Harrison County, Missouri - Biographical sketches, 1921 (part 5 of 15)

Olive Musser was married the first time, September 23, 1885, to George B. Mickael, who died January 22, 1894, and is buried in Lone Rock Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. George Michael were the parents of the following children : Bertha, born September 16, 1886, the wife of Donald Allen, of Kansas City, Missouri ; Osie M., born July 18, 1889, who died April 19, 1918, and is buried at Bethany, Missouri, was the wife of Louis Conda; Elmer A., born July 13, 1893, and died when twenty-seven years and four days old, and who was a veteran of the World War, having been overseas with the 35th Division, Company G, and who served on the Mexican border prior to going overseas. After the war closed, he learned aviation and, while in flight at Winfield, Kansas, was killed by an accidental break of the plane, which caused him to fall. He is buried in Bethany. Mrs. Arney has a grandchild, Polly Lee Allen. Mr. Arney has twenty-five

George Arney was six years of age when his parents settled in Fox Creek Township and remembers many interesting incidents of the early days. Their nearest neighbor was Robert Woolridge and the prairie was open and unimproved. His father drove oxen from Tennessee to Missouri, and these were used to break the prairie. He traded his ox team for the forty acres of land, and cut and split rails for fifty cents per hundred. He paid $20.00 for a cow. His wife spun the wool and made the clothes for the family for many years. The one room log house was always large enough for company, as well as the family and beds made on the floor served for the family when visitors arrived.

Mary Frances (Buck) England, widow of George England, a well known pioneer of Bethany, and one of the oldest residents of this county, was born in Tennessee, February 17, 1838, and came to Missouri with her parents, David Buck and wife, in 1840. David Buck, deceased, settled at that time on the present site of Bethany, which was then a brush patch. Clement and John Oatman were the first settlers at Bethany, and they started a store here and Doctor Oatman was the first physician here. David Buck and wife first lived east of the present site of Doctor Reynolds' residence. Their home was a one story, log cabin, about 14x16 feet, with a ladder which served as a stairway. David Buck married Rebecca Barnes of Tennessee, and they were the parents of four children : Catherine, who married Joseph Bartlett; Mary Frances England, the subject of this sketch ; James, deceased ; and Sarah Elizabeth Eads, deceased. David Buck died January 25, 1895 and his Avife died March 26, 1889 ; both are buried in Miriam Cemetery at Bethany.

Mary Frances England was married to George England in 1855. The brothers and sisters of George England were: Lloyd England, Mrs. Jane Linville, Mrs. Nancy Miller, Mrs. Matilda Planck, and James England, all deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. George England moved to Martinsville on a farm shortly after their marriage and their children were born and reared on this place, which consisted of 200 acres. Their children are: Clayborn, of Geary, Oklahoma; David, who died in 1915; James, a farmer in Dallas TowTiship; John, of Bethany, Missouri; Marcy C, who lives with her mother in Bethany, and who was educated in the schools of Dallas Township; Joseph, of Phoenix, Arizona; Beffie, the wife of Jesse Frank, of Bethany, Missouri ; Orley, of Bethany, iVIissouri, and an infant son, deceased.

Mrs. England has an excellent memory and recalls many of the old settlers, also interesting incidents of pioneer days. She attended her first school in a small pole or log house on Buck Run, and says that this house was so small that it looked like a children's playhouse. Miles Jennings was her first teacher and her next school was a log building just north of Allen Park. Meetings were held at the cabin home of David Buck and the first court that Mrs. England remembers was held here; was also held in his cabin. Her uncle, John S. Allen, was instrumental in starting religious meetings here.

Mrs. England has the following grandchildren: Lloyd and Doak England, Mrs. Altha Scott, Mrs. Abbie Burris, Muriel Nancy, Carl, James, David, Don, Alma, Alice, John, Cloyd, Shirley, Birley, Marie, Elaine and Lucille England, Mrs. Fay Shumate, Archie and George Frank.

The great grandchildren of Mrs. England are; Harold and Daryl England, Margaret and Henrietta Scott, Elizabeth Burris, Lucille Burris, deceased; Carl, Marvin Lee, and Martha Henrietta England, Nellie Shumate and Lloyd Layman.

Mrs. England says that when they began to survey the town site of Bethany, a large rattlesnake was killed in the brush and the town was called Rattlesnake Town for quite a while by the early settlers.

Fred Tucker, the efficient and popular sheriff of Harrison County, was born in Madison Township, Harrison County, February 26, 1894, the son of U. G. and Laura (Thompson) Tucker, and the grandson of Joseph Tucker.

Joseph Tucker came to Madison Township in the early pioneer days, took up land and improved it. He died on the farm and was buried in Oak Lawn Cemetery. His son, U. G., was a carpenter by trade. He spent his life in Harrison County and for one term filled the office of presiding judge of the county court. He died in 1916 and is buried in Oak Lawn Cemetery. His wife, Laura (Thompson) Tucker lives now at Kingsville, Missouri.

farmer at Ravenna, Mercer County, Missouri; Horace, a salesman for an automobile firm at Kingsville, Missouri; Fred, the subject of this sketch; Lawton, now living in Iowa ; Hazel, a teacher at Rockport, Missouri ; and Opal, a student in the Kingsville High School.

Fred Tucker was educated in the public schools and graduated from the Kingsville High School. He learned the trade of mechanics and, at the time the World War began was working at his trade with Davis and Shaw at Kingsville, Missouri. He entered the United States amiy, October 4, 1917 and was sent to Camp Funston, where he remained nine months with the 356th Infantry. He was sent then to New York and from there he went overseas with the 89th Division and was stationed at Lifall Le Grande, France, training for open warfare work and bayonet practice. In August, he was sent to the St. Mihiel front and on September 12, 1918, he went over the top. He received a machine gun wound in the right foot on November 9, 1918, at the battle of Argonne Forest and was in Base Hospital No. 10 for two weeks. After his recovery from his wound, he was sent to Germany with the Army of Occupation and remained there from December, 1918, until the latter part of May, 1919. He was sent back to the United States in June, 1919, and went directly to Camp Funston where he was mustered out of service the latter part of June.

Fred Tucker made the race for the office of sheriff of Harrison County and was elected in November, 1920, taking office January 1, 1921. Mr. Tucker is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Bethany, Missouri, and of the American Legion, Wilson-Axline Post. Mr. Tucker is capable and energetic. He belongs among the group of younp; men of Harrison County who having received training in the World War and having proved their mettle, can be depended upon to uphold high staadard? of efficiency for their community.

James Madison Neville, ex-sheriff of Harrison County, was born in Hart County, Kentucky, May 22, 1847, the son of James Morgan and Lilly Ann (Brooks) Neville, both natives of Kentucky. In 1850, three brothers, James Morgan Neville, John R. Neville and Henry O. Neville came to Harrison County and took up land. J. M. Neville bought the squatters rights from John Simpson in Marion Township, four miles north of Ridgeway. Big Creek ran through the farm but most of the land was wild prairie. Henry 0. Neville settled on the farm from which the present site of Blythedale was taken. J. M. Neville improved his farm of 240 acres and soon became pi-ominent in the county. He was elected to the state legislature once before the Civil War and again after the close of the war. In 1858 he was a judge of the north district. His brother, Heniy 0., was also a member of the legislature.

The three Neville brothers married three sisters, daughters of George Brooks who lived in the Taylor Grove settlement. All three of the brothers served in the Civil War. James Morgan was colonel of the Home Guard Militia and captain of a company stationed at Gallatin, serving in the Union army. His brother, Henry 0., was a lieutenant-colonel in the Union army. Third Missouri Cavalary. The third brother, John R., served three years in the Union army, enlisting in Illinois. The name of Neville appears also on the Confederate side of the Civil War. A younger brother of the three named above, George, came to Missouri in 1859, taught school that winter and returned to Kentucky in 1860. When war broke out he enlisted in the Confederate army and was a commissioned officer. His wife was a native of Tennessee whose father was a slave owner. ' 'J-t

From this brief account, it will be seen that the Neville name has been well known in Harrison County since the pioneer days. In transforming the wild prairie land into well kept farms, in giving political service to the county and in serving the Union, the Nevilles have done their share ably. James Morgan Neville died in 1906; his first wife. Lilly Ann (Brooks) Neville died in 1865. The remains of both are buried in the Blythedale Cemetery.

To James Morgan and Lilly Ann (Brooks) Neville the following children were born: Martha, Mrs. J. A. Painter, died in 1914; George W., a retired farmer in Dighton, Kansas ; Henry H., retired and living in Kansas City, Missouri ; Loraine. Mrs. Baker, now deceased : Lavina, Mrs. Richardson, of Myers Falls, Washington; James M., the subject of this sketch; and John, now in Fort Morgan, Colorado. By a second marriage of James Morgan Neville to Mrs. Elizabeth Updyke, there were three children: C. W., of Portland, Oregon; Minnie, Mrs. Bridges, of Eagleville; and May, Mrs. Brown, of Ridgeway.

James Madison Neville was educated in the common schools of the county. The building was constructed of logs which had formerly been used in the making of his old pioneer home. Here he, with the other children of his day, suffered their share of the hardships of the early settlers and conned over their lessons amidst the discomforts of those days. At the age of seventeen, Mr. Neville enlisted in Company E, Fortythird Missouri for service in the Civil War and his regiment was in the battle at Glasgow. He returned home to farm and was married July 4, 1866 to Angeline Hall, a daughter of Joe and Martha Hall of Eagleville. The Hall family were early settlers of Harrison County. Mr. Hall, who was a merchant, died at Eagleville in 1883 at the age of sixty-one and his wife died at Bethany in 1898. The remains of both are buried in the Eaglesville Cemetery.

For two years after his marriage, Mr. Neville continued to farm. In 1868, however, he began to clerk for his father-in-law and, in 1881, he came to Bethany. He was the deputy sheriff under W. H. Gillespie for more than there years and, in 1890, was elected sheriff of Harrison County, serving for four years. Since the explication of his term as sheriff he has lived at Bethany where he owns the half block upon which his residence is situated.

