with a heavy coat of cement, and steel cells put in. It had never had cells, and prisoners had frequently escaped from -it. The question of removal of the county seat which had disturbed the county from 1845, was settled in 1896, by the building of the present substantial court house. As we have said a second court house was burned January 6th, 1881, and up to 1896, about 15 years the county was without a court house. Courts were held, and officers stored away in any sort of building that could be rented in town, and county expenditures for rent were enormous. A court house could not be built unless two-thirds of the voters of the county favored it, and a two-thirds vote could not be had, because so many of our good citizens wanted the county seat removed. It began to be talked pretty strongly by the opposition to removal about 1889 that a court house could be built by subscription, but the talk did not receive much en- couragement for a while. In the early part of 1895, the author of this book, at the earnest sohcitation of Judge William C. Hickman, who resides on the Warsaw and Buffalo road three miles South of Cross Timbers, wrote a subscription paper, giving a complete description of the brick work of the present court house. Judge Hickman caused numerous copies of the petition to be made, and found plenty of enthusiastic Hermitage and East side people to circulate them. The result was that money 4 HICKORY COUNTY enough was raised, except about $350. to build a court house costing about $5,350. and in 1896 it was finished. The money was principally raised in Center township and East side town- ships. A few men on the West side of the county contributed liberally. Now to resume our story about officials of the county and official succession, Thomas Davis took the county treas- urer's office at the organization of the county in 1845, served in that office until the Civil War came on in 1861, and on March 18th, 1850, he was commissioned judge of the probate court while holding the office of treasurer. Ephraim F. Hal- bert who now resides in Hermitage, and is past 76 years old was commissioned county treasurer on December 16th, 1862, and on November 8th, 1864, he was elected treasurer, and again elected in 1866, and in 1868, and was succeeded by James R. Wilson, father of Robert F. Wilson, of Wheatland, who served four years, when Mr. Halbert was again elected to that office and served until 1876, and was succeeded by John A. McCart- ney, who * served six years, and was succeeded by William Howard on January 1st, 1883, and he was succeeded by James R. Marsh, who served two years, and was succeeded by Benja- min F. Creed, who served four years, and was succeeded by Ezekiel D. Blair, who served two years, and was succeeded by Richard N. Fugate, January 1st, 1893. Mr. Fugate was re-elected November 6th, 1894, and served until February 19th, 1896, when John W. Montgomery was appointed to succeed him. John T. Ferguson was elected to this office November 3d, 1896, and served four years, when he was succeeded by John E. Morton, who served four years, and was succeeded by Dee Blair, who served two years, and was succeeded January 1st, 1907, by Allen M. Huckaby the present incumbent. We left the county court in 1846, composed of Amos Lind- sey, Jonas Brown and Armstead Runyan. On August 7th, 1858, Amos Paxton was elected one of the judges of the county court. On August 7th, 1850, it is found that Isham B. Hastain signed his name to the record as President of the county court, but have found no record of his appointment or commission. November 5th, 1850, we find that William F. Bradley was President of the county court, and continued to be so in 1851, but we find no appointment or commission in the records. In 1852 Lewis B. Hawkins was a member of the court. Charles' S. Brent was commissioned President of the court August 4th, 1852, and on the same day Wilham F. Bradley appears in the • -'^^ m Hp^ jj ^^^M|BBBiyi|l ^k^~<'^''S.jShI ^|Ki'lifiM^^R9^H * ^M^^^^^^^H !!ll[^HiHflCI^HK-^^^^H ImHHHIH COURT HOUSE, HERMITAGE, MO. Built in 1895. EUGENE T. LINDSEY, Collector of the Revenue. HICKORY COUNTY 5 record as a member of the court. Marcus S. Graff was Presi- dent of the court in 1854-5. Alfred H. Foster, who had been clerk of all the courts was commissioned President of the county court October 19th, 1855, as were also Isham B. Has- tain and Urias H. Owings, commissioned as judges on the same date. On August 6th, 1858, Alfred H. Foster, Jacob A. Romans, and William Woodrum were elected judges. John L. Hall was elected one of the judges of the county court in August 1860. January 14th, 1862, Jacob A. Romans was appointed judge but resigned in August of the same year. On January 23d, 1862, Isham B. Hastain was appointed, and on June 9th, 1862, WiUiam Woodrum was appointed, and on August 15th, 1862, Ephraim Dent was commissioned. In January 1863, John Lawrence was commissioned as Judge for six years, and was re-elected and served until January 1st, 1876. He was noted and eulogized as being the cause of his county not getting a fraudulent railroad bond debt, saddled on it as was done by the county courts of all the counties adjoining Hickory county, except Camden. On April 17th, 1865, John Pitts and Isham B. Hastain were appointed as associates of Judge Lawrence, and in November 1866, Henry C. Butler and Thomas S. Morgan were elected as associate judges. Judge Morgan died July 23d, 1869, and was succeeded by WiUiam F. Bradley who was elected November 5th, 1869, and at the November election 1868, John A. Pare was elected and served six years. In 1870 Mans- field H. Bernard was elected as associate judge, and on No- vember 5th, 1872, James H. Nunn, who then wrote his name Niin, was elected associate judge, and served until January 1st, 1879. James M. Gardner was elected associate judge November 7th, 1876, and served two years. At the November election 1878, Marmaduke E. Ferguson was elected President of the court, with William C. Hickman and Joel N. Boone as associates. This was the first court that had been elected since 1860, that was Democratic in pohtics. Judge Ferguson's term was four years and in November 1880, Nathan K. Pope and Thomas H. Lord were elected associate judges. At the November election 1882, James H. Nunn was elected President of the court, with William C. Hickman and James T. Wallen associate judges, and November 4th, 1884, Thomas C. Ander- son and James T. Wallen were elected associates. On the 2d day of November 1886, James A. Brakebill was elected Presi- dent of the court, and Ben L. Mallonee and James M. Gardner 6 HICKORY COUNTY associates. About the 1st of March 1888, Jlidge Brakebill re- signed, and on March 12th, 1888, Joseph S. Hartman was ap- pointed to serve until January 1, 1889, and on November 6th, 1888, Ben L. Mallonee was elected President of the court and James M. Gardner and Achilles Morgan associate judges. In November 1890, Judge Mallonee was again elected President of the court, with Joseph Riddle and James K. Moore as as- sociates. On November 8th, 1892, Joseph Riddle and Vincent T. Cunningham were elected associate judges. At the election in November 1894, Francis J. Hooper was elected President of the court and Peter Solberg and Vincent T. Cunningham as- sociates. In 1896, James H. Sharp and Peter Solberg were elected associate judges. In December 1897, Judge Hooper died and Ephraim F. H albert was appointed on January 3d, 1898, to serve until January 1st, 1899. James Cossairt was elected President of the court on November 8th, 1898, and James H. Sharp and Joseph Riddle as associate judges. No- vember 6th, 1900, Henry F. Blair and James H. Nunn were elected as associate judges. At the November election 1902, James H. Sharp was elected President of the court and James H. Nunn and Melville H. Cooper associates. Judge Cooper was re-elected associate judge in November 1904. with William L. McCaslin. On November 6, 1906, Joseph Riddle was elected President of the court with D. E. 0. Thomas and William L. McCashn as associates, and were succeeded January 1st, 1909, by Nathan K. Pope and Joseph 0. Carpenter, the present in- cumbents. Josiah Dent sat as a judge of the county court at the July term 1865, but we have found no appointment or com- mission on record. The record does not show that a term of county court was held after October 4th, 1861, until August 4th, 1862. This was because of excitement caused by the Civil War. From the organization of the county in 1845, to 1890, funds known as the "Internal Improvement Fund," and "Road and Canal Fund," donated to the counties of Missouri by the general government under acts of Congress had accumulated, and been loaned out to our citizens until these funds amounted to about $8500. although large amounts of these funds had been lost or misplaced. County courts had not seen fit to use them for any other purpose than as loanable funds. But the court on June 21st, 1890, composed of Ben L. Mallonee, Presi- dent of the court, and James M. Gardner and Achilles Morgan associate judges, decided that these funds would be more HICKORY COUNTY 7 beneficial to the people of the county if used in the erection of a bridge across the Pomme de Terre river near Hermitage, so on June 21, 1890, the court by Patrick Chancellor, surveyor and road and bridge commissioner and F. Marion Wilson, clerk of the county court, entered into a contract with the "Wrought Iron Bridge Company, of Canton, Ohio," for the con- struction of an iron bridge across the river half a mile East of the court house for the sum of $5699. The bridge company soon took up the work and early in the year 1891, the bridge was completed and paid for from the "Internal Improvement Fund," and "Road and Canal Fund." A wooden bridge had been built across the river in 1860 and 1861, by Alanson F. Doak and Thomas Wilson about one-fourth mile above where the iron bridge is now situate, but a big rise in the river washed it away in a few days after it was finished. After the iron bridge was built and paid for the county court elected in No- vember 1894, Francis J. Hooper, President of the court, and Peter Solberg and Vincent T. Cunningham associate judges, discovered that there was almost enough of the "Internal Im- provement Fund," and "Road and Canal Fund" left, to build another bridge across the river, so that on May 5th, 1896, they entered into contract with D. M. Eddy and J. A. Dice, of War- saw, Missouri, for the construction of a wire suspension bridge, across the river a short distance above the south ford and about a fourth of a mile from the court house, for which they paid $2100. We must now go back to the organization of the county, and trace another line of officials, and we select the r ffice of clerk of courts. From the organization of the c unty until January 1st, 1883, the same clerk filled the offices of circuit clerk and recorder, clerk of the county court, and in some years clerk of the probate court. Alfred H. Foster was the first clerk of the courts of the county, and was probably first commissioned about April 25th, or May 6th, 1845, and while he recorded the commissions of all the other officers of the new county did not record his own commission unless he recorded it only in the circuit court record. He served until after the August election in 1853, and was succeeded by Wil- liam Paxton, who last signed the record on October 9th, 1859, and was succeeded by Alanson F. Doak early in 1860, who last signed the record as clerk, April 2d, 1861. During the time he was clerk, Robert F. Doak, his son, who now resides at Cross 8 HICKORY COUNTY Timbers, appears to have been his deputy and did the greater part of the work. From this date to July 7th, 1862, no coun- ty record was made, but on the 7th day of July 1862, William H. Liggett was appointed clerk of the county court by the judges of the court by a writing signed by the three judges and recorded in the county court record. On June 1, 1862, he was appointed clerk of the circuit court and ex-officio recorder, by Burr H, Emerson, judge of the circuit court of the 7th judicial circuit, and was sworn into office at Linn Creek, Missouri, on June 9th, 1862, by Thompson J. Kelley, judge of the probate court, and served by this appointment and a subsequent elec^ tion until January 1st, 1867, when he was succeeded by Wil- liam Q. Paxton. Mr. Paxton served eight years and was suc- ceeded by Moses N. Neihardt on January 1st, 1875, who serv- ed eight years and was suceeded by Samuel Dent, as to the county clerk's office, and by William L. Pitts as clerk of the circuit court and ex-officio recorder. Mr. Dent served four years and was succeeded by F. Marion Wilson, January 1st, 1887, who was succeeded by William F. Coon, January 1st, 1891. Mr. Coon served eight years and was succeeded by Moses N. Nei- hardt, January 1st, 1899, who served four years and was suc- ceeded by Paul Murphy, who served four years and was suc- ceeded on January 6th, 1907, by Len G. Mallonee, the present incumbent. William L. Pitts served eight years as clerk of the circuit court and ex-officio recorder, and was succeeded by Benjamin F. Creed, January 1st, 1891. Mr. Creed served four years and was succeeded by William U. Morton, January 1st, 1895, who served four years and was succeeded by Samuel L. Williams who served four years, and was succeeded by Thomas J. Taylor who served four years, and was succeeded January 6th, 1907, by Amos F. Cossairt, the present incumbent. The offices of sheriff and collector were held by the sams man until 1874. The first sheriff and collector of the county was John S. Williams. He was appointed on May 6th, 1845, to serve two years, and by appointment and election served until September 1st, 1850, when he was succeeded by John Mabary who served until August 12th, 1854, when he was succeed by Henderson Dollarhide, who died in office in the summer of 1855, and Zebulon Lewis appears to have acted as sheriff until September 4th, 1855, when Alanson F. Doak was appointed. Mr. Doak held the office until the election in August 1858, when he was succeeded by William Y. Evans who served until HICKORY COUNTY 9 sometime in 1861. We do not find that the county had an- other sheriff and collector until August 12th, 1862, when Har- rison H. Jamison was appointed. Mr. Jamison appears to have been elected November 4th, 1862, but resigned about July 1st, 1863, and on July 11th, 1863, George S. Selvidge was appointed to fill the vacancy, but only served for a few months, and was succeeded by John W. Quigg, October 15th, 1863. Mr. Quigg by this appointment and subsequent elections held the office until he was succeeded by William A. Pitts, who was elected November 3d, 1868. Mr. Fitts served four years and was suc- ceeded by John D. Pitts, who was elected November 5th, 1872, and served two years in both offices, but was defeated for the office of sheriff November 5th, 1874, by William D. Harryman, but was elected to the cffice of collector. Since that time the offices of sheriff and collector have been separate. Mr. Pitts held the office of collector until about March 1st, 1876, when he defaulted. Jesse M. Cooper was appointed by the Court to fill out the unexpired term of Mr. Pitts. W. D. Harryman was again elected sheriff at the November election 1876, and was succeeded at the November election 1878, by Y/ilUam L. Mc- Caslin, who was succeeded by Wm. McCracken who was elected November 2d, 1880, and re-elected November 7th, 1882, and was succeeded by Thomas H. Lord, who was elected November 4th, 1884, and re-elected November 2d, 1886, and was succeed- ed by George W. Lindsey who w£s elected November 6th, 1888, and again elected November 4th, 1880, and was succeeded by Melville H. Ccoper who was elected November 4th, 1892, and was succeeded by James K. Moore, who was elected November 6th, 1894, and re-elected November 3d, 1896, and was succeed- ed by David E. Hitson who was elected November 6th, 1888, and re-elected November 8th, 1900, and was succeeded by Lewis W. Hogg who was elected November 4th, 1902, and re- elected November 8th, 1904, and was succeeded by David E. Hitson who was elected November*6th, 1906, and was succeed- ed by Thomas H. Lord the present incumbent. In the office of collector, Ezekiel D. Blair succeeded Jesse M. Cooper, who was appointed March 13th, 1876. Mr. Blair was first elected November 7th, 1876, and re-elected in 1878-80, and was suc- ceeded by Joseph S. liartman who was elected November 7th, 1882, and was succeeded by William McCracken who was elect- ed November 4th, 1884, and was succeeded by James Vaughn who was elected November 2d, 1886, and was succeeded by 10 HICKORY COUNTY Amos M. Paxton who was elected November 6th, 1888, and re-elected November 4th, 1890, and was succeeded by Edwin H. Yeaw who was elected November 8th, 1892, and was re- elected November 4th, 1894, and was succeeded by Wash F. Reser who was elected November 3d, 1896 and re-elected No- vember 8th, 1898, and was succeeded by John H. McCaslin who was elected November 6th, 1900 and re-elected November 4th, 1902, and was succeeded by Eugene T. Lindsey who was elected November 8th, 1904 and re-elected November 6th, 1906 for a term of four years. The first probate judge of the county was Aaron Triplett, who was appointed by the Governor, August 24th, 1849, but no term of the court was held until December 3d, 1849, al- though the record shows that Alfred H. Foster did considerable writing and signed it as "clerk" in vacation. John S. Williams was present as sheriff at the court. Thomas Davis was com- missioned probate judge March 18th, 1850, and was succeeded by Wilham Paxton who was commissioned by Governor Ster- ling Price, September 5th, 1853, and served until this court was merged into the county court in December 1859. In 1867 the probate court was re-estabUshed by an Act of the legisla- ture and on July 23d, 1867, WiUiam H. Liggett was appointed judge of the court. He was elected November 3d, 1868, and by successive elections served until January 1st, 1879, when he was succeeded by George S. Selvidge who served until Jan- uary 1st, 1883, and was followed by Charles S. Essex who served four years, and was succeeded by Moses N. Neihardt January 1st, 1887 who served four years, and was succeeded by James J. Ramsey, January 1st, 1892. Judge Ramsey served four years and was succeeded by Luther J. Slavens who was elected November 6th, 1894 and served eight years, and was succeeded by Joseph S. Hartman January 1st, 1903. He served until after November election 1904 and resigned and removed to Aztec, New Mexico. John W. Montgomery was appointed to fill the vacancy November 29th, 1904, and served until January 1, 1907, when he was succeeded by James H. Holt the present incumbent. James Lester was appointed assessor November 1st, 1846. John Dollarhide was elected assessor in 1850-2, and Joel J. Bradley was elected in 1854, and John Dollarhide was again elected in 1856, but the legislature changed the law in 1857 and he only served one year. Under the law of 1857 the HICKORY COUNTY 11 county was divided into four districts, running North and South through the county and appointments made by the county court. District No. 1, was Stark township and in that town- ship in 1858 Asa Johnson was appointed. In district No. 2, Dr. B. F. Barnes was appointed. In district No. 3, Robert Allen was appointed and in district No. 4, Harrison H. Jamison was appointed. In 1859 district No. 1, had Lewis B. Hawkins, No. 2, John C. DoUarhide, No. 3, Marcus S. Graff, and No. 4, Har- rison H. Jamison. In 1860 the law had again been changed and Harrison H. Jamison was elected county assessor. Har- rison H. Jamison was appointed county assessor February 7th, 1862, but Vanrensaler Bennett made and returned the assess- ments for 1862-3. Lyman Stiltz was appointed assessor in February, 1863, but being in the army in Company "B" 8th Regiment Missouri State Militia he refused to quit the army and become assessor. Lycurgus Coon was appointed assessor June 22d, 1863, his term to end November election 1864, and the record recites that his appointment was made because of the resignations of Vanrensaler Bennett, Lyman W. Stiltz, Mar- tin K. Pitts, Amasa Yeaw, and Asa Johnson refusing to serve. Mr. Coon gave bond and took the oath of office. Robert Allen was appointed March 8, 1864, and Asa Johnson was again appointed on October 1, 1864, and the record of Decem- ber 29, 1865, shows the appointment of Ephraim Dent. On November 6, 1866, James A. Brakebill was elected assessor, and by re-election in 1868, served two terms, turning the office over to F. Marion Wilson, who was elected November 5, 1870. Samuel Dent was elected November 3, 1874, and was succeeded by Amos M. Paxton, who was elected November 7, 1876, and was re-elected and served four years, and was suc- ceeded by William F. Coon, who was elected November 2, 1880. On November 7, 1882, James A. Pine was elected and was re- elected November 1884, served four years and was succeeded by Melville H. Cooper, who was elected November 2, 1886, and succeeded himself by re-election November 6, 1888. William A. Lightfoot was elected November 4, 1890, and was re-elected in 1892, and served four years, and was succeeded by Herod M. Holt, who was elected November 6, 1894, was re-elected in 1896-'98, and retired January 1, 1901, and was succeeded by S. C. S. Vaughn, who was elected November 9, 1900, and re- elected in 1902-'4, his last term expiring January 1909, and was succeeded by Thomas S. Hall the present incumbent. 12 HICKORY COUNTY Under the law of this state up to March 9, 1872, there was no office of prosecuting attorney, criminal prosecutions being attended to by a circuit attorney, who visited all the counties in his judicial circuit, but on May 22, 1867, the county court appointed Charles Kroff, county attorney, and the record shows that he was continued in office by his election Novem- ber 4, 1868. In 1872 on November 5, Sidney Wilson was elect- ed the first prosecuting attorney, and in 1874 was re-elected but resigned about May 1, 1876, and was succeeded by Ernest P. Baldwin who was appointed May 31, 1876. At the Novem- ber election in that year Charles Kroff was elected to this office and served two years, being succeeded by Ernest P. Baldwin on January 1, 1879. In November 1880, Mr. Baldwin was again elected for a term of two years, at the end of which he was succeeded by F. Marion Wilson who served four years, and was succeeded by Alexander W. Brownlee on the first day of Jan- uary 1887. Mr. Brownlee served two years, and was succeed- ed by William D. Harryman who was elected on the 6th day of November 1888, and re-elected in November 1890, and v/as succeeded January 1, 1893, by William L. Pitts who served two years, and was succeeded by John W. Robertson on Jan- uary 1, 1895. Mr. Robertson served two years and was suc- ceeded by William A. Dollarhide who was elected November 3, 1896, and served two years, and was followed by Hazen Green who was elected November 6, 1900 and re-elected in 1902, served four years, and was succeeded by William A. Dollarhide, January 1, 1905, who served two years, and was succeeded by John W. Montgomery on January 1, 1907, and was succeeded by F. Marion Wilson the present incumbent. The Coroners so far as the records show have been: Wm. H. Duncan, James H. Gill, Ephraim Dent, Madison Maxwell, Dr. Samuel L. Coble, William P. Daugherty, Daniel C. McNeil, Peter Solberg, Henry C. Brookshire, V/illiam C. Gentry, WiUiam F. Warren, John J. Bramberg, John W. Mowell, John H. New- man, George B. Viles, WilUam C. Gentry, Albert S. Johnston, WilUam C. Gentry, and WiUiam S. Woodford. Superintendent of Schools were John Whitaker, Abel E. Martin and David B. Biddle. County School Commissioners: David B. Biddle Alexander Murphy, Millard F. Butler, Alexander Murphy, John E. Bradley, Charles D. Tharp, Edward F. Wright, Harry H. Rodgers, L. H. Morton, Arthur Davis and S. Z.Odenbaugh. HICKORY COUNTY 13 Surveyors: James Blakemore, Benjamin H. Massey, Dan- iel E. Davis, John W. McAndrew, Patrick Chancellor, Arthur H. Edwards, Eric Eklof, and WilUam F. Simpson. Public Administrators: John S. Williams, Wilham Paxton, James R, Wilson, William L. McCaslin, F. M. Butcher, A. J. Butcher, Samuel W. Ream, Levin B. Wright jr., Wilham L. McCaslin, Joseph Nease and Theodore Lindsey. EARLY HISTORY AND THE WAY IT WAS DONE. If the young people of Hickory county, just now growing into manhood and womanhood could hve one month under the surroundings and conditions that existed here in 1840, 1845 and 1850 and, even to a great extent up to 1860, they would get a large amount of information and experience that they can never get anywhere in this country. As late as 1850 sawed boards or plank were not seen or used in or about the construction of dwelUngs or other buildings. The saw mills were not started then, and there was not a mile of railroad in Mis- souri. The only chance to get freight from outside the state was by steamboat lines that olowed the waters of the unim- proved rivers. All heavy freight to this part of the country was brought up the Missouri and Osage rivers, to Jefferson City, Boonville, Tuscumbia, Linn Creek, Warsaw and Osceola and then hauled out among the people with ox teams, taking about ten days to make the trip to Boonville and back home. Springfield at that time hauled the greater part of the goods sold there from Linn Creek, then called Erie. For building houses the broad ax to hew logs and puncheons, and the froe to "rive" or split blocks into three and four foot boards to cover houses, and outbuildings were always in demand. These boards were laid on the building on what were called ribs and ridgepoles, which were laid on top and run from one end of the building to the other. No such a thing as nails were used. The boards were laid down and weighted down with logs run- ning from one end of the house to the other, usually, not so large as the logs used to erect the walls of the building, but large enough to hold the boards. The man who was an expert with the broad ax was in great demand, at as high as fifty cents a day in corn, bacon or wheat. Actual cash not being 14 HICKORY COUNTY much in use. Deer skins and furs were next to legal tender. The school houses were Uttle if any inferior to the best dwell- ings but were often built of round logs without hewing, and the roofs put on the same manner as they were put on dwellings, the floors made of split logs or puncheons, smoothed on the broadest side with the broad ax, and many of them were the bare ground inside the log pen or school house. The cracks in the houses were smoothly daubed with yellow clay with some man's naked hands, which left the finger print to show for itself. Trowels were of no use in those days. Naked hands were made before trowels. Stone was plentiful but the easiest and usual way to build a chimney to a school house or dwelling was to cut a hole in one end of the building six or seven feet high and build a pen of split logs as high as the hole, then draw in the chimney by using shorter timbers and building it a little higher than the building with split timbers and pieces of poles. A chimney was no good unless it tapered from about seven feet above the ground to the top, as it wouldn't draw. Here again good daubers were a necessity, for unless the chim- ney was so well daubed with clay, or some other dirt, as to cover every bit of the wood there was great danger of the house being burned. In the fire place it was a great conven- ience and safety to build a back wall of most any kind of loose stone and stand up large flat stones against the walls of the chimney on the right and left of the fire. "A fellow" crAild chew tobacco and squirt the tobacco juice into the fire place and hear it fry, with great ease and satisfaction. Nobody but a numb-skull would have bought a spittoon if he had known of such a thing. No quarrels then in the family about a per- son missing the spittoon and hitting the carpet because there was no carpet. Some few of the people built chimneys of stone a long time ago but they were of the more wealthy class, and were regarded by their neighbors as slightly "stuck up," and didn't have much more influence in the community than a millionaire would have had in a community of Populists in 1878. The seats for the children in the school houses were made of puncheons like those in the floors, if there was a puncheon floor. It was all easy and cheap. An auger was procured and two holes were bored at each end of the puncheon in the rounding or sap side and pegs or legs were driven into the holes in the puncheon, and it was turned over and set up in the floor, and there was your bench for the children. It HICKORY COUNTY 15 was often about the right heighth for the big boy or girl, but awfully awkward, unhandy and tiresome for the little boy and girl, who had to sit all day long with their feet hanging down and not reaching the floor. Many a poor little boy and girl whose legs went to sleep went to sleep themselves and fell off onto the floor. The writing desks too, were cheaply and easily constructed, as was also the windows in these school houses. They were just immense for cheapness and durability. Here again the auger was brought into use with the puncheon, and holes were bored on the inside of the building in one of the straight logs in the wall, and several long pins driven into the holes and the floor puncheon, as nice and smooth one as could be found was laid on these long pegs or pins that were driven into the wall, and the puncheon pushed back close against the wall where it lay, as sohd as the "Rock of Ages" if one of the pegs didn't break or season and work out of its place. Then the next thing was Ught — a window, that was not troublesome to locate, since the writing desk was up. The first log in the house above the v/riting desk was cut out or sawed out, and there was plenty of Ught, and fresh air right in your face when you was sitting at the desk. Young man, if you had gotten your "schooling" with all these conveniences about you you would have known some things that you do not know. Of course, there was plenty of wood and a wide fire place in the school house, but the people usually preferred to have their schools in warm weather. The country was sparsely settled and the roads to the school house for some of the children were long, and none of the children had more than two winter wraps, and the question of shoes was a serious one to contem- plate when winter was coming on. The quick steam tanneries that burn up the leather were not in operation then, and the leather to make the shoes had to be tanned near home, and the shoes made near home. If "Old Brindle" or one of the yellow steers died, after the hide was peeled off it was taken to the old man Clark's tan yard, and he by some kind of a process, mostly with ashes and the currying knife took the hair off and put it in a box in the ground that he called a "tan vat," and it was necessary for it to stay there from eighteen months to two years and soak in a lot of ground or pounded black oak bark, and the ooze or juice that it made before it was tanned leather and fit to make shoes of. It often happened that cold weather came on and neither "Dad" nor 16 HICKORY COUNTY "Grand-daddy," nor old man Jones had any tanned leather to make shoes, so the children and old folks had to have shoes or go barefoot all winter, which the children sometimes did; so a hide was taked out of the "tan vat," not more than half tanned and it was made into shoes that would swell, stretch and crawl off the children's feet in wet weather, and when the shoes became dry they would shrink until many a poor boy and girl raised a squall at the idea of putting on their shoes when their feet and ankles were sore because of the cuts and bruises of the raw hide shoes. The old folks fared no better on the shoe matter. Every cobbler who could peg raw hide into shoes was in demand, and some outrageous looking things were made and called shoes. They were all put together with an av/1, hammer, wooden pegs, and flax thread, gummed with wax, or what was called "whang leather," made of the dressed skins of deer, squirrels, house cats etc. A man or boy who could not dress one of these hides so it would not get hard after be- coming wet and then drying, "didn't know much about "whang leather." The children took their dinners to school with them, which generally consisted of corn bread, made of coarse corn meal with a good deal of bran in it, water and salt, and no grease, fat meat, or some of a lean hog that had been killed in the woods wild and had probably never eaten a grain of corn, and sometimes a bottle of milk. Cows gave down their milk then just like they do now, and gave plenty of it, but there were no Jerseys, and no reds, roans, or Herefords to make beef. Sometimes the people had wheat bread, but the wheat had been f railed out with a club or tramped out on the ground by horses traveling in a circle over the bundles with the heads up; the hoofs of the horses beating the grains out of the bundles and driving them down through the straw to the dirt floor making a mix up with the dirt, chalf, and offal of the horses that tramped the wheat. Then the wheat was gathered up, piled, and loose wheat swept into a heap on the tramping floor, and fanned a time or two through a little machine called a wheat fan that stirred about as much wind as pulUng a turkey backwards. The wheat was then taken to mill to be ground, the mill having little machinery to take the refuse out of the wheat, or bran out of the flour. It was such flour as this that the people used here as late as 1855, but they would not use it now, and are almost ashamed to say that they ever did use it. Further about the schools. Some of the teachers had been HICKORY COUNTY 17 over to "Rule 3" in Smiley's Arithmetic, but others did not know multiplication, subtraction and division. Everyone in school, talked, read and spelled aloud. No student was ever punished for making a noise. It was the more quiet ones, who were scolded because they were regarded as not being studious if they did not make a noise in "getting" their lessons. At the busiest time during school hours you could hear the children a quarter of a mile away, spelling and reading. Some big "leather-head" of a boy would try to spell louder, when "getting" his spelling lesson than anyone in school, and he was usually commended by the teacher as the most studious boy in school. Back in these years and times that we have been attempting to give a glimpse of, the first institution or business a new town like Hermitage, Preston, Pittsburg and Quincy needed was supposed to be a "grocery," in which was to be kept green coffee, dark brown sugar, powder and lead, .and a lightning quality of whiskey. It was the rule for the boys and men to gather at these places every Saturday, and on all public days going there on horseback, on foot, and with ox teams and wagons, and a great many of the men and boys buying and trading for a good supply of whiskey, having a few fights, and taking coffee home for the women to parch, and some of the brown sugar to hide from the children. The men and boys usually leaving the "grocery," very late in the evening, and getting home after dark, to the women and children, log house and dirt floor, with the coarse, rotten paper in which the coffee and sugar were wrapped bursted and part or all of the coffee and sugar wasted. No coffee for the women to parch and no sugar to hide from the children. In these times no man had an outfit for living and raising a family without a rifle gun, shot pouch, and powder horn, a pair of bullet molds, a stock of flints that would make the fire fly, and two or three dogs, and a great many men took this outfit with them to town on Sat- urdays, where the 'grocery" was situated, and it they could not get a man fight, the dogs would get up a fight and that would cause a man fight. The fights were generally a fair fight with clinched and naked fists, but occasionally a knife was used, but that was regarded by most of them as being cowardly. The man who worked a team of horses with leather harness was looked at as "high-toned." Prior to 1860 the peo- ple here did not wear "store clothes," hke they do now, and in 1850 to 1855 if you went to church or other gatherings not one 18 HICKORY COUNTY man or woman to the hundred had about them one thread of any clothing not manufactured in and about the home, by the spinning wheel and loom. If one did wear "store clothes," he or she was regarded as something of a "dude," although the people had never heard the word "dude" up to this time. Only a very few full suits of "store clothes" until about 1858, and they were worn by some men from the cities or some Northern or Eastern man, and these were few and far between, for Northern and Eastern people were not generally welcome in a slave state. A man then who wanted the "nigger" freed was a "black abolitionist," and it was thought, by a great many, that if he got justice he should be run out of the country, but sentiment has so changed now that perhaps, no man in the county wants negro slavery. A Vermont Yankee Doctor, came into the neighborhood of Preston before the Civil War, and to make himself agreeable, and a fit man to live in a slave state, bought a crippled "nigger," cheap, and went with the Confed- eracy when the Civil War came up. Farming that was done in the 50's would be thought to be done at great disadvantage, if done that way by the farmers of to-day, but it was sufficient for its day. Farmers opened up and plowed all their land and raised all the crop they needed for home consumption. They did not need much surplus be- cause there was next to no market for a surplus of any kind of crops, and for cattle and hogs they had no outside consumers, except for a few cattle and hogs that could be sold in the larger towns, or driven on foot to St. Louis, then not as large as Springfield. Kansas City, Springfield, St. Joseph and Chicago were all on the map, but half a dozen fat cows and two doz- en fat hogs would have overstocked the market of the largest one of them on any day in the year. Besides if fat four year old steers had been driven to the Chicago market on foot it would have been necessary to have taken them to a black- smith shop and have them shod before starting to market. The lands put in cultivation were for the most part small fields of rich timber land, that were cleared of their brush, saplings, and trees, and strong, heavy, rail worm fences were erected around them. The ground was broken the first time with yokes of oxen, with nearly all sorts and shapes of strong grub plows, and coulters, made in the country or village blacksmith shop of iron, for the purpose, and generally to suit the man who wanted the plow made. There was some steel but it was HICKORY COUNTY 19 Fcarce and high priced. Horses were not used in plowing new lands, and few of them were ever hitched to wagons to draw them. The farmer usually said that when he wanted to pull a heavy load he wanted a yoke of big steers. Most of the steer calves were yoked together at one and two years old with a wooden yoke that rested on the top of their necks, and for larger oxen with strong bows of hickory or white oak, so bent as to be nearly in the shape of a well shaped hen egg. This bow was put on the oxen's neck from below, and the upper two ends, which usually stood seven or eight inches apart went through large auger holes in the yoke that lay on top of the oxen's necks, and key holes and keys through the ends of the bows that extended above the yoke kept the bows from slipping down and releasing the oxen from the yoke. The load to be drawn was made fast at the center of the yoke between the oxen by means of a staple that went up through with a ring in the staple, these being made of iron, by the country black- smith. When "Old Tom and Buck" and "Jack and Ball" were hitched to a heavy load, one pair of oxen before the other, and urged forward with their shoulders pressing against the bows and the tops of their necks and front withers pressing against the yoke, with a man behind them with a platted raw hide whip six feet long and a cracker on the end two feet long, and the whole whip outfit well fastened to the little end of a taper- ing green hickory pole, about as long as whip and cracker both, and an inch and a half in diameter at the big end, and the driver would pop his whip until you could hear it distinctly for a half mile, the load behind these four oxen would move if it wasn't everlastingly fast to the earth. The farmers for plow- ing land for first plowing in the spring, that had some of the stumps and roots out of it used what was called a Carrie plow, and "Carrie" was probably the most suitable name that could have been given, for one of them would carry dirt from one end of the row to the other and carry it back to the same place. The stock or wood work of these plows somewhat re- sembled that of the modern breaking plow, but iron was scarce at that time and steel too scarce, and valuable to make into plows; so if you will go and buy a modern Peoria or Moline 12 or 14 inch breaking plow, and take it to a blacksmith shop, and have all the back part of the wing, shear or turning side cu^ off about two thirds of the way forward towards the point, and- leave the shear or wing in shape so it will have three points, 20 • HICKORY COUNTY and then supply the place of the steel you had cut off with a wooden piece about a third longer than the steel you had cut off, and twisted or turned in the same shape of the steel, you will have a wooden "mold board," and complete "Carrie," except that the metal will be steel instead of iron, and you may be sure that it will carry dirt. To plow corn the farmers had shovel plows which were single iron plows on a wooden stock. The plows were somewhat Uke the plows on a cultivator but were larger. The "bull tongue" plow was also in use. It was a single plow with a wooden stock, but the plow part was longer, stronger and narrower than the shovel plow. Some of these old plows could be seen in the county .not many years ago. There were no iron and steel garden rakes and hoes, except those made by the country blacksmith, and but few such things were ever made. In the 50's the grain was nearly all cut with the cythe and cradle, but the old fashioned sickle had not been forgotten and was often used in tangled or blown down grain. The chopping ax was probably the most used tool in these years, and cash had to be paid for a new one, and the black- smith who could "upset" — put steel into the edge of one that was worn out so it would not chop, and temper the steel so that it would not break or bend about the second stroke that was given to a sound log was a valuable man to have in the community, and was worth going ten miles to see. The black- smith who could make smooth horse shoes and horse shoe nails from old wagon tires and other old iron was very"much in demand. The people did not need much horse shoeing, but they also sometimes wanted their oxen shod when they wanted to make long trips, and the blacksmith was expected to'make all the shoes and nails, largely out of old irons; so you see the blacksmith was a necessity in every community. Blacksmith shops were so necessary and useful that shops were compara- tively numerous, and many a spot at a cross road'or alongj^the public road, or in a town where a blacksmith shop has stood and the smith has hammered old irons has been forgotten, but are found occasionally by finding a pile of old cinders. All the blacksmiths in this section of the country burned charcoal. Perhaps a load of stone coal never was brought to this county until after the Civil War. The manufacture of articles made of iron and steel in the great shops of the country has driven a great many country blacksmiths out of business in the past 45 years. HICKORY COUNTY 21 The man now, who was a boy in the early 50's, large enough to go to mill ten to twenty miles and ride the old family horse on a bag of corn or wheat containing about a bushel and a half had sorrows and troubles of his own on these milling trips. If the old gentleman didn't yoke up the steers, and hitch to the wagon or cart, and take three or four bushels of corn to the mill the boy was in it for the trip, and he was put on old "Sorrel" with the bag of corn or wheat, generally corn, and started for the mill, and many a poor boy's bag of grain fell off on the ground, and he cried and "tugged" and "tugged" and cried, trying to get it back on his horse until he could see stars, and wished he was dead, and then had to wait for some- one to come along and put it on for him. If the bag fell off as he went back home, so much the worse, for it was Ukely that he had set around the corn cracker (mill,) waiting for his "turn" to be ground until he was very hungry, and if in winter almost without fire, and was nearly frozen to death. Those old millers never did have a fire except a lot of smoking chunks. If in spring or summer he probably had had an old "Missouri Ague" chill with a shaking that made his teeth rattle, which was always immediately followed by such a high fever that the boy almost burned up. Such chills and fever were so common that everyone had them, and when you first got out of bed after having one of these chills you felt Uke a thin, old house cat looks and you didn't feel any worse than you looked. After you had them for a while, which you was very Ukely to do, if you didn't take quite a good deal of bitter tea, made from roots and herbs, and a lot of quinine if you could get it, and then stay out of the morning dews that fell on the tall weeds and grass every night almost like a rain. A Missouri shaking ague was a terror, but the old fashioned kind of it left the country when the thousands of wild turkey and deer left it, and neither have come back to stay and never will. Clearing up the woods, broadening the farms, plowing almost half the lands, the building of more numerous residences, more school houses and churches, has driven out the shaking ague, the deer and turkeys, and a great many of the old "fogies." In the 50's the young people in their "courting" and making love, affairs, were at great disadvantage, but they did not * reaUze it. Horses were not plentiful, but the going to meetings was done on horseback, on foot, or by yoking up the oxen, hitching to the home-made ox wagon, putting the good wife. 22 HICKORY COUNTY and every little "brat" of a child in the wagon bed, calling, only, about two of the dogs, and starting out from home, with "Dad" issuing the usual commands to the oxen:-"wo-haw Buck, gee, Jerry!" Everyone in clean home-spun clothes, and all jolly and happy. If the young man wanted to "spark" his girl, he had to crawl into the wagon with the family, he and his girl go on foot, or if he was up in the world enough to own a "scrub" saddle horse, he and his girl could both ride the horse. It was just delightful for a young man to have such a horse to take his girl to meeting, ni^ht or day. The horse saddled, his tail tied up, the rider on him rides up to a stump, log or block and his girl hops up behind him on the horse, as light as a feather, and away they go five, ten or fifteen miles to some place where there is to be preaching at the residence of some man who has a roomy log house. The girls didn't need any "high falootin" riding skirts. In these days when the boys and girls went to preaching in their home-spun clothes, with the girl riding behind him at nearly all hours of the day or night there were not many Harry-Evelyn -Thaw-Stanford White cases. Virtuous conduct seemed to be adhered to for virtue sake. No attempt will be made to give a description of all the household furniture of those days but as the author of this little book all through hfe, has been fond of sleeping and eat- ing, a description of bedsteads and cooking utensils will be given. There were many kinds and contrivances called bed- steads, some of which were made by boring two holes in the inside wall of the house near a corner, and putting one post out in the floor with two auger holes through it near the top end. There were two poles or railing driven into the holes in the wall and the other ends went through the holes in the post, which made a stout platform. But the best and most sub- stantial bedstead of the good farmer had four posts with places mortised into them for the ends of the bed rails to be driven into and pegged with wooden pegs driven into small auger holes. These bedsteads were strong and substantial. In both the long and short rails were auger holes, about six inches from each other made with a half inch auger through which were woven across the bedstead, from side rail to side rail, and from end rail to end rail, about one hundred feet of half inch cotton or hemp rope. On this web of rope the beds were spread, and the old people and infants slept, while those two or three years old, and on up almost to manhood and womanhood slept on HICKORY COUNTY 23 what was called a "trunnel" bedstead, made on the same plan of the larger bedstead, but small enough to be shoved under the large bedstead, out of the way during the day. The ropes or cords in the bedstead, would stretch in a few months until two persons sleeping in the same bed would roll against each other, and, then the ropes or cords had to be drawn tighter to make the bed comfortable enough on which to sleep. Many a poor innocent babe, at from two weeks to two or three months old was smothered to death by the parents roUing together on one of these beds after the cords had sagged down. Perhaps not a cook stove was brought to Hickory county until after 1860. Cooking was done with several cooking vessels, but the leaders were cast iron tea kettles, in which coffee was boiled until it was black; the skillet, a cast iron vessel, with a long solid cast iron handle, cast iron legs about two inches long which, when 12 inches in diameter was about three inches deep, which was for the purpose of frying meats, eggs etc., and baking bread. But when bread was to be baked, a cast iron lid made with the skillet and for it was used to cover it. A pile of live coals was taken out of the fire place on the flat stone or hearth or the naked ground where a flat stone hearth should have been, in front of the chimney fireplace, and the skillet set on the hot coals, the dough for bread put in it, and the lid put on the skillet, and a lot of live coals put on the Ud, and the dough being between two fires was usually cooked pretty quick. The oven was much like the skillet with the long handle broken off. It had ears to lift it by, had a lid Uke a skillet and was used for making bread, and sometimes was used as a skillet. The dinner pot was a necessity. It was of cast iron with legs usually two or two and a half inches tong, the bowl or main body of it was nearly round, with an open top. It was set on coals or upon the wood in the fireplace, and was used to boil meats and all sorts of vegetables. It had ears on two sides at the top, and a bail could be hooked in these ears to lift it. These vessels were all made by pouring molten iron into molds like "running" bullets in bullet molds. The outside of them was somewhat rough, but the inside was as smooth, black and sUck after they were cooked in once or twice as the skin on a young negro girl's forehead. The first mill built in the county that was of much im- portance was built by Amos Paxton for a man named Rankin in Section 34 Township 38 Range 22, down the Pomme de Terre 24 HICKORY COUNTY river, below Hermitage, about six miles, by the roads if there had been any. It was a water mill and was patronized for 20 or 30 miles aromid when the water in the river was sufficient to run it. The Lopp people also built a dam across the river about three miles above Hermitage a short time after Rankin had his mill built, and Jonas Brown built one on Lindley creek above the ford on the Bolivar and Warsaw road, something like three fourths of a mile, but these could not be run when the streams were low, and the people were forced to go to the Brice mill at Bennett mill old place, 12 miles this side of Leba- non, the Deloney-Howard mill on Little Niangua about 15 miles below Almon, or the Hightower mill, where the Arnholdt mill now stands, about five miles above the mouth of Big Niangua. About this time William Montgomery, also built a httle mill on Mill creek, about 23 or 24 miles East of where Preston stands. The older Cruce also had a tread mill on what was known as the Joseph S. Naffziger, place Southwest of Wheat- land about five miles, in Section 32 Township 37 Range 23. Mills could be operated for a longer time in the year on the Nianguas than on Pomme de Terre and Lindley creek, and at the Brice mill, because the Nianguas are almost made by springs, and the spring near the Brice place does not rise and fall very much. William Dollarhide run a distillery on the John Jack- son, old place Southeast of Preston and got his meal ground to make his "still beer" at the Jonas Brown mill on Lindley creek. Mr. Dollarhide probably had the first distillery in the county. The first steam mill was built by the Donnells, William L., and Thomas, about where the mill now stands that is owned by Doak & Scruggs, North of Cross Timbers. They also had a store a short distance Southwest of the mill. These water mills built in what is now Hickory county were probably all built from 1842 to 1846. Prior to this, of course milling was more unhandy, the country being more sparsely settled. The first blacksmith shop in what was Stark Township was prob- ably at the William L. Brookshire place, about a mile south of Judge Hickman's residence and was run by WiUiam Bone, and very early Daniel Epley had one about 150 yards East and a few degrees to the North of where the residence of John M. Dollarhide now is. From the later 40's through the 50's the tan yard of Thomas Davis situated near the town survey to the North of Hermitage, was probably the largest thing of the kind in the country. Signs of it may yet be seen at the place. A ERIC EKLOF. County Surveyor. ALMON WATER MILL HOUSE, Built long prior to the Civil War. HICKORY COUNTY 25 man by the name of Feaster was the expert leather "currier" at this tan yard for several years. The principal crops raised by the first settlers were corn, and vegetables, such as potatoes, cabbage and onions. As the settlers increased crops of oats and rye and small crops of timothy and red top hay, and wheat began to be raised, but it was not fully understood by the farmers until the close of the Civil War how valuable the hay crop could be made. Hungarian grass, a kind of millet was raised to feed cattle be- fore the war, but it was not much of a success, either as a crop or a feed. Alfalfa,, red clover, and kaffir corn were not on the list of crops. Molasses cane or sorghum began to be cultivated about the middle of the 50's, and the juice was mashed out of it with wooden cane mills that had rollers from 16 inches to 2 feet in diameter and you could hear one of those cane mills screaking and squalling at a distance of half a mile, no matter which way the wind blew. When the juice was mashed out it was put into iron wash kettles and boiled to the proper thickness for molasses. When this new way of making molas- ses was in its early days it was amusing to see the children and some of the older people sopping into the kettles where it was boiling, and getting the half made molasses all over their faces and hands and in their eyes and hair. The molasses when finished were not the cleanest mess on earth, but they were sweet, and cheap, and filled the place of the dirty cane molasses that the people who were able to buy had been buy- ing for many years. The first of these molasses made were unclean, but it was only a few years until zinc pans were on sale, made for the purpose of boiling the juice down to molasses, and greater care was taken as to cleanliness, but when the people first commenced making these molasses many a poor boy groaned with pains in his stomach after drinking too much of the cane jiiice, or sopping the kettles too much. One young man who had drank two quarts of the juice from an old wood- en mill asked the man who was doing the grinding of the cane if he thought that two quarts of the stuff would hurt a "feller." 26 HICKORY COUNTY FINANCIAL CONDITIONS. In the 40's and early in the 50's there was not much money in this part of Missouri. It is probably not true of this county, as it was organized as late as 1845, but it is true that in some of the older counties of the state cash was so scarce at one time that taxes were paid to the Collector in deer skins and furs, which were sold in the markets by the Collector, and the money applied on taxes. There was some subsidary coins, Spanish silver dollars, but only occasionally was an American silver dollar seen, as only about eight million of them had been coined as late as 1860. There were quite a lot of American gold coins prior to 1850, that had been coined at New Orleans and Philadelphia from gold mined in the Carolinas and Georgia, but don't imagine for a moment that the average farmer had his pockets full of them, for they were almost too dear for them to own,, unless they were of the more wealthy class. The gold mines of the Carolinas and Georgia, were rather extensively worked prior to the discovery in CaUfornia, and we believe have never been entirely abandoned. We used to hear the fathers say that they could tell where the gold pieces were coined by their color, the gold from California being a deeper or richer yellow color than the gold from the Carolinas and Georgia. There were also some foreign gold coins, and along in the 50*s and up to 1860, quite a lot of paper bills issued by State banks that were under, really no sort of restraint or bank inspection laws, and when a man had twenty thousand dollars in one of them he could not tell whether he was wealthy or poor. Banks went broke and the bills were at a discount so often that all was uncertainty as to the value of the bills from one morning to another. Many a man supposed he had his thousand of dollars, one week and learned next week that the only money he had that had purchasing power was a few silver halves, quarters, dimes and half dimes he had in his purse. If a man had bills issued in another state communication was much slower than now, and it was sometimes a week or ten daysibefore he found out that he was "busted." This^situa- tion was remedied early in 1862, by an Act of Congress that taxed these shoddy banks out of existence. The discovery of gold in California, in 1849, began to increase the supply of money here to some extent about 1853-54, and it was a wonder- ful benefit, for the summer of 1854, in Missouri was as dry as HICKORY COUNTY 27 the summer of 1874, or 1901. This part of the country had not fully recovered from the crop failure of 1854, when the financial panic of 1857, came all over the country, and the country had not recovered from that when the Civil War came y in 1861, although the gold mines of California had scattered^ a lot of gold coin everywhere. Lookings^ckJiowL^to the 50's, and on down to 1860, it looks hke the nation w^ld have been absolutely insolvent in 1860 had it not have been for the dis- covery of gold in CaUfornia. Early in 1861, before Mr. Buchanan, had retired from the presidency, the government borrowed money that cost 16 per cent, and in 1862, pretty good cows sold for $5.00, when such cows now, although, those that were of inferior grade, would sell for $20.00, in gold. The $5.00 per head, then paid for cows was paid in "Green Backs," issued by the government under an Act of congress of March 12th, 1862, after the war had commenced, and was at a discount of about 25 per cent, but was a legal tender, and you was bound to take it, and generally glad to get it. We believe the country never did have that thing called money that all kinds of it had ex- actly the same purchasing power until 1879. In the 50's the retail country merchants did an extensive credit business, and doing business that way led purchasers to buy more than they would have bought otherwise, many creditors failed to pay their bills, and as a result of this credit system, the scarcity of good money, and losses from worthless "wild cat" bank bills many merchants were unable to pay their debts. The losses of average farmers here because of the "wild cat" paper bills were not great, for a great many of them never had cash enough due them, so that they would have more than two or three ten dollar "wild cat" bills, and these very soon went into the hands of the 'grocery keeper," or "store keeper." About all the coin went out of circulation in 1861, and up to early in 1863, you could often not get a bill changed, if you had one. But congress by an Act provided for an issue of 5, 10, 15, 25 and 50 cent paper bills, and they were issued to the amount of several million dollars, and the people then had plenty of change. Some of these small bills may yet be seen in the country. 28 HICKORY COUNTY SHORT SKETCH OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT. It is uncertain as to what year it was that white people first caiiie to what is now Hickory county, but it is likely that it was as early as 1827. The lands in this county were not surveyed and report of survey filed until in 1837, and no en- tries of land were made until 1838. The first settlers evident- ly came in on the old wagon roads from St. Louis and the counties near St. Louis, and from the Missouri river at Boon- ville. Two main old roads led out from these points as early as 1821, one from St. Louis Southwest through what are now the counties of St. Louis, Franklin, Jefferson, Crawford, Phelps, Pulaski, Laclede and Webster to Springfield, and the other from Boonville South through Cooper, Pettis, Benton, Hickory and Polk to Springfield, and then on to Fayettville, Arkansas. These roads were marked and cut out, and became Govern- ment roads in 1835, under Act ot Congress. The Boonville and Springfield road passed through by Quincy and Elkton, The early settlements of Southwest Missouri were generally at the heads or mouths of streams, and the settlements up and down the streams followed. The Inglis and Zumalt people settled on what is now Inglis creek in the Southeast part of the county probably as early as 1830, but founded no big settle- ment. Joseph Blackwell came here from Tennessee with his family about 1828, and James S. Blackwell, who resides at Elkton, in Tyler township, was born on the Jonas Brown place North of Pittsburg, nearly 75 years ago. Mr. Blackwell sold this place to Jonas Brown for $200. in gold. Martha J. Nowell, who afterwards married Phillip H. Lacey, and died Oct. 29, 1885, was bom not far from Quincy, June 8, 1829. Montgomery Township was no doubt named for Joseph C. Montgomery who lived near the Walker springs, five miles North of Wheatland, as early as 1832. He was a judge of the County Court of Benton County in 1835 and 1836 and that Township brought the name "Montgomery" township with it into the organization of this county. There was a very early settlement Northwest of Cross Timbers, about the Benton and Hickory County line, near or on Turkey creek, and the head of prairie hollow, that had Dawsons, Youngs, Holloways, and Lakes, and organized an old Baptist church. Samuel Judy, who afterwards entered the Northwest quarter of Section 21, Township 36, Range 23, HICKORY COUNTY 29 (December 22, 1838) lying two and one half miles West of Elkton, and now assessed to W. A. and E. P. Brown, lived near Quincy or perhaps on the present site of Quincy on the "Mili- tary" road, and run a blacksmitfi shop as early as 1832, and the Post Office here run by Aaron Ripetoe was no doubt the first Post Office in the county. A long time ago but not nearly so early there was a Post Office at the Vanrensaler Bennett place three miles North of Wheatland named Bledsoe, perhaps following the name of one of the sons of Judge Joseph C. Mont- gomery, who lived at the Walker spring and may have at an early date kept the Post Office. John Stark settled near the mouth of Stark creek about 1830 and died there about 1866. One of his sons James C. Stark lived over there in that neigh- borhood until very recently and now Hves in Taney County, Missouri, but there are several grand-children and great-grand- children of the old man, John Stark in that neighborhood now. There was a man named Drenan, who settled on Little Niangua, not far from the mouth of Stark creek as early as 1831 and his descendants may be found in that part of the county now. For an account of the early settlement of Little Niangua coun- try see the history of WiUiam Montgomery's settlements under the head of Family Records. Jesse Driskill settled sometime in the 30's, about two miles Northeast of where Preston now is, and his numerous descendants may be found down further North along Stark creek at this time, the eldest of whom are Obediah and James K. P. Driskill. A man by the name of Culberson settled the Thomas S. Morgan old farm in the 30's, and a man named Clifton first settled the McHuffman old farm on Little Niangua in Section 35, Township 38, Range 20, about 1834. William R. Lopp's grand father or grand mother Hved on the Andrew Alexander place on Lindley creek as early as 1835. Most of the early settlers came from Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina, some however came from Ohio and Vir- ginia. The following land entries, in parts of the county show with the greatest certainty when and in what sections of the county the first permanent settlements were made: Robert H. McCracken, October 22, 1838, S. E. quarter Section 27, Town- ship 36, Range 23. William J. Metcalf, October 22, 1838, N. E. quarter Section 27, Township 36, Range 23. Samuel McCracken, December 22, 1838, W. half S. W. quarter Section 26, Township 36, Range 23. About this time half a dozen other parties entered other rich lands about Elkton and West of there on 30 HICKORY COUNTY and near Weaubleau creek, and on down the creek as far ag Section 1, Township 36, Range 24, where Wm. G. Banyham entered what was once called the 0. P. Fletcher place on Big Weaubleau on December 28, 1838. Thos. Holland on Decem- ber 7, 1838, entered the E. half S. W. quarter and W. half S.E. quarter of Section 11, Township 36, Range 23, and about that time John P. Rogers, J. H. Henderson, Bird Estes, James Brians and others entered all the other land down that little creek to Big Weaubleau creek. The lands in Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4,, Township 35, Range 23, were entered by James B. Maloch, Robert B. Runyan, John H. Taylor, James McCracken, William R. Vestal and others in 1839 and 1840. John T. Thomas en- tered the W. half N. W. quarter of Section 4, Township 37, Range 23, a little South of Quincy, November 30. 1838 and also land in Section 5. Others shortly afterwards entered lands on down Hogle's creek. Jonas Brown entered 160 acres, the place where he made his farm two miles North of Pittsburg, May 20^ 1842, and other entries up and down Lindley creek followed in two, three and five years. Barney Pitts and James G. Pitts entered land up on Pomme de Terre in Sections 28 and 35, Township 36, Range 22, August 23, 1847, and that appears to have started entering land up and down the river. Thomas Davis entered on March 31, 1847, the S. W. fourth N E. quarter Section 23, Township 37, Range 22 lying immediately North of Hermitage, and William Waldo on April 23, 1847, entered the 40 acres immediately South of the old survey of Hermitage. This started land entries in the vicinity of Hermitage. The first entry made in Township 37, Range 21, was made by Alexander Foster November 28, 1843, of S. E. fourth of S. E. quarter of Section 22, and the next by Jesse Driskill September 2, 1844,. of an 80 acres lying immediately North of the Fisher grave- yard. No other entries were made on Stark creek until after 1850, except the entry of William Edde for the W. half N. W.- quarter and the N. E. fourth N. W. quarter Section 24, Town- ship 37, Range 21, made January 18, 1845. Amos Lindsey and James Lindsey entered land in Section 1, Township 36, Range 21, in May and September 1847, and Amos Lindsey and Daniel Darby entered land in Section 12, Township 26, Range 21. Luke Palmer entered the N. E. quarter Section 15, Township 37. Range 21, November 28, 1847. Eliza Inglis entered 80^ acres in Sections 4 and 5, Township 35, Range 21, November 22, 1848. James D. Donnell entered the lands where Cross HICKORY COUNTY 31 Timbers is located, July 8, 1848. Samson Norton entered the N. E. fourth of the N. E. quarter of Section 8, Township 38, Range 22, March 31, 1847, and the N. E. fourth of the N. E. quarter of Section 10, Township 38, Range 22, was entered by Alexander Bieshears, April 5, 1847. James Atkinson and Ira E. Tilford entered land in Section 15, Township 38, Range 23, December 30, 1843, and the 160 acres where the town of Quincy now is was entered by Isaac M. Cruce, October 11, 1843. Noting the location of these entries it will be seen that they were mainly on lands that were rich, timbered, and well watered, about the heads and up and down the streams. Level ridges and prairies were not wanted. The pioneers wanted lands that looked somewhat hke such as they had left behind them in the older states. There was also an early settlement near Avery. The early settlers had troubles and vexations about build- ing their log houses, and other log buildings, especially when the logs were large and heavy. Between 1840 and 1850, the country was so sparcely settled that the man who had a house to raise had to go ten to fifteen miles to invite his neighbors to help him. No neighbor ever charged anything for helping, even if he did go fifteen miles and work two days. A man who would have made a charge would have been thought to be too close and stingy for a neighbor, and if he afterwards had a building to raise would not have gotten help. The pio- neers, also had big log rolling days. The timber in the creek and river bottoms was large, thick and heavy and after the land was cleared, the timber cut down, and trimmed up and rails made, and the land fenced there were on most fields heavy green logs lying around so that the ground could not be plowed until the logs were rolled together and burned. It had to be out of the way of the plow, and after the house, smoke house, corn crib and stable were built the logs were of no use to the farmer. There were no saw mills in those days. Hundreds of thousands of what would have made the finest of walnut lumber went up in smoke and ashes after these log rollings. The men came far and near to these log roUings, and many of them were powerful men physically, among whom we call to mind and name a few that we have known or heard of, as follows: The Palmers, Wilson, John and Reuben; WilUam Whelchel, Horace Dark, WilUam, John and Merideth Richards; Josiah Dent, Joe, Green and Elisha Stephens; Bill Anderson, the Hicks men, William Bird, Charles Barber, John W. Quigg, 32 HICKORY COUNTY Amos Paxton, Amos Lindsey, William M. Dorman, Nathaniel McCracken, John H. Brannon, Camel Jordan, Jacob Bartshe. The men did not always go alone to these house raisings and log rollings. The wives and grown up daughters often went to a quilting had by the good wife of the man who had the house to raise or the logs to roll, and everybody stayed all night, or until within a few hours of morning, and after the day's work was done the old fashioned fiddle was brought out and tuned, and there was a dance that made the big log house shake, and the puncheon floor rattle. It was not often that there was a house raising or a log rolling had without plenty of whiskey, and plenty, meant all the people that were there wanted, but it was whiskey that had come from a distillery, and not from a cellar or dark room where poisons are mixed, and then called whiskey. Most every one present drank of the whiskey, including the females, but not as great a percent of them became besotted on pure whiskey then as become be- sotted now on various combinations of poisons called whiskey. There may have been, and probably was, an excuse for those who invaded and cleared up a wilderness using pure whiskey, but the use of pure whiskey by the pioneers of this country when they were opening up a wilderness is quite a different thing from filling up on high priced poison, when the person taking the poison is not sick. It may have been partly the necessities, and dependence of the people on each other that made them so,but no matter what the reasons for it those who were the pioneers here were much more clever, open hearted (handed) and much less selfish than we are now, and we are growing more selfish each year. Borrowing among neighbors, such things as meal, coffee, in fact anything the borrower was without was a common every day matter, and but very few people had things they would not loan, even half they had or a httle more than half, and there was generally no half heart- edness about it. There was not many of that sort of stingy fellows in the pioneer days, whose chins grow to a sharp point before they are forty-five years old, but we have them with us now, and they are increasing in numbers. HICKORY COUNTY 33 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. The following are names and dates when first Justices of the Peace were commissioned in this county: CENTER TOWNSHIP Andrew C. Richey, August 5, 1845. James McEwin, August 3, 1845. WilUam R. Donnell, August 3, 1845. James E. Foster, August 20, 1845. STARK TOWNSHIP John Neal, August 3, 1845. Riley Riddle, August 3, 1845. Asa Johnson, August 3, 1845. James C. Driskill. August 3, 1845. TYLER TOWNSHIP Urias H. Owings, August 5, 1845. ' WiUiam Rountree, August 5, 1845. Armstead Runyan, August 20, 1845. Alvin Poe, August 20, 1845. GREEN TOWHSHIP Charles F. Friend, August 3, 1845. Thomas Glanville, August 3, 1845. Isham B. Hastain, August 3, 1845. William M. Dorman, August 3, 1845. MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP John Cyrus, August 3, 1845. Robert C. Crockett, August 3, 1845. William Walker, August 3, 1845. John W. Murry, May 4, 1845. STATE SENATORS. The county has beeen honored since 1864 by the election of the following State Senators: WilUam L. Snidow, William Q. Paxton, Ernest P. Baldwin, and J. Houston Childers. 34 HICKORY COUNTY The following is a list of the Representatives in the Lower House of the Missouri Legislature: Joel B. Halbert, 1846. Meekin Pitts, 1850. J. F. Powers. 