Mr. and Mrs. Neville have four children: Mrs. Myrtle White, died July 5, 1921 ; Lillian, who was county superintendent of schools for six years, now the wife of E. W. Prentiss, the postmaster of Bethany; Maud, the wife of F. M. French, a merchant at Cainsville ; and Clyde, a veteran of the Spanish American War, a veteran of the Philippine Insurrection, and of the World War in which he enlisted in the coast artillery from Portland, serving overseas. One grandson, George N. Allen, served in the coast artillery in the World War and was one year in France. There are two other living grandchildren, Kathleen C. White and Garland N. White. A granddaughter, Lucile Allen, died in 1907.

Mrs. Neville is a member of the Rebecca Lodge and all of the family are members of the Methodist Church. The Neville family has always given its services to the county and is well and favorably known in this part of Missouri.

Joseph F. Slinger, the capable superintendent of the Bethany Water and Light plant, was born in the town where he still lives on August 15, 1872. He is the son of John and Ruth (McClure) Slinger, both deceased.

John Slinger's father was an Englishman who left his native country and came to the United States in the early days. He settled in Sugar Creek Township, Harrison County. He is buried in Cat Creek Cemetery in Grundy County. John Slinger grew up in Hari-ison County and when the Civil War came he enlisted from his county and remained in service for three years, holding the rank of first lieutenant of Company E, Twenty-third Missouri. At the time of his death in 1873 he held the office of county clerk. His wife, Ruth (McClure) Slinger, died January 12, 1S20, at the age of seventy-two. Both are buried in Bethany.

To John and Paith (McClure) Slinger the following children were born: Oliver, living in Winnemucca, Nevada; Mollie, now Mrs. Hefner, living with her brother, Joseph F. ; James William, now living in Medford, Oregon; and Joseph F., the subject of this sketch.

Joseph F. Slinger received his education in the public schools, graduating from the school at Bethany. He was in the implement business in Bethany for a number of years. For the ten years just before the outbreak of the Spanish American War, he served in the Missouri National Guards. When war was declared with Spain, he took a full company from Harrison County and, with his company and holding the commission of captain, he went into service on April 27, 1898. He was sent first to Washington, D. C. and from there to Middleton, Pennsylvania, then to Greenville, South Carolina, where he and his company were mustered out of service February 10, 1899.

Upon his return to his home, Captain Slinger was with the Bethany Mills for three years. He then accepted a position with the Bethany Light plant and, in 1902, he was elected superintendent of the Light and Water plant, which position he has filled most creditably ever since. The city owns both the plants and the eflficiency of both has been increased to the highest capacity under the management of the present superintendent.

Captain Slinger is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Bethany and has filled the office of city collector for three temis. His continuous terms of service to his town are ample attestations to his Qualifications as a citizen.

Chris E. Klindt, an energetic farmer and stockman of Cypress Township, was born in Germany, December 8, 1865, the son of David and Christina Klindt. David Klindt now lives in northwestern Iowa at the age of eighty-five years and his wife died March 4, 1915, at the age of seventy-six years. David Klindt came to America in 1887 and settled in Sac County, Iowa.

Chris E. Klindt came to the United States in 1883, at the age of sixteen years and worked by the month for nine years at from $16.00 to $20.00 per month. He then rented land for eleven years and came to

Harrison County, Missouri, in 1903 and bought 140 acres, his present home, for $35.00 per acre. Mr. Klindt has put all of the improvements on the place, including new residence built in 1920, three barns and other buildings. The farm has excellent stock water, which is pumped by a wind mill to three pastures. Mr. Klindt raises Shorthorn cattle and Spotted Poland China hogs and does general farming. The farm is located five and one-half miles southeast of Bethany on the Gallatin road and is one of the finest farms in the county, most of it being in clover and timothy.

Mr. Klindt was married in Sac County, Iowa, in 1892, to Kathrina Frank, a daughter of Christopher and Lena (Egnel) Frank, both deceased. Mrs. Klindt was born in Lee County, Illinois and educated in Iowa, where her parents settled in 1873.

Mr. and Mrs. Klindt have four children: Charles D., a farmer of Cypress Township, who married Esther Taggart; he also taught school in this county for ten years and was one of the best teachers in this part of the state ; Ernest, who married Ollie Spence, is a farmer in Adams Township; Alma, the wife of Wiley Hall, of Bethany; and Frederick, who lives at home.

Mr. Klindt believes that rearing children without teaching them to do useful work is a grievous wrong. He is very much in favor of good schools and saj's that an industrious and educated boy or girl is the best type of citizenship. Mr. Klindt and family are highly respected citizens and stand high in Harrison County.

John Ballard, for three successive terms the efficient judge of the Second District County Court of Harrison County, was born in Cypress Township, May 15, 1859, the son of Boone and Caroline (Salmon) Ballard.

Boone Ballard was a native of Virginia where he was born in 1818. He came to Missouri in 1846 and took up land in Cypress Township, Harrison County. At one time he owned over 300 acres of land and was a prominent farmer and stockraiser in the county. In the early days he filled the office of trustee of his township and he was a veteran of the Civil War, enlisting in 1861 and serving until the close of the war in a company known as "Merrill's Horse".

Boone Ballard was married twice, the first time to Sarah Brown. To Boone and Sarah (Brown) Ballard the following children were born: Ehza, now Mrs. Dart of Johnson County, Kansas; William, now a resident of Aspen, Colorado; Chloe, Mrs. Smith, who died in Hutchinson, Kansas; Jane, now Mrs. Johnson, of Johnson County, Kansas ; Austin, who died in Johnson County, Kansas ; and Chapman, now hving in Touse, New Mexico. Mr. Ballard was married the second time to Caroline Salmon, a native of Ohio. To Boone and Caroline (Salmon) Ballard the following children were born: Newton J., now living in Hutchinson, Kansas; John, the subject of this sketch; Boone, now a resident of Seattle, Washington; Anna, now Mrs. Joseph, of Colorado; Charles, of Stockton, California; Robert, now living in Ridgeway, Missouri; Henry, living in Bethany, Missouri; and a daughter, Mrs. H. K. Barlow, of Bethany, Missouri.

John Ballard was educated in the rural schools of Harrison County and has followed the vocation of fanning and stockraising- all of his life. He bought his present farm of 171 acres in 1893 and 1914. It is in Cypress Township, seven miles south of Bethany and is well improved with the house and barn recently rebuilt. The farm lies on upland prairie.

John Ballard was married November 9, 1887, to Lola Barlow, a daughter of James and Lucinda (Nally) Barlow, both deceased and are buried in Miriam Cemetery. Mr. Barlow was a native of Virginia and his wife of Ohio. They were married in Ohio and came to Missouri about 1868, settling on a farm in Cypress Township, Harrison County.

To John and Lola (Barlow) Ballard the following children have been born: Emma Hazel, now Mrs. Bert S. Allen, of Bethany; Lillian May, now Mrs. Leslie Porter of Bethany; Loumontie, now Mrs. Randall Wilson of Bethany ; and John Russell, living on the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Ballard also have three grandchildren as follows: Fredie Porter, Pershing Wilson and Herbert Allen.

Mr. Ballard is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Bethany. He filled the oflSce of township collector for fourteen years and also filled an unexpired term as trustee of his township. He was elected judge of his district in 1916 and was reelected in 1918 and again in 1920. His return to office for two successive terms by the vote of his county is ample attestation to the regard which his county has for him. His record as an official has been excellent ; he has been economical but efficient and has handled his work in a thoroughly competent fashion. Both he and his family stand well in the county.

M. M. McQuery, one of the substantial citizens of Bethany, Missouri, was born in Indiana, the son of Gaily McQuery and Priscilla (Mingle) McQuery.

Gaily McQuery was born in Indiana in 1834. In 1865 he with his wife and family came to Missouri and settled in Mercer Gounty where he became a highly respected farmer and stockman. He died at the home place in 1898 and is buried in Hamilton Gemetery. His wife, now eightyfour years of age, still hves on the farm upon which she and her husband settled when they came to Missouri.

M. M. McQuery received his education in the public schools and, in 1888, he began farming near Mount Moriah, Harrison Gounty. He remained on the same farm for twelve years, when he moved to Bethany Township where, in 1900, he bought 159 acres of land. He kept this farm until 1918 when he sold it and moved to Bethany. For the next two years he engaged in the real estate business; since that time he has conducted a taxi business in which he has been very successful. He owns an acre of ground which he uses for pasture and also has four lots at Oakland and Alder streets. His residence was burned recently and he is now building a new home.

Mr. McQuery was married in the fall of 1886 to Martha Jane Miller, who was born and reared in Mercer Gounty, Missouri. To M. M. McQuery and Martha Jane (Miller) McQuery the following children were bom: Nettie, living at home; Genevive, now Mrs. Garten, living in Hutchinson, Kansas ; James Madison, living in St. Joseph, Missouri ; Gharley, living at home; Harley, who lives in Gypress Township; Lois, living at home; and Gaily, deceased. Mrs. McQuery and her son, Gaily, a child of four, were killed in an accident at a railroad crossing close to Ridgeway, Missouri, in 1912. They are buried in Hamilton Gemetery.

James and Gharles McQuery both served in the World War. James was sent overseas with the Engineering Gorps and made an excellent record. Gharles was in training at Gamp Funston for several months and was just ready to start overseas when the armistice was signed. The family is justly proud of the record of both boys.

Mr. McQuery was formerly a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a reliable man who merits the esteem in which he is held by the community.

James M. Walker, a well known citizen of Bethany and a member of the firm of Slemmons and Walker, was born in Andrew County, Missouri, June 25, 1873, the son of William S. and Catherine (Calvert) Walker. He was educated in the King City schools and entered business at Leon, Iowa at the age of nineteen years with Vernon Ruby and remained with him for two years. He then went to King City for awhile and from there came to Bethany and has been a member of this Slemmons and Walker mercantile establishment since 1898.