1854. Richard L Bobertson, 1858. Meekin Pitts, 1862. William Kidwell, 1866. Ephraim Dent, 1870. WUUam L. Snidow, 1874. Joseph Whitaker, 1878. George S. Selvidge, 1882. WiUiam L. Snidow, 1886. E. Madden Kerr, 1890. Daniel R. Jones, 1894. F. Marion Wilson, 1898. John W. Campbell, 1902. John Whitaker, 1906. Of those now living, are the following: Joseph Whitaker, Weaubleau; Ephriam Dent, Wheatland; George S. Selvidge, Meade, Kansas; Alanson H. Dent, Osceola; E. Madden Kerr, Elkton; F. Marion Wilson, Hermitage; John W. Campbell, Stockton; John Whitaker, Weaubleau; and J. Houston Childers, Muskogee, Oklahoma. Later:-Since the copy for this book was written Hon. E. Madden Kerr, was again elected to to the Leg- islature and died during the 1909 session, and Hons. Joseph and John Whitaker have both died in Weaubleau. Joel B. Halbert, 1848. John S. Williams, 1852. John S. WilUams, 1856. John S. Williams, 1860. Joseph Whitaker, 1864. William L. Snidow, 1868. WilUam L. Snidow, 1872. William L. Snidow, 1876. William L. Snigow, 1880. William L. Snidow, 1884. Alanson H. Dent, 1888. E. Madden Kerr, 1892. William L Snidow, 1896. Ezekiel D. Blair, 1900. John Whitaker, 1904. HICKORY COUNTY 35 CIRCUIT COURT, The records of this court from the organization of the county to 1858, were destroyed by the burning of the Court Houses in 1860 and 1881, but from parts of old Minute Books, old Index Books, and Court Dockets, and information received from old settlers the statements here given are beUeved to be very nearly correct. The first term of the Circuit Court was convened at the residence of Thomas Davis, probably in Sep- tember 1845, anyhow it was warm, pleasant weather. But little business was transacted. The meeting of the court and officers was at the residence of Thomas Davis, then County Treasurer, near the Southeast corner of the original survey of the town of Hermitage; and was in the buildings now standing near the Northwest corner of the South East one fourth of the South East quarter of Section 23, Township 37, Range 22, known as the Davis- Woodrum-Liggett place. Foster P. Wright was Judge of the court, Alfred H. Foster Clerk, and John S. Williams Sheriff. A grand jury was summoned, and met and transacted its business out among the spreading oaks. One old gentleman who was a member of that grand jury told the author of this httle book, a few years ago that some of the meetings were held under a white oak tree that stood in the alley about 40 feet East of the Southwest corner of Block One of the original survey of the town of Hermitage. The tree was dead in 1872, but stood there until about 1875. This informa- tion was received from James Lindsey, an old and highly re- spected citizen who died only a few years ago, and John C. Dollarhide, who is yet living at a ripe old age, having lived in the county since 1840. WWle there was strife and contention between the East and West sides of the county as to the loca- tion of the county seat, Circuit Court was never held anywhere in the county only in and about the town of Hermitage, prob- ably because the Wilson County Tennessee people largely iita the offices and used their "pull" for Hermitage. Foster P. Wright continued to be Circuit Judge until 1850. Waldo P. Johnson, who was afterwards United States Senator from Missouri, a Senator in the Confederate Congress, and in 1875 President of the Convention that made the present Constitution of the State of Missouri, was Judge from 1851-53, DeWitt C. Ballou 1854-58, Foster P. Wright 1859-61, Burr H. Emerson 1862-71, David McGaughey 1871, Robert W. Fyan 1872-82, 36 HICKORY COUNTY Fyan elected to Congress November 1882, and Ben V. Alton appointed for 1883-84. Washington I. Wallace was elected in November 1884, and served until January 1, 1893, when he was succeeded by Argus Cox, of Mountain Grove, Wright Coun- ty, Missouri, who is the present incumbent. Judge Wallace last signed the record November 19, 1892, and Judge Cox first convened court here on May 8, 1893. The oldest circuit court record preserved from the fire in the court house is of Monday morning September 13, 1858. Present: DeWitt C. Ballon, Judge of the court; Thomas W. Freeman, Circuit Attorney; WiUiam Paxton, Clerk; and Wil- liam Young Evans, Sheriff. The names of Grand and Petit Jurors were as follows: Grand Jurors, H. H. Jamison, Foreman, William Park, John T. Thomas, David McGee, Benjamin F. Sims, Peter L. Yoast, James G. Wallace, Lewis Parker, G. W. Webb, James Stephens, Ephraim Dent, Thomas Pentecost, Jacob Reser, Abraham Charlton, William H. Gregory, and Thomas Lawrence. Petit Jurors: Samuel Tillery, WiUiam H. Hendricks, Nathan Glasscock, Gideon Creed, Manuel Mashburn, John Pitts, Charles F. Shook, Isaac T. Dorris, James Lindsey, A. W. Kennedy, John Stark, D. A. Boaz, Edward Lucas, John Miller, Joseph Edde, James Stephens, Amasa Curtis, Richard C. Skinner, William W. Donnell, Jordan Rhea, and L. B. Hickman. September Term, 1860. Foster P. Wright, Judge. Grand Jurors: Marcus S. Graff, Foreman; A. W. Kennedy, Silas Dillon, Wilson G. Palmer, James L. Hicks, Josiah Dent, D. B. Calhoun, Wallace W. Drennon, Andrew Vandiver, Thomas R. Hankins, Joel Wheeler, James Alexander, Jesse H. Parsons, Samuel McAfee, John P. Cooper, and John Durnell. Petit Jurors: Lewis B. Hawkins R. J. Irvin, James E. Foster, Edward Farris, A. P. Donnell, Hiram Dixon, Annanias B. Reser, John A. Pare, Young Pitts, Henry Airhart, William Thompson, David McGee, D. A. Whitlaw, Squire L. Pine, A. C. Ritchey, A. G. Black, Levi Breshears, William F. Bradley, Green B. Stephens, Elisha Estes. John Starkey, Lewis Parker, Preston Richardson, and Horatio N. Cooper. Court adjourned September 13, 1860, and did not meet again until September 14, 1863, when the court was pre- sided over by Burr H. Emerson, Circuit Judge. NATHAN K. POPE, Judge of the County Court E. District. JOSEPH RIDDLE, Presiding Judge of the County Court. HICKORY COUNTY 37 COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS. This county was always managed so that it never had a bonded debt. All of our neighbor counties, except Camden, became involved in fraudulent railroad bonded debts in the 70's through the actions of their County Courts, and nearly all the leading men in and about Hermitage and Wheatland w^ere over anxious at the time for our County Court to involve our county in the same way. But at that time we had as two members of the county court John Lawrence and John A. Pare, both of Green township. Judge Lawrence was absolutely immovable in the direction of issueing bonds, and Judge Pare, while he would perhaps under the strong pressure of sentiment, have consented to the issue, was not favorable to it. Judge Lawrence was nicknamed and abused for what was said to be his stubbornness, but was afterwards re-elected because of the stand he took on this bond question. The ravages and devasta- tion of the country by the Civil War, building a new jail, and repairs on the court house, with perhaps some unnoticed ex- travagance, had gotten the county into a county warrant debt by 1875, that amounted to about eight or nine thousand dollars. At the time of the adoption of the present Constitution of the state, (November 30, 1875,) it was provided that all such back indebtedness should be provided for by a levy of taxes at the the May term 1876, sufficient to pay it off and cancel all old outstanding county warrants, A levy was made at the May term 1876 by the county court, and again in 1878 and 1879, but because of a desire not to raise a hue and cry about higher taxes, enough was never levied to pay off the old warrant debt, and about $2,000 of it is not out of the way yet. County war- rants were continuously at a discount from 1864 to 1903. In 1889 they were discouted at the Hickory County Bank, then doing business in Hermitage, 15 cents on the dollar. In 1885, the Prosecuting Attorney, in view of the condition of the coun- ty finances and a decision of the Supreme court rendered by Judge Thomas A. Sherwood in a Douglas county case involving the payment of fees, advised the county court to make an ex- tra levy of 20 cents on the $100 valuation of the property in the county, over and above the 50 cent, maximum rate fixed by the Constitution of the state. The levy was made at the May term of the county court 1885, amounting to about $3,4.50 and as no county warrants were issued against it about $3,250 38 HICKORY COUNTY of it was collected and outstanding county warrants paid with it. Had the levy been continued for three years all outstand- ing county warrants would have been paid and thousands of dollars in interest and discount on county warrants saved to the people. But the people raised a storm about higher tax- ation, for political effect, the Sherwood decision was overruled, and our county court made no more such levies and the people continued to be taxed to the fullest extent allowed by the Constitution of the State to pay current expenses and interest on outstanding warrants, and speculators had a pic-nic dis- counting warrants until 1903. It would take several days to ascertain the amount of interest that has been paid on county warrants, but it will probably reach $10,000. In 1903, the Hermatage Bank, with Joseph S. Hartman as President and WillUam L. Pitts, Cashier, decided that that institution would carry all county warrants brought to the bank, at par, and since that time all warrants have been worth one hundred cents on the dollar, and speculators in warrants who received 6 per cent interest on them, and discounted them when they bought them from 5 to 15 per cent have gone out of fashion. HICKORY COUNTY 39 PERMANENT SCHOOL FUNDS, COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP. These funds were derived from the sale* of 16th Section lands, Swamp lands, and fines and forfeitures. By the Act of Congress admitting the state into the Union every 16th Section in the state was given for school purposes. The proceeds of the sales of these lands are the Township school funds. At a later date Congress gave the state for school purposes all lands in the state where more than half of a forty acres was swampy or frequently overflowed, for school purposes, and these lands were patented by the state to the counties in 1869, and they were sold and the proceeds became a part of the county school fund. Prior to the selection of these lands as Swamp lands many persons had been allowed to enter such lands at the Government Land Offices, and they appeared to be lost to the counties, but in 1882, the county court of this county through George S. Selvidge and WilUam McCracken procured an ad- justment of this matter with the Government and the county school fund received $2,327 and about 640 acres in Land Scrip which was located on some of the best tracts of then vacant Government land in this county in 1884, by Patrick Chancellor and F. Marion Wilson, and the lands have now all been sold and the proceeds are now a part of the county school fund. The criminal laws of the state have been fairly well enforced in the county since its organization, and numerous fines have been collected, and with a few collections made on forfeited recognizances all has been turned into the county school fund principal. These funds have all of the time been loaned out to the citizens of the county, for a great many years at 10 per cent interest, but of late years at 8 per cent, that being the highest rate of interest allowed by the law. The interest col- lected on these funds is distributed annually among the school districts of the county, together with moneys received from the state arising from an appropriation of one-third of the state revenue and interest collected from the state on a loan of the state school fund to the state, and the levies in the several school districts for teachers fund, and all these can only be used in paying teachers in the district schools. The moneys needed for building or incidental purposes must be raised by levies on the taxable property of the several school districts. The county school fund and township school funds 40 HICKORY COUNTY in this county now (1907) amount to about $32,000, although quite a large amount has been lost on bad loans, especially as a result of the war of 1861-65 and the burning of Bonds and Mortgages in the Court House that were evidence of loans. The amount apportioned to each child within school age for the year 1906, from all of these sources was on an average among the districts of about $2.10, some school Townships having a Uttle larger Township fund than others. There are sixty-five school districts in the county two of which, Wheat- land and Weaubleau, are special, separate districts. These have six directors and a Treasurer, independent of the County Treasurer, who receives and pays out their moneys. Nearly all of these districts have at least six months school in each year, and several of them have seven or eight months. These schools employ over seventy teachers. Of the Christian Col- lege at Weaubleau we shall speak when giving a history of that town. We have had no such officer as County Superintendent of PubUc Schools since 1874, and no institution can progress as well without a head-man as with him. But County School Commissioners we have had since 1874, have all been active and enthusiastic school men, and although, only receiving very small pay for their services have been of great benefit to the schools. Since 1874, the law has permitted this or any other county in the state to have a county Superintendent of Schools, if a majority would vote in favor of such a proposition, but a lack of interest and a penny-wise and a pound-fooUsh senti- ment have kept the schools in their present situation on that matter. HICKORY COUNTY 41 INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND^ AND ROAD AND CANAL FUND. These funds were both donated to the counties by the general government through the state government. The In- ternal Improvement Fund was derived from the sale of 500,000 acres of public lands, donated by the general government, the proceeds to be used for making internal improvements in the counties, such as canals, ditches, roads etc., but not including county buildings. The Road and Canal Fund was derived from three percent of all sales or entries of government land in the state and the same Act of congress is still in force. That is, if the general government receives $50. for 40 acres of land $1.50 goes into the Road and Canal Fund. As soon as Hickory Coun- ty was organized it began to draw from these two funds annually, and drew the same amount as any other county in the state. The first draw made by the county from the Road and Canal Fund was November 4, 1845, $189.78 and the first received from the Internal Improvement Fund was March 29, 1847, when $181.95 was received. Our County Treasurer con- tinued to receive money from the Internal Improvement Fund until August 10, 1860, when $8,444.12 had been received. Money continued to be received from the Road and Canal Fund until November 17, 1859 when it appears that the coun- ty then had on hands $2,195.30. No more appears to have been drawn from the Internal Improvement Fund after August 10, 1860, although some of that 500,000 acres of land given by the general government was not sold by the state until 1866. The next drawn from the Road and Canal Fund was in August 1872, when $271.66 was drawn. The Road and Canal Fund money has been drawn by the county regularly since 1872, and probably will continue to be drawn as long as there is vacant government land in the state to be taken by cash entry. There is evidently due the county some balance from the In- ternal Improvement and the Road and Canal Funds from 1860 to August 1872. We have already stated that the balance of the money belonging to these funds in 1890 has been invested in bridges. 42 HICKORY COUNTY RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS * AND CHURCHES. An attempt to give an early history of the church organi- zations and church buildings of the county would be a failure, but all the leading Christian denominations were represented long before the organization of the county. The first organi- zation that we have any record of was the "Old Baptist" or- ganization Northwest of Cross Timbers, that has already been mentioned. The earliest organization of the Christian church in the county was in the neighborhood of Antioch church Southwest of Pittsburg, where those people have recently erected a commodious and handsome building, and the church organization is in prosperous condition. A church was first organized there in 1843, a rather early date for that church in the West, for it had only been about eleven years, since Rev. Alexander Campbell had disagreed with the Missionary Bap- tist churches in Virginia, and organized this separate organi- zation of Christians in that state. There is perhaps, but one organization of the "Old Baptists" now in the county, and that is in the Dooley Bend neighborhood, about five miles Southwest of Hermitage. The Missionary Baptist people are much more numerous than any other Christians, At an early date they had a strong organization near Elkton, their church standing North- west from where the town now is, and at this time they have a strong organization at their church in the town. The Mis- sionary Baptist church at Macedonia, four miles North of where Wheatland now is, probably the strongest church organization in the county. It was organized in 1874, by Elder Landrine J. Tatum assisted by Elder George M. Alexander, and has a roomy and convenient church building. Half a mile North of Pittsburg, is a church building belonging to these people. About 1871 a church was built, but was replaced about 1889, by a larger and better one. The church organization was had there October, 9, 1869, by the following members:-Wm. Samples, Geo. R. King, A. L. Kirkpatrick, James Kirkpatrick. John Kirk- patrick, Edward N. Taylor, WiUiam Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, Syntha Kirkpatrick, Phebe Samples, Rinda Dun- can, S. B. King. Rev. G W. Kelly was Moderator, and Geo. R. King Clerk. These people have a church building about a mile Southwest of Almon, and numerous members, an account of which is given in connection with the history of Almon. HICKORY COUNTY 43 The people who came here from Sweden in the early 70's who were Baptists erected a church building about 1877, about six miles East of Cross Timbers, and have built a new and better church since that time near the same place. These people about 1882, also built a church building about four •miles Southeast of Hermitage, and both organizations grew and prospered. Another good church building stands on a ridge about three-fourths of a mile Northeast from Galmey, in Dooley Bend, where the Baptist church has a strong following, led by Elder Landrine J. Tatum, an enterprising, able and devout old christian gentleman. The Christian church people also have a church building at this place, and have quite a goodly number of members in this neighborhood. The Baptists also have a good, roomy church building at Nemo and a strong congrega- tion. We have elsewhere mentioned numerous churches in the towns. The Presbyterians are not very numerous in the county, but up to the Civil War they had a church and numer- ous following in the neighborhood of what is now the town of Cross Timbers. The church building was known as the Halbert church, and stood at the edge of the woods, about a mile and a half North and a few degrees West of the town of Cross Timbers. Before the division of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1845, it appears that there were quite a number of Methodist people here, but the division of the church and later the Civil War very much retarded the progress of the church. The preachers and members had very decided opinions on the question of slavery, and the issues of the war. But both churches had congregations when the war came on, but the members ot the M. E. church, South were most numerous. Since the war neither of these churches have built up fast, but the M. E. church, South is now stronger than the M. E. church. The latter church having only one country church building in the country, that being Prospect church in the Southeast corner of the county. A church building for the M. E. church. South was erected in 1883, about two and a half miles South of Her- mitage. As we mention elsewhere both of these churches have church buildings in the towns. There are organizations of the Christian church at Quincy and Preston but they have no church buildings. The Menonites, a very devout people, have three church buildings on the Wheatland prairie, and hold regular services in their churches, and have quite a following among our German-American citizens. 44 HICKORY COUNTY Elders representing the "Latter Day Saints," came into tjie county about ten years ago and preached to the people and organized a church consisting of quite a number of members, among whom are some of our best citizens. These people ^bout five years ago erected a substantial house of worship about four miles North of Wheatland. A few of the old ministers of the county have been: Primitive Baptist:-James Richardson, Elijah Williams, Munford B. Robinson, John Hatfield, and William G. Lindsey. United Brethren:-Thompson Pitts, and Marquis Monroe. Presbyterian:-L. R. Morrison, and John McMillan. Missionary Baptist:- James T. Wheeler, George M. Alexand- er, William F. Spillman, William W. Palmer, and Landrine J. Tatum. Methodist:- Aaron Milstead, Curtis, Elijah F. Yeager, Thomas Glanville, Eli W. Morton, Anthony Bewley, and James Vaughn. Christian:-Young Mims Pitts, Smith, and Levi Bybee. HICKORY COUNTY 45 ATTORNEYS WHO HAVE BEEN RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY. Burr H. Emerson, who was afterwards Judge of the Circuit Court and died at Bohvar, Missouri, several years ago, James D. Perkins, who was killed by guerrillas at Warsaw Missouri, in 1864, Henry H. McKee, who moved to Joplin Missouri, and lived there a few years ago, Charles Kroff, who resides at Brownington, Missouri, and is practicing law, J. Edgar Kenton, who, when last heard of was in some of the Southern counties of Missouri below Springfield, Sidney Wilson, who left here in 1875 and died in Arkansas, William R. Hudson, who is Presi- dent of the Bank of Humansville, Humansville Missouri, Amos S. Smith, who came here from Maryland in 1868, died in Wheatland Missouri in July 1890 and is hurried in Hermitage Cemetery, Ernest P. Baldwin, who came here from Baltimore Maryland about 1869, was State Senator from this District, appointed First Auditor of the National Treasury by President Cleveland and died in 1897 at Atlantic City New, Jersey, as a result of an operation for appendicitis, F. Marion Wilson, who lives in Hermitage Missouri and is practicing law, Russell G. Pendleton, who lives at Aztec New Mexico and practices law, Thomas M. Nesmith, last heard of in Iowa, Alexander W. Brownlee, who died in Hermitage in 1889, L. F. Nafftziger, who is now in the banking business in Kansas, Charles E. Robson, who was a wanderer, William L. Pitts, retired banker, now living in Hermitage, Charles S. Essex, who is now Judge of the Circuit Court in Colorado, John H. Davidson, now at Eldorado Springs, Mo., engaged in the practice of law, Willis G. Robert- son, now at Muskogee Okla., engaged in the practice of law, George S. Selvidge, sometimes at Meade Kan., and at other times at his farm near Wheatland Mo., has accumulated con- siderable property and is taking care of it, Robert A. Vance, who lives at Cross Timbers Mo., Ralph W. Emerson, son of late Burr H. Emerson is somewhere in Kansas, J. Houston Childers, who resides at Muskogee Okla., and is engaged in the practice of law, Lewis F. Hart, somewhere in the West, S. Harrison White, resides at Pueblo Colo., and is engaged in the practice of law, David M. McKinney, died in the state of Arkansas, Austin J. Pickett, died near Weaubleau Mo., a fevy years ago, William D. Harryman, resides at Wheatland Mo., practices law, engaged in the Milling Business and is Post Master, William 46 HICKORY COUNTY N. Carpenter, resides in DeWitt Ark., and is engaged in the practice of law, William M. Holland, resides in Dade County Mo., and is Ptobate Judge of that county, James J. Ramsey, resides at Elbert Colo., and is engaged in the practice of law, John B. Triplett-we have lost, Don J. Irwin, resides at Buffalo Mo., and is engaged in the practice of law, John D. Irvine, is at present City Attorney of some Kansas town, John A. Wood- ford, is Principal of the school at Cabool Mo., John W. Robert- son and Hazen Green, are residents of Eufalla Okla., and are engaged in the practice of law, Luther J. Slavens, resides at Aztec New Mexico, Lillard E. Brown, resides near Cross Tim- bers Mo., on his farm, practices law and deals in cattle, Charles N. Simmons resides on a farm Northeast of Cross Timbers Mo., Lycurgus F. lindsey, retired from a four year term as Judge of the Probate Court of Dallas County Mo., and is now at his mother's home about four miles Northwest of Urbana Mo., William A. DoUarhide, resides in Hermitage and is engaged in the practice of law, Theodore Pruett, resides at Anadarko Okla., and is engaged in the practice of law, R. M. livesay, resides in Morgan County Mo., Abner Jones, now a resident of Union- ville Mo., Robert F. Tyree, residence unknown, John W. Mont- gomery, Prosecuting Attorney of the county. HICKORY COUNTY 47 FARMS MADE IN THE COUNTY SINCE 1867. As late as the year 1867, the lands out in the open prairies of the county contained, comparatively few settlements. The farms of William Bradshaw, James M. Wright, Charles Huff- man, George W. Woods, John C. Brown, Wm. S. Pickett, James M. Mitchell, Henry G. Bliss, George A. Bliss, J. N. Hickman, the Edward B. Huffman farm, the farm once belonging to WilUamH. Scott, the William M. Jenkins, farm and others on North Prairie, in the neighborhood of Cross Timbers, were all coated with prairie grass as late as 1867, and a large amount of this land five or six years later. All the land in the town of Cross Timbers, East of the Public Square was covered with prairie grass as late at 1871. The farms on Fifteen Mile Prairie, in the neighborhood of Preston, belonging to Thomas Hartnett, Jacob M. Green, Pleasant Wilson, Asa B. Wilson, the greater part of the farms of Nathan Edde, Wash F. Reser, J. C. Edde, (Shisler,) Samuel B. Selby, John J. Lindsey, Calvin H. Frank- lin, Nathan K. Pope, Lizzie Edde, Charles Bandel, George W. Wilson, Pleasant E. Robbins, Joseph Riddle, and the farms of William Whillock, Leopold and August Bandel, William J. Edde, Alletha Edde, Amos F. Hayes, Rufus B. Green, Alfred L. Green, the Ben F. Simmons old place, the James A. Robertson farm, the farms of John Morgan, Achilles Morgan, Hulett Shumate, Joe T. Edde, and perhaps others on that prairie were made since 1867, by fencing, and turning the prairie sod. Most of the soil on which Cross Timbers, Wheatland and Weaubleau, now stand had a coat of prairie grass as late as 1870. Only a few farms had been opened up out in the Twenty-five mile Prairie, West, Southwest and Northwest of Wheatland. The Thompson Blair farm, and Stout B. David- son, William Parks place, and the Kirkpatrick place. The splendid, beautiful, and broad farms out in that prairie have nearly all been made since 1870. Thomas and Joseph Whita- ker, Uriah Proctor, and a few others ventured out into Yv^eau- bleau Prairie, but settlers in the open prairie were not numer- ous. As we have suggested elsewhere, the early settlers pre- ferred timbered lands rather than prairie, because most of them came from timbered countries, but these old people probably, soon discovered another good reason why they did not want prairie lands. Farming prairie lands fifty years ago was not 48 HICKORY COUNTY a success. Rfty years ago the prairie lands of this county would scarcely produce crops of any kind like they produce now, to the extent of being worth the work of farming, and those who settled the timbered lands made no mistake at the time in their selection of lands to till. But from causes which we do not understand the prairie lands, not extensively ma- nured, have gradually improved in fertility until they now pro- duce perhaps more valuable crops than the same number of acres of timbered lands. We do not attempt an explanation, but farmers who have noticed prairie crops in this qounty for the last forty years know that it is a fact that prairie farms produce much better crops than they did forty years ago. HICKORY COUNTY 49 MINERALS. There is an abundance of lead and zinc, and perhaps other metals in this county. In the pioneer days men who wanted lead bullets to hunt with, did not need to buy pig or bar lead if they would take time and heat a furnace hot enough to melt lead ore. Lead has probably been found in a hundred places in the county. Tons of it have been taken from the ground in Sections 17, 18, and 19, in Township 38, Range 21, Northwest of the town of Cross Timbers, and within a radius of two miles of Hermitage it is found most anywhere, but most plenti- ful in the hills of Crane creek, South and Southeast of town. Up in and about Dooley Bend five miles Southwest of Hermit- age both lead and zinc are in sight in many places. In and about Pittsburg, ten miles Southeast, mining has been in pro- gress at intervals for ten years, and car loads of cleaned zinc have been hauled from there to the railroad about fifteen miles away and shipped to market. Car loads of zinc have been dug, cleaned, hauled and shipped from the mines in Section 18, Township 36, Range 22, Northeast of Elkton, about two miles, and in Section 13, Township 36, Range 23, North of Elkton a good body of lead has been discovered. Down in the neigh- borhood of Quincy most anywhere in the Northwest part of the county lead and zinc are found, and there are strong evidences of oil being easily accessible, but the value of the minerals of the county will never be fully known and realized until railroad facilities are such that it will not take two car loads of mineral to dig, clean and ship two loads. Men now fifty years of age will, perhaps, never know the immense amount of wealth that lies hidden under the surface of the hills and valleys of the county. Treat this as a dream, as you may, but the mineral is here and will be brought to the surface, whenever there are railroads near enough to it to haul it away. No section of the country with mineral sticking out at every pore, ever failed to produce great wealth when it was developed. The mining regions of Jasper county contained no more evidences of their hidden millions of underground wealth fifty years ago than do the hills and valleys of our county. 50 HICKORY COUNTY HICKORY COUNTY TOWNS. ALMON.' This village is not laid out and platted as a town. It is in the North East quarter of Section 14 Township 37 Range 20, on Little Niangua creek. The land on which it is situ- ated was entered August 9, 1853. The first men who sold goods there were George C. Dunn and George W. Mabary, about 1870. Afterwards Daniel J. Parks, Alexander Gregory, Dock Burris, Sherman Vaughn, Samuel P. Gregory, George Cook, Allen Hall, George W. McDowell & Co., and G. W. Pennell. The present merchants are Henry R. McCain & Sons, James K. Parks, and Martha Pennell. A water mill was built about 1854, by either William or Amos Paxton. It passed into the hands of Asa Johnson and was repaired or rebuilt about 1856. Has been operated by Daniel J. Parks, Ceborn Bennett, and it George H. Johnson (( "H" tt John Heard i« "M" it Burdette L. Daniel n "K" nth. Leroy MuUins n "K" 12th. Joseph T. Wilson {< "K" It R. F. Wilson i( "H" it D. L. Hastain t( "H" 14th, H. C. Mashburn « «iT»» ti B. F. Mashburn (t "H" it John H. Mashburn t( "H" it A. J. Mashburn t4 "H" (I * Wash F. Reser t« »»T»> it James H. Hart U "H" it John W. Reser i« ttjtf it Clement S. Ashley (i ttjt* It it tt tt tt ft tt Vols. Cav. tt tt tt it tt 82 HICKORY COUNTY David C. Moore Co. ttpM 14th, Mo. Vols. Cav. Joseph Riddle tt "H" «i it it it Samuel Hunt «( "D" 15th, it ti i( M. H. Cooper t( "D" it ti it ti Barney Pitts (< "D" it it it it Timothy Martin it "D" (t If it it Thomas J. Tucker i( "D" it it it it William Alexander t( tlTM it it tt it S. A. L. Reser it itTM it ft it it Patrick Chancellor ti "C" 21st, Inf,ty. Mo. Vols William J. Mabary « "K" 9th, Mo. S. M. George W. Mabary . t( "K" it it tt it John N. Mabary (( "K" ti t( ti t( WilUam R. Lopp t( itpM 7th, it it i< George S. Selvidge (t tip, (t it it tt Robert H. Wallace t. ttpn it ti it t( WiUiam B. Coon i( "L" 4th, if it t. Jacob H. Sanders {« "B" it it it it James M. Robinson (( "B" it it it it William W. Sanders u "B" it it it it C. C. Tharp (( "M" ti it it it Thomas H. Glenn l( tlT»» 14th, it Cav. Vols Melvin Yeager (t iiT>» 8th. it it it John D. Pitts i( "M" it tt it tt Burrel Pitts I. "M" it it tt it David Parsons t< "M" it it ti ti Chas. Rountree it "M" it (i it it E. F. Yeager, Jr. (1 tiTJJ it it it it James G. Johnson t< "G" 1st, it S. M. F. M. Kimball ti tig,, it ti Lt. Art. Marquis L. Kelley it itg„ it it it it Wright Collins ti tig,. it it it tt James W. Dickerson it 6th, it .S. M. Wallace W. Drennon tt it it it it Robert F. Doak tt it it it t« James C. Stark tt t. " . it it Vilgil S. Williams it it it it ti John C. Bernard tt it it tt it Joseph V. Bernard tt "A" 45th, it Inf'ty. Mansfield H. Bernard 9th, it S. M. Thomas F. Bernard tt it it t C. Z. Harryman It ..p„ 8th. it ti it Cav. Cav. HICKORY COUNTY S. W. Nowell Co. 0. E. F. Lindsey James A. Mullens James Lindsey Leroy MuUins George M. Alexander John Keller William Swink George W. Dotson Jefferson King Wilson Y. Ramsey James H Ramsey Nathan R. Tucker Benjamin Pitts Anderson Halbert Sterling Halbert R. B. Green Drury H. Green Ezra F. Darby William H. Darby George W. Darby James H. Nunn Hugh B. Paxton Samuel B. Selby William F. Campbell WiUiam Bradshaw John W. Jelvidge J. M. Breshears Edmund Guier Achilles Morgan Thomas S. Morgan A. B. Reser Daniel Bartshe James Lindsey "P" up,, "P" "P" "P" "A" "E" "E" "C" "A" "D" 8th, Mo. S. M. 83 Cav. 7th, 24th, 45th, 46th, 48th, 48th, 68th, <( — 8th, (t — 18th, (i (( — 7th, — 5th, — 9th, u — 5th, it "C" Osage itTV,, •» 'T\" " UTX,, It t« l( «« ti (I t( (( it <« ii (t (i « Infty. Vols. u t( il i( (( U. S. Col'd Infty tt t( t4 t( Iowa Cav. It ti «t it (( it Prov. E. M. M. tt tt it tt ti tt Mo. Home Guards it It tt it ti ti it ttj-k,, tt t. Perhaps not more than thirty men were killed in the county during the war, but those farmers who were at home for the purpose of farming were annoyed until they made a poor job of it. In August 1861. after the battle of Wilson Creek the men and big boys went North to the Missouri Pacific railroad, and as far East as Jefferson City, and many of them enlisted in the Army for three years or during the war. Late in 1861, General John C. Fremont's Federal Army passed through the 84 HICKORY COUNTY county on the way to Springfield by the East and West side prairie roads and a great many men enlisted and went with the army. That was the only army that ever was in the coun- ty. The worst danger and annoyance during the balance of the war was roving bands of confederate guerillas passing through the county going somewhere else, and all the time watching to see some man to shoot at, or watching to see that they did not get shot themselves. In the winter, likely in 1864, 300 to 500 of them came in on the prairie North of Wheatland and crossed Pomme de Terre river about three miles North of Hermitage. Ethan Paxton, the gallant Second Lieutenant, of Company 'T" 8th Regiment Missouri State Militia, with Captain Jacob Cossairt, gathered a few of their men who were out on scouting duty, some soldiers who were at home on furlough and some of the Enrolled Militia, in all not more than a hun- dred men and attacted and dispersed them, killing two or three and no doubt wounding some. The guerallas camped that night at James Lindsey's farm about four miles Southeast of Preston on the Warsaw and Buffalo road. Another gang of guerillas came through the North part of the county in the winter of 1864 and 1865 or in the early spring of 1865, and killed an old man by the name of Ashley, shot other men, among whom was William England, who now resides about seven miles Northeast of Cross Timbers. This gang also cap- tured William Kidwell, who had been a Second Lieutenant in Company "F" 8th Regiment Missouri State MiUtia, took him along with them, took his clothes and shoes and he escaped in the night almost without clothing and barefooted and made his way back home. He lived at the edge of the timber on the East side of Section 13, Township 38, Range 21. Numerous other gangs of these guerallas did depredations in the county. HICKORY COUNTY 85 OLD SCRAPS AND FILES OF THE COURTS. Notice to Wiluam M. Dorman. State of Missouri, ) County of Hickory,) In the County Court May Term 1847. Ordered by the court that William M. Dorman Esqr. be appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the number of chil- dren in Green Township on the last day of June 1847 over the age of six years and under the age of twenty and the names of parents or other persons with who such children respective- ly reside and the number of children residing with each and make a report thereof to the clerk of this court on or before the first day of September next which report he shall make under oath according to an Act of the Legislature of the State of Missouri approved February 11, 1847. A true copy Test. A. H. Foster, Clerk of the Hickory County Court. Delivered on the 29th, day of May 1847. J. S. WiLUAMS, Shff. ^ Similar orders were made as to the enumeration in each of the five Townships then laid off. State of Missouri ) County of Hickory) In the County Court May Term 1848. Ordered by the court that Robert Davis, Erasmus Rupard, and Dillard Pitts be appointed Judges to hold the election in Green Township on the first Monday in August 1848. A true copy Test. A. H. Foster, Clk. of the Hickory County Court. Executed by leaving a true copy and left the Poll Books with Dillard Pitts. Fees $3.00 J. S. Wiluams, Shff. Warsaw, Dec. 2d 1851. Mr. Alfred Foster, Dear Sir, t was appointed at the last term of the Benton Cir Court Circuit Attorney Protem to prosecute Wilson Pinkston for Larceny B. H. Emerson still continuing to defend him as he had been employed before he was appointed Cir Atty-I want you to send me a full record of the Indictment of Moses Pink- ston for perjury in your county in which he was convicted. Make out a regular record of the proceedings beginning with 86 HICKORY COUNTY the term of the court empanelling the Grand Jury the finding of the indictment and the whole proceedings- & send it certi- fied under the seal of the court to Thomas I. Bushey Clerk of the Benton Cir Court. I want it by the next term of our court. Your friend Resp DeWht C. Ballou To the honorable County Court of Hickory County, We the undersigned petitioners pray that your honorable body will grant us a road leading in a direction to Oceola the nearest and best route through that section of the county this July 25 1847. John Heard, W. C. Duval Jas Rankin Anthony Epperson Jas V. Wright Wm. Mc. Wright J. C. Montgomery Andrew Baker Wm Evans James C. Boyd Hugh Boyd John W. Quigg Daniel Bartshe Casey Denton Samuel C, Arterbery C. S. Brent Jesse Heard A. D. Conway D Blue Hiram Bayless Chas South- ard H. C. Butler Internal Improvement Fund of Hickory Cty to Thomas Davis Dr 1849 To charge for receiving & disbursing &c Internal August Impmt Funds up to this date amounting to $1941.00 at 2 pr cent $38,82 Charges for going to Jefferson City after Int Improvement fund 1859 for traveling 100 miles at 10c per mile $10,00 Charges for risk in bringing money Ipr cent $ 6,26 $55,08 Casey Denton received the first dramshop license Novem- ber 3, 1846. Williamson E. Dorman was granted dramshop license No- vember 4, 1846, and paid the license taxes as follows: To State of Missouri $15.03 1-4 To Hickory County $10.06 1-2 Total $25.09 3-4 State ot Missouri ) To the honorable County Court of County of Hickory) Hickory County Mo. We the undersigned Reviewers appointed by your honor- able body to view and mark out a road Leading in a direction from Hermitage Hickory County to Warsaw in Benton county HICKORY COUNTY 87 to intersect the State Road near Jacob Bartshes we met and viewed out the Oceola Road about half a mile and then turned to the right hand and crossed the prince Branch and kept up it about a mile and then run with the old path about a mile levaing Dents about a mile to the right and intersecting the State Road between Daniel & Jacob Bartshes we are willing to swear that we have done our duty to the best of our knowledge and that it is a road of utility George W. Blackwell J. W. QUIGG Sworn to and subscribed this 8th Novr 1847, A. H. Foster Clerk of Hickory County Court The first appointment of a Guardian and Curator in the county was the appointment of Andrew Yoast as Guardian and Curator for Peter L. Yoast, John W. Yoast, Mary R. Yoast and Andrew J. Yoast, and the date is August 5, 1845. May 3, 1848, the County Court borrowed $200. from the Internal Improvement Fund to use in building a Court House. State of Missouri ) County of Hickory )^^ I John Mabary Shff of Hickory County do hereby appoint Isham B. Hastain my Deputy for and during this term of court. March 22nd. 1852. J. Mabary Shff I approve the above appointment Mar 22, 1852- W P Johnson Cir Judge To the Honorable County Court of Hickory County. We your humble petitioners would represent to Your Hon- orable body that a great necessity exists for a road leading from the town of Hermitage in a direction to Duroc on Osage- and to extend to the State road in the lower end of North Prairie about one mile south of the Benton & Hickory County line and Your petitioners would pray Your Honor to grant a jury of men to select and mark out said road- J. S. Williams, James D. Williams, A. B. McFarland, James D. Donnell, Joel B. Halbert, Calvin Donnell, John Black, Samuel Taylor, Wm. Walker, Wm. P. Foster, Sterling B. Miles, Thomas Miles, James Peril, Jno. D. Richey, James E. Foster, W. P. Rash, Nimrod Wise, Gordon W. Rogers, Wm. P. Donnell, William Bird, Asa Johnson, A. Milstet, R. C. Crockett, J. W. Newberry. Dated July — 1847. 