Mr. Walker was married November 6, 1902 to Nancy Clark, a daughter of W. P. and Sarah (Smith) Clark. W. P. Clark died in 1920 and is buried at Mt. Olive Church in Bethany Township. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have a son, James Clark, born August 14, 1902. He is now in his second year of the Bethany High School.

G. K. Joyce, one of Harrison County's efficient farmers, lives one and one-half miles east of the court house at Bethany on Rural Route No. 7. He is the son of Washington Warren Joyce and Sarah (McKibbon) Joyce, both deceased.

Washington Warren Joyce was born in South Carolina and died in Cypress Township, Harrison County, Missouri, February 15, 1894, at the age of sixty-seven. His wife, Sarah (McKibbon) Joyce was born in Columbus, Ohio, and died at Pattonsburg, Daviess County, Missouri, February 24, 1891, at the age of forty-seven. Mr. and Mrs. Joyce came to Harrison County in the early seventies where they bought 535 acres of land which they improved. Mr. Joyce was a prominent stockman and farmer in the county during his life here. To Washington Warren Joyce and Sarah (McKibbon) Joyce the following children were born: Corna, now Mrs. Barlow, of Springfield, Colorado; R. J., a farmer in Cypress Township, Harrison County; J. H., also a farmer in Cypress Township; Maud, now Mrs. Abbott, living in Uniontown, Kansas; and G. K., the subject of this sketch.

G. K. Joyce was born in Cypress Township, September 15, 1874. He was educated in the public schools of Harrison County and has been a farmer all of his life. He has owned and improved five farms in Harrison County. The last one of 280 acres was located in Cypress Township. He sold this farm in 1919 and bought the place upon which he now lives. It is a farm of thirty-five acres on the Cole Valley Trail Road in Bethany Township. It is a part of the Bartlett farm and all the improvements were put on the fanii by James Bartlett. There is a good two story residence equipped with water and with electricity furnished from the Bethany plant. The barn and the yard buildings are all good as are also the fences around the place. Mr. Joyce keeps a few cattle, horses and sheep.

G. K. Joyce was married to Bertha Dunham, June 12, 1902. Mrs. Joyce is a daughter of W. 0. and Nancy (Burton) Dunham, who live in Bethany. To Mr. and Mrs. Joyce four children have been bom as follows: Mabel Dott, who is a student in the Bethany High School; Loren D., also a student in the Bethany High School; Maretta Pauline, a student in the grammar school ; and Sarah Helen, who died at the age of ten years.

Mr. Joyce is connected with the Bethany Trust Company as a stock holder, having held this connection since the organization of the company. He is one of the reliable and progressive citizens of the county, energetic and far sighted in his methods of business and dependable in his dealings.

William Bartlett, a prominent farmer of Harrison County, belongs to two of the pioneer families of this part of Missouri. His mother, Catherine F. (Buck) Bartlett was the daughter of David Buck who came to Missouri and entered the land, a part of which was later the Bartlett farm in early days. He died about 1900 and his remains are buried in Miriam Cemetery. William Bartlett's father, Joseph Bartlett, was the son of Daniel Bartlett, an old settler of the county, who during his life was a prominent farmer and a money lender. He died at his home near Martinsville and his remains are buried there. Joseph Bartlett, father of the present subject, was an extensive land owner, holding about 800 acres of land from which he later gave each of his children eighty acres. He filled various offices of trust in the county of which he was a highly respected citizen. He died about 1912 and his remains are buried in the Pythian Cemetery. His wife, Catherine F. (Buck) Bartlett died in 1916. The children of Joseph and Catherine E. (Buck) Bartlett were: Elizabeth, wife of W. H. Lewis, living on the old home place; Isabell. died at the age of four; John, a resident of California; James, living at Bethany; William, the subject of this sketch; David Crockett, of Bethany Township; Joshua, of Clinton, Missouri; George, a resident of Bethany; and 0. W., a clerk in the Bethany postofRce.

William Bartlett was born September 5, 1864 on a part of the land entered by his maternal grandfather in early times. He was educated in the rural schools and has followed farming all of his life. He now owns twenty-five acres of land a half mile east of Bethany which he bought in 1917 and on which he has built a modern country home. He has a large barn and a three acre orchard and keeps ten acres in alfalfa.

Mr. Bartlett has filled the office of road overseer for twenty years and served on the school board for ten years. His many years of road work has given Mr. Bartlett many opportunities to put into practice his progressive ideas. He is a thorough believer in the practical benefits to be derived from good bridges and culverts. He put in the first cement culvert installed in Bethany Tovniship and has put several in Sherman Township. The largest one he has ever put in is near the County Home and is forty feet long. Mr. Bartlett made the first road drag that he ever saw in Bethany Township, about seventeen years ago and it is still in use.

Mr. Bartlett has been twice married. By the first marriage he had two daughters, Catherine, now Mrs. Nichols of New Hampton; and Flora Alice, later Mrs. Maxey. Mrs. Maxey died at the age of thii'ty-one and her remains are buried in Antioch Cemetery. She left two children, Brook and Geoi-ge. Mr. Bartlett was married the second time to Mrs. Maggie Mullex, of Bethany, in 1917. The present Mrs. Bartlett has one daughter, Vatur Mullex, a teacher in the Bethany public school.

Mr. Bartlett is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 129, of Bethany. He is an enterprising citizen whose work as a public official attests to the merits of his progressive ideas.

R. B. Tedlock, prominent farmer and ex-sheriff of Harrison County, was born in Jefferson Township, June 25, 1883 and lived there until he was sixteen years old. He is the son of Barnett M. and Nancy B. (Cooper) Tedlock, both members of well known families in the county.

Nancy B. (Cooper) Tedlock was bom in HaiTison County, a daughter of Jerry and Martha Cooper, both early settlers of Jefferson Township and both deceased, the former dying in Union Township and the latter dying in Jefferson Township. The remains of both are buried in the Morris Chapel Cemetery. Nancy B. (Cooper) Tedlock died in October, 1912, and her remains are buried in the Antioch Cemetery. Her husband.

Barnett M. Tedlock, was born in Indiana and came to St. Clair County, Missouri, with his parents . Later the family moved to Daviess County and here the father died. Barnett M. Tedlock and his mother then came to Harrison County where he has lived for more than fifty years. He is at present living on his home farm in Sherman Township.

To Barnett M. and Nancy B. (Cooper) Tedlock the following children were born: Melinda, later Mrs. Williams, died in 1899; Stiel, now with the Ragland Corn Company in Kansas City, Missouri; R. B., the subject of this review; Emma, now Mrs. Parker of Sherman Township; Etta, now Mrs. Gutshall, of Adams Township; J. W., of Adams Township; and Ella, died in November, 1918.

R. B. Tedlock was educated in the schools of the county and moved to his present home, a farm of 105 acres one-eighth mile from the Bethany city limits, which he bought from T. C. Munson, December 14, 1910. The fami is well watered by Tallow Fork, a small stream running through it, and there are also three good wells on the place. Mr. Tedlock keeps about one-half of his farm in pasture and the remainder in meadow. He raises Shorthorn cattle, Duroc hogs, Percheron horses and has about 300 Shropshire sheep. Mr. Tedlock takes an active interest in politics and was elected sheriff of Harrison County in November, 1916, the first Democrat to be elected to that office in the county for sixty-two years, his wife's grandfather having been the man elected about 1854. Mr. Tedlock filled the office capably and well. The esteem in which he is held by the community is shown by the fact that he was the chairman of the local draft board during the World War. He was commissioned June 19, 1917, and served efficiently.

R. B. Tedlock was married February 5, 1905, to Catherine D. Monson, a daughter of T. C. and Edna B. (Skinner) Monson. Mrs. Skinner v/as &. daughter of Dr. H. J. Skinner, a pioneer physician of this county who practiced at Eagleville in the early days and later located at Bethany. After a practice covering forty-nine years here, he went to Woodward, Oklahoma, wheer he died. His remains are buried in Miriam Cemetery. Edna B. (Skinner) Monson was born while her father lived at Eagleville where she lived until three years before her death which occurred in April, 1910, when Mrs. Monson was forty-five years old. Her remains are buried in Shawnee, Oklahoma. T. C. Monson was born in Bethany, a son of Thomas and Catherine (Current) Monson. T. C. Monson lives now at Shawnee, Oklahoma.

To R. B. and Catherine B. (Monson) Tedlock the following children were born : Doris, a freshman in the Bethany High School ; Marie and Mamie, twine now in Junior High School; and Robert Monson, born in February, 1918, in the county jail building while his father was serving as sheriff of Harrison County.

Mr. Tedlock is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of which he is the Patriarch in his chapter, and of the Daughters of Rebecca. His wife also belongs to the Daughters of Rebecca. Mr. Tedlock has always been a progressive citizen with high standards of civic pride.

James Hawkins, a well known farmer of Sherman Township, was born in Huntington County, Indiana, November 29, 1859, the son of Uriah P. and Martha Ellen (Price) Hawkins. Uriah Hawkins died in Indiana in 1865 and his wife then came to Harrison County, Missouri, but returned after a few years to Indiana where she now lives at the age of eightyeight years.

Mr. and Mrs. Uriah Hawkins were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Sarah E. Abbott, of Michigan; E. B., of Portland, Oregon; Clarence, who died in Marion, Indiana ; Naomi Croninger, of Butler, Indiana; John, of Marion, Indiana; Uriah P., deceased; and Jacob Bryant, of Butler, Indiana, the last named by a second marriage of Mrs. Hawkins.

James Hawkins located in Harrison County, March, 1886, and bought his present farm in 1894 from Perry M. Fravel. This farm, which consists of 120 acres, is situated four and one-half miles northea.st of Bethany and is well improved and adapted for general farming.

James Hawkins was married in January, 1897 to Mary E. (Fravel) Inks, a native of Virginia and daughter of William and Sarah (Perry) Fi-avel. Mr. and Mrs. Fravel located in Ray County, Missouri, in 1869, whore Mrs. Fravel died in 1877 and her husband in 1889.

Mr. and Mrs. Fravel were the parents of the following children : Virginia, the wife of Isaac Whittaker, of Bethany Township; Perry M., of Ray County, Missouri ; Mrs. Hawkins, the wife of James Hawkins ; Lewis, who died in Ray County, Missouri ; and William, who died in Texas.

By a former marriage of James Hawkins to Ruth Ann Helm, he had four children: Eva Watson, of Watonga, Oklahoma; Edna May Foster, of Carnegie, Oklahoma ; Frank, who was killed in France, further mention

Frank Hawkixs

By a fovrner man-iage of Mrs. Hawkins to William Inks, deceased, she nas four children : Mrs. Lela Casebolt, of Grant Township ; Charles M., of Bethany, Missouri ; Mrs. Stella Hines, of Mountain View ; and I\Irs. Grace Travis, of Watonga, Oklahoma.

Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins are the parents of six children: Clarence, at home ; Marian, of Kansas City, Missouri ; Nellie, Lewis and Doris, all at home; and Ruth, the second child, who died in infancy.

Frank Hawkins enlisted at Bethany, Missouri, for service in the World Wai, with Company M of the 34th Infantry and was killed in action in France while scouting, October 22, 1918.

W. Clay Burris, an enterprising farmer of Harrison County, lives in Bethany Township, a mile north of the court house. He is a native of this county, having been bom in Cypress Township, June 14, 1884, the son of Frank P. and Emma C. (Barlow) Burris. Frank Burris was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in October, 1852, and came to Harrison County with his parents in 1857. They were George and Elizabeth Burris, who settled in Cypress Township where their son, Frank P., was reared. George Burris was prominent in Harrison County and was a judge of the county court in the early days. He died in Bethany in May, 1893 and his remains are buried on the Burris home farm. Frank P. Burris was also a prominent man in his community and manifested an active interest in politics. He made the race for representative on the Democratic ticket and was one of the organizers of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of which he was the president for over twenty years, his term of office ceasing only with his death. His wife, Emma C. (Barlow) Burris was bom in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1857 and still lives on the Burris home place in Harrison County.

To Frank P. and Emma C. (Barlow) Burris the following children were born: George R., of Mt. Moriah ; J. Harvey, one of the strong men connected with the Great Western Sugar Company; W. Clay, the subject of this sketch; F. Ed, a graduate of the Missouri State University, a prominent educator who was at one time assistant principal of the Bethany High School, later a teacher in Denver, Colorado, and then superintendent of the Helena, Montana public schools, during which term of office he became (26) ill and came to his home in Cypress Township where he died; K. Cliflford, a resident of Bethany Township; Don C, died in infancy; Ruth, now Mrs. Carter of Dallas Township; Joseph, living in Bethany Township; Mary E., living at home and a teacher in the county ; Grace, living at home ; J. J., now in St. Joseph with the Street Raihvay Company ; and Bruce, living at home.

W. Clay Burris was educated in the rural schools of the county and then attended the Bethany High School. He has followed farming and stockraising all of his life. He lives on the Hickman farm where he has 160 acres in oats, hay, com and blue grass pasture and raises cattle, hogs and sheep. His wife is much interested in poultry raising and at present has over 600 fowls of Brown Leghorn chickens and Bronze turkeys. Mr. Burris is a believer in progressive farm methods and is proving most successful in his work.

W. Clay Burris was married November 10, 1909 to Abbie F. England, a daughter of David and Margaret England, of Dallas Township, where Mrs. Burris was born and reared. To Mr. and Mrs. Burris have been born two children, Elizabeth, and Lucille, who died when two years of age.

Mr. Bums is a member of the Yeoman Lodge and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a Democrat in politics. The Burris family has always been highly esteemed in the community.

J. W. Berry, an industrious farmer of Bethany Township, living a half mile south of the city limits of Bethany, was born in Dallas Township, February 20, 1881, the son of H. M. and Matilda R. (Bender) Berry.

H. M. Berry was born in Pennsylvania, September 6, 1855, the son of James Berry who came from Pennsylvania to Harrison County in the fifties and settled in Dallas Township. He served in the Missouri State Militia during the Civil War. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church. James Berry died in 1907 and his remains are buried in Kidwell Cemetery. H. M. Berry died February 18, 1909 and his remains are buried in Kidwell Cemetery. His widow, Matilda R. (Bender) Berry was born in Harrison County. She is now sixty-seven years of age and lives in Bethany. To the union of H. M. and Matilda R. (Bender) Berry the following children were born: J. M., now a resident of St. Joseph; J. W., the subject of this sketch; Rosa, now living at Bethany; Ethel, now living in Portland, Oregon; and Nettie, at home and employed with the Harrison County Bank.

J. W. Berry was educated at the Mount Tabor school in Dallas Township and has followed farming all of his life. He bought his present farm of sixty acres, formerly the Doctor Blackburn place, in 1916. Since coming to this farm, Mr. Berry has made several improvements and has remodeled the place. He raises corn, has ten acres in alfalfa and uses soudan grass for pasture. He has five Jersey cows and intends to run a dairy.

Mr. Berry was married December 24, 1911, to Dellnena West, a daughter of W. D. and Mattie (Huss) West of Bethany. Mr. West was born in Iowa in 1860. He owns a farm in Bethany Township and runs a jitney in Bethany. Mrs. West was bom in Illinois in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. West have three daughters: Dellnena, now Mrs. Berry; Floy, wife of Orville Grant of Dimmitt, Texas; and Clonda, living at home and employed with the Bethany Trust Company.

Mr. Berry is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 97, of Bethany. He is an energetic and highly esteemed young man in the community.

Carl Allen, well known farmer of Bethany Township, is a native of Harrison County. He was born in Bethany Township in 1879, the son of Thomas B. and Eliza (Neal) Allen. Thomas B. Allen was a native of Harrison County where he was a farmer and stockman for several years. He was in the Union Army during the Civil War and while in service lost his right arm from a wound which caused his death in 1881. His remains are buried in Miriam Cemetery at Bethany. His widow, now seventy-six years old, lives on the home place.

To Thomas B. and Eliza (Neal) Allen the following children were born : Grace, the wife of John Bradney of Lawton, Oklahoma ; Roy, living on the home place; Guy, married to Maggie McCullough and living in Iowa; Len, married to Bell Hamilton and living at Vinita, Oklahoma; Mabel, wife of Charles Reidmann of Vinita, Oklahoma; Carl, the subject of the present review; and Thomas, married to Lucy Couch and living at Vinita, Oklahoma.

Carl Allen was educated in the public schools and has followed farming all of his life. He owns a farm of 235 acres formerly the Derias Maxey farm, on which he does general farming and stockraising. He handles thoroughbred Poland China hogs, his brood sows being among the best in the county. Mr. Allen has improved his place extensively since he bought it. He has remodeled the house and has good farm buildings.

Mr. Allen was married October 13, 1901 to Martha Adelia C. Maxie, who was born and maiTied on the farm where she now lives. Mrs. Allen is the daughter of Derias Maxie who was a native of Virginia and was broug'ht by his parents to Missouri when he was a child of nine years. They settled first in Howard County and then came to Harrison County to live. Mr. Maxie was twenty-one years old when he came to Harrison County in 1853 and he spent over fifty years here. He was a veteran of the Civil War having been a member of the Missouri State Militia. He used to haul goods from St. Joseph to Bethany in the days when stores were very infrequent. During war times this trip required a week or more time. Mr. Maxie was one of the hardy, brave hearted men who did much toward founding the development of Harrison County. He died at his home in 1907 and his remains are buried in Antioch Cemetery. His wife, Catherine (Hilton) Maxie, was a native of Washington County, Kentucky. She died in 1908 at the age of sixty-five years. The Maxie children were: Martha Adeiia C, now Mrs. Allen; and Joseph N., now a resident of Bethany.

Mr. and Mrs. Allen have five living children: David, Ruby, Bell Verda, Buford, and Eunice. Their second child, Ralph, died at the age of 13 years. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are sending their children to the Bethany Public School.

Vilas Kimbrough, an enterprising farmer of Bethany Township, living one-fourth mile from the city limits of Bethany was born in Sherman Township April 2, 1885. He is the son of John C. and Rosina (McGowen) Kimbrough. Mrs. Kimbrough is a native of Sherman Township, a daughter of John and Eunice McGowen, both deceased and buried at Springer Chape!. Mrs. Kimbrough now lives at Bethany. John C. Kimbrough was a native of Illinois and came to Hamson County when he was but a young man. He died, June 14, 1907 and his remains are buried :it Antioch Church. He was married twice. By his first marriage he had one son who died in infancy and another son. Charles, now a resident of Sherman Township. To his second marriage with Rosina McGowen the following children were born: Vilas, the subject of this sketch; Lillian, now Mrs. Osmundson of Forest City, Iowa , Etta, died in infancy, and Gailand, died in infancy. John C. Kimbrough was a democrat in politic.'^ and an active member of the Democratic Central Committee.

Vilas Kimbrough was educated in the school of Hazel Dell District and has followed farming all of his life. He owned the home place of 280 acres in Sherman Township, and in July, 1919 he bought his present farm of 110 acres. He does general farming and raises Duroc Jersey and Poland China hogs. He has a good residence and a new barn on the place. The farm has good soil and is well watered and shows the good effects of Mr. Kimbrough's methods of farming.

Vilas Kimbrough was married December 24, 1905 to Olive Brown, a daughter of J. C. and Amelia (Ward) Brown. J. C. Brown died August 7, 1920 and his remains are buried in Oilman City. His wife now lives at Oilman City. Their children are: John J., a I'esident of Oilman City; Frank W., of Oilman City ; and Olive, now Mrs. Kimbrough. To Vilas and Olive (Brovra) Kimbrough the following children have been born: Maurine, Bonita, and Brown.

Mr. Kimbrough made the lace for trustee of Bethany in April, 1921 on the Democratic ticket, and was elected.. He also served as clerk of the Board of Education in Sherman Township before moving to his present home.