88 HICKORY COUNTY State of Missouri ) County of Hickory) I do appoint Archy Bruce George Eply and Samuel Tobee as Commissioners to view and lay out so much of the road leading from Hermitage to Erie as will pass around the bottom above the first crossing of kishko traveling West and report the difference in the distance of the new and old road and whether it will discommode the traveling community to the next term of the County Court of sd county to be held on the 18th day of June next given under my hand this 28th May 1852. L. B. Hawkins Member of the County Court Hickory Co. Mrs, Gladis Nowell deed To Edward T. Major Dr. 1845 To legal services in prosecuting Isham Hobbs on charge of murdering A. Nowell $25.00 State of Missouri ) County of Hickory) In the County Court Nov Term 1847 The within account of twenty five dollars was proved to the satisfaction of the court and allowed and placed to class 5 A H. Foster Clerk 1847 Dec 4th Rec'd Payment in full of the within E. T. Major By J. A. Blakely Paid int 12 1-2 cents State of Missouri ) County of Hickory) I John Mabary Sheriff of Hickory County do hereby appoint Robert H. McCracken my Deputy for and during the present term of the Hickory County Circuit Court September 23rd 1850. J. Mabary Shff I Foster P. Wright Judge of the Circuit Court within & for said Hickory County hereby approve the above appointment Sept 23. 1850. F. P. Wright Cir Judge Note from Teacher's Register of School taught in Dist. 1 Township 37 Range 20. A. C. Glanville Teacher Teacher's wages $23.50 per month. Books used; Webster's Elementary Spelling Book, McGuffey's First, Second, Third, and Fourth Readers, Smiley 's Arithmetic, and Smith's Grammar. Students, with their ages: J. W. Williams, 19, William HICKORY COUNTY 89 Gates, 9, A. J. Mabary, 8, Carrie Mabary 17, M. J. Mabary, 10, F. C. Mabary, 7, Fanny Mabary, 19, John N. Mabary, 15, F. M. Mabary, 12, George W. Mabary, 14, Sarah A. Mabary, 17, George H. Johnson, 14,William J. Johnson, 13, A. F. Johnson, 10, L. A. Epley, 10, E. A. C. WilUams, 10, S. W. Johnson, 6, M. J. Green, 15, C. E. Hawkins, 10, M. F. A. Hawkins, — , J. P. Hawkins, — , C. A. Green, 12, A. T. Johnson, 7, M. C. Smith, 9, N. J. Smith, 6, J. G. Hawkins, 16, A. F. Hayes, 10, J. L. Hayes, 14, M. A. Hayes, 11, C. C. Green, 6, N. E. Green, 10, D. A. Green, 9, J. T. Williams, — , T. J. Hayes, — , Sophronia Gates, — , Laura Williams, — , M. J. Williams, — , M. A. Hawkins, 11, Gillum Harris, 12, H. P. Green, 13, H. E. Green, 11, George W. Rains, 19, Priscilla Harris, 7, Sarah E. Howard, 7, W. J. Mabary, 23, Jorden Mabary, 23, Ransom, Harris, 18, Catherine Gates, 16, J. J. Green, 24, Nathan Smith, 4. Constable's Bond. Know all men by these presents that we John A. Creed, Alvin Poe, and William Rountree are held and firmly bound and by these presents bind ourselves unto the State of Missouri in the sum of One thousand dollars to be paid to the State of Missouri to which payment well and truely to be made we bind ourselves our heirs Administrators and Executors firmly by these sealed with our seals and dated this 8th, day of Aug- ust 1845. The conditiong of the above obhgations are such that whereas John A. Creed has this day been appointed a constable in Tyler Township Hickory County. Now if the said John A. Creed should execute all process to him directed pay ever all moneys coming into his hands as constable aforesaid Township and faithfully demean himself in office then the above bond to be void otherwise to remain in full force and effect. John A. Creed Seal Alvin Poe Seal William Rountree Seal To the Honorable County Court of Hickory County, We your petitioners (Citizens of Stark and Center Town- ships) would respectfully pray your honorable body to make the following described change in the boundry lines of said townships towit: Beginning at the S. W. corner of Section 34 Township 37 Range 21 and running thence North with that line to the Benton County line so as to include Sections 34, 27, 90 HICKORY COUNTY 22, 15, 10, -3, of 37 21 and 34, 27, 22, 15, 10, 38 21 in Stark Township. Your petitioners believing this will not discomode either Township Benj. S. Staton, T. C. Nevil, D. S. Drenan, Edward Farris, M. A. Trentham, Wm. H. Anderson, Jarrel Carver, James Patterson, Nathan Simpson, C. H. Hudson, John Green, R. D. Beezley, Daniel E. Davis, Elisha Harlow, Daniel Epley, S. C. Howard, R. I. Robertson, A. E. Ruby, William R. Rains, Wm. D. Foster, James B. Owen, A. J. Owen, J F. Powers, William DoUarhide, Joel Harlow, A. W. Frye, L. B. Hawkins, William T. Hawkins, M. A. Hawkins, E. Lucas, Joseph Edde, John Miller, John S. Gentry, James Stephens, Isaac Madison. Filed June 25, 1860 A. F. Doak Clerk. Apportionment of School money to Townships in Hickory County for the year 1852. Stark Township, 168 children $ 50.40 Center Township, 208 children 62.40 Montgomery Township, 165 children 49.50 Tyler Township, 120 children 36.00 Green Township 153 children 45.90 Total 814 children $244.20 Ephraim B. Ew'ing, Supt of Common Schools. State of Missouri ) In the County Court Adjourned Term County of Hickory) July 6, 1846. Ordered by the Court that the elections hereafter held in Center Township Hickory County shall be held at the house of John McEwen in said Township. A. H. Foster A True Copy Test Clerk of the Hickory County Court. State of Missouri ) In the County Court Adjourned Term County of Hickory) July 6, 1846. Ordered by the court that Jesse Driskill, George W. Hayes and John Stark be appointed Judges to hold the election to be held at the precinct in Stark Township Hickory County to be held on the first Monday in August next. A. H. Foster A true copy Test Clerk of the Hickory County Court. To the honorable County Court of Hickory County Mo, We the undersigned a majority of the Qualified voters in School Township No thirty six being desirous that said town- ship should be organized for school purposes do petition your HICKORY COUNTY 91 honorable body to make an order to that effect, Dated this 23 day 1852. C. F. Shook, Amos Lindsey, EUjah Darby, B. F. Fugate, John F. Morrison, James Lindsey, W. M. Haver- stick, Aaron Darby, Jonas Brown, James Bradley, James Eng- land, Mark Andrews, James H. Moore, James H. Vaughn, A. B. Reser, S. A. L. Reser, Thomas Glanville, A. Darby, E. F. Yeager, Robert Davis, Lias Bowers, Henderson Doilarhide, J. A. Robertson, Abraham Lindsey. A. H. Foster Clerk. Filed Nov. 1, 1852. Received of Alex F. Gaston five hundred dollars the pur- chase money of negro girl Fanny aged about 19 years, which said negro girl I warrant unto the said A. F. Gaston his execu- tors and assigns forever. Witness my hand and seal this first day of October 1841- Thomas Young John Bailey Seal I assign said negro girl Fanny to Ansel Cook, for value received. A. F. Gaston Seal State of Missouri ) County of Hickory) In the County Court May Term 1848. Ordered by the court that P. H. Andrews Josiah Dent and WilUam R. Donnell be appointed Judges to hold the election in Center Township on the first Monday in August 1848 A copy Test A. H. Foster Clerk ot the Hickory County Court. Notes from Teacher's Register of school taught in Dist No. 4 Townshisp No 4 in Hickory county in 1854 Simeon Garrett, Teacher. Teacher's wages $18.00 per month. List of Books used: Webster's Elementary SpelUng Book, McGuffey's First, Second and Third Readers, Pike's Arithmetic. Students with their ages: William Starkey, 19, Elisha Starkey, 13, Ehsabeth Starkey, 17, Anna Starkey, 14, Winney I. Starkey, Bennett Starkey, 13, Margaret Birdsong, 13, John Birdsong, 9, Mary Birdsong, 7, Joseph Rush, 16, John Rush, 7, Shadrack M. Garrett, 12, EUsha Garrett, 8. Nancy E. Garrett, 10, Margaret M. Garrett, 6, Chasteen Floid, 13, Jarvis Green, 8, Jerome Green, 6, Sally Starkey, 15, Lucinda Rush, 6, Susan Rush, 7, John Starky, 14, Emeline Rush, 18, Lafayette Huff- man, 5, George W. Kelley, 14, William Kelley, 12, Robert Elliott, 12, Nathan Elliott, 10, Nancy Elliott, 14. Whole enrollment 30, average attendance 22. 92 HICKORY COUNTY State of Missouri ) County of Hickory) In the County Court May Term 1848. Ordered that John P. Rogers Tavner N. Woods and Robert B. Runyan be appointed Judges to hold the election in Tyler Township on the first Monday in August next 1848 A copy Test A. H. Foster Clerk of the Hickory County Court. State of Missouri ) County of Hickory) In the County Court May Term 1848 Ordered by the court that Joel B. Halbert be appointed Overseer on a road leeding from Hermitage to Durock from the forks of the road to the State road leading from Versailles to Bolivar in the North Prairie he is required to cause all dead and dry timber standing within forty feet of and leaning toward said road to be cut down and that he have hands allotted him by the allotting Justice of Center Tdwship A true copy Test A. H. Foster Clerk State of Missouri ) In the County Court November Term County of Hickory) 1846. Ordered by the Court that Nathaniel McCracken be and he is hereby appointed Overseer on Road district No. five on the State road leading from Warsaw to Bolivar from the coun- ty Une to the house of Alexander Blue and that he have the hands allotted to the former Overseer. And he is required to cause all dead and dry timber standing within forty feet of said road and leaning toward said road to be cut down A true copy Test A. H. Foster Clerk of the Hickory County Court. State of Missouri ) In the County Court February Term County of Hickory) 1846. Ordered by the court that Jacob Reser James Adams and James Rankin be and they are hereby appointed commission- ers to view and mark out a rout for a county road to commence at the ford of Turkey creek South of Nathan Tuckers and run- ning thence so far as to meet a road leading from Buffalo to Warsaw they are required to lay out said rout on the best" ground that can by obtained not running through any mans enclosures without his consent and they are required to make and certify a copy of their proceedings to the ensuing regular session of the court specifying through whose land said road HICKORY COUNTY 93 will pass and whether the owner and tenant of said land gave his or their consent to the location of said road. A true copy of the order A. H. Foster Clerk of the Hickory County Court. State of Missouri ) County of Hickory) May 5, 1860 We the undersigned commissioners appointed by the County Court of Hickory county March journed term to view and mark out the proposed change of the road leading from Hermitage to the bridge now building across Pomdeteree com- mencing at the North East corner of the public square running East with the line between W. E. Dorman and William Wood- rum to the corner of their land and thence South with A. F. Doak William Woodrum line to near where it crosses the swage on said line and thence in a South East direction to where it intersects the old review in the corner of A. F. Doak field we beheve it to be on better ground than the old review and about forty yards nearer Sworned to and subscribed J. S. WiLUAMS Thomas Pentecost Commissioners This roads runs the same now as it did from the North East corner of the Public Square to the North East corner of Fugate & Liggett addition to the town of Hermitage from there it run about a rod South of where it now runs to the North East corner of the Fair Grounds from there it run South on the line between the Fair Grounds and Blair's field and crossed the little draw running down from the Cemetery thence it run in a South East direction to near the South East corner of Blair's field where it reached the Old Stones, now known as the "Bridge Pier." State of Missouri ) County of Hickory) In the County Court May Term 1848. Ordered by the Court that Elisha Cook Joseph C. Mont- gomary and Harvey Estes be appointed Judges to hold the election in Montgomery Township on the First Monday in Aug- ust 1848 A. H. Foster A copy Test Clerk of the Hickory County Court To the Honorable County Court of Hickory County Missouri, Pursuant to an order of your honorable body appointing me to superintend the letting and building of a bridge across 94 HICKORY COUNTY Stark's Creek and commanding me to report at each term of the court would beg to Report: That I posted Notices in three different places in Stark's Township to the effect that I would on the 2nd day of January 1860 between the hours of 12 M. and 2 P. M. proceed to let out the building of the said bridge And on the day specified in said Notices I did let out the con- tract for the building of said bridge in like manner as set forth in the notices J. S. Reser being the lowest bidder I then and there closed the contract with him (the said Reser agreeing to build the bridge as per specifications for the sum of Fifty two Dollars and 50-100 ($52,50) by taking his bond for the sum of One hundred and Eight Dollars payable to the County of Hick- ory with Thomas Drennon as security and conditioned he will build the bridge according to the specifications made by the court and that he will have the same in good traveling order on or before the first day of April 1860 And I would further remark to the court that I apprehend no danger of his failure to comply with his contract as he is progressing finely with his work. Respectfully U.. ' D. E. Davis Superintendent Will of Isaac Cook. In the namie of God; Amen, I Isaac Cook of the County of Yiancy and State of North Carolina being in a low state of health but of perfect mind & memory blessed be God, Do make ordain and establish this to be my last Will & Testa- ment in manner & form following viz 1st I give my body to the Earth to be decently hurried at the discretion of my Executor & my Soul to Almighty God from whom I received it 2nd I give and bequeath to my son Ansel a dark roan horse known to be mine should I die before said horse, if not Ansel to have none of my estate 3th I give & bequeath the balance of my estate Real & Personal to my two sons Alexander & EUsha to be equally divided between them at my death consisting of one tract of land containing Two Hundred & Eight acres together with cattle & sheep known in the Family to be mine. I do further appoint my son Ansel Executor of this my Last Will & Testament. Revoking all former Wills Testaments or Codicils, hereto- HICKORY COUNTY 95 fore made by me In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand &, affixed my seal, in the year of our Lord 1834 fit on the 19th day of July. . his Signed Sealed Published & Isaac x Cook Seal Declared in the presence of mark G. McDaude John Woody Treasurers orncE Mo Feb'ry 28th 1850 A. H. Foster Esqr. Ag't of Hickory Ct'y Dear Sir-Agreeably to your request I send you enclosed a check on the Bank of Mo. for One hundred and sixty one 50-100 dollars the amount of Road & Canal money due your county by last apportionment. Hoping you may receive it in due time, I am, dear sir. Yours most respectfully Peter G. Glover, Tr. Mo. Warsaw Apl. 10, 1852 A. H. Foster Esq Dear Sir I understand our Infernal Supreme Court affirmed the Judgment Wright rendered against me in favor of Holland. Please let me know at your earliest convenience whether the opinion has been certified down and whether any proceedings were had in the case at your last Court, and if so whether Ex'n has been issued or ordered and to what County & also wheth- er any Ex'n was issued last fall against White to Hickory County 8c oblige Your friend FeUX HuiSfTON State of Missouri ) County of Hickory) November 28, 1850 To the honorable, the County Court of Hickory, We your petitioners citizens of Hickory County would represent to your Honorable body that we labor under great inconveniences for want of a road to run from Hermitage to Erie in the direction to Hightower's mill in Camden County- We would therefore pray your honorable body, that you grant us a jury of review, to view and mark out a road leading in the direction above specified the beginning point to be, either at John Mabary's or William Eddy's, and there to leave the Erie 96 HICKORY COUNTY road at which place soever, the commissioners may deem most practicable or expedient, thence running in the nearest and best direction to the Camden County line near George Hayes there to meet or intersect a road leading to Erie Camden Coun- ty by or near said Hightower's mill. This way being opened . will be not only of great benefit & utility to the public in gen- eral, but especially so to the citizens near the road in passing from one County site to the other, also facillitate the passage and remove many difficulties, that many of the citizens of Hickory County have to encounter in traveling to said mill, where they are necessarily compelled to go at some season of almost every year and your petitioners will ever pray. Sam- uel Tobey, George Epley, E. M. Collins, J. B. Edwards, Ishmael Carver, M. G. Edwards, John Little, John Miller, George W. Hodges, Robert D. Beezley, Wm. Edde, Nathan Pippin, A. P. Sims, Elija Edde, Will Pippin, William C. Pippin, Audley Den- nis, Jonathan Dennis, Joseph Edde, Jacob A. Romans, Asa Johnson. State of Missouri ) In the County Court Adjourned Term County of Hickory) August 1845 Ordered that Benjamin Miller be and he is hereby appoint- ed Allotting Justice in and for Montgomery Township and he is required to allot hands to the Overseers on Road Districts numbers seven and eight. A. H. Foster A true Copy Test Clerk of said County Court Similar orders of appointment of Alloting Justices were made for each of the five Townships then laid off. The first Will filed for record in Hickory County after its organization was the Will of Joseph Dennis which was dated September 19, 1843, and was witnessed by Jeptha Culbertson and John P. McCormick, and was filed for record January 26, 1846. The first Letters of Administration were issued to Joseph W. Jamison as administrator of the estate of Ephraim Jamison deceased dated April 15, 1846. HICKORY COUNTY 97 Receipts for the Years 1845, 1846, 1847. Amount of Road and Canal Fund $ 189.78 Amount of County Revenue (1845) 383.65 1-4 Amount of fine vs Jesse Brown 5.00 Amount of fine vs William C. Brown 5.00 Amount of fine vs Wm. Hobbs 1.00 Amount of Road and Canal Fund 5.00 Amount of By Collector on Revenue 201.62 1-2 Amount of By Collector on Revenue 248.48 Amount of fine against John Young 1.00 Amount of Internal Improvement Fund 181.95 Amount of Internal Improvement Fund 150.50 Amount of License 68.80 Amount of County Seat Fund 84.00 Total $1525.78 3-4 * Expenditures for the Years 1845, 1846, 1847. Paid by order of Court out of Road and Canal Fund to buy books $ 75.00 Amount of County Warrants on Settlement 341.82 Amount of Grand Jury Scrip (1846) 16.50 Amount of Orders on Clerk Circuit Court 3.00 Amount of Orders on Clerk Circuit Court 3.80 Amount of County Warrants on Settlement 460.18 Amount of County Seat Fund 82.00 Amount of Grand Jury Scrip (1846) 22.50 Total $1004.80 Balance on hand $ 520.98 3-4 In reading the foregoing "Old Scraps and Files" our read- ers have, no doubt, discovered many errors in the use of capi- tal letters, spelUng, punctuation etc. We copied these just as we found them on purpose, believing our readers would be interested in noting errors, and odities as they read. Author. 98 HICKORY COUNTY MARRIAGE RECORDS. Certificates of Marriages recorded and Records burned, found among old papers in the Probate Judge's Office. John Heard and Sarrah Miller, married June 30, 1857, by E. W. Morton. Norvel M. Dickerson and Mary Donnell, married August 26, 1858 by L. R. Morrison M. G. Elijah Darby and Elizabeth R. Wood, married January 27, 1859 by E. F. Yeager M. G. Jackson James and Mrs. Sally An Largent, married Jan- uary 2, 1859 by Thompson Blair J. P. Alonzo Potter and Martha S. Deven, married December 12, 1858 by David Swicegood J. P. Paschal Brooks and Rebecca Luthy, married September 16, 1858 by Joel Harlow J. P. William Wells and Jemima Moore, married December 4, 1859 by H. M. Dixon J. P. Solomon Howard and Lusa Ann Vandiver, married April 3, 1855 by E. M. CalUs J. P. Jonathan Chaney and EHzabeth Starkey, married Septem- ber 4, 1855 by William Henderson Minister. Rev. John McMillan and Mrs. Mary Barton, married Sep- tember 6, 1859 by L. R. Morrison M. G. Monroe Durnell and Nancy Hartley, married January 13, 1859 by David Swicegood J. P. William Drillen and Sarah Sanders, married December 22, 1859 by M. B. Robinson M. G. S. W. Holland and Clarissa Dent, married August 18, 1856 by Milton Adkison M. G. Benjamin M. Carr and Jane Dollarhide, married August 7, 1856 by Edward Lucas J. P. William Wattenbarger and Martha Wattenbarger, married June 22, 1856 by C. F. Shook J. P. Isaac L. Largent and Durnell, married November 9, 1856 by Perry G. Washburn J. P. Allen Adams and Mary Pruet, married November — 1855 by Albert Crouch J. P. HICKORY COUNTY 99 George W. Weever and Euphemia Nowell, married April 10, 1856 by Albert Crouch J. P. John G. Brown and Sophia Bradshaw, maried August — 1856 by James T. Wheeler M. G. Peter M. Cowen and Nancy M. Bradshaw, married August 28, 1856 by James R. Wilson J. P. William Russell and Hephzibah , married June 1, 1856 by William Jenkins. Henry W. Holland and H. Parker, married June 16, 1856 by J. T. Wheeler J. P. William C. Pitts and Martha E. Richards, married Febru- ary 28, 1856 by Thompson Pitts An Ordained Minister in the United Brethren Church. David D. and Matilda Pruett, married August 9, 1855 by James T. Wheeler M. G. Malachi Largent and Mary Ann Poe, married December 30, 1855 by Richard Deshazo M. G. Jacob Bartshe and Rachel Arterbery, married October 19, 1856 by William Paxton Judge of the Probate Court. Brooks Clark and Nancy Moore, married 1855 by C. F. Shook J. P. Benjamin F. Fugate and Celia Ann Dye, married October 12, 1856 by E. F. Yeager M. G. WilUam Starkey and Lucinda Adams, married March 13, 1859 by Shadrack Mustain M. G. William R. Anderson and Mary Ann Pippin, married May 4, 1859 by W. D. Stewart Minister. Vernon Heard and Clarra , married March 9, 1859 by William G. Lindsey M. G. Lewis Robisson and Elisia Jane Alexander, married May 16, 1859 by William G. Lindsey M. G. John G. Brown and Eliza P. Creed, maried April 24, by James S. Patterson J. P. William R. Childers and Amanda M. Benson, married Oc- tober 24, 1858 by Edmund Guier J. P. Samuel Tobey and Martha Harlow, married April 10, 1859 by Levi Bibey M. G. Adam C. Glanville and Minerva , married Jan- 100 HICKORY COUNTY uary 14, 1859. James Gilbert and Martha Jane Drake, married March 25, 1858. by Albert Crouch J. P. Jacob H. Bruner and Sarah L. Yeager, married October 21, 1858 by Thomas Glanville M. G. M. E. Church S. John G. Jordan and Martha C. Doak, married December 12, 1858 by Thomas Glanville M. G. John B. Collins and Armenia Capps, married April 24, 1859. by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. Jonathan Scarbrough and Catherine Clardy, married Oc- tober 6. 1853 by C. S. Brent J. P. Josiah R. Kannaday and Sofronia S. Pitts, married August 22, 1859 by E. F. Yeager M. G. David B. Pitts and Martha A. Creed, married March 23, 1859 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. Simeon Roberson and Missouri Barbour, married Decem- ber 15, 1859 by Joel Wheeler J. P. Samuel V. Blackweil and Elizabeth Moore, married De- cember 25, 1859 by H. M. Dixon J. P. Granville S. Creed and S. E. Pitts, married September 22, 1859 by Jas. T. Wheeler J. P. Luke H. Standefer and Nancy E. Wheeler, married No- vember 10, 1859 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. William J. W. Lunderman and Winsey E. Beavers, mar- ried November 27, 1859 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. Jesse C. King and Narcissa G. Conger, married December 11, 1859 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. Henry WoUver and Mary Short, married July 7, 1859 by R. F. Braden J. P. Andrew Havner and Mrs. Mary Bird, married July 14, 1859 by R. F. Braden J. P. George W. Rains and Saria Ann Mabary, married April 24, 1859 by Joel Harlow J. P. Alford H. Bedsley and Lettey Hickey, married April 24, 1859 by Joel Harlow J. P. Wm. Pippin and Margarete Biby, married April 28, 1859 by Joel Harlow J. P. Avery Tobey and Saria Ann Tobey, married May 19, 1859 HICKORY COUNTY 101 by Joel Harlow J. P. Jesse M. Cooper and Martha S. Creed, married April 10, 1859 by James S. Patterson J. P. Andrew Jackson Darby and M. Elizabeth Miller, married August 1, 1853 by Anthony Bewley M. G. Mitchell Ross and Rebecca Dickerson, married August 25, 1853 by Thomas Glanville M. G. G. W. Colly and Mary Jane Bates, married August 16, 1853 by Daniel Epley J. P. Lowry Blackburn and Eliza A. Vaughn, married Septem- ber 1, 1853 by Jas T. Wheeler M. G. Micajah Turner and Martha Brookshire, married December 26, 1853 by Asa Johnson J. P. George M. Elexander and Nancy Carter, married Septem- ber 20, 1853 by M. B. Robinson M. G. Wm. W. Boone and E. Jopling, married March 9, 1856 by James T. Wheeler M. G. Jonathan Skaggs and Nancy Chaney, married April 2, 1856 by James T. Wheeler M. G. Hyram Hugley and Mary Jane Driscol, married January 17, 1856 by E. M. Callis J. P. Henry Bartshey and Frances Brooks, married March 26, 1856 by William Paxton Judge of Probate. WiUiam M. Jamison and Ann J. Walker, married January 24, 1856 by William Paxton Judge of Probate. Nuton Jordan and Sarah Breshears, married January 17, 1856 by M. B. Robinson M. G. Vanrance Handcock and Sarah Ann Reed, married Aug- ust 9, 1855 by Simeon Garrett J. P. Thomas Cauthon aud Elizabeth J. Jordan, married June 1, 1855 by M. B. Robinson M. G. Josiah Denny and Cynthia Ann Thompson, married May 24, 1855 by L. R. Morrison M. G. Benjamin F. Owings and Elizabeth S. Sims, married Sep- tember 24, 1855 by Richard Owings M. G. Colender Rodelander and Polly Ann Stewart, married Aug- ust 16, 1855 by Y. M. Pitts M. G. Joseph Chriswell and Nancy Epley, married November 4, 102 HICKORY COUNTY 1855 by E. M. Callis J. P. Thomas J. Hewlett and Josephine M. B. Spillman, married February 20. 1855 by WilUam F. Spillman M. G. B. F. Barnes and Malinda F. Richards, married January 17, 1856 by Milton Adkison M. G. James W. Miller and Prudence Doak married April 22, 1855 by James T. Wheeler M. G. John Charlton and Luticia Parsons, married May 18, 1855 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. Samuel Martindale and Phalvey Smock, married January 19, 1854 by J. H. Estes J. P. William Parks and Nancy Elizabeth Barber, married Oc- tober 13, 1853 by C. S. Brent J. P. Joseph C. McCracken and Mary F. Bodine, married Octo- ber 21, 1855 by William F. Spillman M. G. Ezra Darby and Virginia Andrews, married April 13, 1854 by John C. Williams M. G. Francis M. Follis and Eugenia E. Mantyne, married Octo- ber 27, 1859 by Thompson Blair J. P. Andrew J. Stephens and Sarah Dark, married July 17, 1861 by Benj. Staten J. P. John Jackson and Jemima Dollarhide, married February 3, 1860 by E. F. Yeager M. G James W. Davis and Harriett M. Walker, married April 18, 1861 by E. F. Yeager M. G. Josiah Largent and Nancy Conger, married January 30, 1861 by Jas. T. Wheler M. G. James S. Caywood and Nancy M. Duckworth, married February 28, 1860 by Robert Stewart J. P. Edward S. Williams and Rachel Madison, married October 12, 1861 by Benjamin F. Staten J. P. • William R. Lopp and Louisa Dixon, married May 16, 1861 by James K. J. P. Robert F. Braden and Sary Jane Whitlow, married Janu- ary 8, 1861 by E. W. Morton M. G. Samuel Williams and Mary Ann Marlow, married July 16, 1861 by Shadrick Mustain M. G. John Breshears and Susan Irig, married January 30, 1862 HICKORY COUNTY 103 by James F. Hogan M. G. William H. Moore and Amanda C. Hawkins, married Jan- uary 15, 1861 by Thomas G. Roney J. P. Joseph Hickey and Martha Ann Melton, married February 19, 1861 by Thomas G. Roney J. P. William W. Rountree and Emily J. Cooley, married De- cember 5, 1860 by Jas. T. Wheeler M. G. John Carver and Mary Young, married January 1, 1861 by Thompson Blair J. P James M. Robinson and Alabama Sanders, married April 6, 1862 by James F. Hogan M. G. Horas C. Howard and Sarrah J. Gill, married April 5, 1860 bay John C. Williams M. G. John M. Clark and Rebecca Caroline Cooper, married Oc- tober 17, 1861 by Joseph Bond M. G. Samuel W. Evans and Sarah Adaline Reed, married March 24, 1859 by Joel Wheeler J. P. Jeremiah Vanderpool and Ellen Wyatt, married June 2, 1861 by E. L. Webb J. P. William Pine and Caroline Selvidge, married April 11, 1861 by E. W. Morton M. G. Samuel Dent and Almina Paxton, married July 11, 1860 by E. W. Morton M. G. James Byars and Nany M. Cooper, married August 8, 1861 by James R. Wilson J. P. David L. Marlow and Mrs. Mary E. Chaney, married Aug ust 14, 1861 by Calvin McDowell M. G. George W. Thomerson and Margaret J. Thomas, married April 3, 1859 by Joel Wheeler J. P. William H. Dunkirk and Sarah A. Garmire, married April 11, 1861 by William Woodrum Judge of the County Court. Enos M. Halbert and Elizabeth M. Glanville, married Aug- ust 23, 1861 by E. F. Yeager M. G. Francis Marion Darby and Emeline Starkey, married Jan- uary 3, 1861 by H. Linthicam M. G. John D. Pitts and Nancy A. Sims, married March 17, 1861 by James T. Wheeler M. G. Roberson H. Fisher and Eliza Ingles, married April 5, 1860 104 HICKORY COUNTY by William F. Spillman M. G. Neal D. Taylor and Sarah F. Fisher, married May 3, 1860 by Wm. F. Spillman M. G. Wiley T. Tummins and Elizabeth Monroe, married March 11, 1860 by Joel Wheeler J. R Mills Dawson and Lucinda Stewart, married September 26, 1861 by John L. Hall Judge of the County Court. William DoUarhide and Nancy Jackson, married October 8, 1861 by Benj. F. Staten J. P. George W. Fisher and Margaret J. Dooley, married Febru- ary 23, 18 60 by Marcus S. Graff J. P. David B. Floyd and Martha P. Cooper, married January 31, 1861 by Rufus Derrick M. G. Joseph W. Miller and Mrs. Mary Gash, married September 30, 1860 by E. W. Morton M. G. David Thompson and Elizabeth BoazJ married January 5» 1861 by William Dorrarhide J. P. Jonathan R. Crane and Louisa Woodrum, married August 5, 1861 by James F. Hogan M. G. Ferdanardau Cook and Rhoda A. Brannon, married Janu- ary 6. 1861 by William F. Spillman M. G. James A. Sweany and Phebe A. Cole, married August 18, 1861 by John M. Millan. WiUiam H. Gardner and Martha S. Mustain, married May 5, 1861 by Morgan Kelley M. G. Gordon Brown and Juley Pitts, married May 11, 1862 by Thomas Rtts M. G. Thomas F. Donald and Frances E. Robinson, married Jan- uary 10, 1861 by John H. Millan. William Campbell and Synthey Ann Boaz, married Octo- ber 11, 1860 by WilUam DoUarhide J. P. Lewis Richardson and Collie Catherine Roach, married October 14. 1860 by William DoUarhide J. P. HICKORY COUNTY 105 FAMILY RECORDS. WILLIAM ALEXANDER. William Alexander, was born November 21, 1821, and grew to manhood in Blount county, Tenn. Moved with his family in 1856, to Hickory county, Missouri. He died at the age of 78 years, near Pittsburg, Mo., and his widow and seven children live in Hickory county, Mo. DR. MARK ANDREWS. Dr. Mark Andrews was born December 28, 1812, in Ap- pamattox county, Va.; was married to Virginia W. Thomson in 1836, and came to Buffalo, Missouri, in June 1840; settled one and a half miles West of Urbana, about the last of Febru- ary, 1849, where he lived until his death, June 30, 1865. He was a noted and successful physician, from 1850 to 1865. He owned a large tract of land and attended to overseeing the farming. Virginia, the wife, was a woman of more than average intelli- gence, and she was of great assistance to her husband. They raised a highly respected family, among whom are Dr. John P. Andrews, of Marionville, Missouri. Virginia was born in Petersburg, Virginia, March 31, 1818, and died on the farm left by her husband, West of Urbana, February 16, 1898. children: Mary E. and Robert J., born in Virginia. Virginia A., Emily F., Lucy J., and John P., born in Buf- falo, Missouri. Jesse, Harriett V., Joseph W., Susan B., and Mark L. born on the old farm West of Urbana. LEOPOLD BANDEL. Christian Bandel, father of Leopold, was born in Ainhalt Dessault Prussia, in 1792, and Johanna-Summers-Bandel, moth- er of Leopold, was born at the same place in 1795. The fath- er of Christian Bandel, died in Germany, in 1854, and the mother came to America with her children in 1856. They first located in Davis county, Iowa, but moved to Hickory county, Missouri, in 1866, and settled near Preston. The mother and four Bandel Brothers came here: August, Fred- rick, Godfrey and Leopold. The mother died in Hickory county 106 HICKORY COUNTY in 1876, and the four brothers who came here are all dead. Leopold Bandel was born in Ainhalt Dessault Germany, Mar. 27, 1838, and died Apr. 28, 1905. Nancy Dennis was born in Stone county, Missouri, August 4, 1847. Leopold Bandel and Nancy Dennis, were married June 20, 1867, in Hickory county. Mo., by Thomas Holman, a Baptist Minister. children: William, born Dec. 13, 1868, married March 8, 1896 to Eva Riddle. Louis C, born Dec. 24, 1870, married June 14, 1899 to Ida Dennison. Edgar, born Mar. 5, 1873, married July 11, 1900, to Pearl Edwards. Godfrey, born January 15, 1875. Mary, born November 11, 1876. Jacob, born July 25, 1878, died August 13, 1878. Caroline, born Nov. 3, 1879, died March 3, 1880. James, born Feb. 6, 1881. Annie, born Feb. 12, 1884. Cora, born Mar. 4, 1886, died Mar. 20, 1899. George, born Mar. 5, 1890. Eddie, born Mar. 20, 1892. FREDRICK BANDEL. Fredrick Bandel, was born in Prussia Germany, Mar. 21, 1824, died in Hickory county. Mo., December 8, 1891. M. Louise Bandel, wife was born in Prussia Germany, Dec. 25, 1834. children: Fredrick A., born Oct. 28, 1853. Charles J., born July 4, 1862. William F., born Mar. 14, 1866, died Oct. 6, 1892. Zennie M., wife of James M. Robertson, born June 16, 1868. Elizabeth S., wife of William T. Whillock, born Dec. 22, 1870. Nannie A., wife of Misner, born Feb, 10, 1873. Pauline M., born Oct. 25, 1875. Emma C, wife of Miller, born Nov. 28, 1880. BARTSHE FAMILY. Jacob Bartshe was born in Pennsylvania in 1801, was married in his native state to EUzabeth Dirk. After their marriage they moved to Ohio, and from Ohio to Montgomery HICKORY COUNTY 107 county, Missouri, in 1840, and to Hickory county ip 1841. The old man Jacob died in 1874 in Hickory county Mo., but it is not known when the wife, Elizabeth, died. children: Daniel, who was married four times, first to Eliza Ann Frye, second to Nancy Cook, third to Mary Pierce, and fourth to Lizzie Wright. He died about four years ago, about four miles North of Hermitage. Catherine, who was married three times, first to James Haverfield, second to William Clardy, third to Jonathan Scar- brough. Hannah, married John W. Quigg, and died in Hickory county about 1852. Susannah, was married three times, first to Henry Collins, second to Siler Freeman, third to Sumner W. Carter, and now fives in Hickory county, Mo. EUzabeth, married Jonathan Scarbrough, she died and then her sister, Catherine Clardy, married Mr. Scarbrough. George, married Clarissa Brooks and fives in Idaho. Henry, married twice, first to Frances Efizabeth Brooks, second to Elizabeth Butler. He now lives about five miles North of Wheatland. Jacob, married Susan Brooks and now fives in Idaho. James, married three times, first to Repa Harlan, second to Eliza Bangle, third to Martha Palmer, widow of Noah W. Palmer, and nCw fives in Idaho. John, married Pencefia Harlan and fives about four miles North of Hermitage. Mariah, died at the age of fourteen years. Salma, married Columbus Brooks and fives in Idaho. Rebecca, married John W. Cook. Samuel, married Mahala Brooks. HENRY BARTSHE. Henry Bartshe, son of Jacob and Efizabeth-Dirk-Bartshe, was born May 15, 1835 and married Frances Elizabeth Brooks, a daughter of Henry Brooks, Mar. 20, 1856. She was born Aug. 16, 1835. children: Jacob Henry, born Aug. 7. 