Ovid H. Butler comes of a pioneer family of farmers and stockmen. He was born in Cypress Township, October 19, 1880, the son of Albert and Ella (Sutton) Butler. Albert Butler was a well known farmer and stockman and his farm is still included in the Butler holdings. He was born on the farm where his son Ovid, was later bom. He died in March, 1913. His wife, Ella (Sutton) Butler, was born in Preble County, Ohio; she now lives in Bethany and is fifty-nine years of age.

Asaph Butler, paternal grandfather of Ovid H. Butler, came from Vermilion County, Illinois, and, on June 26, 1840, he entered land in Cypress Township, buying out a squatter who lived in a cabin and held forty acres of land. At the time of his death, Asaph Butler owned 360 acres of land which was in the homeplace, besides land that he had already given his children. Asaph Butler was a prominent man who was deeply interested in civic affairs as well as in farming. He laid out a public cemetery on his farm which is still used. One of his sons, Harmon, was buried there in 1852. He built a house in Cypress Township that was the first in Harrison County to have glass window panes and a shingle roof. He was a member of the first County Court ever held in Harrison County. This court met under an elm tree on the banks of Big Creek near the Slaughter Bridge. The Butler farm is indeed an interesting old historic place. Taken up by a squatter, the rights sold to Asaph Butler, the birthplace in 1845 of Albert Butler, and later of Ovid Butler, it is also the burial place of Asaph Butler, who died May 8, 1892. The homeplace is now farmed by Otis Butler, the only brother of Ovid Butler.

Ovid H. Butler was educated in the public schools of the county and has been a farmer and stockman all of his life. He bought his present farm of 130 acres, two miles southeast of Bethany from W. W. Myers in 1919. Mr. Butler is a dairyman and has twenty head of Jersey cows. He also raises hogs and does general farming. His farm is well watered and he has a windmill to pump the water to the barn and house.

Mr. Butler was married December 25, 1902, to Martha McDaniel, a daughter of F. P. and Ida (Slaughter) McDaniel, both of whom live in Bethany. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have five children: Ralph, Mabel June, Bettie, Worth and Geneva.

U. A. Towns and N. O. Towns, proprietors of the Oak Grove Dairy Farm, are well known in Harrison County where the family has been prominent for years. U. A. Towns was born in Marshall County, Indiana, September 15. 1865, the son of Joseph I. and Rachel (Borton) Towns, both deceased. Joseph I. Towns was a native of Ohio, born near Alliance, September 28, 1836. His father Robert Towns, was a pioneer settler in Alliance, Indiana, where he died. Joseph Towns was educated in Indiana and farmed there until he was nearly fifty years of age, when he and a neighbor, Mr. Burch, left Marshall County and drove through to Harrison County, Missouri, with four wagons. Mr. Burch settled near Eagleville on a farm and Mr. Towns settled on the farm where his son, U. A., now lives. Here Joseph I. Towns died April 17, 1898, at the age of eightyfour years. His remains are buried in Miriam Cemetery. His wife was born in 1825 and died at the age of seventy-two years. The children of Joseph I. and Rachel (Borton) Towns are: Albert, deceased at the age of sixty-seven, was married to Bell Roberts who now lives at Princeton, Kansas ; Jennie, the wife of Walter Price of San Francisco, Califoniia ; Lida, wife of Monroe Bartow of Portland, Oregon ; Cynthia, wife of James Hobbs, deceased; and U. A., the subject of this sketch.

Rev. Daniel Borton, maternal grandfather of Mr. Towns of this sketch, was a minister of the Christian Church who entered land near Alliance, Ohio, where he lived until his death at the age of eighty-five. Besides preaching, he taught school and served as a justice of the peace.

U. A. Towns was educated in the public schools and the Bethany High School when John R. Kirk was the principal, and attended Avalon College for three years when C. J. Kephart was the principal. He returned home fi-om college and has been on the home place ever since. He bought 200 acres from the Towns heirs and has since added 200 acres more, making a farm of 400 acres which is registered as the Oak Grove Dairy Farm. The firm name is U. A. Towns and Son, the "Son" being the N. 0. Towns named in the heading of this sketch. Mr. Towns has been prominent in general farming, dairying and stock raising for years. For more than twelve years he made a daily trip to Bethany. He now has sixty head of Holstein cattle and raises also Duorc Jersey hogs, and continues to breed horse.s and jacks. He has at present, thirty-seven head of horses and mares.

Mr. Town.s has always taken an active interest in politics and has made the race for oflSce several tiines. In 1894 he was a candidate for state senator on the Populist ticket and in 1896 he ran for the same office on the Populist ticket indoresd by the Democrats. In 1898 he was a candidate for congress from the Third Congressional District on the Populist ticket.

U. A. Towns was married June 23, 1884, to Nora S. Spears, a daughter of John and Mary E. (Edrington) Spears. John Spears died in Oklahoma where his remains are buried. Mrs. Spears lives with her daughter, Mrs. Towng. To U. A. and Nora E. (Spears) Towns the following children were born: Ollie, now Mrs. Gibson of St. Joseph; Merle, living at home; Doris, at home; and N. 0., the oldest child and only living son, born in Livingston County, January 2, 1886, and now a member of the firm. Towns and Son. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Towns, a son and a daughter, died in infancy.

Mr. Towns is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World, and the Modern Woodman of America. He is also a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Towns and his son are both enterprising men who are obtaining marked success by their use of scientific methods and their integrity.

J. R. Webb, a prominent farmer and stockman and one of Harrison County's large land owners, is a native of this county. He was born on the place where he now resides in Trail Greek Township, March 8, 1866 and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Cockrell) Webb. Elizabeth Cockrell was a native of Missouri and a member of one of the distinguished pioneer families of the state. She was a cousin of the late United States Senator Cockrell.

Joseph Webb was born at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and when a young man came west and his parents came here sometime afterwards. He was a son of Jonathon Webb, who spent the remainder af his life in Trail Creek Township after coming here. He and his wife are buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Joseph Webb settled on the place where J. R. Webb now lives in 1855, having entered it from the government. He followed farming and stock raising and bought and sold cattle extensively and was also engaged in the mercantile business for over thirty years. Dui'ing the course of his career he was very successful and acquired a great deal of land. At one time he owned about 2,000 acres but sold some of it before his death and gave most of it to his children. He died December 4, 1913 and his wife died November 16, 1909 and their remains are buried in the Mount Moriah Cemetery. They were members of the Baptist Church and he was a Knights Templar Mason.

To Joseph and Elizabeth (Cockrell) Webb were born eight children as follows: W. L., Bethany, Missouri; Mattie, married E. A. Deupree, Dora, Missouri; C. T., Bethany; Mary Catherine, married E. W. Pullum, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Joseph E., lives in California; J. R., the subject of this sketch ; Sarah Elizabeth married G. W. Hannah, Kansas City, Missouri; and James Albert, Bethany, Missouri.

J. R. Webb was reared on the home place where he now resides and began farming and stock raising at an early age. He remained with his father until the latter's death, when he received 160 acres of land. Later he bought the interests of other heirs of the estate and also bought other lanJ until he is now the owner of 1250 acres, nearly all of which is situated in Trail Creek Township. He operates most of his land himself but rents a great deal on shares and thus it is all under his immediate manageinent and control. He carries on general farming and stock raising and raises cattle extensively. He also buys and feeds large numbers of cattle for the market and in ordinary times markets about 200 head annually. He raises principally Durham and Whitefaced cattle.

Mr. Webb's land is so situated that nearly all of it is within view of his residence wliich occupies a commanding eminence overlooking a large section of the surrounding country. The residence is a large modern well built structure with all modern conveniences and was erected by Mr. Webb about 1916. The foundation is built of stone, a great deal of which was taken from the chimney of the old pioneer home of the Webb family, which stood on the same place as the present residence.

Mr. Webb was married April 2, 1893, to Miss Dora Wethers, who was born and reared in Fox Creek Township. She is the daughter of William H. Wethers, a native of Mattoon, Illinois. He settled in Fox Creek Township about fifty years ago and still resides there. To Mr. and Mrs. Webb have been born one child, Catherine Marie. She was educated in the Lady's Liberty College, at Liberty, Missouri ; Hardin College, at Mexico, Missouri, and the Gem City Business College, at Quincy, Illinois, and now resides at home with her parents.

Mr. Webb is a progressive and successful man of affairs and the Webb family ranks among the leading representative people of Harrison County.

F. W. Sherer and T. B. Sherer are prominent in the business world of Bethany, where they are connected, the former as the owner and registered pharmacist, and the latter as the registered pharmacist, with the Sherer Drug Company, one of the historic pioneer firms of the county. This store was established prior to the Civil War. The original company was succeeded, before the war, by T. B. Sherer, father of the present owner. T. B. Sherer was succeeded by T. B. Sherer and Son, and that firm in turn succeeded by Sherer and Butler, later the present firm of Sherer Drug Company took over the business. The history of the Sherer family is thus the account of practically the entire history of this drug store. T. B. Sherer of the old firm, was a native of Pennsylvania and served an apprenticeship in business in New York City. Several years before the turbulent period of the strife between the states, he came to Harrison County where he taught school and was in business. He died in 1908 at the age of seventy-five and his remains are buried in Miriam Cemetery. He was married in Bethany to Serena Allen, deceased, at the age of thirty-nine. Their children were: C. A. Sherer, a resident of Bethany; Bert, deceased; William, deceased; F. W., one of the subjects of the present sketch ; and a daughter, Anna, died in infancy.

F. W. Sherer was born in Bethany, Missouri, in 1870, and received his education in St. Joseph and Wentworth Military Academy at Lexington, Missouri. He has followed the drug business all of his life and is thoroughly conversant with every phase of it. He married Myrtle Turner in 1893. She is the daughter of Robert and Rebecca Turner, both belonging to pioneer families of Harrison County. Robert Turner died in Bethany and his remains are buried in Miriam Cemetery. His wife lives with a daughter, now the wife of Dr. Buts of Bethany. F. W. Sherer and his wife, Myrtle (Turner) Sherer, have three children : T. B., a sketch of whom is included in this review; Dorothy, now Mrs. Harlan Slatten of Bethany ; and Charles T., now a student in the Bethany High School.

T. B. Sherer was born May 2, 1896, in Bethany. He was educated in Bethany, graduating from the Bethany High School at the age of fifteen. He is a registered pharmacist and learned the drug business from his father with whom he has been associated in the store since finishing high school. By inheritance and environment he has been given opportunity to develop the strong business acumen which he possesses, and he has been successful in his work. He was married May 20, 1917, to Ethel Sadler of Independence, Missouri, a daughter of J. L. Sadler, who is a retired contractor of Independence. Mr. and Mrs. Sherer have two daughters: Marjory Elizabeth, and Gretchen Jane.

F. W. Sherer is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Royal Arch Chapter and Commandery; the Modern Woodmen of America; the Woodmen of the World; and the Knights of Pythias. T. B. Sherer is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Bethany. Both F. W. Sherer and his son, T. B. Sherer, are progi'essive business men.

Olin Kies, prominent farmer and business man of Harrison County, was born in Sherman Township, July 12, 1867, and has been intimately connected with the growth of the county for most of his life. As a progressive farmer, large land owner, and president of the First National Bank of Bethany, Mr. Kies has been in touch with the various phases of the commercial development of his community.

He is the son of Archibald and Jane (Somerville) Kies, both deceased. Archibald Kies was bom in New York where he was also married. He came to Missouri in the forties and settled in Sherman Township, enter- ing the land upon which his son, Ohn, was born as well as the children of Olin Kies. Archibald Kies owned 320 acres of land now owned by his son. Jane (Somerville) Kies died about 1911. They had two children, of whom Olin Kies is the only one living.

Olin Kies was educated in the public school of the county and spent one term in the Ridgeway High School. He has followed farming of Bethany. Here he has a nice residence, a good barn, and an acre and a half of orchard. Besides this place, Mr. Kies owns three other farms: the Prairie View Farm of 657 acres in Fox Creek and Sherman Townships ; 200 acres and eighty acres in Fox Creek and Trail Creek Townships; and 400 acres in another tract in Trail Creek. Mr. Kies operates all of these farms and feeds cattle and hogs. In addition to these duties, Mr. Kies has been the president of the First National Bank of Bethany since the organization of that institution.

Mr. Kies was married August 2, 1888 to Ida Moss of Trial Creek Township, daughter of John L. and Martha (Hickman) Moss, the latter died in 1881 ; the former lives in Trail Creek Township on the home place. He was born in Mercer County, is a veteran of the Civil War having enlisted in the Union Army from Missouri and serving throughout the war, and is now seventy-seven years old. Mrs. Kies' maternal grandfather, Alfred Hickman was a native of Kentucky who settled in Mercer County where he entered land south of Cainsville on Grand River. Here the mother of Mrs. Kies was bom. Mr. Hickman, even before 1845, carried mail from Cainsville to Maryville in Nodaway County, following the old Indian trail on horseback and taking his route through the present site of Bethany. He was one of the pioneers who, sturdy and intrepid, did much to make possible the present progress of the county. He died on his farm four miles west of Mt. Moriah and his remains are buried in Cain's Cemetery southeast of Cainsville in Mercer County.

To Olin and Ida (Moss) Kies the following children were born ; Bonnie C. married to Ethel Selby and died at the age of twenty-two, leaving one son, Doyle, now twelve years old ; Dorris, married Delpha Smith, a daughter of James and Mary(Barger) Smith, and now living on the home farm; and Samuel, married Myrtle Linthacum, a daughter of Bert and Hettie (Ross) Linthacum and living at home. Dorris Kies is a veteran of the World War. He enlisted in May, 1918, was sent to Camp Dodge, May 22, 1918, and Vv'as placed with the 351st Infantry, 88th Division. He went overseas in August 1918 and returned home in June, 1919 after a service of thir-

Olin Kies is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias Lodge. He served two terms, 1911 to 1915, as judge of the county court of Harrison County. The Kies family has always been prominent in the county where the name stands for high standards of citizenship and business acumen.

Frank A. Premer, one of the highly respected citizens of Bethany Township, Harrison County, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, April 7, 1861, the son of W. B. and Catherine D. (Romesburg) Premer.

W. B. Premer was born in Wayne County, Ohio, and came to Missouri in 1872, setthng in Martinsville, where he died November 6, 1906, at the age of seventy; his wife, now eighty-one years old, still lives in Martinsville where she is the oldest inhabitant of the town. W. B. Premer was a veteran of the Civil War, in which he served three anc/ one-half years. He was disabled while in service.

To W. B. and Catherine D. (Romesburg) Premer the following children were born: Frank A., the subject of this sketch; Fred, died at the age of twenty-four years in Martinsville; and Ida, later Mrs. Snyder of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and died in 1918.

Frank A. Premer received his education in the public schools of Ohio, and Harrison County, and later attended school in Stanberry, Missouri. For thirty-three years, he was a teacher in Harrison County, teaching his last school at Washington Center in 1916. He bought his present home of G. W. Myers in 1908. It is a fann three-fourths of a mile south of the Bethany line. Mr. Premer has followed dairying and hog-raising here for the last ten years, and for the last three years, he has raised corn and wheat.

Mr. Premer was married to Martha E. Funk, June 6, 1884. Mrs. Premer is a daughter of Adam and Susan (Eisenbarger) Funk. Adam Funk was born in Allen County, Ohio, and has been a resident of Harrison County, Missouri since 1861. His home place was three miles northeast of Martinsville where he lived until 1914 when he came to live with his daughter Mrs. Premer. Mr. Funk was justice of the peace of Dallas Township for many years, and still takes an active interest in all civic affairs although he is now ninety-one years old. He served in the Mis- souri State Militia during the Civil War. Mr. Funk is one of the fine and respected citizens of the community. His wife, Susan (Eisenbarger) Funk died in Martinsville in November, 1914, and is buried in McGee Cemetery.

To Frank A. and Martha E. (Funk) Premer the following chlidren were born: Edna, now Mrs. J. W. Cox of Bethany, Missouri; Mildred, now Mrs. John J. Carter of Pattonsburg, Missouri; Raymond, a veteran of the World War, enlisted December 16, 1916, suffered a stroke of paralysis in 1917, was mustered out of service March 31, 1920, and is now in the Missouri State University taking an agriculture course ; Douglas, married to Elmina Holley and now living in Ridgeway, Missouri; Phyllis, now Mrs. Ralph Flint of Bethany, Missouri; Lowell married to Helen Pugh of Coffey, Missouri, and now a rural mail carrier in Eagleville, Missouri ; Donald, living at home ; and Lois, a student in high school.

Mr. Premer is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America in Bridgeport, Missouri. Having taught school for so many years and in various places in the county, Mr. Premer is a well known and well liked citizen. He is esteemed all over the county for his long years of efficient service.

George C. Nelson, an enterprising young farmer of Harrison County, was born in Bethany Township, March 2, 1884, the son of Robert L. and Melissa Ann (Phillebaum) Nelson, both natives of Harrison County, who grew up and were married here and now live on their farm adjoining the George C. Nelson farm on the north. Their children are: Edgar, a resident of Bethany; Isaac E., of Bethany; Margaret, the county agent of Linneus County; Lena, now the wife of Edgar Rogers of White Oak Tovniship; Bertha, who was married to Willis Sapp and is nov/ deceased; George E., the subject of the present sketch; and Charlie, now living at Grand Fork, North Dakota.

George C. Nelson was educated in the public schools in Harrison County and, with the exception of three years spent in the State of California, has lived here all of his life. He remained with his parents until he was twenty years old, getting practical experience and training in farming. He bought his present farm in October, 1919 ; prior to that time he had purchased ninety-eight acres adjoining this place, thus making a farm of 140 acres. His residence is located one and one-half miles west of Bethany on the Southwest Trail and he has good farm buildings on the place. The farm is well shaded and Mr. Nelson has put extensive improvements on it. He raises Rhode Island chickens and has about 800 fowls all together. He also raises hogs and cattle. The farm presents an attractive, well kept appearance.

Mr. Nelson was married June 29, 1916, to Pearl Cranor, a daughter of James and Carrier (Coulter) Cranor. James Cranor was born near King City, died at Albany about 1910, and is buried in Albany. Carrie (Coulter) Cranor was bom in Ohio and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Their children were: Pearl, bom at Albany and educated there, now Mrs. Nelson ; and Opal, now the wife of H. D. Wilcox of Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have one son, James Robert, born April 29, 1919.

Nelson B. Harrison, well known dairyman and stock raiser of Harrison County, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, October 11, 1879, the son of Thomas J. and Gertrude (Williams) Harrison.

Thomas Jay Harrison, father of the subject of this sketch, was bom in Jackson County, Ohio, January 9, 1846, the son of Nelson and Margaret (Buck) Harrison. Nelson Harrison was born in Rockingham, Virginia, and died in 1857. He is buried in Jefferson Township, Jackson County, Ohio. His wife died in Jackson County, Ohio, and is buried in Liberty Township in that county. Thomas Jay Harrison was educated in the public schools of Ohio and in the State University at Athens, Ohio, where he graduated in the course in 1868, and in the Greek course in 1870. He taught school in Jackson and Gallia counties in Ohio, farming during the season, until 1880, when he came to Missouri, and located near Gardner Station in Harrison County, buying 156 acres of land of Anthony Enloe for ten dollars per acre. Eighteen months later he sold this land to Mr. Bartlett and bought the 120 acres, now his home, four miles southwest of Bethany in Bethany Township on Rural Route No. 5. Thirty-five acres of the land was broken, but there were no improvements except the fences. In 1884, Mr. Hari-ison built his present residence, a sixroom house with a basement. He has followed dairying since 1890, and has been very successful.