1857, died Aug. 10, 1857. Mary Catherine, born July 23, 1858, married Orin J. Butler. Clarissa Josephine, born Nov. 7, 1859, married Thomas 108 HICKORY COUNTY Hopper. Susan Malissa, born Feb. 20, 1861, married Josph Dent. Emily Frances, born Jan. 5, 1863, married Douglas Grove. George Columbus, born Oct. 21, 1864, married Mary E. Jordan. Manerva Ellen, born Oct. 24, 1866, married William Frickey, in the West, and died Aug. 20, 1900. Cordelia Elizabeth, born Apr. 27, 1868, died July 28, 1869. Frances Elizabeth, the mother, died June 1868, and Henry Bartshe married Elizabeth Butler Oct. 5, 1868, and to this union the following children were born: Laura Jane, born Nov. 9, 1869, married Andrew Gardner. William Emery, born Oct. 1, 1871, married Eliza Mnrphy. Flora Arminda, born Aug. 8. 1874, married Alfred B. Heard. John Harrison, born Nov. 4, 1876, married Bertha Paxton. Sophronia Adeline, born Oct. 16, 1880, single. Dora Calestine, born July 27, 1882, single. Gussie Jinnette, born Feb. 29, 1884, married Cornelius Ferguson. Ira Elmer, born Jan. 5, 1885, married Iva Allen. DANIEL BARTSHE. Daniel Bartshe, born April 13, 1826, died Jan. 2, 1903. First married Levina Fry, who was born Sept. 18, 1813, died. Second marriage to Nancy L. Cook, who was born Apr. 10, 1841, died Apr. 4, 1874. children: Dorcas E., born Sept. 19, 1869. John, born Jan. 15, 1871. Franklin, born Sept. 8, 1872. Third marriage to Mrs. Mary Pierce, in 1874. She died Jan. 1, 1884. Fourth marriage to Uzzie Wright, Oct. 16, 1886. JOHN BARTSHE, SR. John Bartshe, born June 9, 1841. Pencelia Harlan, born Feb. 13, 1840. They were married Dec. 27, 1860. children: Sarah E., born Mar. 23, 1862, married James S. Blackwell. Catherine J., born Aug. 29, 1865, married Robert H. Jen- kins, Dec. 26, 1886. MORGAN HOTEL, Hermitage, Mo. EZEKIEL D. BLAIR. HICKORY COUNTY 109 William Y., born Feb. 4, 1867. John v.. born Sept. 12, 1869, married Sarah C. Blackwell. Mar. 23, 1890. Pencelia, born Sept. 12, 1869, married James S. Rash, Dee. 21, 1887. JAMES S. BLACKWELL. James S. Blackwell, born in what is now Hickory county, Feb. 29, 1836, married Elizabeth Carter May 2, 1860. She was born Dec. 14, 1844. children: William P., born Feb. 27, 1865, married Nancy E. Eskew, Aug. 14, 1885. Nelson R., born Feb. 9, 1867, married Amanda Fisher June 23, 1889. Malissa A., born Dec. 10, 1868, married Hiram C, born Oct., 31, 1871, married Bessie Welch, Sept. 9, 1900. Henry L, born May 11, 1874. Elmer 0., born July 17, 1878, married James P., born Feb. 9, 1881, married Ethel Fisher Jan. 25 1903. Elizabeth C, born Sept., 27, 1884, married Oscar Fisher Aug. 2, 1903. THOMPSON BLAIR. Thompson Blair, was born in Bath county, Ky., in 1811, while a young man he came to Lincoln county. Mo., where he married Sarah M. Downing, a native of that county, in 1840. Sarah M., was born in 1820. Thompson Blair died in Hickory county. Mo., May 9, 1874, and Sarah M., died at Collins, St. Clair county. Mo., Dec. 1, 1898. To them were born ten chil- dren as follows: James H., born in 1841, and died during the Civil War in the United States Army. Margarett, born in 1842, and died in infancy. Ezekiel D., born in 1844. married Nancy F. Walker in 1872, and died in Sept. 1903. Henry F., born in 1848, married Josie Rayl, at Sedalia, Mo., in 1872. 110 HICKORY COUNTY Thomas T., born in 1846, unmarried, now lives in California. Julia, born in 1850, married Seth Hartzell, in 1871, died in Iowa in 1889. Sarah J., born in 1853, married Robert C. Orr, in Quincy, Mo., in 1876, now lives at Excelsior Springs, Mo. William J., born in 1855, unmarried and lives in California. John R., born in 1857, was in the West several years, married Stella Boone, in Hickory county, Mo., has one child, Boone Thompson, born Dec. 18. 1903, now lives six miles South- west of Wheatland. General Marion, born in 1860, was killed in July 1882, by a fall from a frame swing in Hermitage. In the fall of 1850, Thompson Blair, with his family came from Lincoln county, to Hickory county and in 1851 settled on the prairie two and a half mJles Southeast of Quincy, where he remained until August 1861, when on account of the Civil War, he moved with his family, first to Lincoln county, Mo., then to IlUnois, and finally went with his family, to Utah and CaUfornia, but returned to the old home place Southeast of Quincy, in 1869, where he remained until his death. Before the Civil War he had accumulated a large amount of land and personal property, but lost nearly all by moving, and as a result of the war, except 120 acres of the old homestead, and 80 acres of timber. He was always truly loyal to the General Government, but after the battle of Wilson Creek, in August 1861, he feared that Missouri was going with the Confederacy. EZEKIEL D. BLAIR. Ezekiel Downing Blair, born in Joe Davis county, 111., Mar. 23, 1844, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 19, 1903. Nancy F. Walker, born Apr. 13, 1850, in Hickory county. Mo. Ezekiel D. Blair and Nancy F. Walker, were married Apr. 25, 1872, in Hickory county, Mo., by Rev. Levi Bybee, a Minister of the Christian church. children: Minnie E., born at Quincy, Mo., Jan. 25, 1873, married to Dr. B. F. Cox, Feb. 24, 1895, who died Dec. 19, 1903,-one child Lona Blair Cox. born Jan. 21, 1896, remarried Oct. 14. 1906, to John H. McCasUn. E. D., born July 1, 1877, in Hermitage, married Edith M. Taylor, Mar. 29, 1903. Winnie, born Feb. 22, 1880, in Hermitage, died July 2, 1885. HICKORY COUNTY 111 Waverly, born Dec. 1, 1883, married RoscoeConkling Coon. Mr. Blair was a good business man, served the county three terms as Collector of the Revenue, one term as County Treasurer, and one term in the lower house of the Missouri Legislature, and was honest and faithful to every trust imposed. His son, E. D. Blair, Jr., was County Treasurer for one term and is at present Assistant Cashier of the Citizens Bank, of Hermitage, Missouri. JOEL N. AND MARY A. JOPLING-BOONE. John Boone, father of Joel N. Boone, born in 1789, in N. C, died Nov. 22, 1837. Isabelle-Kincaid-Boone, mother of Joel N. Boone, born in N. C, in 1795, died Mar. 9, 1843. Benjamin Jopling, father of Mary A. Boone, born Dec. 20, 1801. died Feb. 20, 1870. Dicey-Smith-Jopling, mother, of Mary A. Boone, born Aug. 9, 1811, died in Aug. 1869. Benjamin JopUng and Dicey Smith were married in Burke county, N. C, in July 1830. Joel N. Boone, son of John Boone, and Isabelle-Kincaid- Boone, was born in Caldwell county, N. C, May 21, 1824. Mary A. Jophng, daughter of Benjamin Jopling and Dicey- Smith-Jopling was born in Caldwell county, N. C, May 17, 1831. Joel N. Boone and Mary A. Jopling were married in Cald- well county, N. C, Sept. 3, 1851, came to Hickory county, Mis- souri, Dec. 22. 1854. Both died in Hickory county, Joel N., Aug. 26, 1902, and Mary A., May 4, 1904. children: Augustus W. S., born in N. C, May 24, 1852, married Emma Pruett, in N. C. Wm. Edgar, born in Hickory county. Mo., April 6, 1856, married Mary Romans, in Hickory county. Mo. Horace Durant, born in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 6, 1858, married Ann Ragner, and died Feb. 12, 1894. Benj. Elijah, born Nov. 20, 1860, single. Emma Catherine, born Feb. 28. 1863. died Mar. 5, 1863. Harriett Virginia, born June 10, 1864, died Nov. 20, 1866. John Marshal, born Oct. 20, 1866. Margaiet Stella, born Nov. 10, 1869, married John R. Blair, Mar. 29, 1903. Mary Nixon, born Nov. 23, 1872, single. Edith Ann, born Apr. 1874, single. 112 HICKORY COUNTY Joel N. Boone, was a member of the county court of this county one term, and Postmaster at Wheatland, Mo., during the administration of President Cleveland. Copy from his Dairy: — The move to Missouri in 1854, written by Joel N. Boone. I started from dear old state of North Carolina, to find a home in the West. I left Lenoir, about the first of November, 1854, in company with Lemon H. Moore, the first night I stayed at the town of Morgantown, at the Mountain Hotel, then kept by Dr. Hoppolt, an old friend. Each of us had a good hack to travel in. Mine was made by that good old man, Noah Spainhour, who was at that time carrying on a shop for any and everything that could be made out of wood in the town of Lenoir. Well, from Morgantown we went direct to Cummeng, the town of Foisythe county, Georgia, the home of my friend, Mr. Moore. I stayed about ten days in that town with old friends, such as Dr. Alex. Bogle, J. N. Puitt, and Jacob Leming and others. There I sold my team and hack to John Sims & his brother-in-law. T. Hills son took us to Atlanta, where we struck the Railroad-the next noon we were in Chatenooga, Ten- nessee, and from there we went to Nashville, and stayed all night. I expected next morning to go on a boat on the Cum- berland, but the river was too low for a boat to run. We then took passage by stage to Louisville, Kentucky, 155 miles out of the way. There we got a nice boat the Conowago. I paid $30. to go from Louisville, to St. Louis, Mo., but the water was so low in the river that the boat could make no speed on our journey, so we left the boat at Cairo, Illinois, and there I saw the biggest jimson weeds I ever saw. I could almost climb them. There we got on the Central & Illinois Railroad for St. Louis, and we got there and stayed over Sunday. (Here the paper is torn and the writing is illegible.) JAMES A. BRAKEBILL. James A. Brakebill was born in Monroe county, Tenn., Mar. 2, 1830, and is now deceased. Mary A. Moser was born in the year 1835, in Monroe county, Tenn. James A. Brake- bill and Mary A. Moser were married in Monroe county, Tenn., Jan. 16, 1853, by Lewis Carter. children: Henry Holston, was born in Monroe county, Tenn., Aug. 31, 1854, and died at Preston, Mo., about Aug. 1895. HICKORY COUNTY 113 Jacob Buchanan, was born in Monroe county, Tenn., Dec. 25, 1856, and died in Hickory county, about 1889. John William, was born in Jasper county, Iowa. Aug. 2, 1859. Etna Ann was born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 2, 1863. lona, was born in Hickory county, Mo., Feb. 10, 1865. Ofie Jane, was born in Hickory county, Mo., Mar. 9, 1867. James A, was born in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 22, 1870. U. S. P. v., was born near Cross Timbers, Oct. 28, 1872. Minnie D., was born near Cross Timbers, Feb. 6, 1875. Bruno, was born near Cross Timbers, July 11, 1878. Mone, the youngest daughter, now lives with her mother and brother, James A., at Preston, but we have been unable to procure date of her birth, and the copy of the Family Record furnished does not give dates of deaths. CHARLES S. BRENT. Charles S. Brent, was born Mar. 9, 1807, and died in Hick- ory county. Mo., Jan. 26, 1858. Sarah H. McTyre, was born Dec. 2, 1808, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Apr. 26, 1894. They were married in Lancaster county, Virginia, in what is known as Northern neck between Chesapeak bay and the Rap- pahannock river, near Lancaster Court House. After their marriage they removed to Warren county. III, where they re- mained two years, and then removed to St. Clair, county, Mo., near Osceola, and after making another move or two, finally settled near Quincy, Mo., about 1837. children: Dr. John W., who married Ella Johnson, of Boonville, Mo., and died at Tipton, Mo., Jan. 26, 1890. James B., who married Sophronia Bennett, in Hickory county. Mo. Alice C, who married Ira Amrine, of Buffalo, Dallas coun- ty. Mo. Margaret, A., who married Lyman W. Stiltz, of Quincy, Mo. Marcus L, who married Mary J. Tummins, of Quincy, Mo. Sarah, who married Henry Lollar, who came here from North Carolina. All of the children live in Missouri, except Dr. John W. Brent, deceased, and James B., who resides at Guthrie, Okla. It will be seen elsewhere that Charles S. Brent was at one time President of the county court of this county. 114 HICKORY COUNTY DR. HENRY C. BROOKSHIRE. Dr. Henry C. Brookshire, was born in Hickory county, Mo., Mar. 12, 1848. He is the youngest child of William L. and Sarah-Varnell-Brookshire, who were born in Virginia and Ten- nessee, respectively. Both parents died in Missouri: the father in Mar. 1862, and the mother in Oct. 1886. The father was the son of Joseph Brookshire, a Virginian. They were married in Tennessee, and came to Cole county. Mo., in 1829, and came to what is now Hickory county, near Cross Timbers, in 1841. He and his wife had ten children, only three of whom are living. Dr. Henry C, was first married to Mildred M. Woolery, a daughter of Andrew Woolery, Sept. 5, 1868, she was born in Cooper county. Mo., in 1850, and died in Barry county. Mo., May 16, 1886, leaving four children: Rosa L., wife of John Mont- gomery, Joseph A., now deceased, Charles C, and William H. March 8, 1887, he married Miss Mollie E. Dodson, of Greene county. Mo., who was born July 19, 1865, and died Oct. 3, 1899, leaving a son and daughter: Roy Lowell, born Sept. 10, 1888, and Grace Blanch, born Dec. 5, 1889. He was married again to Maria Brady, of Illinois, at Boon- ville, Mo., Jan 3, 1901, and they with the two children Hve in Hermitage. He commenced the study of medicine in 1872, and has made it a life business. He attended Medical College at Keokuk, Iowa, and graduated from that school in 1876, and later took Post Graduate courses in the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, Mo., and has all the time been in active practice when not in school. JOHN B. BROWN. John B. Brown, was born in Cambridge England, Apr. 30, 1807, and died in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 27, 1886. He came to the United States about the year 1828, and settled in Frank- lin county. Mo., where he resided until the autumn of of 1853, when he moved with his family to Hickory county, to the farm on which he died. In 1832, in Franklin county, Mo., he married Miss Nancy Richardson, who was born Oct. 23, 1818, and died in Hickory county, Mo., Sept. 5, 1884. children: Milton, born Nov. 6, 1834, now living at Flemington, Mo. HICKORY COUNTY 115 William, born June 27, 1836, died at Winfield, Kan., May 8, 1905. Amos, born Aug. 8, 1837, now living near Elkton, Mo. James C, born June 17, 1839, died in Humansville, Mo., April 9, 1901. John Urvin, born June 13, 1842, died in Franklin county. Mo., June 11, 1844. Mary Jane, born Feb. 10, 1844, died July 18, 1868. Benjamin F., born Nov. 21, 1845, died Jan. 24, 1887. Elijah P., born Oct. 23, 1848, now living near Weaubleau, Missouri. Sarah A., (Proctor) born Aug. 8, 1850, now living in Ver- non, Colorado. Victoria E., (Jamison) born Apr. 28, 1854, died near Hu- mansville, Mo., Dec. 4, 1896. Louis C. F., born April 27, 1859, died June 26. 1859. ELIJAH P. BROWN. Elijah P. Brown and M. J. Lively were married in Waynes- ville, Pulaski county, Mo., Oct. 8, 1872. children: J. E., born Mar. 16, 1875, now in the mercantile business at Osceola, Mo., married. Wm. A., born Feb. 4, 1878, now resides near Weaubleau. Mo., married Dora B. Crank, who was born Mar, 24, 1880. JESSE C. BROWN. Jesse C. Brown, born in Green county, Tenn., in 1789, mar- ried Nancy C. Parker, of Monroe county, Tenn., in 1827, died in Hickory county, Mo. Jesse C. and family came to Hickory county, in 1840. children: William C, born in 1828, married Polly Horn, died in 1854. Mathew N., born in 1830, married Manerva A. Hastain, Feb. 16, 1859, and to them were born. Belle, who married Ray, Isham J. M., in 1864, William H., in 1870, and Mary A., who married Orton A. Paxton. Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Jesse C. Brown, mar- ried Andrew J. Yoast in 1854, and died in 1877. J 16 HICKORY COUNTY FRANCIS COSSAIRT. Francis Cossairt was born Feb. 5, 1805. Mary Jane Cos- sairt was born July 24, 1814. children: Henry, was born June 5, 1832. Jacob, was born Jan. 3, 1834. Liza Ann, wife of John C. Patterson, was born Oct. 7, 1835. John, was born May 13, 1837. William F., was born June 23, 1839. Sarah Elizabeth, who was the wife of Rogers, and after his death married Edward E. Beezley, was born Jan. 14, 1842. James, was born Apr. 1, 1844. George W., was born Sept. 5, 1846. Jemima, wife of Solomon Darby, was born Aug. 24, 1849. Francis M., was born Oct. 24, 1854, and died very recently in Camden county. Mo. JAMES COSSAIRT. James Cossairt was born Apr. 1, 1844. Mary E. Lindsey was born Mar. 26, 1842. James Cossairt and Mary E. Lindsey were married May 23, 1872. children: Amos F., born Aug. 23, 1874, married Barbara L. McCrack- en, May 21, 1896, they have children as follows: Opal, Aurillas, and Ermil. Oliver L., born Nov. 3, 1877, married Adella Stephens, Mar. 10, 1901, they have children as follows: Elsie, and an infant. EDWARD COSTELOW. Edward Costelow was born April 19, 1809, married Dorcas Wilson, Dec. 22, 1842, died May 29, 1878. Dorcas Wilson- Costelow born Feb. 14, 1820. children: Rhoda Ann Wilson, born Jan. 11, 1835. Amanda Susan, born Oct. 10, 1843, married Mitchell Lord. Mary Elizabeth, born Jan. 10, 1845, married Wm. Lord, Nancy Louisa, born Sept, 14, 1847, married Joseph Roun- tree. Isabelle, born date lost. HICKORY COUNTY 117 Sarah Frances, born Apr. 14, 1849, married Geo. W.Gardner. John James, born June 26, 1850, married Nora Crooks. Geo. Thurman, born Apr. 12, 1852, died Jan. 14, 1886. Franklin, born Apr. 30, 1854, married Rhoda Meadors. Edward, born May 4, 1857. Emily J., born Aug. 16, 1859. Daniel S., born Aug. 6, 1860. Julia, born Apr. 2, 1862. PETER COWEN. Does not give dates of birth of either father nor mother. children: Elizabeth, born Mar. 17, 1809. Jenney, born Jan. 22, 1811. Nancy, born Dec. 19, 1812. Sarah, born Mar. 5, 1815. Ann, born Mar. 6, 1817. Margaret A. F. H., born in 1819. Henry P., born Sept. 13, 1821. Peggy, born Feb. 15, 1823. Polly, wife of Chesley C. Pierce, born Aug. 25, 1825. John Quincy Adams, born Sept. 13, 1827. Caroline, born July 14, 1832. Peter M., born July 10, 1834. HENRY P. COWEN. Henry P. Co wen was born Sept. 13, 1821, and died Mar. 4, 1901. Elizabeth-Massey-Cowen was born Nov. 27, 1827, died Aug. 16, 1901. children: Mary Frances, born Dec. 13, 1850, married Francis M. Par- sons, Nov. 8, 1877. John Henry, born May 20, 1852, married Lucinda Jane Williams, Oct. 7, 1875, and she died May 16, 1882. Peter Marion, born Feb. 22, 1855, married Allie M. Lang- ford, Nov. 19, 1882. Joshua Luster, born Feb. 28, 1857, married Amanda J. Mason, Nov. 2, 1881. Nancy Jane, born Mar. 11, 1859, married John Williams, Feb. 23, 1882. Margaret Ann, born Feb. 7, 1861, married Fayette B. Dooley, Oct. 22, 1879. 118 HICKORY COUNTY America Elizabeth, born June 21, 1863, married Allen H. Ward, Sept. 18, 1884. Sherman Alexander, born May 6, 1865, married Nancy J. King, Oct. 29, 1889. Andrew Franklin, born Mar. 5, 1867, married Irene Hol- lingsworth, Jan. 16, 1887. GIDEON CREED. Gideon Creed was born Mar. 18, 1817. Eusebia, wife of Gideon Creed was born Mar. 3, 1817. children: Martha, who married David Brooks Pitts. Elizabeth, who died single. Mary Jane, who married Nathan K. Pope. Ellen, who married John Hart. , Margaret who married Stephen D. Tidwell. Frances, who married John W. Pope. Benjamin F., who married Mary E. Lindsey, who died, and he then married Maud Piper. WiUiam H., and "Ab," James and Newton, twins, died in infancy. ALBERT CROUCH. Albert Crouch was born Jan. 24, 1821, either in Randolph or Ralls county. Mo., and was killed by guerrillas about four miles North of Quincy, Mo., in 1862. Nancy Knox was born in Lincoln county, Mo., in 1830. Albert Crouch and Nancy Knox were married in Lincoln county. Mo., in 1851, and came to Hickory county in 1853, and settled about four miles North of Quincy, where Nancy now lives. Their children living are: Albert A., John H., Azel H., Mary F. Young, wife of Andrew J. Young, and E. Belle Pack, widow of Dr. George W. Pack, deceased. JOHN CUNNINGHAM. John Cunningham was born Apr. 10, 1815, first married Nancy A. Dodds, Sept. 8, 1836, wife died Jan. 12, 1845, mar- ried second time to Sara Ann Vinson, July 22, 1845, and she died Nov. 19, 1889. John Cunningham died Cct. 9, 1871. CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: Dewy, born July 15, 1837, deceased. Elizabeth J., born Feb. 15, 1839. HICKORY COUNTY 119 Estiha A., born Sept 5, 1840. John S., born Oct. 12, 1842. died Dec. 27, 1865. Samuel D., born Jan 5, 1845, died Jan. 29, 1845. CHILDREN, SECOND marriage: Nancy, A., born May 10, 1846, deceased. Hester A., born Oct. 25, 1847, died Aug. 3, 1848. Calista, born June 18, 1849, deceased. Vinson T., born May 21, 1851. George C, born Mar. 31, 1853. Wm. H., born May 3, 1855, died Mar. 25. 1894. Thomas J., born Aug. 1, 1857. John Cunningham moved to Hickory county. Mo., from Illinois in Apr. 1868. VINSON T. CUNNINGHAM. Vinson T. Cunningham was born May 21. 1851, married to M. E. Goodman, who was born Sept. 23. 1853, Sept. 21. 1871. children: John L, born July 31. 1872. WiUiam P., born July 5, 1875, died Mar. 8, 1882. Claud A., born June 16, 1878. Eva A., born Dec. 8, 1880, died Dec. 9, 1892. Lillie M., born May 21, 1891. DR. A. C CURL. Dr. A. C. Curl was born in Taylor county, W. Va., May 29, 1 852. Lewis Curl, father of A. C. Curl, born in Clark county, 0.. in Sept. 1824, and his wife Mary-Reynolds-Curl, was bornin Taylor county, W. Va. The Dr. first attended Medical school at Keo- kuk, Iowa. In 1882, he graduated from the Medical school at Joplin, Mo., but desiring to learn more and stand higher in his profession, he later attended the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, Mo., and graduated from that school in 1888. In 1872. he was married to Louie Feaster, who was born in Benton county. Mo., Feb 26, 1854, and they have two daughters: May, who is the wife of 0. C. Crudginton, Cashier of the Bank of Cross Timbers, and Bernice, who is at home with her parents. He located in Cross Timbers, in 1875, and has resided' there continuously since that time, and enjoys a lucrative practice. 120 HICKORY COUNTY JEDIDIAH AND REBECCA-SAYERS-DARBY. Jedidiah Darby was a Colonel of the Continental Army, and died at the age of 92 years. children: Samuel, Ezra, Daniel, Moses, Aaron, Owen, Rebecca, Sarah, Elijah, Elisha, who is now living at the age of 85 years, Eliza- beth, Nancy, now living at the age of 87 years, Isaac, Jacob, and Charlotte. DANIEL DARBY. Daniel Darby was born Oct 31, 1799, married Phebe Evans, Sept. 22. 1822, and died Nov. 27, 1862, in Hickory county, Mo. Phebe Darby, wife of Daniel Darby, was born Nov. 13, 1803, and died June 18, 1880. children: Elizabeth, born Sept. 29, 1823, died Jan. 21, 1851. Rebecca, born Sept. 17, 1825, died Jan. 24, 1842. Joseph W., born May 19, 1832, died in January 1863. Ezra P., born Oct. 30, 1834. Ruami, born Apr. 4, 1837. Ephraim E., born Dec. 10, 1839. • William H.. born Apr. 28, 1842. George W., born May 13, 1844. Isabelle J., born Feb. 1, 1847. JOSIAH DENT. Josiah Dent was born in Madison county, Kentucky, Feb. 4, 1800, and died in Hickory county, Missouri, Nov. 9, 1875. Mary Jamison, wife of Josiah Dent, was born July 5, 1811, and died in Hickory county Missouri, June 29, 1875. Josiah Dent and Mary Jamison were married June 11, 1826, in Franklin county. Missouri. children: Harris, born in FrankHn county, Mo., May 8, 1827, and died in Oregon. Celina, born in Franklin county, Mo., Oct. 6, 1829, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Apr. 25, 1852. Ephraim, born in FrankHn county, Mo., Dec. 12, 1831. Martha Ann, born in Polk county, Mo., Sept. 2, 1834, and HICKORY COUNTY 121 died Apr. 23, 1847, in Hickory county, Missouri. Mary Jane, wife of John A. Morton, was born in Polk coun- ty, Mo., Jan. 9, 1837. Clara, wife of Shandy W. Holland, born in St. Clair county, Mo., May 22, 1839. Samuel, born in St. Clair county. Mo., Jan. 12, 1842. Sarah U., born in St. Clair county. Mo., June 10, 1845, and died in that county Sept. 19, 1845. William H., born in Hickory county, Mo., Mar. 19, 1849. Josiah Dent, the father of this family, settled the place where John F. Holland died a few months ago, in the year 1846. EPHRAIM DENT. Ephraim Dent was born in Franklin county. Mo., Dec. 12, 1831. Elizabeth F. Dent, a daughter of Joel B. and Tirzah Halbert, was born in Wilson county, Tenn., Aug. 20, 1838. Ephraim Dent and Elizabeth F. Halbert were married May 23, 1854, in Hickory county. Mo., by Rev. Levi R. Morrison. children: Edward H., born April 13, 1855. Nancy C, wife of Pleasant J. Rogers, born Nov. 15, 1856. Alanson H., born June 1, 1858, married Iris Augustus Pax- ton. Mary A., wife of Samuel T. Gardner, born Aug. 31, 1860. Enos M., born Mar. 21, 1862. Ida F., first wife of John H. McCaslin, born Oct. 25, 1863. died in Hermitage, Mo., Sept. 13, 1905. Tirzah A., wife of William P. Crutsinger. born Sept. 9, 1865. Clara A., born Nov. 24, 1866. Josiah E., born Mar. 11. 1868. Samuel 0., born Feb. 18. 1870. Minnie E., wife of Luther Ihrig, born June 18, 1871. Hattie L, wife of John Crider, born July 14, 1873. All of these children were born in Hickory county Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Dent, have at this time 49 grand-children, 24 boys and 25 girls. SAMUEL DENT, SR. Samuel Dent was born Feb. 28, 1832, and died in Wheat- land, Mo., May 28, 1906, was married to Elizabeth Brown in 1854. Mr. Dent served three years in the Civil War in Com- 122 HICKORY COUNTY pany "A" 8th Regiment Mo. State Militia, and afterwards en- listed in the 14th Mo. Cav., and served nearly one year. children: Joseph S., born May 21, 1856. • William P., born Apr. 17, 1858. Mary A., only daughter, born in 1860. Joseph S., nov/ hves in Wheatland, Mo., and runs a Grocery store and Telephone office. William P., hves on a farm near Wheatlpnd, Mo. Both have intelligent and interesting famihes. DOAK FAMILY. Alanson F. Doak came from Wilson county, Tenn., to what is now Hickory county, in the early 40's. He brought v;ith him his wife and four children, two boys and two girls. In a few years the oldest girl died at about the age of ten or eleven years. The father, Alanson F., as is shown elsewhere had been Sheriff and Collector of the County, and when the Civil War came on in 1861 he was Clerk of the courts and Recorder, with his son, Robert F., who now resides at Cross Timbers, as his Deputy, who appears from the scraps of the recoid left from the Court House fire, to have did most of the work. In February, 1861, the father lived in Hermitage, and the mother died, and when the family returned from the burial of the mother the son was taken sick and in four or five days died. Northeast of Hermitage, on the place now owned by the widow and heirs of Judge Solberg. The other sister also died at the Solberg farm, but we are unable to procure the date. This left of the once happy family, only the father, Alanson F., and the son, Robert F. The father died near Cross Timbers, in March, 1883. All of the members of the family, who have died were buried in the Walker cemetery North and West of Cross Timbers. Robert F., was born in Wilson county, Tenn., in 1829, and was married to his wife, who was a daughter of Richard Dickerson, December 4, 1851, by Rev. Levi R. Morri- son, a Presbyterian Minister. First child born to Mr. and Mrs. Doak was a girl, and only lived a few hours. The second child born was a girl, Osean M., born July 3, 1854. She grew to womanhood and married James Cunningham, and died May 12, 1885, leaving a son, who is now in the United States Army in the Phillipine Islands. The third child was a bey, Alanson HICKORY COUNTY 123 F., born September 14, 1856. Alanson F., has been twice mar- ried, and now resides in Cross Timbers. He has bought, fed and sold cattle for a numbei of years, and now owns an interest in the flouring mill near the town, and valuable real estate near the town, and is otherwise well fixed financially. The fourth child, Richard D., was born July 31, 1858. He married Miss Addie Noland, and they have a family of three children, two boys and a girl, and live in the county seat of Armstrong county, Texas. The youngest child, Mary E., was born August 29, 1861. She married Lafayette B. Davis, who lives about four or five miles South of Hermitage, and they have an interesting family of eight children. JOHN DOLLARHIDE. John DoUarhide was born in the state of North Carolina, in 1782, and his wife, Jemimmah-Osborn-Dollarhide, was burn in 1791, in Scott county, Va. The mother died in Hickory county. Mo., in 1871, and the father died in Hickory county. Mo., in 1862. Two brothers of John, went from North Carolina to Arkansas in an early day and another went to Louisana. John and Jemimmah v/ere married in Scott county, Va., and removed to Franklin county, Mo., in 1832, and came to what is now Hickory county, a few years later. He followed farm- ing and school teaching in Virginia and in Missouri. He was elected Assessor of Hickory county, at the elections in 1850-52, and in 1856, but was defeated by Joel J. Bradley, in 1854. The children of John and Jemimmah were as follows: Nancy, who married Henry Dingus, Hiram, who went back to Virginia, Wilham, who had served 24 years as Justice of the Peace in Hickory county, and died a few years ago about a mile East of Preston, Annis, who married Jonathai Compton, Jane, who married I. V. Newbery, Henderson, who was elected Sheriff of Hickory county, in 1854, and died in office in 1855, Jemimah, who married S. W. Short, Elizabeth, who married Barney Richards, John C, who is yet alive, and lives on Crane creek, about four miles Southeast of Hermitage, and has perhaps a clearer recollection of men and things that have transpired in Hickory county for 70 years than any other man now living. When the county was divided into four assessment districts in 1858 he was appointed Assessor for District No. 2, for 1859. Sarah, the next child, mariied .^1 en Mocdy, and Mary, the 124 HICKORY COUNTY youngest, married J. F. Compton. All are now dead except John C. William DoUarhide, the third of the children, of John and Jemimah, married Martha Holt in 1834, in Franklin county, Mo., who was borne in Tennesse, and died in Hickory county. Mo., in 1848, having born five children, only one of whom, Jane Spencer, is now living. In 1849, he was married to Elizabeth Riddle, widow of Riley Riddle, who were father and mother of Judge Joseph Riddle, who is now President of the County Court of Hickory county, and was born Aug. 6, 1846. To the union between William DoUarhide and Elizabeth Riddle, was born one son, William R., who died about three years ago. The wife died in 1855. On Oct. 8, 1861, he married Nancy Jackson, who was born in North Carolina, and is now deceased, and to them were born: Amanda, single, Louisa, wife of Anthony W. Bowcher, Virginia, who married Joseph T. Edde and is now deceased, India Anix, who is also deceased. We are greatly indebted to John C. DoUarhide for many facts we state about the early settlement of the county and its people. DOOLEY FAMILY. Henry E. Dooley, born Mar. 12, 1799, and died Nov. 2, 1849. Jane Caroline, wife of Henry E. Dooley, born Feb. 11, 1798, in Pennington District, South Carolina, and married Henry E. Dooley, Jan. 22, 1823, in Marion county, Tenn. They came to Missouri in 1831, and settled in Dooley Bend, in what is now Hickory county, in 1837. Richmond H. Dooley, son of Henry E. and Jane Caroline Dooley, born in Marion county, Tenn., May 25, 1829, married Nancy J. Rutherford, July 23, 1850, in Hickory county. Mo., and died in Polk county. Mo., Nov. 13, 1897. Nancy J. Ruther- ford was born in Callaway county, Mo., Jan. 27, 1834, and died Nov 17, 1889. WILLIAM M. DORMAN. William M. Dorman was born Feb. 16, 1772. No record of wife's birth. children: Michael W., born Sept. 2. 1820. Williamson E., Born July 2, 1822. Franky W., born Aug. 11, 1824. Wilborn Jesse, born Nov. 31, 1827. Harriett Ann, born Feb. 28, 1844. HICKORY COUNTY 125 EDWARDS FAMILY. Oliver Edwards, born Mar. 3, 1810, and died Mar. 7, 1851, in Hickory county, Mo. Amedia W. Edwards, wife of Oliver Edwards, was born June 12, 1814, and died in Hermitage, Mo., Sept. 24, 1869. children: Mary E., born Apr. 28, 1835, in Kentucky, died in Hermit- age, Mo., Mar. 15, 1884. Sidney Oliver (Zenis,) born Dec. 15, 1849, on Four mile prairie, Dallas county. Mo., and died in Hickory county. Mo., Dec. 7, 1906. WILLIAMSON E. DORMAN. Williamson E. Dorman, second son of William M. Dorman, was married to Mary E. Edwards, a daughter of Oliver and Amedia W. Edwards, Jan. 22, 1851, in Hermitage, Mo. Their only child was Oliver L. Dorman. OLIVER L. DORMAN. Oliver Lafayette Dorman, born in Hermitage, Mo., Aug. 9, 1852. Nancy Elizabeth Hargiss, daughter of Sarah Catherine Hargiss and Phillip L. Hargiss, born Aug. 2, 1855. Oliver La- fayette Dorman and Nancy Elizabeth Hargiss, were married at Wheatland, Mo., Aug. 23, 1871. children: Sarah E., wife of John Hartman, born Sept. 14, 1872, mar- ried Oct. 6, 1889. Ella, wife of John P. Wilson, born Feb. 7, 1874, married April 8, 1888. William Louis, born Oct. 4, 1876, married Dora Stroud, Mar. 13, 1901. Effa May, born Mar. 1, 1878. died Sept. 19, 1878. Walter Marvin, born Aug. 2, 1879, died Nov. 2. 1881. Fanny Eva, born May 27. 1881, died Nov. 14, 1882. Thomas Bentley, born Sept. 3, 1883, married Fannie Clark, May 24, 1903. Ethel Belle, born Feb. 6, 1886, married Walter F. Wall, June 14, 1903. Fredrick Fountain, born Mar. 17, 1888. Claud Edwin, born Aug. 28. 1890. Rama Nell, born May 15, 1896. 126 HICKORY COUNTY DURNELL FAMILY. George W. Durnell came from Kentucky, with his family to what is now Hickory county, in 1840, and settled near where Union School House is, about three miles East of Weau- bleau. He entered land shortly after he came here and gave 20 acres to the school district for a school house site, and the district still owns the 20 acres of land, and has a good, con- venient school house thereon. He and his good wife had ten children, six boys and four girls. The oldest son, William, was born in 1834, married, and raised a family, and died on Big Weaubleau Creek, Dec. 24, 1895. Sallie, was born in 1836, and died in 1860. James, was born in 1838, and was killed by guerrillas during the Civil War. Monroe, was born in 1840, raised a family, and lives in Weaubleau Township. John, was born in 1842, and when the Civil War came on enlisted in company "C" 8th Mo. State Militia, died in the army in 1863. Geo. W., was born in 1846, and died Jan, 8, 1870. Frances, was born in 1848, married Thomas J. Tucker, Nov. 19, 1865, and has a family. Mahala, married Thomas Burton, the first time, and the second time married Port. Collins, Mar. 20, 1870. Nancy, was born in 1854, married Perry N. Thompson, Dec. 5, 1869, and he died in 1898, and in 1904, she married William D. Niblack. Jackson, the youngest child, was born in 1856, married Paulina Brown, in 1877. WILLIAM EDDE. Willian Edde, was born in Virginia, and partly grew up there, went to Tennessee, and married Polly Dennis, and they lived there until ten children were born to them, and until the baby, Nathan, was two years old, and he is now, 66 years old, and lives a mile East of Preston, in Hickory county. The father and mother came, to what is now Hickory county, in 1842. Of their childred there were five boys, and two girls, who lived to manhood and womanhood. One of the boys, and two of the girls died in the 50's. The oldest girl, Ann Reser, is living in Green Township and is near 88 years old. Joseph, died in May, 1906. Jasper, is 75 years old and resides in Kansas, John, is about 73 years old and resides in Hickory county. William, was a member of one of the first Juries that ever served at a circuit court in the county. He died in Stone county. Mo., in 1862, and Polly, the wife, died in Hickory county, in 1849, Ann, HICKORY COUNTY 127 Joseph, John, and Nathan, all married in Hickory county, and have raised families here, and their children are regarded as some of our best citizens. JOHN EDDE. John Edde, a son of William and Polly Edde, was born Mar. 12, 1831, in Tennessee, married Harriett Alsup, who was born July 19, 1834. children: Mary Ann, born Sept. 10, 1854, died July 30, 1855. Sarah A., born Nov. 11, 1856, married Hugh L. Simmons, Oct. 11, 1877. Eliza R., born May 23, 1858, married George W. Alexander, Nov. 11,1875. William H., born Mar. 3, 1860, died July 19, 1882. Nathan Jr., born June 13, 1862, married Phebe Edmundson, Mar. 6, 1881. Joseph T, born Aug. 14, 1864, first married Jane Dollar- hide, and she died, and he married Miss Mollie Lewis. Charles E., born Mar. 28, 1868, married Emma Browder, Oct. 4, 1891. Albert P., born Nov. 28, 1859, married Caroline Bandel, Feb. 16, 1890. James M., born Nov. 11, 1872, died May 13, 1874. Clara A. born Dec. 28, 1875, died Jan. 15, 1888. JOHN T. FERGUSON. John T. Ferguson, born Aug. 24, 1843, married Susan Edds, who was born Jan. 24, 1848, on Mar. 26, 1865, in Tennessee. They came to Missouri Oct. 16, 1869. children: Mary E., born May 25, 1866, married Judge F. Samples, July 26, 1881, died May 9, 1906. William A., born May 17, 1868, married Mar^ret Low, Nov. 10, 1895. George W., born Dec. 30, 1870, married Elie Alexander, Dec. 21, 1890. Martha A., born Mar. 13, 1873, married Andrew J. Alex- ander, Mar. 10, 1889. Francis C, born Mar. 23, 1875, marriedT. J. Brannon,date not given.* 128 HICKORY COUNTY Tennessee P.. born Mar. 12, 1877, died July 19, 1894. John Calvin, born Jan 22, 1879, died June 14, 1879. Caroline G., born Nov. 24, 1880, married Elmer Simmons, Feb. 16, 1901. Cornelius, born June 2, 1883, married Gussie Bartshe, Sept. X 1904. Ullie Ann, born July 27, 1885, died Sept. 12, 1886. May, born July 17. 1887. James M., born July 16, 1889, married Lillie May Cunning- ham, Mar. 31, 1907. Florence E., born Nov. 29, 1893. HENRY J. FISHER. Henry J. Fisher, father of Dr. A. L. Fisher, of Wheatland, was of German descent, and was born in the state of North Corohna, May 10, 1812, died May 12, 1906. His father's name was Henry J. Fisher. Rachel White-Fisher, wife of Henry J., was born in North Carolina, Feb. 5, 1832. They came to Mis- souri in 1867. children: Arthur L., born Feb. 28, 1849, married Sarah A. Pitts, daughter of Andrew J. and Malissa Pitts, who was born July 28, 1856, on Jan. 29, 1874. N. F., born Jan. 27, 1856. J. D., born May 5. 