Thomas Jay Harrison was married to Gertrude Leslie Williams in July, 1870. Mrs. Harrison was bom in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1853. She was educated in the public schools of Ohio. She died in 1893 and is buried in Burris Cemetery in Harrison County, Missouri. To Thomas Jay and Gertrude L. (Williams) Harrison, the following children were born: Grace, a graduate of the Missouri State University, and a teacher in Harrisonville, Cass County, Missouri, at the time of her death in 1898 at the age of twenty-six; Cora Lee, born in February, 1875, a graduate of the Missouri State University, and a teacher in Harrison County at the time of her death in September, 1920 ; Emma, a graduate of Wesleyan College at Cameron, Missouri, formerly a teacher in Harrison County schools, and now Mrs. Willard Link of Mount Ayr, Iowa; Lois, a graduate of the Bethany High School and of the State Teachers College of Maryville, Missouri, now Mrs. James Mc- Queery of St. Joseph, Missouri ; John Scott, educated in Bethany High School and the Missouri State University, now teaching and conducting a ranch in Prosser, Washington; Nelson Burr, the subject of this sketch; Isaac Fletcher, a graduate of the Bethany High School and of the Engineering Department of the Missouri State University, now the general manager of a tile factoiy in Birmingham, Alabama; and Carey, educated in Bethany High School and Missouri State University, now doing general farming in Union Township, Harrison County.

Thomas Jay Harrison was a member of the Ohio Legislature, elected from Jackson County in 1873 and serving until 1876. He was a public spirited man, standing well in his community. His interest in education is shown by the fact that all of his children were sent to schools for advanced work.

Nelson B. Han-ison, the subject of this review, was educated in the public schools of Harrison County and graduated from the Missouri State University in 1905 with the degrees of B. S. in M. E. He has followed farming all of his life. He and his brother, Carey, bought the eighty acres on which Nelson B. now lives, in 1912. This with forty given to them by their father made 120 acres. Later N. B. Harrison bought his brother's interest in the place. Mr. Harrison put all the improvements on the place except the barn. The Mitchellville schoolhouse is on one corner of the farm. The place is well fenced, being hog tight, and has a good residence recently remodeled. The house is only one-half mile from the Jefferson Highway. Mr. Harrison conducts a dairy and has twentyseven registered and grade Jersey cattle. He also raises Duroc Jersey bogs and Rhode Island Red chickens.

a daughter of J. H. and Etta Link of Mount Ayr, Iowa, and was born in Ringold County, Iowa. Her parents formerly lived near Hatfield in Harrison County. To Nelson B. and Eunice E. (Link) Harrison the following children were bom: Marjorie, Cecil, Keith, died at the age of two and one-half years; and Catherine.

Mr. Harrison is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Bethany and belongs to the Methodist Church. The Harrison family is well known in the county, belonging to the group of families that have fostered the growth of Harrison County since early days.

W. H. H. Gillespie, a well known retired citizen of Bethany and exsheriff of this county, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, June 22, 1842, the son of W. B. and Rhoda (Miller) Gillespie.

Mrs. W. B. Gillespie was a native of Virginia. Her mother who was Nancy Flynn had quite an interesting and tragic experience in childhood. While her father v.as clearing land in Virginia in pioneer days he was killed by Indians just when he had finished fencing his land. The Indians took all of the family prisoners except one girl who jumped into a sink hole and escaped. Nancy Flynn was kept prisoner by the Indians until she was twelve or fourteen years of age, when she was rescued by three white men who had been informed of her identity by a white family where she had been sent by the Indians for milk. A scar caused by a burn vv'as the clue that identified her as she had no knowledge of her parents, having been captured in infancy.

W. B. Gillespie was born in Virginia in 1811 and later moved to Jackson County, Ohio, where he married and lived until 1844. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Gillespie came to Missouri in the fall of 1844 and settled six miles south of Bethany, where W. H. H. Gillespie was reared. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie died there and are buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie were the parents of the following children : F. M., who died at the military home in Leavenworth, Kansas, and who was in Company F, Merrill's Horse, 2nd Missouri Cavalry, enlisting August 1, 1861; Nancy, who died at the age of twenty-five years; W. H. H., the subject of this sketch ; Z. T., who died in Oklahoma in 1918 ; and W. S., who died in Cypress Township.

W. H. H. Gillespie enlisted in the army, August 1, 1861, at Bethany, Missouri, in Merrill's Horse or 2nd Missouri Cavalry and served for nine months, when he was discharged on account of measles. August 1, 1863, he enlisted in 1st Missouri State Militia Cavalry and, while in service, lost an arm at Lexington, Missouri. Upon his discharge from the army, he taught school for sixteen years. In the fall election of 1886, he was elected sheriff of Harrison County and reelected in 1888, serving four years. Since then, he has made his home in Bethany with the exception of one year that he spent in Colorado on a claim.

W. H. K. Gillespie was married December 18, 1868 to Hannah A. Sutton, a daughter of Benjamin and Rachel Sutton, of Cypress Township. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton came here from Indiana in 1865 and settled in Cypress Tov.-nship. They both died in Benton County, Missouri, where they are buried.

Mr. and Mrs. Gillespie are the parents of the following children: Alma Louise, the wife of the Rev. Eugene Leazenby, a Methodist minister of Crawfordsville, Indiana; Florence Ethel, the wife of Harry Williams, of Grand Junction, Colorado- Charles Lester, who married Bessie Wright and who lives in Davenport. Iowa ; and four children who died in infancy.

Mr. Gillespie is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic at Bethany. He is a substantial citizen and stands high in the community and county.

Lewis Hefner, the competent and popular manager of the Miner Frees Lumber Yard at New Hampton, Missouri was born in Jefferson Township, Harrison County, November 30, 1877, the son of W. L. and Anna J. (Easton) Hefner, both still living six miles north of Bethany at Mount Moriah Chapel in Jefferson Township.

W. L. Hefner was born three miles south of his present residence in the same township, February 22, 1854. He was the son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Brown) Hefner who came to Missouri from Virginia in 1852, settling in Harrison County and improving the farm now owned by H. J. Hefner, a son of Lewis Hefner. Lewis Hefner and his wife both died on the home place and are buried in Miriam Cemetery. W. L. Hefner continues to do general farming. He has filled some of the offices in his township and is ranked as one of the progressive farmers. (27)

To W. L. and Ann J. (Easton) Hefner the following children were bom: Lewis, the subject of this sketch; Delpha, now Mrs. Warren Boler of Bethany, Missouri; Minnie, the wife of Robert Buzzard of Sherman Township; and Frankie, who died in infancy.

Lewis Hefner was educated in the rural schools of Harrison County. He followed the vocation of farming in Jefferson Township until 1912. He then went to Martinsville, Missouri, where he held the position of clerk in a store for eighteen months. In July, 1915, he began work with the Miner Frees Lumber Company of Bethany, Missouri, and has been the manager of the yard in New Hampton ever since August 1, 1920. This lumber yard carries a full and complete line of building materials.

Lewis Hefner was married February 2, 1901 to Ollie L. Hefner, a native of Harrison County. Her parents were W. J. and Anna E. Hefner. Her father died in July, 1913 and is buried in Lakin, Kansas ; her mother still lives in Lakin, Kansas. Mrs. Hefner was educated in the public schools of Harrison County.

Lewis Hefner is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Daughters of Rebecca Lodge, the Modern Woodman of America Encampment, and the Knights of Pythias Lodge. He is known in his community as an upright and i-eliable citizen.

Dr. Alfred L. Wessling, a competent physician and progressive citizen of New Hampton, Missouri, was bom in Pulaski County, Missouri, February 18, 1886, the son of Joseph and Anna (Well) Wessling. Joseph Wessling located in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1872 and practiced his trade, that of milling. He left St. Louis and moved to Pulaski and later to LaClede County, but returned to St. Louis where he lived until his death in 1915. His wife resides in St. Louis, Missouri.

Dr. Alfred L. Wessling was educated in the public schools and Drury College at Springfield, Missouri, and received his professional education at St. Louis Medical University and was graduated a B. S. M. D. from the National University of Arts and Sciences in 1914. He began practicing first at Freeburg, Missouri, where he remained one year, then he was in Springfield, Missouri, one year and then located in Martinsville and lived there one and one-half years, and, after being in the army for seventeen months, located in New Hampton, September, 1919.

March 6, 1918 at Eberts Field, Lonoke, Arkansas, where he remained for three months and then went to Vancouver Barracks, Washington, and was there until January, 1919, when he went to Camp Upton, New York and was mustered out there August 6, 1919, immediately returning to New Hampton where he has since practiced.

Doctor Wessling was married July 29, 1919, to Laura E. Burnett, of Eldorado Springs, Missouri, a daughter of Isaac Burnett. She is also a native of Missouri and is a graduate of the Osceola, Missouri, High School, and attended the Springfield State Teachers College and prior to her marriage, taught school, but during the World War was in the adjutant genei-al's office at Washington, D. C, for two years. They have one child, Alfred Louis Wessling, Jr., bom July 9, 1921.

Doctor Wessling is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America, County, State and American Medical Associations, and is also a member of the American Legion at New Hampton, being a charter member at this place. He is captain of the Medical Reserve Corps and his commission will not expire until December 17, 1924. Doctor Wessling is also city physician of New Hampton. He is a skilled physician and has a large practice.

E. J. Castle, a substantial farmer of Bethany Township, was bom in Auglaize County, Ohio, in 1852, the son of Ananias and Jane (Erwin) Castle. Mr. and Mrs. Ananias Castle came to Harrison County in 1871 and settled in Union Township. He died at the home of his son, E. J. Castle, in 1903 at the age of seventy-seven years and his wife died in 1908 at the age of eighty-three and both are buried at Oakland Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Ananias Castle were the parents of the following children: Mary Ellen Hollis, of Kansas City, Kansas; James M., of Philip County, Kansas; E. J., the subject of this sketch; Urias, of Los Angeles, Cahfornia; Mrs. Sarah Hughes, deceased, who lived in Oklahoma; Mrs. Martha Alamon, of Jennings, Oklahoma; William, of Rutland, Canada; Eli, who died at Jenings, Oklahoma, and Emma Carson, of Cameron, Missouri.