1857. Martha L, born Oct. 18, 1859. Susannah E., born May 31, 1862. Henry J., born Mar. 9. 1866. A. P., born Nov. 11, 1873. Ellen D., born June 8, 1875. DR. A. L. FISHER. children: Alva, born Dec. 11, 1875, married Miss Daisy Johnston, Apr. 30, 1899. Zilpha, born May 1, 1885, married William Paul Murphy, a son of John and Sarah A. Murphy, Oct. 1, 1906. Dr. A. L. Fisher, has been an able and successful physician in this county for 34 years. Is a great reader and thinker. He graduated at the Electric Medical Institute, at Cincinnatti, THOMAS H. LORD. Sheriff. JOSEPH 0. CARPENTER. Judge of the County Court W. District. HICKORY COUNTY 129 Ohio, June 7, 1882. The son Alva, is also a graduate of a Medical School, but has turned his attention to the Abstaract business, and is now a resident of Hermitage, and owns a set of Abstract Books. JAMES M. GARDNER. James M. Gardner was born in Monroe county, Tennessee, Feb. 15, 1834. He is a son of Thomas Gardner and Catherine Thatch-Gardner. Thomas was born Jan. 1, 1806, and Cather- ine, was born May 13, 1813. They were married in Monroe county, Tenn., Mar. 26, 1832, and continued to live there until August 6, 1877, when Thomas, the husband, died. After the death of the fatner, the son, James M., went and brought his mother to Missouri. The grand-father, Thomas Gardner, was an Irishman, born in Virginia, but died in Tenn. James M. Gardner is the first of a family of nine children as follows: James M., George W., Henderson, Thomas J., Elizabeth R., Mary A., Eliza J., Martha B., William L, only four of whom are now living. James M., was married in 1857, to Margaret McSpad- den, who was born in Bradley county, Tenn., June 26, 1837. She was a daughter of Samuel and Sarah McSpadden,. They came to Hickory county, Mo., in 1858, and to their union has been born nine children as follows: Robert H., Sarah E., who married Dr. L. B. Selvidge, and he is now deceased, Amanda J., who married Thomas A. Nowell, Ulysses G., Mary C, who married Ben P. Nowell, find is now deceased, Barbara A., de- ceased, Hiram D., Elva T., deceased, and Luke Monroe. GEORGE W. GARDNER. George W. Gardner, was born in Tennessee, Sept. 8, 1837, married Armazinda Mitchell, who was born Sept. 20, 1838, and died Feb. 16, 1870, Nov. 15, 1857. He died in Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 1, 1905. CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: Martha C, born Sept. 20, 1858. Samuel T., born Oct. 26, 1860. John A. and William H., born Nov. 8, 1862. Terry M., born Feb. 1, 1865. Delila, born Mar. 14. 1867. Alonzo, born Jan. 31, 1870. 130 HICKORY COUNTY Second wife, Sarah F. Costelow, born Apr. 14, 1849, mar- ried George W. Gardner, June 25, 1871. CHILDREN SECOND marriage: George, born May 5, 1872. James A., born Mar. 25, 1874. Andrew, born Feb. 26, 1876. Norma, born July 25, 1878. Charles Edgar, born Jan. 22, 1880. Adie J., born Apr. 1882. Arthur F., born Nov. 23, 1884. Henry R., born May 18. 1887. Robert B., born Oct. 30, 1889. JOEL B. HALBERT, SR. Joel B. Halbert Sr., was one of the members of the first County Court, first member of the State Legislature from the county, and Lieutenant Colonel of the 60th Regiment E. M. M. in the Civil War. Ephraim Sherrill, father of Mrs. Tirzah Halbert, wife of Joel B. Halbert Sr., was born Oct. 22, 1773, in North Carolina, and died in Hickory, county, Mo., Oct. 17, 1867. Ann Sherrill, wife of Ephraim Sherrill, was born Jan. 17, 1771, died in Hickory county. Mo., Aug. 14, 1843. Joel B. Halbert, Sr., was born in Wilson county, Tenn., Oct. 18, 1803, and died in Hickory county, Mo. Tirzah, wife of Joel B. Halbert Sr., was born Mar. 24, 1807. Joel B. Halbert Sr., and Tirza Sherrill, were married in Wilson county, Te^ , May 25, 1825. children: Francis Marion, was born Apr. 29, 1826, died July 20, 1850. Nancy Ann, who was the wife of James D. Williams, born Mar. 20, 1828, died Mar. 17, 1854. Alanson Sherrill, born June 26, 1830, died Aug. 26, 1852. Ephraim Foster, born Jan 18, 1832. Enos Morrison, born Mar. 19, 1834. Eli Wilson, born Nov. 28, 1836, died Sept. 13, 1857. Elizabeth Frances, wife of Ephraim Dent, born Aug. 20, 1838. Joel Bradshaw, born Nov. 9, 1840. Seventh Son, born May 29, 1843, died Aug. 27, 1843, not named. |^ ^^_I ~ 1 Mary Jane, wife of William Q. Paxton, born June 25, 1844, died Sept. 11, 1868. Edward Duffield, born Nov. 23, 1846. HICKORY COUNTY 131 Eli Rufus. born Dec. 24, 1848. Christiana Juliet, wife of Albert P. Dickerson, born July 11. 1851. Joel B. Halbert Sr., was married second time to Mrs. Char- lotte A. Noland, Oct. 14, 1869, and to this union was born Robert Noland Halbert, Sept. 28, 1872. Malinda Melvina Williams, daughter of Nancy Ann, first daughter of Joel B. and Tirzah Halbert, was born Feb. 26, 1854. Robert G. Noland, first husband of Charlotte Hall-Noland- Halbert, was born Aug. 8, 1830, and he was married to Char- lotte A., daughter of Thomas D. Hall and T. E. Hall, Jan. 20. 1852, and died Oct. 19, 1861, leaving children as follows: Edward Homer, born Nov. 6. 1852. James Solon, born July 14, 1854. Thomas Jefferson, born Nov. 10, 1856. Addie J., born Apr. 10, 1858. Robert Hugh, born Oct. 23, 1859, died Aug. 21, 1862. EPHRAIM FOSTER HALBERT. Ephraim Foster Halbert, born Jan. 18, 1832. Margaret F. Donnell, born Aug. 18, 1834, and died May 6, 1898. Ephraim F. Halbert and Margaret F. Donnell were married Sept. 13. 1855, in Hickory county, Mo. children: Alanson M., born Nov. 13, 1856. Calvin B., born Aug. 31, 1859. EmeUne F., born Jan. 28, 1862. Mary A., born Aug. 21, 1864. Margaret, born Feb, 14, 1868. Martha C, born July 21, 1871. Charles A., born May 3, 1875. PHILLIP L. HARGISS. Phillip L. Hargiss, third son of Rev. Shadrack Hargiss and Nancy Ann Hargiss, was born in Summerville, Fayette county. Tenn.. Sept. 5, 1834, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Mar. 2, 1888. The father. Rev. Shadrack Hargiss, died in Cattlesburg, Ky., Aug. 22, 1869, and the mother died in Kentucky, Nov. 14, 1850. Sarah Catherine Rice, daughter of T. J. and Elizabeth Rice, was born in Sumner county, Tenn., Dec. 27, 1837, and 132 HICKORY COUNTY was married to Phillip L. Hargiss, in Sumner county, Tenn., Mar. 28, 1854. children: Nancy Elizabeth, wife of Oliver L. Dorman, was bom in Sumner county, Tenn. Aug. 2, 1855. Thomas Shadrack, born Jan. 31, 1859, in Sumner coun- ty, Tenn., married Jossie Pritchard, Mar. 20, 1880. Edwin W., born in Green county, HI., Apr. 26, 1861, mar- ried Fannie Powell, May 29, 1881. William Pendleton, bom in Jersey county. 111., Apr. 21, 1868, married Josie Downs, Feb. 13, 1895. Emma Arvilla, born in Wheatland, Mo., Nov. 8, 1875, married Henry W. Ramsey, Apr. 14, 1894, in Hickory county, Mo. CHRISTOPHER Z. HARRYMAN. Christopher Z. Harry man was born in St. Louis county. Mo., June 20, 1813, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 15, 1892. Nancy Ann Smith-Harry man, was born in Henry coun- ty, Virginia, Dec. 24, 1824, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Jan. 4, 1879. children: Nancy L, born Oct. 15, 1840, died July 5. 1895. John F.. born Aug. 13, 1842, died Mar. 10, 1865. Martha A., born Sept. 18, 1848. William D., born Oct. 8, 1850. George S., born Mar. 4, 1852, died in Oct. 1896. Hezakiah E., born May 2, 1854, died Aug. 19, 1857. Mary E., born Apr. 20, 1857, died Sept. 11, 1857. Sarah M., born Aug. 13, 1858. Alfred Wesley, born Apr. 5. 1861, died Aug. 1, 1884. Nathaniel L, born Mar. 7, 1866, died April 18, 1880. James T., bom date in Probate Record. Christopher Z„ born Jan. 26, 1884. The father, Christopher Z., was first married to Martha Lineville, in Cole county. Mo., Jan. 5, 1840, and two of the children whose names and dates of birth are given in the fore- going record, Nancy L., and John F., were born of the first marriage, and the two last named in theToregoing family record, James T. and Christopher Z., were bom of a third marriage, of the father, Christopher Z., with Mrs. Lucinda Cox, of Benton county. Mo. Mr. Harryman lived in Cole county, until 1844, HICKORY COUNTY 133 when he came to Benton county, and in 1848, came to Quincy, in Hickory county. In the Civil War, he served more than three years in Company "F" 8th M. S. M. and was in the ter- rible battle with the Confederates at Lone Jack, Jackson coun- ty, Mo., in which the Federal troops were outnumbered four to one. He was also in the battles at Humansville, Jefferson City, Boonville, and Sedalia. He was captured at Sedalia by, the Confederates. WILLIAM D. HARRYMAN. William D. Harryman, the first child born to Christopher Z. and Nancy Ann Smith- Harryman, was born Oct. 8, 1850, in Quincy, Mo., and was married Dec, 19, 1876, to Miss Nancy M. Rogers, a daughter of John Powell and Nancy B. Owens-Rogers, who was born on Little Weaubleau Creek, in Hickory county, Mo., June 18, 1860. children: Don, born Sept. 21, 1877, married Agee Reese, June 24, 1903. May, born Jan. 16, 1879, married L. P. Forbes, June 9. 1903. Eva, born Oct. 18, 1880, unmarried. It will be seen elsewhere that Mr. Harryman has served his county as Sheriff and Prosecuting Attorney several years and is now Postmaster at Wheatland, which position he has held for several years. ISHAM B. HASTAIN. Isham B. Hastain was bom in 1811, in White county, Tenn., married Rebecca Starkley, in 1834, moved to what is now Hickory county, in 1834. children: Minerva A., who married Mathew N. Brown, born in 1835. James P., born in 1837. Rebecca, born in 1840. W. D., born in 1842, died in 1864. Daniel L, born in 1844, married Eliza Dorris, in 1867. A. F., born in 1847, married Julia English in 1884. Amanda, born in 1850, married George W. Mashburn, and is now deceased. Martha E., born in 1853. Robert, born in 1856. 134 HICKORY COUNTY EPPY D. HAWKINS. Eppy D. Hawkins, born Mar. 10. 1822, died Jan. 6, 1876. Emily Hawkins, wife of Eppy D. Hawkins, born Sept. 12, 1828. children: Nancy E., who married Joseph Aspey, and now resides near Galmey, Mo. William J., who is President of the State Normal School at Warrensburg, Mo. Albert L., who resides in Kansas. Thomas M., who resides in Weaubleau, Mo. Martha J., who married Barber, and now resides at Boise. Idaho. Mary A., who married Snyder, and resides in Okla. Eva J., who resides in Kansas. JOSEPH HAYES. Joseph Hayes was born in N. C. Dec, 7, 1791. married La- vina McConnel- Young, May 4, 1815, came from St. Geniveive county. Mo., to where the John M. Pippin farm is in Section 31, Township 37, Range 19, in 1838, and went to Texas in 1848. Died in Dec. 1869. Lavina McConnel- Young, was born Jan. 28, 1798. died Sept. 17, 1841. children: George W., born Mar. 3, 1816, married Nancy Lindsey, Oct. 10, 1840, died June 14. 1875. Andrew J., born Sept. 21, 1817, died Feb. 18, 1818. Polly C, born Dec. 2, 1819. Benjamin F., born June 12, 1822. Rebecca A., born May 16, 1824. Nancy A., born Mar. 19, 1827. Joseph M., born Nov. 30, 1830, died in Oct. 1831. Charity E., born Jan. 14, 1833. Judge W. R., of Skidmore, Bee county, Texas, born Dec. 30, 1835. Thomas H. B., bom June 24, 1838, died Sept. 10, 1838. Amanda M., born Nov. 5, 1839. GEORGE W. HAYES. George W. Hayes, bom March 3, 1816, married Nancy Lindsey, daughter of Amos and Mary Madison-Lindsey, Oct. 10, HICKORY COUNTY 135 1840. He died June 14, 1875. She died Feb. 3. 1893. children: Dr. Thomas J. Hayes, born Dec. 4, 1841, resides at Fresno, California, married Hannah Lindsey, Aug. 10, 1865. Irene L., born in Jan. 1844, married Nathan R. Tucker, May 28, 1866, died in Apr. 1890. Mary A., born Jan. 1, 1847, married Samuel P. Inks, Mar. 28, 1867, died Dec. 11, 1878. Amos F., born Sept. 13, 1848, married Susie Scott, Nov. 9, 1879. Lucy W., born Feb. 4, 1852, married John M. Pippin, Sept. 2, 1872, died Mar. 29, 1889. Adella, born Jan. 12, 1854, married Robert P. Redifer, Jan. 24, 1882, and now Uves in Riddles, Oregon. Joseph, born Oct. 21, 1856, married Ellen Rains, Mar. 10, 1883, and lives at or near Forsyth, Mo. WILLIAM C. HICKMAN. William C. Hickman was born in Wilson county, Tenn., near Lebanon, Aug. 2, 1832. He is a son of Snowden and Frances Newman-Hickman, who were born in N. C, and Va. The father died in Wilson county, Tenn., in 1852, and the mother died in Hickory county. Mo., in 1882, at the age of eighty-two years. The grandfather of William C, was also named Snowden, was born in N. C, and died in Wilson county, Tenn. The mother of Wm. C, was a daughter of Joel Newman. a Virginian, who died in his native state. Wm. C, was one of a family of six children, only three of whom were living in 1889. Dr. Zachariah, who lived at Benton, III., Martha Ann, who also resided in 111., and the subject of this sketch. In 1851, Wm. C, came West, and traveled over a great deal of the coun- try. In 1853, he went to California, driving an Ox team, over the Carson route, and was six months and eighteen days in making the trip. He made about $2,400 in California, and in about four years returned to Tenn., coming back by way of Panama, Cuba, and New Orleans. After staying a short time in Tenn.. he came to Hickory county. Mo., and purchased the lands on which he now resides. He was married to Martha Hicks Dec. 17, 1857, in Hickory county. Mo. She is a daughter of Thomas M. Hicks, and was born in Wilson county, Tenn., July 14, 1833. They have six children, now living: Fanny, 136 HICKORY COUNTY wife of George W. Morgan, of Kansas, Cora, wife of William Y. Bennett, of Collins, Mo., and Robert, Nina, single, Horace and Joel N., who reside in Hickory county, Mo. William C, has always been an industrious public spirited citizen, up-to- date vfith the younger men on public enterprises, has been a member of the county court two terms, although a Democrat in a Republican county, and as will be seen elsewhere was the first, and prime mover in building the present court house by subscription. During the Civil War he served as a member of Co. "B" 8th Mo. S. M., received no wounds, but on several occasions had his clothing cut and torn with bullets from the enemy's guns. Early in 1861, in a convention held at Buffalo, Mo., in which the question of secession was discussed he stood on the side of the union of the states, although many of his Wilson county, Tenn., friends among whom he lived were se- cessionists. THOMAS HOLLAND. Thomas Holland and Nancy Shemwell, were married Dec. 11, 1820. Thomas Holland, was born in Kentucky, Jan. 24, 1797, and died in Arkansas, Jan. 26. 1879. Nancy Shemwell- Holland, was born in Kentucky, Nov. 20, 1800, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Dec. 3, 1855. There were sixteen children born to Thomas and Nancy Holland, only five of whom are now living, viz: Adaline 0. Thompson, born in Kentucky, Jan. 14, 1823. Henry W. Holland, born in Kentucky, Sept. 20, 1826. Caroline I. Williams, born in Kentucky, Dec. 31, 1830. Shandy W. Holland, born in Kentucky, Apr. 21, 1832. T. J. J. Holland, bom in Missouri, Jan. 30, 1840. SHANDY W. HOLLAND. Shandy W. Holland was born Apr. 21, 1832, in Kentucky. Clara Dent-Holland was born in St. Clair county. Mo., May 22, 1839. Shandy W. Holland and Clara Dent were married in Hickory county. Mo., Aug. 28, 1856, Rev. Adkisson of the Methodist church officiating. children: Thomas W. L, was born Mar. 11, 1859. Mary A, born Jan. 31, 1862. Clara I., born Apr. 8, 1864. HICKORY COUNTY 137 John F., born Sept. 15. 1866, died Nov. 22. 1906. Landrine R. S., born Dec. 22, 1868, died Dec. 18. 1882. WILLIAM R. JORDAN. William R. Jordan was born in Middle. Tenn.. May 16, 1836, came to Missouri, in 1860, and was married to Sarah A. Bre- shears, a widow, whose maiden name was Jordan, Oct. 14, 1861, and she was born July 11. 1832, and died in June, 1896. Wil- liam R., died Feb. 20, 1901. children: Nancy Jane, born May 15, 1862, married Lewis W. Butler, Dec. 1, 1905. Mary e!, born Feb. 3, 1864, married George C. Bartshe, Feb. 26, 1888. Marshal L., born Sept. 26, 1856, died Oct. 13. 1894. Emma Mabel, born Jan. 29, 1868, married William Thorn- ton, Sept. 24, 1892, and he died in Nov. 1894, and she married Mayler Tockey, Sept. 3, 1905. John W., born Oct. 13, 1869, married Gussie Pitts, Dec. 10, 1891. Shandy A., born Apr. 28, 1873, married Rosa Breshears. Sept. 20, 1896. WiUiam A., born July 18, 1871, married Lou Compton, whose maiden name was Cook, Dec. 25, 1901. Terry L., born Nov. 14, 1876, married Norma Gardner. July 28, 1895. PHILLIP H. LACEY. Phillip H. Lacey was born in Alabama, Jan. 15, 1823, died in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 27, 1881. Martha J. Nowell, born in Hickory county, Mo., June 8, 1829, married Phillip H. Lacey. May 8, 1845, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Oct. 29, 1885. children: A. Clark, born Apr. 26, 1846, married Clara Davis. John W., born Sept. 25, 1848. married Nannie Stewart. E. Jane, born Aug. 16, 1851, married John DeWitt. Aurelius L., born Feb. 26, 1854, married Mary E. Whitaker. July 28, 1881. Phillip S., born July 26, 1856, married Lula Biddle. Ethan H., born Mar. 21, 1859, married Ida Harland. Frances, born Sept. 26, 1861, died Feb. 17. 1862. 138 HICKORY COUNTY Martha J., born Mar. 11, 1863, married John Ellis Morton, Nov. 25. 1880. Sarah Rebecca, born Mar. 2, 1866, married William H. Gardner, Feb. 28, 1884. Clara E., born Aug. 14, 1871, married James Williams, Dec. 27, 1896. Maud, born Feb. 22, 1873, married Asa G. Goodman, Dec. 15, 1889. WILLIAM H. LIGGETT. William H. Liggett was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, Mar. 14, 1831, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Dec. 20, 1901, and is buried in the cemetery near Hermitage, which was deeded by him for the benefit of the town and vicinity. Mr. Liggett's father, William Liggett, was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 5, 1795, and died in Ohio, July 4, 1874. The mother, Nancy Vincent-Liggett, also was born in Pennsylvania, Feb. 9, 1797, and died in Sept. 1851, in Ohio. They married in their native state and became the parents of eight children. The Grand- father of William H. Liggett, Alexander Liggett, was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 4, 1775, and died in his native state in 1866. The Grand-mother, Isabella McCoy-Liggett, was born Sept. 19, 1771, and died in 1841, in her native state. They were married Jan. 5, 1795. Mr. Liggett was a teacher in the schools of Iowa and Missouri, up to the Civil War. In the spring of 1859, he ^was married in Benton county. Mo., to Miss Louera E. Heath, and moved to his farm in Section 17, Township 37, Range 20, about three-fourths of a mile North of the Thomas S. Morgan old farm. From that place he removed to Hermitage, where John H. McCaslin and wife now live, in June 1862. To the union of William H. Liggett and Louera E. Heath were born: Alexander C, who died in Hermitage, at the age of seven years, Minnie, wife of S. A. Jackson, Ida M., who died at the age of twenty years, Eva I., wife of J. B. Crowley, Cashier of the Hick- ory County Bank, Henry Paxton, President of the Hickory County Bank, and Ernest Cuthbert, who now resides at Eldo- rado Springs, Mo. Louera E., the mother, died in Wheatland, Mo., Dec. 28, 1901, and was hurried in the Hermitage cemetery. A further history of Judge Liggett and his official history from 1862 to 1901 is found in the history of the county and with the towns of Hermitage and Wheatland. HICKORY COUNTY 139 AMOS LINDSEY. Amos Undsey was born in South Carolina, Dec. 25, 1786. He was the first child of Abraham Lindsey, who was an officer in the Continental Army in the War of the Revolution. While a young man Amos emigrated to Virginia, where he was mar- ried to Mary Madison in 1810. They removed to Butler coun- ty, Ky., where all their children were born, eight boys and two girls. In the year 1834, they removed to Winchester, 111., and came to Missouri in 1837, and settled on the "Fifteen mile prairie," where he died. When he made his settlement, there were only five families on or about the prairie. As will be seen elsewhere he was a member of the first county court of this county. He had previously been Sheriff of Butler county, Ky., for two or three terms. The first child born to Mr. Lind- sey and wife was Irene, who was the wife of Jacob A. Romans, and was born Oct. 21, 1811, and died in Hickory county Mo., Aug. 7, 1889, after raising two daughters, one of whom married Ben F. Simmons, and the other married Rufus B. Green. An- thony W., was born Sept. 14, 1814, and died in Hickory county Missouri, June 9, 1890. He had a fair education, was a great reader, and perhaps knew more of the history of the world, and its peoples, and of the history of his own country, than any other man, who has ever lived in the county. James and Abraham, twins, were born May 21, 1817. Abraham died Jan. 28, 1894, and James, died Oct. 1, 1903. Both raised families and died in Hickory county. Mo. Nancy, was the wife of George W. Hayes^ was born Apr. 20, 1820, who raised a family and died in Hickory county, Mo., Feb. 4, 1893. Amos F., born Jan. 16, 1823, and died in Hickory county. Mo., when about 28 years of age. Lycurgus, was born Nov. 8, 1825, and is now living'on his farm about four miles Southeast of Preston. Further mention of him will be found with our reference to the War of 1861-65. Alfred, was born June 23, 1828, and has raised a family, and lived in Preston, and been Postmaster, and'kept store, the greater part of the time since late in 1866. Thomas, was born Sept. 6, 1831, and raised a family,'and died Apr. 23, 1903, in Dallas county, Mo., but within half a mile of his father's old residence in Hickory county. ~-, John J., the youngest one of the family, was born Apr. 2, 140 HICKORY COUNTY 1834, has raised a family on the farm where he now resides, about a mile South of Preston. The old father, Amos, died June 24, 1875, and his wife Mary Madison-Lindsey died in 1868. JAMES LINDSEY. James Lindsey, a son of AmosLindsey and Mary Madison- Lindsey, was born in Butler county, Ky, May 21, 1817, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Oct. 1, 1903. Cynthia Jones- Lindsey, daughter of G. W. Jones and wife, wife of James Lindsey, was born m Tenn., Dec 11, 1818, and died in Hickory county. Mo. They were married Mar. 18, 1841. G. W. Jones, the father of Cynthia, removed from Tenn., in the year 1828, and settled on the Lebanon and Tuscumbia road, about eight miles North of Lebanon, Mo., on lands that were known 20 years ago as the John Bohannon farm. Later Mr. Jones moved to Hickory county, and settled on Little Niangua, on what is known as the John Mabary old farm, where John N. Mabary now lives. It is believed that James Lindsey and Cyntha Jones were married at that place. children: Mary Ellen, wife of James Cossairt born Mar. 26, 1842. Ester A., wife of Herod M. Holt, was born May 19, 1844. Leonidas, was born Jan, 9, 1847, died Apr. 24, 1893. George W., was born Sept. 10, 1849. Amos F., was born Jan 19, 1852. Abraham L, was born Jan. 19, 1855. Irene, widow of John A. Wesner, was born Oct. 28, 1857. Estella Grant, wife of Livingston Miles, was born Apr. 22, 1860. LYCURGUS LINDSEY. Lycurgus Lindsey, son of Amos and Mary Madison-Lindsey, was born in Butler county, Ky., Nov. 8, 1825. Mrs. Lucy Tobey- lindsey, was born near Madison, Ind., Dec. 2, 1833, and was married to Lycurgus Lindsey, Jan. 16, 1851. She was a daughter of Samuel Tobey, and Lucy Wheeler-Tobey. children: Cynthia, was born Feb. 1, 1852, married John T. Pendle- ton, and died leaving one child, a girl, Neva, who married Geo. HICKORY COUNTY 141 W. Lightner, Jr. Mary E., was born Dec. 27, 1853, married Benjamin F. Creed, and died leaving two boys, Raymond R. Creed, who married Etta Lord, and Thornton Creed, who married Maud True. Josephine, was born Dec. 11, 1855, married Luther Johnson Slavens, has a family and lives at Aztec, N. M. Emma, was born Feb. 3, 1858, married James S. Thurston, has a family and resides at Aztec, N. M. Matilda, was born May 26, 1860, married William Frank- lin Coon, has a family and resides in Hermitage, Mo. Laura L., was born Apr. 30, 1864, married Dr. John W. White, who died, has three children, married second time and obtained a divorce and now lives in Pueblo, Colo. Eugene T., was born Sept. 8, 1871, married Pearl Turk, of Polk county. Mo., and has a family, resides in Hermitage, Mo., and is Collector of the Revenue. More extended information about the father, Lycurgus Lindsey, is. given elsewhere in this volume. ALFRED LINDSEY. Alfred Lindsey, was born in Butler county, Ky., June 21, 1828. He is a son of Amos and Mary Madison Lindsey. He came to Missouri with his parents and other members of the family in the spring of 1838, and Uved with his parents until the Civil War came on in 1861, then joined the Missouri Home Guards, that were organized under orders from Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, of the United States Regular Army, and served until the Home Guards were disbanded, Dec. 20, 1861, at Jefferson City, Mo. He then enlisted in Company "B" 8th Regiment M. S. M., and served until honorably discharged, Mar. 1863, went to IlUnois in June 1863, and remained there until May 1864, when he came home and lay out in the woods and outbuildings most of the time until the Civil War was over in 1865. Was married to Ruth C. Humphrey, at Buffalo, Mo., Nov. 26, 1866. She was born Feb. 17, 1842. children: Theodore, born July 25, 1867. Son, born Feb. 23, 1869, not named. Elnora and Victoria, born Feb. 13, 1870, Elnora died Aug. 18, 1870. Florence, born Nov. 29, 1871. 142 HICKORY COUNTY Leona, born Jan. 28, 1875. Cora, born Aug. 8, 1877. Minnie, born Mar. 10, 1879, died Mar. 15, 1879. Son and daughter, born July 22, 1880, the daughter died July 22, 1880, and the son died July 28, 1880. THOMAS LINDSEY. Thomas Lindsey, was born Sept. 6, 1831, married Mary Jane Simmons, Oct. 14, 1866, died Apr. 23, 1903. Mary Jane Simmons, was born Oct. 24, 1839. children: Lycurgus Franklin, born Oct. 3, 1867. Mary Elizabeth, born Mar. 19, 1869, married to C. G. Ught- ner, Sept. 4, 1892, and they have three girls. Victor Marshall, born Nov. 2, 1870, married Bettie Hayes, Sept. 4, 1895, and she died May 10, 1896, and he married Edna Crump, June 9, 1897, and they have two boys. John Sheridan, born May 19, 1872. Lorena Vane, born Feb. 18, 1874. Sarah Margaret, born July 5, 1876. Amos, born Nov. 8, 1878, married Ida Pitts, Feb. 4, 1902. David Phillip, born Nov. 30, 1880, married Winnie Morgan Dec. 3, 1906. Leona Blanche, born June 4, 1884. JOHN J. LINDSEY. John J. Lindsey, was born in Butler county, Ky., Apr. 2, 1834, married Aug. 15, 1869, to Mary W. Wright, a daughter of Edward F. Wright, and Melissa Kelley- Wright, who was born in Perry county. 111., Dec. 10, 1850. children: Lucilla M., born June 10, 1870, married William J. Edde, Jan. 3, 1894. Viola B., born Aug. 9, 1872, died Dec. 1, 1875. Flora B., born Oct. 21, 1874, married William Tankesly, Oct. 18, 1891. Lillian E., born Nov. 12, 1877, married George W. Helms, Nov. 23, 1896. Alfred H., born Jan. 25, 1880. Charles F., born Mar. 14, 1882, married Iva Pope, Dec. 17, 1905. HICKORY COUNTY 143 Preston B., born Mar. 11, 1885. Mary L, born Mar. 10, 1887. Earl R., born Sept. 4, 1889. EDWARD F. WRIGHT. Edward F. Wright, father of Mrs. John J. Lindsey, was born in Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 6, 1806, and died in Perry county, 111., Apr. 2, 1856. He was married to Melissa A. Kelley, in Henrico county, Virginia, Feb. 2, 1832. To this union nine children were born, only two of whom are living: Levin B. Wright and Mary W. Lindsey. The wife of Edward F., was born in Chesterfield county, Va., Aug. 2, 1810, moved with her three children, Janies H.. Levin B., and Mary W., from Perry county. 111., to Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 2, 1866, where she died Feb. 14, 1878. ABRAHAM LINDSEY. Abraham Lindsey was born May 21, 1817, married, first, Cynthia A. , who was born Apr. 22, 1821. and died Aug. 12, 1844, married second time to Dorcas M. Wisdom-Run- nels, who was born Dec. 5, 1823, May 4, 1847, she died Oct. 1, 1886. Abraham Lindsey died Jan. 28, 1894. children: James F., born Dec. 28, 1842. Virginia T.. born Mar. 10, 1848. Francis and Amos, born Nov. 15, 1849. Amos died Aug. 12, 1851. Anthony W., born Sept. 27, 1852. William J., born Aug. 9, 1854, died Sept. 10, 1880. Cynthia A., born Oct. 20, 1857. Emily M., born Oct. 7, 1858, died Oct. 30, 1886. Thomas L., born Nov. 7. 1860. died Feb. 10. 1880. Jessie F., born May 7. 1865. died Nov. 28. 1879. JOHN MABARY. John Mabary was born in Tenn., Mar. 1, 1816. but was principally raised in Clinton county. 111. Sarah Daltson, wife of John Mabary. was born in Tenn.. Mar. 17. 1815. They were married in CUnton county. III. May 15. 1834. children: William Jasper, born on Black river, in Southeast Mo.. 144 HICKORY COUNTY' Mar. 13, 1835, marrie^ Elizabeth Ann Payne, daughter of James Payne, in Polk county, Mo., Jan. 1, 1867. Syntha, was born in Henry county, Mo., Jan. 24, 1837, died in Sept. 1837, Sarah Ann, born Dec. 12, 1838, married George W. Rains, widow. John Newton, born Jan. 3, 1841, in Hickory county, Mo., married Ruby. George Washington, born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 3, 1843, married Louise Rains. Francis Marion, born in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 6, 1844, married Dulcena Parks. Mary Jane, born in Hickory county. Mo., July 6, 1847, mar- ried George C. Dunn. Andrew Jackson, born Feb. 9, 1849, died Sept. 10, 1866. Frances CaroUne, born in Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 5, 1850, married Ambrose Ruby. John, the father, died July 23, 1863, Sarah, the mother, died Apr. 15, 1875, John Mabary was a strong man of great common sense, but with a hmited education. An inspection of the dates of entry, selections of tracts of land entered by him in Sections 20, 21, 22, and 26, Township 37, Range 21, and Sections 25 and 26, Township 37, Range 20, attest his great common sense in the selection of farm lands and timber. WILLIAM JASPER MABARY. William Jasper Mabary, was born on Black river in South- east Mo., Mar. 13, 1835. Elizabeth Ann Payne, wife of William Jasper Mabary, born Aug. 19, 1848. They were married in Polk county. Mo., Jan. 1, 1867. children: Henrietta, born Aug. 19, 1868, married William Stewart, April 19, 1893. Robert H., born Nov. 30, 1870, married Lucy Stewart, Dec. 27, 1893. Florence, born Feb. 5, 1874, single. Effie E., born Mar. 5, 1876, married Wright Oliver, Feb. 21, 1897. Fannie, born Nov. 8, 1880, married Everett Simmons, in April, 1897. HICKORY COUNTY 145 BEN L. MALLONEE. Ben L Mallonee was born in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 20, 1848, and came to Mo., in 1867, and was married to Lucy K. Kendall, Oct. 11, 1867, a daughter of Edward J. Kendall, who was born in Morgan county. III, Aug. 12, 1850. Ben L., was the young- est boy in the family of seven children, born to John A., and Rachel Lym-Mallonee, who were born near AnnapoUs, and Baltimore, Md., in 1790, and 1814, respectively, and died in Baltimore, in 1860, and 1862, respectively. The Grand-father, John Mallonee, was a soldier in the Continental army, and died at the age of 98 years. children: Len G., born Sept. 2, 1870, at Pittsburg, Mo., married Atha Creed Sept. 29 1901. Clara L, born Jan. 21, 1873, and died in Oct. 1878. Fannie M., born Oct. 18, 1876, married Feb. 6, 1898, and died May 15, 1899. Lou K., born Sept. 15, 1880, married Arthur Davis Mar. 7, 1901. Rachel L., born July 27, 1883, at Pittsburg, Mo. Victorine D., born Apr. 18, 1886, at Pittsburg, Mo. Edward K., and Ben L., Jr., were born May 20, 1889. at Pittsburg, Mo., MASHBURN FAMILY. William Mashburn and Sally Mashburn, his wife, with their children, came to what is now Hickory county, from Kentucky, in 1841. They both died in Hickory county, Mo., William in 1847, and Sally in 1873. children: Charity, born in North Carolina, Feb. 13, 1807. Turner, born in North Carolina, Jan. 1, 1809. Jordan, born in North Carolina, June 15, 1810. Martha, born in Kentucky, Dec. 5, 1817. Emanuel, born in Kentucky, Jan. 1, 1820. John Jackson, born in Kentucky, Feb. 11, 1822. William, born in Kentucky. Sept. 22, 1829. FAMILIES OF THE SONS. Turner, was the father of James H., and Thomas C. Mash- burn, of Humansville, Mo. Jordan, was the father of Benjamin F., Andrew J., Henry 146 HICKORY COUNTY C, Thomas J., and Irvin. Emanuel, was the father of George W., John H., William Turner, and Columbus A. John Jackson, raised no family. William, the youngest son, married Jane Pitts, and they have no children, he now owns and resides on the farm that his father, William Mashburn, settled in 1841. WILLIAM McCAIN. WiUiam McCain was born Apr. 9, 1828, married Mary C. Moore, Jan. 12, 1851. She was born Oct. 22, 1831. WiUiam died Oct. 27, 1897. children: Tennessee J., born Mar. 23, 1852. WilUam A., born June 24, 1854, married Lucy A. Eidson, Feb. 10, 1878. Sarah E., born Nov. 22, 1856, married L. C. Sheriff, May 20. 1875, died July 21, 1883. James F., born Feb. 14, 1859, married Mahala Wilson, Apr. 13, 1880. Henry R., born Apr. 9, 1862, married Sarah E. Curnutt, Feb. 9, 1880. Eliza H., born Oct. 2, 1865. HENRY McCASLIN. Henry McCaslin was born Oct. 14, 1817, died in Hickory county. Mo., May 12, 1894. Rachel Parker-McCaslin was born Dec. 8, 1819, died Nov. 1, 1880, in Hickory county, Mo. Henry McCaslin and Rachel Parker, were married in Mar. 1835, and came from Tenn., to Mo., in 1852, and settled in Hickory county. children: Margarett Jane, born in Tenn., May 14, 1837, married James C. Forshe, in Aug. 1853. Mahala Catherine, born in Tenn., Dec. 3, 1835, died Jan. 2, 1836. Sarah Ann, born in Tenn., Dec. 27, 1840, died in Hickory county. Mo., May 11, 1854. William Logan, born Jan. 7, 1842, in Tenn., and married to Eliza Ann Lewis, Jan. 22, 1865, and is now Judge of the county court. Mary Elizabeth, born Oct. 11, 1844, in Tenn., married to HICKORY COUNTY 147 William D. Niblack, in Hickory county, Mo., Dec. 15, 1864, and died Aug. 13, 1881. Amanda Caroline, born Sept. 17, 1846, in Tenn., married Benj. J. Gott, Nov. 16, 1865, and lives near Springfield, Mo. Daniel McKindre, born in Tenn., Sept. 8, 1849. James Henry, born in Tenn., Aug. 1, 1852, died Sept. 14, 1852. Nancy Angeline, born in Hickory county, Mo., Mar. 30, 1853, married Montgomery Knott, Mar. 22, 1874, and is now a widow. Rachel Manerva, born Sept. 1, 1856, and died Oct. 11, 1857. John Henry, born in Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 15, 1858, married Ida F. Dent, May 7, 1882, who died Sept. 13, 1905, leaving the following children: Gertrude A., born Apr. 29, 1883; Ethel May, born May 18, 1886; and Harry D., born Aug. 6, 1891. Mr. McCaslin is Cashier of the Citizens Bank, of Hermitage, Mo. Alice Evalena, born in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 28, 1862, married Benjamin Naffziger, Mar. 2, 1879, and is now deceased. Mccracken family. The earliest accurate information received about this family is that Robert McCracken, a full blood Scotchman, who lived and died in Scotland, was the father of two sons and a daughter, who came to America sometime in the 18th Century, before the War of the Revolution. Names of these children of Robert were: Joseph, John L., and Elizabeth Ann, Joseph set- tled in New York, and John settled in Maryland. Joseph was a Colonel in the Continental Army, and John L., was a non- commissioned officer. The descendants of Joseph and Eliza- beth Ann, if they left any, are lost to the McCrackens of Hick- ory, Polk, and Green counties. The latter are the descendants of John L, McCracken, who settled in Maryland. He had six children: John, Robert, James, Ephraim, Thomas, and Sarah. Some of these children are believed to have been born in Scot- land, but Thomas was born in Maryland, and it was he and his children who came to Southwest Mo. Thomas and his family moved from Maryland to North Carolina and settled in Roane county. From there the children scattered. Sarah married a'^man named Warthan, and went to Indiana. Where the oth- er children went, except Thomas McCracken, is not known by the McCrackens here. Thomas McCracken, fifth son of John 148 HICKORY COUNTY L, was born Feb. 26, 1778, he was married in N. C, about 1805, to Elizabeth Holmes, a girl of pure Irish blood. He moved with his wife to Williamson county, Tenn., where their children were all born: ten sons and three daughters, in the following order: John Little, Aug. 9. 1808; Robert Holmes, Dec. 26, 1809; Samuel, Mar. 30, 1811; Nathaniel, Oct. 17, 1813; James, Sept. 28, 1815; Miles, Sept. 11, 1817; Doctor T., Aug. 7, 1819; Eph- raim. May 17, 1821; Albert G., Jan. 28, 1823; Margaret J., Mar. 26, 1824; Elizabeth Ann, Nov. 26, 1826; Nancy M., Apr. 17, 1828. Joseph Carroll, Apr. 15, 1830. The following is a sketch of all these children of Thomas McCracken, who came to Mis- souri in the years 1838, to 1842: John Little, married Elvira McMinn, in Tenn., and moved to Green county. Mo., about 1840. They had nine children as follows: Calvin, Matilda, who married a man named Turner, and went to Texas, Emily, who married William Riggs, and lived in Springfield, Mo., Albert, who mar- ried and went to Arkansas, James, who married Sarah Jarrett, and went to Arkansas, John, who married Jennie Jarrett, El- vira, and EUza. John Little McCracken, father, died in Green county, near Springfield, Mo., about 1878. Robert Holmes, and Samuel, came to Hickory county, in 1837, or 1838, and Robert Holmes entered land in Section 27, Township 36, Range 23, Oct. 22, 1838; this entry and another in the same Section by William Metcalf, being of the same date, were the first land entries in what is now Hickory county. Robert Holmes mar- ried Clarissa Richardson, and they lived, raised a family, and died on the land he first entered. To their union were born ten children as follows: Thomas A., John T, Christopher C, Saina, Martha 0., Robert P., Richard M., Nancy, Cicero, and Nettie. Of these John T., Cicero, and Saina, are dead. The others live in Hickory county, except Nettie, the wife of F. F. Yoast, who lives in Polk county. Samuel McCracken, married Elizabeth Owens, and to them were born eight children, as follows: Joseph C, Margaret, Lafayette, Jerome B., Paris, Louisa, Samuel, and Leonidas. Samuel, the father, died of measles in 1855, and his widow lived on the farm where her husband had first settled in 1838, and raised the family. After the Civil War, her and two sons and a daughter moved to Texas. Jos- eph C, Lafayette, and Margaret are dead. Jerome B., lives in Hickory county. Nathaniel, came to what is now Hickory county, in 1842. He married Arrissa Gates, of Polk county. Mo., and he as well HICKORY COUNTY 149 as his brothers, Robert Holmes, and Samuel, opened up his farm, clearing and fencing his land with a rail fence, building a log house with "clap-board" roof, "puncheon" floor, limestone chimney and "batten" doors. He and his good wife died at the old place. He Dec. 24, 1897, at the age of 84 years. To them were born eleven children as follows: James N., Ransom C, Emily, I. G., Robert A., Henry, Thomas J., Edith, McClellan, John R., and Julia. These children are scattered in the South- west. Emily and Julia are dead, and Ransom C, and Thomas J., reside in Hickory county. Mo. James McCracken came to Hickory county. Mo., in 1840, from Tenn., and entered land in Section 2, Township 35, Range 23. He afterwards married Ann B. Douglas, of Polk county, Mo., and lived in Bolivar, where to him and his wife were born three children: William Thomas Jewett, Albert J., and Intha Ann. The father, James, died of measles in Bolivar, Feb. 4, 1852, also the daughter, Intha Ann, died there about the same time. William T. J., improved the lands his father entered in Hickory county, after the Civil War, in which he served in Company "C" 8th Regiment M. S. M., and lived on the farm, until after he was elected Sheriff of Hickory county, at the No- vember flection 1880. He was Sheriff and Collector of the county, and resided in Hermitage, until 1891, when he was ap- pointed Register of the United States Land Office, at Boonville, ]^o. He moved with his family to Boonville, where he resided until Octv 1893, and then came to Cross Timbers, where he took stock in and assisted in organizing the Bank of Cross Timbers, and was its first Cashier, in which position he remained until 1896, when he removed to Warrensburg, and remained there until 1903, a year or so of the time coming to Hicltory county, and acting as Assistant Cashier of the Hermitage Bank. In Aug. 1903, he accepted $ position in the Bankof Humansville, and is now Cashier of that bank and resides with his family in Humansville. Albert J., resides in Bolivar. Miles McCracken, died at the home of his brother, Robert Holmes, in 1865. Doctor T., died in Polk county, Mo., Feb. 8, 1852, Ephraimvdied near Rondo, in Polk county, July 6, 1898, Albert G., died in Green county, Sept. 28, 1878, Joseph Carroll, resides in Polk county, near Rondo, where his father, Thomas, settled in 1842. The father, Thomas, died on the farm Jan. 26, 1859, and the mother, Elizabeth, died Sept. 6, 1870. Joseph Carroll was married to Mary F. Bodine, of Hickory .county, who 150 HICKORY COUNTY was born Sept. 13, 1837, on Oct. 21, 1856, and to them were born children as follows: Henry Clay, Marcus A., Charles C, Marcellus Belle, Theopilus P., William T., Sherman, L C, wife of John E. Kendall, Virginia F., and Martha F. WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, William Montgomery, father of John J. Montgomery, and Grand-father of John William Montgomery, present Prosecuting Attorney, of Hickory county, was born in N. C, Aug. 17, 1797, and his wife, Nancy Ballou-Montgomery, was born in Apr. 1800. William Montgomery and his son, John J., went to the state of California in 1850, and William died there Oct. 8, 1853. Nancy, his wife, died in Dallas county. Mo., Feb. 23, 1854. William Montgomery came to Missouri from Tennessee, and settled on the Gasconade river in what is now Pulaski county, Mo., in 1817, and moved to what is now Camden county, on Little Niangua, about two miles East of what is now the Northeast corner of Hickory county, in 1829, and settled what was known several years ago as the Hugh Allison-Drenon place, about four miles below where Fritz MuUer now owns a large tract of land. In 1829 or 1830, John Stark settled near the mouth of Stark creek and Reason Jones settled what was once known as the James P. Huffman place, in the Niangua bottom, now a part of the Fritz MuUer tract of land, about 1834. Wash Jones settled the Elias Cook old place in 1830, in Section 24, Township 37, Range 20, and included in his claim some of the John Mabary land, now owned by John Newton Mabary. William Montgomery moved with his family in 1831, to the farm now4)wned by John J. Montgomery, on Little Niangua, about one mile East of the Southeast corner of Section 36, Township 37, Range 20, and his son, John J., has resided there except about four years, he was in California, and a few years he was in Texas, until about three years ago, when he came to live with his son in Hermitage. In 1831, Joseph Hayes, who came from N. C, with William Montgomery, lived on what is now the John M. Pippin place in Section 31, Township 37, Range 19. Judge Mitchell Ross settled on Niangua below the Pippin place in 1832. Joseph Hayes was the father of Geo. W. Hayes, who married Nancy Lindsey, and died about 1875, on a farm on Little Niangua about a mile above Almon. Wash Young settled the place where Geo. W. Hayes died in the early 30's. In 1838-39, William Montgomery settled a place further HICKORY COUNTY 151 South than his farm on Little Niangua. It was on "Four mile prairie." He moved to it in 1840, and it was from there that he went to California. Uncle John J. Montgomery recites some amusing stories of early days in Missouri. In 1833, one of William Montgomery's daughters, Elizabeth Ann, was visiting with friends and relatives down near where the family had first settled on Gasconade river, and became engaged to marry a young man named John West. There was some difficulty down there, about consent of the parent, William Montgomery, or a Minister or Justice of the Peace to solemnize the marriage, so they with several friends set out on horseback and came up to where the parents lived. There was no trouble about the consent, but there was no Minister or Justice of the Peace, over there on Little Niangua, so they sent over into Benton (now Hickory) county, to get a Justice of the Peace, but the difficulty was not yet settled, for the Justice of the Peace, when he came did not think that he was authorized to marry people outside of Benton county, and the bride and groom and friends and relatives came over into Benton coun- ty, as far as the farm recently owned by William C. Pippin, on what is called the "Pippin hollow," and on the Pippin old farm, under a large white oak tree, among the woods and tall grass, John West and Elizabeth Ann Montgomery, were joined together in matrimony, by the Benton county "Squire," whose name was Riddle, in his own county. Jonathan Dennis and family lived on that hollow at the time. The married couple went back down into the Gasconade country, but moved back in a year or two, near William Montgomery's place. The children of William and Nancy Ballou-Montgomery were: Robert Carroll, John J., (now living in Hermitage,) David M., Thomas J. B., Elizabeth Ann (West,) Ruth Amipa (Jones,) Margaret Evaline (Davis,) Charity Caroline (Pointer,) Nancy Emeline (Lakey.) JOHN J. MONTGOMERY. John J. Montgomery, born May 26, 1826. Julia W. Clark. born Dec. 12, 1836. John J. Montgomery and Julia W. Clark, were married Dec. 11, 1856. children: John William, born Oct. 12, 1857. Gilford Waldo, born Apr. 17, 1861. Alley Virginia, born Sept. 2, 1869. 152 HICKORY COUNTY Some rather old Documents and Papers exhibited to the writer of this book by John J. Montgomery. Exact copies: Gasconade September 4th 1825 We the subscribers do join ourselves in wolf hunt compehy for which we appoint William Montgomery Esqr as our Stock- holder upon the underwritten condition, each subscriber Shall put up in Stock two Dollars and for want of cash he Shall put in his note due Wm Montgomery or bearer or his successor in office, we therefore agree that any Subscriber who Shall kill a wolf panther or wild cat Shall for each wolf have one (lollar out of the joint fund and for each panther two dollars and for each wild cat fifty cents it is also undersood that if any Subscribers servent child or printice shall kill any of the above named animals it shall be as valad as he had killed them hisself pro- vided they may noy have been penned previous to the partyes becoming a subscriber each subscriber who puts in his note Shall have that for pay first pro-ded it may not be drawn out first before he claims it for a scalp, we therefore do agree to meet at the house of Wm Gilasaby on the first day of January next to prove our scalps and draw money for them for which we make Montgomery the Sole Judge and authorize him to prevent fraudulance and Should there not be a sufficient num- ber of scalps produced to draw all they money out of they bank at they first meeting we do agree to continue on from time to time under such rules as a Majority of us may agree in testimony Whereof we sign our names Sept. 16, 1825 Wm Morrison $2.00 John Hanssiger $2.00 G Henson notes Jonathan Cain note ThomasG. Wilson paid Josiah Turpin $2.00 John Coursey Henry Q. Johnson Gerge Dull WiLUAM Baker Isaac N. Davis $2.00 Wm Montgomery $2 Jacob Anderson Baley Williams $2 Elias Williams 2 Wm Gillaspy 2 Pulaski County July 19 1834 Dear Father and Mother I have taken the opportunity of informing you that Eliz- abeth Ann and myself are well at present I received infor- mation by Mr. Ross that you and your Family was in the same state of health Elizabeth Ann have been sick five or six days- part of the time verry sick, Mrs Stark and Miram is now sick and has been dangerous, but are both better Mrs Stark is HICKORY COUNTY 153 mending as fast as could be expected Miram is still dwindling, have Feavors every knight-and Primus have also been sick-the circumstances have kept us from coming at the time we ex- pected and circumstances have Occured that deprives us of going for some time we have taken a notion of going to my Fathers first, depending sickness induces us to do so, the Sick- ness is depending in my Brother-in-laws family Mr Wherry that if we dont do so we cant until the first of September, and I could not get back in time to take as much Fodder as I want. I would be glad you could delay coming until we return if you have no particular business and if you have come on and we will be out as soon as we come back we shall start about the 26th of the present instance and will aim to be back a Uttle better three weeks which will be about the 24th or 5th of August I Am Yours &C John West Sealed with wax, without envelope and addressed William Montgomery, Little Niangua Mo. Favor Per Mr. Ross WiLUAM H. Ashley, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, and exercising the Powers of Governor. To all who shall see these presents-Greeting, Know Ye, That whereas the County Court for the County of Gasconade, in the state of Missouri, have nominated and appointed William Montgomery a Justice of the Peace, for the Township of CuUen in the county of Gasconade, Now Therefore, I do hereby com- mission the said William Montgomey a Justice of the Peace for the county and township aforesaid, and do authorize and empower him to discharge the duties of said office, according to law: To Have and to Hold the said office, with all the powers, privileges and emoluments, to the same of right pertaining unto him the said William Montgomery for four years, unless sooner removed according to law. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of the State of Missouri to be affixed. Done at St. Charles, this Eighth day of June A. D. 1824, and in the forty Eighth year of the Independence of the United States. By the Governor, Wiluam H. Ashley Wm. G. Pettus (LS) Secretary of State. 154 HICKORY COUNTY John Miller Governor of the State of Missouri, To All who shall see these presents, Greeting: Know Ye, That, Reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, learning and abilities of William Montgomery I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do hereby appoint him Judge of the County Court of Gasconade County, and do authorize and empower him to discharge the duties of said office, according to law: To Have and to Hold the said office, with all the powers, privileges and emoluments of the same of right appertaining unto him the said WilUam Montgomery for the term of four years, and until his successor is duly commissioned and quaUfied, unless sooner removed from office. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of the state of Missouri to be affixed. Done at the City of Jefferson, this 23rd. day of January A. D. 1829, and of the Independence of the United States, the fifty third, and of the state the ninth By the Governor, John Miller T. A. McBride (LS) Secretary of State. THOMAS S. MORGAN. Thomas S. Morgan was born July 3, 1808, and died July 23, 1869, while serving as President of the county court of this county. Brooky Kyger, first wife of Thomas S. Morgan, was born Aug. 17, 1817, and died May 8, 1852. Thomas S. Morgan and Brooky Kyger were married Feb. 20, 1834. CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: Sylvester, was born Mar. 2, 1835, and now lives near Dan- ville, 111. William S., was born Dec. 6, 1837, died Dec. 9, 1852. Levi, was born Aug. 7, 1841, married and hves in Kansas. Achilles, was born Aug. 27, 1843, has been Judge of the county court, and resides two and a half miles East of Preston. Eliza S., was born Oct. 24, 1845, died Apr. 1, 1847. John, was born Jan 2, 1848, resides two and a half miles East of Preston". Caroline, was born in 1850, and died when about six months old. HICKORY COUNTY 155 Mary, was born Apr. 28, 1852, died Sept. 6, 1852. Thomas S. Morgan and Pheby Ann Lightner, were married August 29, 1852. Pheby Ann Lightner-Morgan was bom Feb. 27, 1827, and died Nov. 18, 1892. CHILDREN, SECOND marriage: Nancy Elizabeth, wife of Russell G. Pendleton, was born July 21, 1853. Sarahfine, wife of William Padgett, was born Feb. 2, 1855. Cynthia Ann, wife of Washington F. Reser, was born Feb. 9, 1857. Susannah, wife of Matt J. Orr, was born Feb. 1, 1859. Thomas D., was born Dec. 1, 1860, died May 5, 1862. Liberty M., was born Jan. 1, 1864. Martha, was born Feb. 21, 1866, died Mar. 8, 1866. Jesse L, was born Oct. 11, 1867, died Sept. 5, 1888. ACHILLES MORGAN. Achilles Morgan was born Aug. 27, 1843. Samantha Hires- Morgan was born Feb. 16, 1839. Achilles Morgan and Sa- mantha Hires were married Dec. 31, 1871. Both had been previously married, he to Nancy Dollarhide, daughter of Wil- liam Dollarhide, and she to Hires, the son of Lewis Hires, who died in the United States Army, during the Civil War. James H. Hires, son of Samantha L., by former marriage, was born Aug. 16, 1862, and married Inda James Dec. 23, 1886. children: Nancy E, born Dec. 22, 1872, married John A. Johnson, Nov. 29, 1891. Thomas W., born Oct. 8, 1874, single. Cora E., born Oct. 9, 1877. JOHN MORGAN. John Morgan was born Jan. 2, 1848. Matilda Lain was born July 27, 1851, married John Morgan, Jan. 4, 1872. children: Cynthia Elnora, born Dec. 5, 1872. Lyman, born Aug. 1, 1874. Raymond, born July 15, 1878. Rachel Elvora, born Jan. 10, 1881. Arthur, born Jan. 10, 1886. 156 HICKORY COUNTY Ethan, born Sept. 12, 1888. Thomas S., born June 29, 1891. Ora Ellen, born May 18, 1894. JOHN H. MORGAN. John H. Morgan, a grand son of Judge Thomas S. Morgan, and son of Sylvester, was born July 14, 1858, married Nancy Jane Wilson, Sept 23, 1882, by Charles Kroff Justice of the Peace. Nancy Jane Wilson-Morgan was born in Miller county, Mo., Nov. 8, 1861. children: Otto H., born Nov. 28, 1883, single. ^ Olin T., born Feb. 23, 1886, married Edna Nease, Mar. 17, 1907. Jessie, born Oct. 13, 1^88, married Elmer Earsom, Oct. 28, 1906. THE MORGANS. Mary Scott, mother-in-law of Achilles Morgan, was born June 10, 1755, and died Nov. 10, 1842, aged 87 years, 10 months, and 2 days. Achilles Morgan, father of Thomas Scott Morgan, was born July 18, 1772, and died Jan. 20, 1860, aged 87 years, 6 months, and 2 days. Achilles Morgan was bom in Virginia. Susannah Morgan, wife of Achilles Morgan, and mother of Thomas Scott Morgan, was born Sept. 28, 1772, died Sept. 16, 1851, aged 78 years, 11 months, and 18 days. Thomas Scott Morgan was born in Monongahala county, Va, July 3, 1808, came to Illinois, in 1820, and lived there until 1857, when he came to Missouri, and settled 3 miles East of Preston, where he died July 23, 1869. He was a lieutenant in Black Hawk War. He was a miller by trade and assisted in the erection of the first steam mill in Vermillion county, 111. In the early days he shipped flour down the Wabash river to the Ohio, down that to the Mississippi, to New Orleans. This was in the days of flat boats. Very shortly before the commencement of the Civil War Mr. Morgan bought the machinery for a steam mill from the Donnell people, who had erected the first steam mill in the county, where the Cross Timbers mill now stands. He moved this machinery to a point about half a mile North of where the Morgan old residence stands, three miles East of Preston, and there erected a steam mill, which he later moved to a point about half a mile Northeast, down in a hollow, where he run a distillery. RESIDENCE OF JUDGE THOMAS SCOTT MORGAN, Built about 1858. ASA B. WILSON, Representative. HICKORY COUNTY 157 ALEXANDER MURPHY. Alexander Murphy, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1802, re- moved to Ohio, thence to Randolph county, Ind., in 1849. He died in the early 50's in Indiana. Mr. Murphy married Eliza Quigg, of the "Keystone state" in Wayne county, Ohio, Sept. 8, 1835. After the death of her husband, in Indiana she removed to Hickory county. Mo., accompanied by her six children: Wil- liam, John, Elizabeth, Geo. W., Henderson, and Alexander. EUza, the widow, died in Hickory county. Mo., Feb. 26, 1897, William was ambushed and killed during the Civil War, EUza- beth married John Kinross, and died, George W., has been twice married, and now lives about five miles North of Wheat- land, John married Sarah Ann Ritchey, and died in 1904. Sarah A., survives him, and Uves on the farm left her by the husband. William Paul, one of their sons, is now owner and Publisher of the Index, at Hermitage, Mo. Henderson died a few years ago in Hickory county, and Prof. Alexander, young- est son of Alexander and Eliza Quigg-Murphy, is somewhere in the mountain states. James S. Ritchey, who was the father of SarahAnn, wife of John Murphy, was born in Kentucky, Mar. 4, 1820, and came to Hickory county, Mo. ,in 1837, and died in St. Clair county, Mo., in 1874. His wife, Patsy Bradley, was born in N. C, Aug. 27, 1819, and came to Missouri in 1838, died in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 28, 1858. They were married in in Polk county. Mo., in 1842. There children were: Sarah Ann, born Apr. 17, 1845, and Hannah E., born Mar. 4, 1849. Han- nah E., is the wife of Joseph W. Cooper, who resides on Pomme de Terre river six miles Southwest of Hermitage. MOSES N. NEIHARDT. Moses N. Neihardt was born in Williams county, Ohio, Jan. 21, 1847, his parents being Jacob and Anna M. Frock-Neihardt. The father was born in Center county, Penn., Dec. 17, 1795, and was of German ancestry, and the mother was born in Md., Dec. 11, 1807, and was of German ancestry. He and his wife became the parents of eleven children. Moses N., was next to the youngest in the family. He received an education in the Northeast Indiana Institute, at Orland, Indiana. In June, 1863, he enlisted in Company "E" 86th Regiment of Ohio In- fantry Volunteers, and was discharged October 28th of the same year. He thence commenced to teach school, teaching in the winter and attending school in the summer months. He 158 HICKORY COUNTY came to this county in 1866, and followed the occupation of teaching until 1870, when he came to Hermitage, and formed a partnership with Amos S. Smith, a lawyer, in the real estate business, and at the same time studied law, and was employed as Deputy County and Circuit Clerk in 1872, by William Q. Paxton, who then held those offices, and continued to hold this position until he was elected to fill those offices in November 1874. He served eight years. He was admitted to the bar in 1871. He attended to farming, was Deputy Assessor, and Deputy County Clerk from Jan. 1, 1883 to Jan. 1, 1887, when when he became Judge of the Probate Court, having been elected at the previous November election. He served four years in this office and retired Jan. 1, 1891. He attended to farming and acting as Deputy for the Clerks and Collector until November 1898, when he was elected Clerk of the County Court and served until Jan. 1, 1903. Since that time he has been Deputy for the Clerks and Collector, but last year he began traveling for the Samuel Dodsworth Book Company, of Leaven- worth, Kansas, and is still on the road for them. He knows more about the records, and people of this county for the last thirty-five years than any other man living. He is a Master Mason and belongs to Hermitage Lodge, No. 288, A. F. & A. M. He is also a P. G., of Hermitage Lodge, No. 670, I. 0. 0. F. He was married Mar. 26, 1873, to Mary S. Pack, a daughter of Dr. James R. and Rachel Pack, of Hermitage. James R. Pack was an eminent Physician, and died in Hermitage, on the 21st day of Mar. 1901, his wife Rachel is yet Uving at the old residence in Hermitage. To this union between Mr. Neihardt and Miss Mary S. Pack were born the following children: Otto K., was born Oct 11, 1878, married Lottie Craig, in Oct. 1904. Mary Ada, was born Feb. 16, 1881, married Henry Sher- wood. Melbern Moses, was born May 31, 1885. The mother died Feb. 10, 1900, in Hermitage, Mo. Mr. Neihardt was again married to Lizzie S. Dickinson on July 8, 1906. Miss Dickinson was a former schoolmate of Mr. Neihardt, at the Northeast Indiana Institute, at Orland, Ind., and has spent most of the time teaching since her girlhood days. HICKORY COUNTY 159 NATHANIEL PAXTON. CHILDREN, GRAND-CHILDREN, GREAT GRAND-CHILDREN: Nathaniel Paxton, son of John Paxton, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, Feb. 4, 1769, died in Wayne county, Ohio, Oct. 6, 1849, married Isabella McFarland Oct. 25, 1792. who was born in Tyrone county, Ireland, Feb. 11, 1774, and came to Wayne county, Ohio, at the age of 15 years. Well kept family records in Ohio and Missouri, attest data of a part of Nathaniel Paxton's family. John, born in Washington county, Penn., Jan. 4, 1794, went to Kosciusko county, Ind., married and raised a family. Nathaniel, born in Washington county, Penn., Mar. 9, 1799, went to Ind., married a Luce, raised a family and died. Hugh, born in Washington county, Penn., Feb. 15, 1801, went to Ashland county, Ohio, married Nancy Parr, had no children, died in 1880. James, born in Washington county, Penn., Mar. 31, 1803, was a physician, married and raised a family, and died in Iberia, Morrow county, Ohio, June 24, 1874. Ann, born in Washington county, Penn., Jan. 4, 1805, died in Wayne county, Ohio, Nov. 30, 1824, unmarried. William, born in Washington county, Penn., Apr. 4, 1807, died in Hickory county. Mo., in 1862, married Rebecca Shin- nabarger in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1828, and they came to Missouri in 1834. Hannah, born in Washington county, Penn., Apr. 22, 1809, died in Morrow county, Ohio, Aug. 8, 1834. Amos, born in Washington county, Penn., Aug. 6, 1811, married Rebecca Quigg, who was born near Harrisburg, Penn., Oct. 2, 1819, and came to Hickory county, Mo., in 1840. He died in 1902, and the wife, Rebecca, died Jan, 11, 1893, about nine years before he died. WILLIAM PAXTON. William Paxton was the fifth son of Nathaniel and Isabella McFarland-Paxton. children: Ethan, born in Wayne county, Ohio, Dec. 31, 1829, died in Hickory county. Mo., Jan. 9, 1898, first married Minerva Ben- nett, and she died, and after her death he married Mary U. Kinross September 29, 1867. She was born Apr. 24, 1851, in 160 HICKORY COUNTY Worcester Shire England. Hugh, born in Wayne county, Ohio, Jan 16, 1834, died in Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 8, 1893, first married Martha J. Walker, June 8, 1854. She was born in Wayne county, Ohio, June 11, 1837, and died in Hickory county, Mo., Apr. 1, 1868. On Jan. 2, 1870, he married Paulina Smith, who was born in Anderson county, 111., Oct. 12, 1851. Martha A., born in Wayne county, Ohio, Feb. 16, 1838, unmarried. Almina, born in Hickory county, Mo., Apr. 3, 1842, mar- ried Samuel Dent, July 11, 1860, died recently in Utah. Amos M., born in Hickory county. Mo., Dec. 8, 1845, married Hattie CuUey-Jenkins, July 27, 1881, died in Wheatland Jan. 27, 1902. William J., born in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 28, 1849, died in Hickory county. Mo., June 1, 1875, unmarried. Lucy D., born in Hickory county. Mo., , mar- ried John M. Sherman and died leaving children. AMOS PAXTON, SON OF NATHANIEL PAXTON. CHfLDREN: William Quigg, born in Wayne county, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1837, first married to Mary J. Halbert, Oct. 1, 1867, v/ho died Sept, 11, 1868, childless, was married Jan. 11, 1872, to Harriett E. Tillery-Noland, who was bom near Knoxville, Tenn., Mar. 2, 1842. He died at Humansville, Mo., Jan. 20, 1903. Hugh B., born in Wayne county, Ohio, May 15, 1840, mar- ried Mary F. Babb, in Hickory county. Mo., in 1867. John Wesley, born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 6, 1843, married July 12, 1861, to Elmira J. Satterfield, and now Uves in Arkansas. Iri J., born in Hickory county. Mo., Dec. 12, 1845, married Martha Amelia Duke, Aug. 26, 1869, who was born in Cass county, Ind., Oct. 1, 1854. Rebecca J., born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 12, 1849, married Lafayett Bennett, Feb. 6, 1870. Amos L., born in Hickory county. Mo., Jan. 8, 1852, un- married. Theodore, born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 22, 1856, un- married. Erasmus M., born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 23, 1858, unmarried. HICKORY COUNTY 161 Cyrus, born in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 23, 1862, un- married. Walter B., born in Hickory county. Mo., Apr. 29, 1866, married to Clara Dent, in 1887. GRAND-CHILDREN OF WILLIAM PAXTON EATHAN PAXTON'S CHILDREN, born in hickory county, mo. Flora L., born Mar. 7, 1870. Amos A., born Nov. 5. 1871. John H., born Jan. 13, 1874. Mary Rebecca, born Feb. 27, 1877. Jesse W., born Nov. 25, 1879. Elizabeth J., born Sept. 17. 1883. Lillie M., born Oct. 19, 1889. HUGH PAXTON. CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: Wilham Wayne, born Apr. 5, 1855. Harriett M., born June 11, 1859. Amaranda, born Oct. 26, 1861. Ethan W., born Mar. 28, 1864. Amos A., born Aug. 24, 1866. CHILDREN, second marriage: John C, born July 19, 1871. Elmer H., born Aug. 14, 1873, died Apr. 6, 1889. Laura E., born Nov. 1, 1875. Lucy A., born Dec. 30, 1877. Myram B., born Dec. 17, 1879. Ira Norman, born Jan 29, 1882. Oliver M., born Mar. 18, 1884. Ernest J., born June 4, 1890. AMOS M. PAXTON. Amos M. Paxton's only child was Maud Cecil, born June 4, 1882, married in 1903 at Eldorado Springs, Mo., to Slaughter Hall. GRAND-CHILDREN OF AMOS PAXTON WILLIAM QUIGG PAXTON'S CHILDREN! Harry Landon, born in Hermitage, Mo., Oct. 1872, married Julia Smith, Sept. 8, 1893. She was born in Waverly, Iowa, July 4, 1878. 162 HICKORY COUNTY Stella Lee, born in Hermitage, Mo., Mar. 5, 1874, married Albert G. Morrison, Apr. 27, 1892. Ella May, born in Humansville, Mo., Feb. 1, 1876, married Nov. 5, 1895, to 0. J. McLane. HUGH B. PAXTON. CHILDREN, BORN in HtCKORY COUNTY. MO. Elmer E., bom in 1868 Enrie, Edward, Thomas B.,- Arthur, — Dorrie, Ira, Bertha, JOHN W. PAXTON. CHILDREN, BORN rN hickory county, mo. Sigel S., born July 8, 1862, married Dec. 5, 1887, to Lema Crates, killed in June 1893. William, born Mar. 5, 1864, married May Blair, July 19, 1888. Charles P., born June 7, 1867. Cora G., born Nov. 3, 1869, first married Amos Quigg, second marriage to George T. Millner. Orton A., born Nov. 30, 1871, married MoUie Brown, Jan. 8, 1890. Judson K., born Jan. 7, 1873. Rosa M., born May 21, 1878. Robert, born Aug. 16, 1883. Peter, born Apr. 11, 1885. IRA J. PAXTON. CHILDREN, BORN IN HICKORY COUNTY, MO. Iris Augustus, born Oct. 21, 1870, married Rev. A. H. Dent, a Baptist Minister, has six children. Rhoda May, born Sept. 30, 1872, married William U. Morton, has three children. Harvey Amos, born Aug. 19, 1874, married Clara Belle Morton, June 19, 1892, has five children. Alice Rebecca, born Sept. 14, 1876, married James H. HICKORY COUNTY 163 Goodman, Jan. 31, 1892, has four children. William Holly, born Oct. 19, 1878. Raymond Arlington, born Nov, 21, 1880, died Oct. 28, 1895. Cyrus C, born Sept. 9, 1883. Ada Blanche, born Mar. 6, 1885. Ina Fay, born Oct. 24, 1889. Rena Dell, born Nov. 21, 1891. REBECCA J. BENNETT. CHILDREN, BORN in hickory county, mo. Omer W., born June 22, 1871. Ora W., born Feb. 16, 1873. Ceborn, born Aug. 23, 1875. Harry, born Nov. 29, 1878. Ellen 0., born Mar. 18, 1881. WALTER B. PAXTON. Children all born in Hickory county, Mo., except the two youngest, who were born in the State of California. Orpheus Dwight, born Feb. 13, 1888. Winnie Lee, born Sept. 8, 1889. Verdie, born Mar. 20, 1891. Rosa Wave, born Dec. 2, 1892. L. H., born Oct. 16, 1894. Walter Hale, born Apr. 12, 1896. Cyrus T., born Dec. 9. 1898. Harry Amos, born Jan. 8, 1900. William Dent, born Nov. 2, 1901. Margaret, born Sept, 8, 1903. Twins born Nov. 12, 1906. SQUIRE L. PINE. Squire L. Pine, born Apr. 12, 1823, married Emeline Par- sons, May 23, 1847, who was born Feb. 27, 1830. children: James, A., born Aug. 15, 1849, married Drinda A. Elliott, Dec. 6, 1868, deceased. Mary E., born Sept. 1, 1853, married William F. Bangle, Aug. 8, 1869. William R., born Apr. 23, 1855, married Susan C. Elliott. 164 HICKORY COUNTY June 28, 1874, deceased. Matilda A., bom July 6, 1858, married James K. Moore. Adam W., born Dec. 10, 1860, married Maria Edwards, Sept. 30, 1880. ADAM W. PINE. children: Bertha N., born July 10, 1881, married A. C. Bradley, Sept. 30, 1897. Arthur L, born July 18, 1883, married Olive Hostetler, Jan. 23, 1902. Susie E., born Aug. 16, 1885, married Max Friedley, Dec. 25, 1902. Minnie M., born Nov. 2, 1887, married Rorer, Oct. 3 1905 Bulah M., born Feb. 10, 1894. Mary E., born July 26, 1896. Nellie, born Oct. 27, 1903. Ernest, born Mar. 27. 1906. JOHN PITTS. John Pitts was born in North Carolina, in 1753, moved to Logan county, Ky., about the close of the 18th century. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, joined the army in 1777, or 1778. Several of his children came to what is now Hickory county, as early as 1840. He was twice married. CHILDREN AND GRAND-CHILDREN, first marriage: Barb, born in 1770, died without children. Burrell, born in 1772, children: Barney, Barb, John, Bur- rell, Thomas, Mary, Annie, Caroline, and Elizabeth. David, born in 1774, children: John, James, David Brooks, (Polly) Mary Ann, EUzabeth, and Jane. John, born in 1776, children: Dillard, Mims, John, William (Buck,) Giddy, Mary, and Patsy. WilUam, born in 1780, children: Young, Richard, Milly, Elizabeth, Polly, Sarah, Nancy, and Carroll. Giddy, born in 1783, children: Carroll, ' Alvis, Nicy and Andromica. Mary Henry, born in 1786, children, not known. Elizabeth, who married Skinner, born in 1794, children: Giddy, Wiley, John, Carroll, Sarah, Martha, and Marcella. JAMES H. HOLT, Judge of the Probate Court. # «ii^1 '*^*^ ^^K '^«*, K*^ I w'-^x-ji/?* j^jy^i r <.,jw;*.i ■•ft^ ji :c.>>»K*:*;->Ki:-: BANK OF CROSS TIMBERS, Cross Timbers, Mo. HICKORY COUNTY 165 Miley, who married Dorris, born in 1797, children: Isaac, Nancy, Miley, Jackson, and Piety. CHILDREN AND GRAND-CHILDREN second marriage: Thompson, born in 1808, children: Martin, Mattison, Green, Young, Logan, and Warren. Warren, born in 1810, children: Elizabeth, Nancy, Warren, Fountain, and Mary. Meekin, born in 1812, children: Sophronia, Laura, and Fount M. Susan, who married Harvey, born in 1815, only child, Bart- ley. Nancy, born in 1817, children: Moten, Jonathan, Monica, Manica, Victoria, Elvira, (Gima Alice.) Delaine, who married Ragan and afterwards married Law- rence, children: John, Lucy, Harriett, Henry C, and Virginia. This record was furnished me by Fount M. Pitts, son of Meekin Pitts, and Meekin Pitts, it will be seen from the fore- going Family Record was the ninth son of John Pitts who was born in 1753. DAVID PITTS. David Pitts, son of John Pitts, who was born in N. C, in 1753, was born in Kentucky, Oct. 7, 1774, and died in 1840. Jane Pitts, his wife, was born in South Carolina, June 30, 1787, and died in 1845. children: Mary Ann, born Aug. 3, 1809, died in 1860. Elizabeth, born Oct. 1, 1811, died in 1888. John N., born Jan. 12, 181.4, died in 1866. James G., born. Mar. 5, 1816, died in 1851. WilUam, boVn Nov. 30, 1818, died in 1820. David Brooks, born Feb. 8, 1826. died Jan. 17, 1900. Margaret Jane, wife of V/m. Mashburn, born Jan. 20, 1829. DAVID BROOKS PITTS. David Brooks Pitts, was a son of David Pitts, who was born in North Carolina Oct. 7, 1774, and a grandsen of John Pitts, who was born in N. C, in 1753, and served in the Conti- nental Army in 1777-78. David Brooks was one of the four sons of David Pitts, who came to what is now Hickory county, Mo., as early as 1840. David Brooks was born in Kentucky, 166 HICKORY COUNTY Feb. 8, 1826, and died in Hickory county, Mo., Jan. 17, 1900. Martha A. Creed-Pitts, wife of David Brooks, was a daughter of Gideon and Eusebia Creed, and was bom Apr. 29, 1839, and died Jan. 16, 1897. David B. Pitts and Martha A. Creed were married March 23, 1859, by James T. Wheeler, M. G. CHILDREN, BORN in hickory county, mo. Mary Jane, born Aug. 9, 1860, died Oct. 15, 1861. WilUam Halleck, born July 11, 1862. James T. born Mar. 31, 1864, died May 21, 1902, in Kansas. Lan S., born May 10, 1866. Jasper C, born Jan. 1, 1868. Margaret E., born Nov. 4, 1870, died Oct. 8, 1901. Dullie F., born Mar. 8, 1873. ANDREW J. PITTS. Andrew J. Pitts, son of Burrell Pitts, born July 4, 1830, came from Mississippi with his father's family to what is now Hickory county. Mo., in 1845, married to Malissa A. Pitts, Feb. 27, 1852. Malissa A., was born Jan 1, 1838. children: Nancy E., born Jan. 17, 1853. Louisa J., born Nov. 16, 1854. Sarah A., born July 28, 1856. William Lafayette, born Oct. 12, 1858. Christopher C, born Nov. 26, 1861. Mary C, born Apr. 3, 1864. Lucy C, born Apr. 26, 1866. Ulysses G., born Feb. 25, 1868. Young Albert, born Mar. 23, 1871. Ida, born Aug. 14, 1879. JOHN W. QUIGG. John W. Quigg was born Dec. 29, 1821, first married Han- nah Bartshe, in Hickory county. Mo., July 30, 1846. She died Sept 11, 1855. He married second time to Lucretia A. Bradley, Aug. 17, 1856, she died Feb. 20, 1900. He died Nov. 11, 1893. CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: William R., died Sept. 28, 1849. John W., living, married Sara A. Miller, now deceased. George A., married Amanda Adams. Catherine J., married Baley D. Skinner, now lives in Okla. HICKORY COUNTY 167 CHILDREN, SECOND marriage: Silas Q., died Dec. 3, 1858. Charles C, married Martha A. Root, living. Amos T., married Cora G. Paxton, he died. Perry C, married Sarah A. Head. Horace D., married Lizzy Cully, of Cooper county, Mo., Physician, has represented Cooper county, two terms in the Missouri Legislature. Samuel S., died Mar. 16, 1864. Ira F., died in Nov. 1892. Priscilla L., married John L. Bennett. Enos S., married Nancy B. Roberts. James M. Cora C, married David V. Goodman. The maiden name of the mother of John W., was Eliza- beth Dasher. His father and mother were both born in Ire- land, and lived in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The father of John W., died when John W., was a small boy, and the mother mar- ried a man by the name of York, and he died and she came to Missouri with her son in 1840, and died at the residence of Henry C. Butler May 19, 1849. As will be seen elsewhere Mr. Quigg was a prominent cit- izen, and official of this county. He was appointed Sheriff and Collector of the county in 1863, which was during the dangerous times of the Civil War, and by subsequent elections, held these positions until Jan. 1, 1869. JACOB RESER. Jacob Reser was born May 14, 1799, married Eliza Yeager, and died Dec. 20, 1859. Eliza Yeager was born Feb. 24, 1802, died Feb. 24, 1901. CHILDREN, Jacob S., born Jan. 21, 1821, married Ann Edde, in 1845 or 1846. Susannah C, born Feb. 11, 1823, married Aaron Darby, July 18, 1837, by Elijah Yeager, M. G. Mary J., born Nov. 13, 1825, married Robert C. Montgom- ery, Sept. 18, 1842. by Elijah Yeager, M. G. Solomon A. L., born Sept. 8, 1828, married Elizabeth Run- nells, Jan. 7, 1858. Annanias B., born Nov. 11, 1830, Married Nancy C. Rich- ards, Jan. 13, 1853. 