E. J. Castle moved to his present farm March 18, 1885, at which time he bought ninety-one acres from the Cuddy estate, and later bought fifty acres from the George Hand land, and an additional two acres, making a total of one hundred forty-three acres in the home farm, which is located

Mr. Castle was married January 1, 1873, to Mary M. C. Friedley, a daughter of John M. and Cynthia (Araold) Friedley, who came to Harrison County, September, 1857 and settled, first on Pole Cat Creek, and later bought a farm in Jefferson Township in 1863. Mr. Friedley died February 17, 1900 and his wife died February 15, 1907 and both are buried in Oakland Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Friedley were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Elizabeth King who died in Oklahoma; George W., who was killed at Brownville, Arkansas, while in the Federal service, in 1862; Mrs. Susan A. Seaburn of Bethany, Missouri; and Mrs. Castle, who was born in Harrison County, Indiana. July 26, 1853 ; Jacob D., born in 1842.

Mr. and Mrs. Castle have two children living: Julia A., the wife of Shelby Wise, and who have five children, Moree, Rohenia, Irene, Oluf and Robert ; William R., a farmer of Dallas Township, who married Ada Wise, deceased, and who has one daughter, Ethel; and Davie E., who died in infancy.

Mr. Castle has a primitive buhr stone, made and used by George Hand, who bought ninety acres of land in Jefferson Township, which is part of the farm now owned by Mr. Castle. This buhr stone was made by hand of native stone or "nigger" head being used for the base and another of the same kind cut to fit in a hole in the base and operated by horse power, and this primitive mill was used to grind corn for Mr. Hand and his neighbors. The capacity of the mill was about four or five bushels daily. Mr. Hand also made wagons, old fashioned spinning wheels and different kinds of implements, and was also a wheel wright. Mr. Hand was an early settler here, coming to this county about 1861, and died here in 1883.

Mrs. Castle has a spinning wheel owned by her mother and given to her in 1836 when she was fifteen years of age, and she also has a Bible printed in 1828 and used by her father when he attended school in Kentucky.

Mr. and Mrs. Castle have met with success in life, due to good management, thrift and industry, and have many friends throughout the township and county.

J. W. Cover, editor and publisher of the New Hampton Tribune, New Hampton, Missouri, learned the printer's trade in his father's office, beginning in 1883, when he owned the Albany Ledger. In 1884, J. H. Cover purchased the Bethany Broad Ax from D. J. Heaston, and continued as owner and editor for ten years, when he sold to J. A. Templeman. J. W. continued in his father's office till reaching majority. Was married to Mary Prentiss March 25, 1891. To this union eight children were born, seven living.

Has been connected with several newspapers in north Missouri in the past thirty years. The past twelve years has been engaged in farming, previous to establishing this paper. The Tribune is doing a good business.

The New Hampton Tribune was established January 1, 1921. J. W. Cover was born in Pike County, Illinois, October 22, 1869. Is fifty-one years old. Oldest son of J. H. and Margaret Cover, now deceased.

Alvin Ellsworth Kidwell, a enterprising and well known citizen of near New Hampton, Missouri, was bom near Martinsville, Missouri, February 2, 1885, the son of Benjamin F. and Laura (Edson) Kidwell, both of whom now live at Martinsville.

Benjamin Kidwell was born in Gentry County, Missouri, in November, 1855, and his parents. Perry and Rebecca Kidwell came to Harrison County from Kentucky in 1854 and settled near Martinsville, where Perry Kidwell entered land and improved a farm. He died in 1910 at the home of John Barnes in Dallas Township, and his wife died in Martinsville in 1905 and both are buried in Kidwell Cemetery on their old home place. Perry Kidwell's father, the great grandfather of Alvin E. Kidwell, was the first one buried in this cemetery.

Benjamin F. Kidwell and wife reside at Martinsville, where Mr. Kidwell has been in the mercantile business for about thirty-five years. They are the parents of the following children Nellie, the wife of Willie Vanhoozer of Martinsville; Lemon Leroy, who lives on the old home place, which was entered by his grandfather; Gustavus, of Martinsville; Alvin E., the subject of this sketch ; Bertha, the wife of Lloyd England of Holyoke, Colorado ; Altie, the wife of Charles Walters of Martinsville ; Robert of Martinsville; Ola Kidwell, who died at the age of ninteen years, with tuberculosis ; Dorthy, who teaches at Mt. Tabor ; and Lula, a graduate of Martinsville High School. Robert Kidwell entered the U. S. Navy, in

April, 1917, to serve in the World War, and soon after was on the Battleship Louisiana. He served three years and two months in the war. In March, 1921, he married Olive Creekmore, and they located in Martinsville.

Alvin E. Kidwell was educated in the schools of Martinsville, and, at an early age, began farming, which occupation, he has since followed. He owns his present place of fifteen and one-half acres, near New Hampton, and also owns eighty acres two and one-half miles southeast of town, but moved to his farm near New Hampton for school privileges. Mr. Kidwell has a poultry house 24x30 feet, with two floors, which he built in August, 1920. He has 400 hens in this house now, and has many young chickens of the Rhode Island Reds and Brown Leghorn variety. His little place presents a neat appearance, with good residence, barn and garage, and he has electric lights in his residence and garage. Mr. Kidwell has forty Duroc Jersey hogs and a few Jersy cows.

Alvin E. Kidwell was manied March 11, 1906 to Fannie E. Lambert, a daughter of John and Emma F. (Spitzer) Lambert. Mrs. Emma Lambert, who was born in West Virginia, died in 1913 at the age of fifty-two years on the home place near Martinsville, Missouri, and her husband, John Lambert is now living in Bethany, Mr. and Mrs. Lambert were the parents of the following children: Alberta, the wife of Wash Kinzley of Utopia, Kansas; David of Ochiltree, Texas; Sailor of Helena, Montana, Cheste of Kansas City, Missouri ; Bessie, who died at the age of five years; Mrs. Alvin E. Kidwell; Ruby, the wife of Thomas Updegraflf of Bethany: Dacy the wife of Frank Swartz of Martinsville; and Pearl, the wife of Clarence Travis of King City, Missouri.

James W. Casebolt, a well known citizen of Bethany and member of a pioneer family of this county, was born in Jefferson Township, three miles north of Bethany, Missouri, November 5, 1865, the son of Harrison and Rachel (Archer) Casebolt, both of whom are deceased. Harrison Casebolt was born in Fayette County, Ohio, September 4, 1818, and died May 31, 1893. aged seventy-four years, eight months, twenty-seven days. He came to Harrison County, Missouri, in 1854, and settled in Jefferson Township, where he improved a farm. He also owned other farms at different times. During the Civil War he was unable to join the army but declared his allegiance to the Union. He moved to Holt County, Missouri, in the fall of 1885 and lived with a son there until his death. He is buried in Miriam Cemetery at Bethany, with his wife, who died February 13, 1899, aged seventy years, ten months, thirty days.

Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Casebolt were married in 1845 and were the parents of the following children: Mary E., the wife of James Gates, and who died in Kansas; Robert E., a retired farmer of Bethany, Missouri; John H., who died at the age of fifty-four years, and who was manager of the Commercial Hotel at the time of his death, and who was a butcher and in the restaurant business prior to entering the hotel; Elias, retired, of St. Joseph, Missouri; iive children who died in infancy; James W., of this sketch; Sarah Catherine Parker, deceased; David H., who died in North Dakota, and Lottie Ann, the wife of Ransom Hodgins of Holt County, Missouri.

James W. Casebolt attended his first school in the old brick school house in Bethany, and later at Double Oak in Jefferson Township, then in the old ground hog and the Woollond south of Bethany, and, after sixteen years of age, worked for different people. After his marriage, he worked rented farms in this county. He eventually purchased twenty acres of land, and later thirty and one-half acres, which he improved and later traded for property in Bethany where he now lives, and, since moving to Bethany, he has been engaged in bridge work, and has also run a jitney,

December 24, 1884, Mr. Casebolt was married to Ruth A. Zerbe, a daughter of William and Mary (Gilbert) Zerbe. Mrs. Zerbe lived at Martinsville, Missouri where she died at eighty-two years of age. October 30, 1921, and is buried in the Kidwell Cemetery by the side of her husband. Her husband died in 1916.

Mr. and Mrs. Zerbe were the parents of the following children: Ed., a farmer in southern, Missouri; Flora, the wife of John Crotts of Martinsville, Missouri; Ida, the wife of Samuel Goucher, now deceased of Cherry County, Nebraska ; Ola, the wife of Lewis Adams of Chery County, Nebraska; Henry, deceased; Mrs. Casebolt, of this sketch; Jesse, deceased; Lizzie, the wife of Lewis Brown of St. Joseph, Missouri; Frank of Dallas township; and a son, who died in infancy; and Len of Ottowa, Kansas.

Mr. and Mrs. Casebolt have nine children : Frederick Festus, a farmer of Dallas Township, who married Lillian Jennings ; Lillie May, the wife of

Merl Chubbick, of Lewis, Iowa ; Hershel, a farmer of Cherry County, Nebraska ; Homer, a coal operator of Valley, Nebraska, and who married Clara Carter ; Robert Emmet of Casper, Wyoming ; Bert, who lives in Nebraska ; Flora Myrtle, who married Mable Carter of Jefferson Township; and Loretta and Velma, who live at home. Mr. and Mrs. Casebolt have nine grandchildren.

Herschel Casebolt and Merl Chubbick were in the late War, the former enlisted at Merryman, Nebraska and was overseas in the cavalry service, and the l?vtter enlisted in the United States Navy from Iowa.

Mr. Casebolt is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at JVIartinsville, Missouri. He is a well respected citizen of Bethany, and has irnany friends in this county.

Peter A. Smith, a prominent farmer and stockman of Grant Township, is a member of one of the pioneer families of this section. Mr. Smith was born on the place where he now resides in Grant Township, December 17, 1869. He is a son of Theodore A. and Mary (Brown) Durham Smith, the former a native of Prussia and the latter of Greenbrier County, West Virginia.