168 HICKORY COUNTY Martha E., born Mar. 14, 1833, married James H. Vaughan, Nov. 2, 1851. Josiah W., born Maf. 28, 1837, married Elizabeth Cox, date not given. Jacob Reser, Daniel Darby, Moses Darby, Rev. Elijah F. Yeager, Aaron Darby, and others came to what is now Hickory county, in 1838, and settled in the Southeast corner of the county in what is now Green Township. JACOB S. RESER. Jacob S. Reser was born Jan. 21, 1821, married Ann Edde, in 1845 or 1846, died March 31, 1861. Ann Edde, wife of Jacob S. Reser, was born Feb. 16, 1819, died Apr. 25, 1907. children: Mary Ann, born Jan. 4, 1847, married Patrick McDowell. John W., born Feb. 17, 1848, married Abbie Jordan. Washington F., born Nov. 30, 1849, married Cyntha A. Morgan, June 7, 1877. Francis Marion, born Aug. 19, 1852, married Sarah Clayton. Jacob Elijah, born Mar. 30, 1856, married Rachel Stanley. WASHINGTON F. RESER. Washington F. Reser was a son of Jacob S. Reser and Ann Edde-Reser, born Nov. 30, 1849, married Cyntha A. Morgan, daughter of Thomas S. and Phebe A. Morgan, June 17, 1877. Cyntha A., was born Feb. 9, 1857. Winer D., born Mar. 3, 1878, married Effie Cogle. Dec. 13, 1893. Hattie F., born Sept. 21, 1879, died July 28, 1880. Thomas S., born Mar. 6, 1881, married Kate Shumate, Oct. 11, 1902. Edna B., born Aug. 8, 1883, married A. A. Liggett, Nov. 5, 1903. Washington 0., born Feb. 14, 1885. Fannie E., born Feb. 20, 1887, married Emory Gist, Aug. 8, 1906. Horrace P., born Apr. 12, 1889. Tincy M., born and died Mar. 25, 1891. Mabel B., born June 26, 1893. Marshal 0., born Nov. 16, 1895, died Jan. 14, 1898. Floyd E. born Mar. 31, 1898. died Sept. 2, 1898. Otis M., born Jan. 27, 1900. HICKORY COUNTY 169 PLEASANT E. ROBBiNS. Pleasant E. Robbins, was born July 20, 1836, in Hawkins county, Tenn., and moved to Missouri in the autumn of 1853. Lucinda Holt was born in Cannon county, Tenn., Mar. 6, 1839, and came with her parents, Herod and Lucinda Holt, to Mis- souri in 1840. Pleasant E. Robbins and Lucinda Holt were married in Ozark county, Mo., Oct. 7, 1860. CHILDREN James Houston, born in Dec. 1861, married Emma Giffin, Dec. 13, 1885. Stephen H., born Nov. 11, 1863, died Jan. 1, 1864. Lucinda M, born Mar. 20, 1865, married William Giffin, Sept. 15, 1886. Nancy A., born Oct. 18, 1866, died Nov. 7, 1869. Margaret C, born Mar. 24, 1868, married Thomas S. Hall, Nov. 1. 1885, died Nov. 19, 1892. Hansel P., born Apr. 7, 1869, married to Nora Harbor, Jan. 31 1892. Aaron W., born June 22, 1870, died May 19. 1880. Fielden E., born Dec. 15, 1871. Abram A., born Feb. 11, 1873, married Analee Jones, Dec. 22, 1895. John C, born Mar. 4, 1874, married Ellen Grizzell, Jan. 3, 1897, and died May 21, 1901. Francis M., born Nov. 9, 1875, died Dec. 19, 1875. Ester E., born Nov. 9, 1876, married Henry Johnson. Rachel P., was born in May 1878. William W., born Dec. 16, 1881, married Cora L Owsley, Jan. 21. 1904. All of the m^embers living reside in Hickory county. JAiviES A. ROBERTSON. James A. Robertson was born in Washington county. Mo., Nov. 11, 1818. Mary Jane Robertson was born in Kentucky, Mar. 12, 1825. They were married in St. Francois county. Mo., Nov. 3, 1844. CHILDREN, William J., born July 23, 1845. Mary E., born Dec. 1, 1846, died Jan. 12, 1847. Nancy J., born Apr. 10, 1848. Willis G., born Dec. 10, 1850. Richard M., born Nov. 29, 1854. 170 HICKORY COUNTY Paulina C, born Jan. 12. 1856. Robert H., born Nov. 14, 1857. James M., born Jan. 12, 1860. Martha K, born Oct. 11, 1863. John W., born May 4, 1865. Cora, born June 6, 1866, died Feb. 3, 1867. JOHN POWELL ROGERS. John Powell Rogers, a prominent pioneer of this county, was born in North Carolina, Oct. 13, 1812, entered land on Little Weaubleau Creek, in 1839, and died there Feb. 18, 1876. Nancy B. Owens-Rogers, wife of John Powell Rogers, was born in Simpson county, Kentucky, in 1824, was united in Marriage with John Powell Rogers in Hickory county, Mo., in 1840, and is living at the age of 82 years. children: Emily, born Jan. 26, 1844, married John G. Crutsinger, Jan. 22, 1859. Richard D., born Jan. 8, 1849, has been married twice. Mary, born Feb. 24, 1852, married Owen W. Butler, Oct. 28, 1866, and raised a family. Pleasant J., born Mar. 20, 1855, married Nancy C. Dent, daughter of Ephraim and Frances Halbert-Dent, Mar. 15, 1876. Nancy M., born June 18, 1860, married William D. Harry- man, Dec. 19, 1876. Celia, born Dec. 16, 1868, married Albert H. Doerman, Mar. 11, 1888. PLEASANT J. ROGERS. Pleasant J. Rogers was born Mar. 20, 1855, married Nancy C. Dent Mar. 15, 1876. children: Harry H., born May 24, 1877, married June 6, 1901. Viola, born Oct. 21. 1878, married Jan. 26, 1900. C. S.. born Aug. 26, 1880. Dot, born Aug. 5, 1882, married Jan. 19, 1902. 0. L., born Feb. 25, 1884. Fannie, born Nov. 28, 1887. John, born Apr. 4, 1890. Homer, born Oct. 9, 1894. Leslie, born Apr. 20, 1897. Logan, born Oct. 1, 1901. HICKORY COUNTY 171 THOMAS G. RONEY. Thomas G. Roney was born in Sumner county, Tenn., Apr. 8, 1813. and died in Hickory county. Mo.. Mar. 9, 1886. Eliza- beth R. Lambeth-Roney. was born in Sumner county, Tenn., May 17, 1819, and died July 24, 1906. children: William L., born in Sumner county, Tenn., Sept. 25. 1832. Martha A. E., was born in Sumner county, Tenn., July 11, 1841, and died Sept. 27, 1877, in Hickory county. Mo. George H., was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, Apr. 10, 1844. Mariller J., was born in Warren county, III, Nov. 16, 1846, and died in Camden county. Mo., Feb. 29, 1889. Thomas B., was born in Warren county. III, Jan. 11, 1849, and died Dec. 20, 1885, in Arizona. Mary Caroline, was born in Warren county. III, Nov. 30, 1851. John E., was born in Warren county. III, Feb. 11, 1854, and was drowned Aug. 24, 1857. Reuben A., was born in Warren county. III, May 21. 1856. James A., was born in Hickory county, Mo., July 29, 1859. Ulyssese G., was born in Hickory county. Mo., Oct. 10, 1863, and died May 16, 1864. marriages: Martha A. E., was married to William Carroll Drenon. Feb. 9, 1860, and was afterwards married to George W. Woods on Sept. 8, 1876. William L., was married to Margaret A. Drenon, Sept. 13, 1860, in Hickory county. Mo., and Margaret A., died Apr. 7, 1864. Mariller J., was married to John G. Huffman, in Hickory county, Mo., Mar. 8. 1867. and John G., died in May 1872. at Jefferson City, Mo., and on Sept. 9, 1877, Mariller J., married G. S. Howard. Mary Caroline, was married to Daniel B. Huffman, July 4, 1869, in Hickory county, Mo. Reuben A., was married to Julia Green, Mar. 10, 1887, in Hickory county. Mo. James A., was married to Hester A. Thurston, Dec. 23, 1880, and she died Nov. 14, 1884, in Hickory county, Mo., and he married Hester A. Dodd, Apr. 15, 1888, in Benton county. Mo. Carroll T. Drenon, son of William C. Drenon and Martha A. E. Roney-Drenon, died Sept. 9, 1875. 172 HICKORY COUNTY GEORGE H. RONEY. George H. Roney and America England were married Mar. 2, 1865, in Hickory county, Mo. children: Elizabeth A., born Dec. 31, 1865, married Benjamin J. Creach Dec. 10, 1885, Lewis S., born Mar. 16, 1867, married Ellen C. Chrisope, Mar. 8, 1880. Amanda A., born Mar. 24, 1870, married Robert A. Sim- mons, May 4, 1890. THOMAS SANDERS. Thomas Sanders was born in N. C, in 1808. He was a son of Jacob Sanders, who was of English decent, born in N. C. The maiden name of the wife of Jacob was Ailsey High, and she^was Irish. Sarah Dark, wife of Thomas Sanders, was also born in 1808, in Christian county, Ky. Her father's name was Oliver Dark, and her mother's maiden name was Amey Hayes, and she was Irish. Jacob Sanders and wife and Oliver Dark and wife all died in Kentucky. Thomas Sanders and Sarah Dark, were married in Calaway county, Ky., and came to Hick- ory county, Mo., Dec. 24, 1853. children: Amy Jane first married Henry G. Glenn, and one child of that marriage, Thomas H. Glenn, is now living in Oklahoma- She was married second time to James G. Johnson, and died leaving Frances, who married Jesse Stroud and is now a widow, Mary, who married Joseph G. Stroud, and and has raised a family, Martha, who married Thomas Jordan, and James and WilUam, twins, of whom James is dead. Jacob H., born in Kentucky, Oct. 13, 1831, married Nancy Robbinson, daughter of Rev. Munford B. Robbinson, Feb. 18, 1857, and they have nine children living as follows: James, W., Mary F., who married L. G. Cheney. Emma, single, William H., Thomas M., Alice, who married John S. Williams, Jacob A., Ellen, who married Estman Dietz, Waidy MarVin. Mary Elizabeth, who married JuUan Calhoun, and died in Kentucky, about 1866. Lydia Ann, who died in infancy. Sarah J., who married William Drillen, and hves in Den- ver, Colorado, and they have two children, girls. HICKORY COUNTY 173 Wm. W., who married Armeade Smith. They have five children living, Etta, who married Charles Pitts, and lives m Oklahoma, Myrtle, who married Bernie L. Coon, and now hves in Aztec, N. M., Thomas H., single, and Landrine and Nora who are at home. Alabama, who married James M. Robbinson. They have three children and live in Oklahoma. Lucy P. Beunavista, and Thomas W., died when small. Alice, who married a man by the name of Flum, has three children and Uve in Colorado. Missouri F., the youngest, died a few years ago. SELBY FAMILY. The father, Eli Colter Selby, was born in Westmoreland county, Penn., in 1821, of English parentage. The mother, Nancy Barnhart-Selby, was born in 1821, in Bradford county, Penn., and was of Scotch-German decent. They were married in 1838. children: Samuel B., born in 1839, married Josie B. Patterson-Hoop- er, in 1889, in Hickory county, Mo., has three children, Grace, born in 1892, Maud, born in 1896, and John T, born m 1904. Samuel B. Selby resides one mile south of Preston on the Boh- var road. George W., born in 1841. Josephine Selby-Thompson born in 1844. Mary K. Selby-Berry, born in 1847. Agnes, born in 1849. Lafayette, born in 1851, died in Benton county, Ark., in 1889. Austin, born in 1854. Lycurgus, born in 1857. Lewis, born in 1859. Emma Selby-Mackey, born in 1862. Seven of the family are dead, part of them dying before the family came to Mo. The father and son, George W., died from injuries received in the Civil War. The mother died in Hickory county. Mo. 174 HICKORY COUNTY JOHN SELVIDGE. John Selvidge, son of George Selvidge, was born in Mon- roe county, Tenn., May 3, 1816, married Lucinda Black, Feb. 15, 1835. They removed to Dade county. Mo., in 1851, thence to Hickory county, in 1855. Lucinda Black was born in Bun- combe county, N. C, Feb. 20, 1812, and died Sept 14, 1872. John was married a second time to Elizabeth Brakebill, in Oct. 1876. He united with the M. E. church in early life, and in 1855 was hcensed to preach, and was ordained Elder in 1866 or 1867. He studied medicine under Doctors Hurley and Frank, and did quite a practice for some time. CHILDREN, FIRST marriage: Mary C, born Dec. 18, 1835, married William E. Pine, in 1860, died Apr. 9, 1900. Joseph B., born May 22, 1837, married Ann Mactyre, in Oct. 1859. and he died Apr. 24, 1906. George S., born May 9, 1840, single. Nancy, born Feb. 12, 1842, died Nov. 21, 1902. John W., born May 20, 1844, died Aug. 27, 1900. James S., born Mar. 5, 1846, married Susan J. Kirby, in 1870. Margaret L., born July 9, 1852, married Rev. Henry Threl- fall, Aug. 4, 1886, died Dec. 12, 1887. L. B., born July 27, 1854, married Elizabeth Gardner, Nov. 3, 1882, died Jan. 12, 1906. Marinda, born Aug. 27, 1857, married J. T. Selvidge, June 14, 1855, CHILD, SECOND marriage: Annie: born Apr. 5, 1878, married Ira R. Thatch, Sept. 26, 1897. JOSEPH B. SELVIDGE. Joseph B. Selvidge, was born in Monroe county, Tenn., May 22, 1837, and died in Hickory county, Mo., Apr. 24, 1906. Ann M. Selvidge, wife of Joseph B. Selvidge, was born in Lan- caster county, Va., Mar. 12, 1838. children: J. W., born Dec. 16, 1860. W. L., born Nov. 26, 1862. Nancy F.. born Aug. 30, 1864, died June 16, 1867. James 0., born Dec. 2, 1886, died Aug. 9, 1869. HICKORY COUNTY 175 A. J., born Feb. 3, 1869. Ida B., born Feb. 12, 1871. T. M., born Oct. 9, 1873. H. W., born May 22, 1876. WILLIAM L. SNIDOW. Vv^illiam L. Snidow was born in Virginia, Feb. 3, 1829, and died about three miles Southeast of Weaubleau, Sept. 23, 1903. He was a remarkable man in many respects, was a carpenter and farmer, a man of Umited education, but represented this county 16 years in the lower house of the Missouri Legislature, and the Senatorial District in which Hickory county was, in 1864 in the Missouri Senate for four years, without "even a whisper of wrong doing," as a legislator. Elizabeth Brown- Snidow, was born June 24, 1832, and died Mar. 9, 1906. They were married June 27, 1849. She was a daughter of Abraham Brov/n. children: Margaret J., born July 21, 1850, married Apr. 9, 1891. James C, born Sept. 21, 1852, married in July 1902. Myriam L, born Dec. 3, 1854, married Feb. 6, 1883. Mary A. W., born Mar. 31, 1857, married Nov. 3, 1877. Giles L.. born in Apr. 1859, married Mar. 3. 1885. Laura E., born Mar. 26, 1862, married Oct. 6, 1889. Annie E., born July 14, 1864. WiUiam S., born Sept. 25, 1866. Carl S., born Jan. 8, 1869. John B., born Jan. 3, 1872, married Dec. 18, 1892. PETER SOLBERG. Peter Solberg was born Nov. 13, 1844, and died Oct. 6, 1906. Mahnda Dennis was born Nov. 22, 1851. Peter Solberg and Malinda Dennis were married Jan. 20, 1872. children: William, born Jan. 2, 1873, married Mary J. Haverfield, Dec. 22, 1895, and died Nov. 4, 18S8. Olof L, born May 5, 1875, died June 4, 1875. Anna, born Mar. 15, 1876, Christina, born Jan. 28, 1879, married to James Hinkle, Jan. 4, 1897. He died July 14, 1905, leaving two sons. 176 HICKORY COUNTY Nancy, born Feb. 21. 1881, married William Rash, May 4, 1898. Mary, bom June 1, 1883, married Robert Lightfoot, Oct. 11, 1899. James and Moses, twins, born Oct. 1, 1886, Moses died Apr. 20, 1906. Pearl, born July 10, 1889. JOHN W. STARK. John W. Stark, (date of birth not given), was one of the early pioneers in this section of the country. He settled in what is now the Northeast part of this county, near the mouth of Stark creek, in 1830, and died there about 1866. John W. Stark and Rachel Casebolt were married Nov. 24, 1828. She was born Apr. 26, 1810, and died Nov. 15, 1830. CHILD The only child born of this marriage whose record we have is James C. Stark born Dec. 6, 1829. JAMES C. STARK. James C. Stark was born Dec. 6, 1829, married Elizabeth J. Walker, Dec. 15, 1850, who was born Mar. 1, 1834. She died Feb. 26, 1886. children: Thomas Leroy, born Nov. 16, 1851, married Sabrina C- Howard, June 8, 1875. Mary Ann, born July 19, 1853, married Joseph H. Pile, Aug. 21, 1870. John W., born Mar. 11, 1855, married. Rebecca J., born Dec. 12, 1858, died Dec. 26, 1858. James Marion, born in Mar. 1860, married Mary F. Jones, July 1, 1885. Virginia P.. born Apr. 21, 1862, married E. B. Owsley, Mar. 31, 1883. Susan Caroline, born May 13, 1866. FREDRICK VANDEMAN. Fredrick Vandeman, and Mary Ann Worley were married in Ohio, Nov. 12, 1840, came to Missouri, in 1844, and stayed a while at St. Joseph, Mo. Went back to Ohio and came back HICKORY COUNTY 177 to Mo., in 1865, entered land in Sections 17 and 18, Township 37, Range 22. Settled in Wheatland, in 1868, when there was only one store, a blacksmith shop, and shoe shop. Fredrick and Mary Ann Vandeman had eight children. children: William, born Dec. 13, 1841, who served in the Union army, in the artillery, and died in 1907. Jane, born July 1, 1843, died Oct. 26, 1844. Mary Ann, born Oct. 18, 1846. George W., born Sept. 7, 1848, now lives in Kansas City, Mo. Edward M., born Aug. 12, 1850, married Martha Collins, Dec. 8, 1870. Charles, born Sept. 10. 1852, died May 1, 1902. Emma, born Aug. 12, 1854, lives in Kansas City, Mo. Sussie, born Oct. 3, 1851, lives in Sedaha, Mo. SAMUEL C. VAUGHN. Samuel C. Vaughn was born in Kentucky, Aug. 20, 1813. Left Kentucky in 1826, and went to Illinois, and afterwards came to Missouri, and was married to Jane Hughes, Apr. 27, 1843, in what was then Osage county, Mo. She was born in Missouri Feb. 7. 1826. They both died in Hickory county. Mo., Samuel C, Dec. 4, 1877, and Jane, Jan. 11, 1902. children; John C, who died single, on Oct. 4, 1864, in the Union Army. Alexander S., who married Mary E. Boone, and has a fam- ily of six boys and two girls. Lucretia, who married John P. Chaney, and they have one girl. Nancy E., who married David E. Skaggs. James, who married Atha Tillery, and they have one boy and one girl. William H., who married Fannie C. WiUiams, and they have five boys and one girl. Sherman C. S., who married Maggie Williams, and they have three boys and two girls. George W., died when about two years old, Mahala, also died in infancy. A. S. VAUGHN. Alexander S. Vaughn was born Feb. 27, 1848, in Osage county. Mo., married Mary E. Boone, Apr. 17, 1870, in Polk county, Missouri. 178 HICKORY COUNTY children: Annie E., married W. T. Palmer, Jan. 1, 1891, and has two boys and two girls. George W., married Rosa Lee Remington, Oct. 18, 1895, has one girl. He has taught school several years, has been manager of the Akins store at Humansville, and is now a stock- holder in the Department store at that place. S. J., married Rosa Perry, of Springfield, Mo., Dec. 31, 1900, has one boy. Has taught school for several years, and is now a teacher in the High School at Springfield, Mo. John C, married Mattie Reese Oct. 23, 1901, has one boy and one girl, resides in New Mexico. W. H., married Mabel Creed, Sept. 6, 1903, has one girl, is a teacher in the Public schools. Andrew S., died when about one year old. Charles 0., teacher and farmer. Elsie J., youngest child, single, at home. SAMUEL WALKER. Samuel Walker, was born July 5, 1811, and died June 11, 1888. Priscilla Quigg, wife of Samuel Walker, was born Sept. 15, 1815. died Dec. 21, 1881. children: George Washington, born Mar. 26. 1837, went to California and married. Ann Jane, born Apr. 21, 1839, married William Jamison, died very recently. Mary Elizabeth, born June 5, 1842, unmarried. Amos P., born Oct. 14, 1844, married Elizabeth Thornton. Rebecca, born Dec. 5, 1846, married first to Thomas Thorn- ton, second to Eli R. Halbert, Jan. 17, 1887, third to John P. Finney, now a widow. Nancy Franklin, born Apr. 13, 1850, married E. D. Blair, Apr. 25, 1872, now a widow. Henry H., born Jan. 29, 1853, married first Orlena Sher- man, Oct. 15, 1874, second to Ida Tilford, Apr. 7, 1881, widower. Martha F., born May 5, 1855, married Eli R. Halbert, Dec. 4, 1873, and died Nov. 15, 1881. Charles W., born July 24, 1857, married Mary T. Jamison, Sept. 29, 1877. HICKORY COUNTY 179 WILLIAMS FAMILY. We have eleswhere the family Record of John S. Williams, who was the first Sheriff and Collector, and represented the county in the State Legislature in 1852-56 and 1860, and here we give something of his father and mother. The father and mother, Nathaniel and Elizabeth, were married and Uved in Wilson county, Tenn., and their children were all born there, and the parents died there; the father died suddenly probably about 1845, and the mother during the Civil War. The follow- ing were the children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Williams: Anderson, Howell, John S., Abraham, WilUam, James D., Rob- ert N., Stephen M., Sally, Polly, Martha, and Harriett. Ander- son, Howell, Abraham, Sally, Polly, Martha, and Harriett were never in Missouri. William came here, but went back to Tenn. John S., and James D., came here about 1840, and Robert N., and Stephen M., both came later. The whole fam- ily is now dead. The children of John S., are named elsewhere in his fam- ily record. The children of James D., were: (from memory) Francis M., Melvina M., WilUam T., who now resides in CaUfornia, Nancy, wife of John A. Dickerson, who now resides in Okla., and Dr. Johnson Williams, of Weatherford, Okla. The children of Robert N., were (from memory) James, Elizabeth, and Dellia, now deceased. The children of Stephen M., were (from memory) Caroline, wife of William W. Clardy, Mary, who was the wife of Eli R. Calkins, now deceased, Elizabeth, wife of John Bradshaw, who now resides in Okla., James, who now resides in Okla., Robert N., Jr., who now resides in Hickory county. Robert N. WiUiams, Sr., was born June 1, 1827, and died Apr. 19, 1904, and his widow, Mary Thurman-Williams now resides in Hermitage. JOHN S. WILLIAMS. John S. WilUams and Charity Davis were married in Wilson county, Tenn., July 8, 1834, and he died in Arkansas Jan. 22, 1881. John S. Williams was born in Wilson county. Tenn., Apr. 10, 1810. Charity Davis-WilUams, wife of John S. Williams, was born in Wilson county, Tenn., Nov. 12, 1814, 180 HICKORY COUNTY and died Nov. 29, 1853. John S. Williams was the first Sheriff of Hickory county, and afterwards a member of the lower house of the Missouri Legislature. children: Archibald, born in Wilson county, Tenn., Feb. 28, 1836, and died in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 28, 1853. Nathaniel P., born in Wilson county, Tenn., Feb. 13, 1838. The parents, John S., and Charity WiUiams, moved with these two boys from Tenn., in 1841. Mary E., wife of James Holland, who hves in Arkansas, was born Dec. 6, 1841, in what is now Hickory county. Mo. Sarah Ann, wife of Burdette L. Daniel, born in what is now Hickory county. Mo., Aug. 8, 1843. James R., born in Hickory county, Mo., Aug. 11, 1847. John T., born in Hickory county. Mo., Aug. 24, 1850. Caroline I., second wife of John S. Williams, was born Dec. 30, 1830. They were married Aug. 30, 1854, and to this union were born two children: Parallel E., born Aug. 31, 1856, in Hickory county. Mo. WiUiam T., born Dec. 23, 1859, in Hick- ory county. Mo. NATHANIEL P. WILLIAMS. Nathaniel P. Williams and Tennessee Roberts were mar- ried in Arkansas Feb. 13, 1870. She was born in Louisville, Ky., in 1847, and died in Wheatland. Mo., Mar. 29, 1907. children: Charity Ann, born in Hickory county. Mo., Jan. 8, 1871, died Oct. 13, 1871. Lucy Bell, born in Hickory county. Mo., Feb. 9, 1873, and died Jan. 13, 1879. John S., born in Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 1, 1875, married Alice Sanders. VIRGIL S. WILLIAMS. Virgil S. Williams, son of Benj. H. Williams, was born Mar. 22, 1837. Ann E. Williams, daughter of E. T. Condley, and Ehzabeth Beck-Condley, was born Dec. 13, 1839. Ann E. Condley and Virgil S. Williams were married Oct. 28, 1855. children: Martha E., born Mar. 28, 1857, married Thomas S. Heath, Feb. 22, 1874. Elish H., born Oct. 28, 1859, married Nease, Mar. 19, 1878. Mary E., born Dec. 3, 1861, died Aug. 10, 1872. HICKORY COUNTY 181 Thomas M., born Feb. 5, 1864, married June 22, 1884. J. J., born July 8, 1866, married Feb. 1889. Fannie, born June 23, 1868, married Frank Staup, Jan. 14, 1891. Eli S., born Apr. 28, 1877, married Apr. 13, 1898. Scruggs, born Nov. 16, 1880, died Nov. 8, 1887. LARKIN WILLIAMS. Larkin Williams was born in Tenn., Jan. 7, 1807, and mar- i-ied Kathrine , who was born Mar. 29, 1806. They moved from East Tenn., in 1838, and settled near Humansville, Mo., where the husband resided until he died in Oct. 1881. children: The first child, a boy, died in infancy. Charlotte, now Weir, born June 7, 1830, lives in Cedar county. Mo. W. K., born Dec. 2, 1832, lived in Cedar county. Mo., but is now deceased. Mathis, born Jan. 14, 1835, died in 1861. Elijah, born Mar. 4, 1837, lives near Elkton, Mo. All of the above named children were born in Tennessee, and these named blow were born in Missouri. Samuel, now of Humansville, born Feb. 16, 1839. Thomas Y., born Apr. 18, 1841, lives near Elkton. Susannah, born in July 1843, died at about three years of age. George W., who lives near Humansville, born Mar. 17, 1846. THOMAS Y. WILLIAMS. Thomas Y. Williams, was a son of Larkin and Katherin Wilhams, was born Apr. 18, 1841, and remained with his fath- er's family after he was 21 years of age. Left Hickory county. Jan. 31, 1863, in company with WilUam A. Pitts and WiUiam L. McCasUn, and went to Sedalia, Mo., left Sedalia on a Mis- souri Pacific train and went to Illinois, where on the 2nd day of Oct. 1864, he was married to Angeline Duncan. children: Charlotte, wife of Isaac N. Owens, born Sept. 12, 1865. Sarah L., wife of Peter M. Hardy, born Sept. 24, 1867. Sylvanus, now of Weaubleau, born Sept. 5, 1870. Kathrin L., now deceased, born Sept. 5, 1873. Melvin E., born Dec. 12, 1879, lives on Wheatland prairie. 182 HICKORY COUNTY Delia A., born Jan. 27, 1881, died in Oct. 1881. The father, Thomas Y., returned to Missouri in 1881, and lived with his children until 1896, when he was married Feb. 27, 1896, to Mrs. Clark, of Ray county. Mo., whose first husband, W. A. Clark, a Virginian, was a Confederate soldier, and died in the Federal prison in Maryland, in May, 1864. Mr. Williams and wife now reside near Elkton, on Rural Route No. 1, from Weaubleau, Mo. ISAAC D. WILSON. (OLD FAMILY NAME WILLSON.) Isaac D. Wilson, son of James and Martha Wilson, was born Jan. 15, 1803, probably born in North CaroUna, died in Laclede county. Mo., of pneumonia, Dec. 15, 1855. He was married to Mary E. Wood, who was born May 20, 1808, in Whitley county, Ky.. near Cumberland Gap, July 12, 1824. The wife, Mary E., died about 1847, in Miller county. Mo. It is known that Isaac had four brothers: James, John, Joseph, and Linzy. James died about 1839, John died about 1868, Joseph died about 1875, and Linzy died about 1880. John and Joseph died in Maries county. Mo., and Linzy probably died in Carroll county. Mo. Isaac moved with his wife and two boys, James L., and George, to Tenn., about 1828, from there he moved to Illinois; back to Tenn., and than came to Callaway county. Mo., in 1832, and later moved to Miller coun- ty. Mo., probably in 1833, and from there to Laclede county. Mo., about 1849. The children of Isaac D., and Mary E. Wood- Wilson, were as follows: James Love, born Sept. 27, 1825, died in Laclede county, Mo., about June 20, 1894. George, born Nov. 4, 1827, died in Hermitage, Mo. Feb. 13, 1903. Waid H., born Jan. 25. 1830, died at Joplin, Mo., in 1904. John, born Mar. 31, 1837, died in Miller county. Mo., in 1863. William Perry, born Aug. 14, 1840, died in Hickory coun- ty, Mo., about 1874. Alexander, born June 26, 1832, died when small. Elander M., born Feb. 13, 1834, died when small. Sarah Ann, who married John Henry, was born Sept. 25, 1835, and died at Joplin, Mo., about 1873. HICKORY COUNTY 183 Pleasant, born Oct. 23, 1842, and now resides two miles Northeast of Preston, Mo. David, born Mar. 13, 1845, and died in Hickory county, Mo., about 1901. Isaac D., the father, was married a second time to Frances Mayfield- Jones, in 1849, in Laclede county. Mo. She was born Mar. 20, 1817, and to this union three children were born as follows: Lucy E., born Apr. 25, 1850, married John Bohannon, and now lives near Richland, Mo. Isaac L, born Jan. 4, 1853, died when a boy. Joseph T., born Jan. 16, 1856, who has never married. In the Civil War, James L., and William Perry, served in Company "K" 47th E. M. M., George, John, and Pleasant, in Company "B" 10th Mo. Cav. Vols., Waid H., served in the Con- federate Army, and David, served in Company "H" 8th Mo. Cav. Vols. GEORGE WILSON. George Wilson, born Nov. 4, 1827, in Whitley county, Ky., married Eliza J. Jones, a daughter of Hiram Jones and PhaUssa Zana Hicks-Jones, in Miller county. Mo., Mar. 12, 1846, and died Feb. 13, 1903, in Hermitage, Mo. Eliza Jane Jones was born in McMinn county, Tenn., July 24, 1827, and died in Hermitage. Mo., Apr. 29, 1906. Her father, Hiram Jones, died in Miller county, Mo., in 1867, and her mother, Phalissa Zana Jones died in Miller county, Mo., Apr. 24, 1861. After the death of Pha- lissa Zana, Hiram married Margaret Shelton, and to their union three children were born, the eldest of whom was named James Madison. They are probably in Arkansas. children: James Madison, born Nov. 30, 1846, only lived a short time. Francis Marion, born in Miller county. Mo., Jan. 24, 1848, married Mary E. Alexander, Mar. 28, 1872. Elizabeth Ann, born in Miller county, Mo., Feb. 21, 1850, died when about two years old. William Louis, born in Miller county. Mo., Sept. 3, 1853, married Sarah Armead Pendleton, Apr. 19, 1877. Sarah Ellen, born in Miller county. Mo., July 21, 1855, married Albert Krone. Mary Phalissa, born in Miller county. Mo., Oct. 4, 1858, 184 HICKORY COUNTY married John F. Brown, in 1873, and died in Texas, has a son, George Wilson Brown, now residing in San Antonio, Texas. Nancy Jane, born in Miller county. Mo., Nov. 8, 1861, married John H. Morgan. John Pleasant, born in Miller county. Mo., Mar. 22, 1865, married Ella Dorman, Apr. 8, 1888. Trophena Hardin, born in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 22, 1869, married Isaac E. Archer, and lives in Pittsburg, Kan. George Wilson removed from Miller county. Mo., to Hick- ory county. Mo., in Feb. 1866, reaching the S. E. 1-4 and S. W. 1-4 and S. W. 1-4 S. E. 1-4 of Section 35, Township 38, Range 21, Feb. 26, 1866, which he had bought from Col. Joel B. Hal- bert in Nov. 1865. He later traded this land to William Bozarth for land in Section 1, Township 37, Range 21, and lived on that until in April 1884, when he bought of Williamson^ E. Dorman, the hotel on the East side of the Public Square, in Hermitage, and moved to it. JAMES LOVE WILSON. James Love Wilson was born in Whitley county, Ky., Sept. 27, 1825, first married Sarah C. Mayfield, in Laclede county. Mo., Mar. 16, 1854. Twin boys were born to them, and they both died less than a year old. Sarah C, the wife, died Feb. 9, 1855. James L, was married the second time in Laclede county. Mo., to Nancy Caroline Alexander, Jan. 9, 1862, and she died in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 22, 1880, and James L. died June 20, 1894, in Laclede county. Mo. To the union of James L. Wilson and Nancy C. Alexander children were born as follows: Sarah Jane, born in Miller county. Mo., May 2, 1863, mar- ried E. T. Bay less, in Laclede county. Mo. George Ewing, born in Miller county. Mo., June 19, 1865, married Georgia Carter, at Maple, Carroll county. Ark., Mar. 2, 1899. John F., born in Miller county. Mo., Mar. 1, 1867, married Flora TomUnson, at Stoutland, Camden county, Mo., Jan. 17, 1900. Mary E., born in Laclede county, Mo., Dec. 12, 1868, mar- ried J. E. Brasier. Louis N., born in Hickory county. Mo., Mar. 2, 1871, mar- ried Cuba Bethurem, in Laclede county. Mo., Jan. 14, 1898. THOMAS S. HALL. Assessor. F. MARION WILSON, Prosecuting Attorney. HICKORY COUNTY 185 Margaret Louvena, born in Hickory county, Mo., May 22, 1873, died in Laclede county, Mo., July 9, 1897. Lucy E., born in Hickory county, Mo., Oct. 5, 1877, married George E. Holman in Laclede county. Mo., Dec. 27, 1899. PLEASANT WILSON. Pleasant Wilson, son of Isaac D. Wilson and Mary E. Wood- Wilson, was born in Miller county. Mo., Oct. 23, 1842, married Sophia Hardin Burlingame, daughter of Asa Burlingame, in Miller county. Mo., Apr. 16, 1865. She was born in Morgan county, Ohio, Oct. 19, 1843. children: Asa B., born in Miller county. Mo., Mar. 6, 1866, married Martha E. Tankesley, in Hickory county, Mo., Feb. 12, 1888, and to this union were born: Cora M., born Feb. 10, 1889, Everet B., born Sept. 15, 1890. Martha E., the wife, died Jan. 2, 1892. He was again m^arried, this time, to Ruth England, of Benton county. Mo., on Apr. 6, 1898, and to them was born Issalee A., Apr. 22, 1800. George W., born in Laclede county, Mo., May 31, 1868, married Martha T. Dollarhide, Feb. 14, 1892, and to their union were born: Everet, Mar. 4, 1893, and died the same day, Zilpha v., born Sept. 21, 1894, Milburn A., born Apr. 7, 1898, Vice S., born Oct. 14, 1900, Ceha, born Aug. 11, 1905. Effie E., born in Hickory county. Mo., Feb. 13, 1871, died, unmarried Jan. 6, 1907. Eliza J., born in Hickory county. Mo., May 16, 1873, mar- ried Albert N. Tankesley, Jan. 7, 1897, and to their union were born: Melvin G., born Nov. 12, 1897, Euba M., born Nov. 21, 1899, Ruby E., born May 12, 1902, Alba S., born Dec. 25, 1903. James P., born Aug. 10, 1876, died Jan. 16, 1877. F. MARION WILSON. F. Marion Wilson was born in Miller county. Mo., Jan. 24, 1848. Mary E. Alexander was born in Laclede county. Mo., Apr. 22, 1851. She was a daughter of George E. Alexander and Margaret Ann Tate-Alexander. They were born in Wilson county, Tenn. F. Marion Wilson and Mary E. Alexander, were united in marriage in Laclede county. Mo., Mar. 28, 1872. 186 HICKORY COUNTY children: . Ulysses Elmer, born in Cross Timbers, Mo., Jan. 2, 1873, about 4 o'clock A. M., married. EuDora Louera, born in Hermitage, Mo., Mar. 12, 1875, died October 19, 1878, in Hermitage, Mo. Eugenie EuDona, born in Hermitage, Mo., Mar. 27, 1877, married. Ennis Ebert, born in Hermitage, Mo., Jan. 2, 1882, about 11 o'clock A. M. Vide Vivian, born in Hermitage, Mo., Feb. 13, 1884. George Emery, born in Hermitage, Mo., Aug. 12, 1887. WILLIAM LOUIS WILSON William Louis Wilson, son of George Wilson and Eliza J. Wilson, was born in Miller county. Mo., Sept. 3, 1853, married Sarah Armead Pendleton,* a daughter of George L. Pendleton, a Kentuckian, in Hickory county, Mo., Apr. 19, 1877. She was born in Kentucky, Mar. 1, 1859. The maiden name of her mother was Cole. children: Myrtle L, born in Hickory county, Mo., June 19, 1880, married John W. Harlan, near Checotah, I. T., Mar. 20, 1897. Oral R., born in Hickory county, Mo., Nov. 22, 1882, mar- ried May Thomison, near Checotah, I. T., Mar. 10, 1904. Russell R., born in Hickory county. Mo., Apr. 15, 1885. Buel G., born in Hickory county. Mo., July 16, 1887. George P., born in Hickory county, Mo., Apr. 15, 1889, and died July 12, 1889. Mary J., born in Hickory county. Mo., Mar. 6, 1891. William H., born in Hickory county, Mo., Feb. 5, 1893. Harry H., born in Hickory county. Mo., Oct. 9, 1896. JOHN P. WILSON. John P., Wilson, youngest son of George Wilson, born Mar- 22, 1865, married Ella Dorm an, daughter of Oliver L., and Nancy E. Dorman, Apr. 8, 1888. She was born Feb. 7, 1874, in Hermitage, Mo. children: Claudie Vinson, born Mar. 25, 1888, died Feb. 14, 1889. Curtis Alvin, born Jan. 4, 1890. Clarence Edward, born Aug 7, 1893. HICKORY COUNTY 187 Ralph Floyd, born Mar. 13, 1896. Alta May, born Feb. 2, 1899. Nannie Elores, born Feb. 27, 1902. All of the above children were born in Hickory county, Mo. ASA WRIGHT. Asa Wright was born Mar. 9, 1825, and married Nancy Close. Nancy Close was born Dec. 12, 1831. children: James M., born June 24, 1850, married Mary Saylor. George D., born Jan. 17, 1852, married Elizabeth Haskins. Ora M., born Feb. 5, 1856. Sarah E., born Nov. 19, 1859. , William T., born Jan. 9, 1861. Gabrel, born Feb. 1, 1864. Fielding H., born Apr. 1, 1866. Grayson, born Feb. 1, 1868. Dorcas, born Mar. 6, 1870. One child born whose name and date of birth is not given. REV. ELIJAH FISHER YEAGER. Elijah Fisher Yeager was born July 11, 1804, in Washing- ton county, Ky., and during his infancy his parents, Daniel and Susannah, moved to Washington county, Tenn., where he was married to Hannah Stanfield, Mar. 9, 1826. She was born Nov. 10, 1808, and died Sept 30, 1839. children: Maria Emeline, born Jan. 9, 1827, married William Harvy Reser, July 15, 1841, died Aug. 22, 1879. Paulina Jane, born Nov. 4, 1828, married Emanuel Bower, Feb. 18, 1844, died Aug. 26, 1903. Thomas Franklin, born July 9, 1832, married Mary E. Reser, June 18, 1857, served in the Civil War in the 18th Iowa Inft'y, and died May 7, 1900. Mary Eliza, born Sept. 25, 1836, married May Burtin Wis- dom, Aug. 15, 1852, died May 28, 1888. Hannah Susannah, born Sept. 5, 1838, married Jona White Reser, Mar. 4, 1857, died Aug. 15, 1862. On Mar. 10, 1840, Elijah, the father, married Margaret Bower, and the children born of this marriage were as follows: Sarah Lovena Elizabeth Fisher, born Oct. 23. 1841, mar- 188 HICKORY COUNTY ried to Jacob Harrison Brimer, Oct. 21, 1858, died July 4, 1882. Wilbur Fisk, born Oct. 16, 1843, married Sarah Ruth Glan- ville. Mar. 25, 1866. Melvin Merrit, born Nov. 8, 1846, married Eliza Ann Pare, Dec. 15, 1870, died Sept. 23, 1886. Elijah Fisher, born Sept. 12, 1849, married Hattie A. Mor- ris, May 5, 1872, and she died Nov. 12, 1883, and he married Mahssa Green, Jan. 8, 1887. Lucy Caroline, born Aug. 13, 1853, died Nov. 24, 1870. Henry Bascom, born June 29, 1857, died Oct. 18, 1874. Margaret Ann, born Sept. 13, 1860, married Basil Elbert Niblack, Dec. 31, 1885. Louisa Nancy Florena, born Mar. 22, 1863, married Valen- tine Bonner, Sept. 29, 1901. In 1828, Elijah F., the father, moved with his family from Tennessee to Illinois and settled in Vermillion county, near Vermillion river, and in 1838 he moved to Missouri and settled in what is now Hickory county. He was converted and joined the M. E. church, at the age of 23 years, and was licensed to preach and ordained a Deacon by Bishop Robert R. Roberds. and ordained Elder by Bishop WiUiam Capers; was only a local Minister but was a pov/er in the church, and an able and ef- fective preacher. He died Apr. 16, 1885. Wilbur Fisk, is a prominent Minister in the M. E. church, and has been a member of the Conference of that church since 1880. He served in the Civil War in Comprny '!" 8th Reg't Cav. Mo. Vols., one of the best fighting Regiments that Missouri sent to the field. Melvin Merrit, was also in the service of the U. S. for about six months during this war. AMASA YEAW. Amasa Yeaw was born in Rhode Island, June 6, 1823, came to Missouri in 1857, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 21, 1877. Clarissa J. Nichols, was born in Rhode Island, Feb. 18, 1824, married Amasa Yeaw in 1845, died near Cross Timbers, Mo., Jan. 28, 1907. children: Sarah J., widow of Rev. William M. Jenkins, born in Rhode Island, Oct. 23, 1850. Edwin H., born in Rhode Island, Sept 27, 1853, died in Hickory county. Mo., Nov. 14, 1900. HICKORY COUNTY 189 Henry, born in Wisconsin, in 1855, died in 1856. Annie E.. born in Missouri, Nov. 9, 1858, died Feb. 12, 1880. Emma J., wife of Robert D. Manning, born m Missouri. Dec. 13, 1860. WILLIAM M.JENKINS. William M. Jenkins, born in Tenn., Dec 31, 1839, came to Mo., in 1869, was married to Sarah J. Yeaw, in Mo., in 1869. children: George W., born in Douglas county. Mo., July 12, 1870, now Prosecuting Attorney of Ray county. Mo. Edwin G., born in Taney county. Mo., Oct. 3, 1872, now engaged in the mercantile business in Ray county. Mo. Francis Marion, born in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 9, 1875, resides in Texas. ^ , _ . ^-^ r. • Russell H., born in Hickory county. Mo., Feb. 5, 1878, Prin- cipal of Cross Timbers School. o. ioon *• Giles G., born in Hickory county, Mo., Sept. 24. 1880, farrner Nora J., born in Hickory county. Mo., Sept. 30, i88o, died Aug. 8, 1884. .. A 1. i«ftq Ida B.,.born in Hickory county. Mo., Apr. 14, 1885- Lena May, born in Hickory county. Mo., May 28, 1889. The father, William M. Jenkins, died on his farm near Cross Timbers, Aug. 11, 1900. FINISHED. s^. .\\ ■r^s. ;-■ *^ ^. \pM .%!^ fm. D..C ■)^*?, :m'^. k'.m^m^.m KJ'^C ^'..O K>^c. I:^ '■'■ ■ - '; ■- : ' ■■ . . ^ " --i/'?. . • • ,. . ■ 'a '-,< ■■■".' ''■■".'"' ■ •- '.v.-'. , V.