Hickory County, Missouri - The whole text, 1909 (part 3 of 4)

Benjamin H. Massey, who had been County Surveyor, organized and commenced to drill a company of State Guards, (Confederates) early in 1861, with headquarters at the Donnell steam mills, about where the Cross Timbers mills now stand. This was then in Center Township. This company arrested Col. Joel B. Halbert, his son, Enos M., and several other prominent Union men^ and made them mad. There was an organization, also that met at Quincy, a time or two, and once at Hermitage, but it was enrolled, at least, partly on false pretenses, but intended by its Captain, Levi Satterfield, for an organization of State Guards. Some of the men quit the organization, but Satterfield went with the Confederacy. Thompson Blair, a man truly loyal to the general government, was elected to a Lieutenancy in the Satterfield company, but abandoned it. Those about Quincy, who espoused the caused of the Confederacy with the most noise were: Henry Whitlow, Charles Madden, Lester Baker, and a few others. John Miller, who, perhaps, had more fighting, and less talking nerve, than some others, made up a company, many of whom served during the war with Gen. Joe 0. Shelby, among whom was, Capt. John Miller, himself, who was the General's Brigade Quarter Master. In connection with our sketch concerning the town of Preston, will be found something about the organization of Capt. John Mabary's company of State Guards, and Capt. Lycurgus Lindsey's company of Home Guards. It is, probably, not out of place, and justice to say, that Dr. Richard I. Robertson, Dr. J. F. Powers, a Vermont Yankee, who owned a cripple negro, Silas C. Howard, and Benj. F. Staten, were the principal and earnest advocates of secession in and about Preston, and were the cause of the organization of the Mabary company, with John Mabary, as Capt. because he had the nerve and courage while Robertson, Powers et al were purely noise makers and agitators.

There were not many open advocates of secession in and about Hermitage, in 1861, of the fighting kind. It is said that John C. DoUarhide, Rev. Munford B. Robinson, and a few others made some noise, but did not create much excitement. The county officers, and ex-officials, most of whom sympathized with the South, do not appear to have been of the outright agitator sort, like they were in some counties in Missouri. Thomas Davis, county Treasurer, who finally went with the Confederacy, was weak in the faith as a secessionist, as were two or three others, but there was a strong pull in trying to induce them all to go South.

In Tyler Township, Devers Gilbreath, Lewis and William Parker, John and James Claybrook, James Spillman, Roily Bright, James Wallace, Granville Creed and others, caused excitement among the Union men and on the other side the following took the side of the Union: Isham B. Hastain, John Pitts, Dr. William Coon, Emanuel Mashburn, Gideon Creed, John Powell Rogers, William Mashburn, Wright M. Bolinger, Jack and Pres Richardson, William A. Pitts et al.

In the Pittsburg neighborhood the people were largely on the side of the old government, but there was quite a sprinkle of secessionists, who soon had to move out, for Pittsburg, was an unsafe place for a man who sympathized with the South to try to live during the war.

The people generally, were as well informed as the people anywhere, but they had but little idea as to what the results of a civil war would be in the way of destruction, and devastation of the country, and those who knew the least about such things made the most noise. If they could have had, only a glimpse into the future four years, perhaps, no such war would ever have come. From the standpoint of the most intelligent in 1861, no good ideas about the devastation that might be made by the contending armies could be formed, even by men of some military experience. The battle grounds of Wilson Creek, Shiloh, Murfresburo, Anteitam, and Petersburg, soaked and drenched with the blood of young, honest, vigorous, well-meaning Americans, could not be seen nor imagined in the distance, but ignorance of results brought its unexpected fruits. But now happily for the country the war prejudices are almost entirely gone, except from the minds of those who choose to feed their minds on prejudice and eternal hate, instead of reason and common sense.

Most of those who went to the Confederate army never returned, and that makes it harder to estimate the number who went. Most of those in the service for the Union came home, and were again among the people. The Eighth Regiment Missouri State Militia contained more men from this county than any other Regiment, among whom may be mentioned the following:

Lieut. Lycurgus Lindsey Allen M. Huckaby

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 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 county. 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 hundred 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 captured 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.

Old Scraps And Files Of The Courts

Ordered by the court that William M. Dorman Esqr. be appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the number of children 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 respectively 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.

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.

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 Pinkston for perjury in your county in which he was convicted. Make out a regular record of the proceedings beginning with the term of the court empanelling the Grand Jury the finding of the indictment and the whole proceedings- & send it certified 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.

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 Southard 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

We the undersigned Reviewers appointed by your honorable body to view and mark out a road Leading in a direction from Hermitage Hickory County to Warsaw in Benton county 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

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.

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

We your humble petitioners would represent to Your Honorable body that a great necessity exists for a road leading from the town of Hermitage in a direction to Duroc on Osageand 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.

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

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

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.

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 August 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.

To the Honorable County Court of Hickory County, We your petitioners (Citizens of Stark and Center Townships) 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,

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.

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

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

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 township should be organized for school purposes do petition your

B. F. Fugate, John F. Morrison, James Lindsey, W. M. Haverstick, Aaron Darby, Jonas Brown, James Bradley, James England, 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.

Received of Alex F. Gaston five hundred dollars the purchase money of negro girl Fanny aged about 19 years, which said negro girl I warrant unto the said A. F. Gaston his executors and assigns forever.

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

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.

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

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

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 county 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

Ordered by the court that Jacob Reser James Adams and James Rankin be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and mark out a rout for a county road to commence at the ford of Turkey creek South of Nathan Tuckers and running 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

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 commencing at the North East corner of the public square running East with the line between W. E. Dorman and William Woodrum 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

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."

Ordered by the Court that Elisha Cook Joseph C. Montgomary and Harvey Estes be appointed Judges to hold the election in Montgomery Township on the First Monday in August 1848 A. H. Foster A copy Test Clerk of the Hickory County Court

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 contract 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 Hickory 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.. '

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 & Testament in manner & form following viz

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.

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

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 whether any Ex'n was issued last fall against White to Hickory County 8c oblige Your friend

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 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 County by or near said Hightower's mill. This way being opened . will be not only of great benefit & utility to the public in general, 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. Samuel 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 Dennis, Jonathan Dennis, Joseph Edde, Jacob A. Romans, Asa Johnson.

Ordered that Benjamin Miller be and he is hereby appointed 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

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.

In reading the foregoing "Old Scraps and Files" our readers have, no doubt, discovered many errors in the use of capital 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.

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 Appamattox 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 February, 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 intelligence, 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.

Leopold Bandel

Christian Bandel, father of Leopold, was born in Ainhalt Dessault Prussia, in 1792, and Johanna-Summers-Bandel, mother of Leopold, was born at the same place in 1795. The father 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, Fredrick, Godfrey and Leopold. The mother died in Hickory county

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Henry Bartshe

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

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:

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 children as follows:

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 Southwest of Wheatland.

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.

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

Joel N. Boone and Mary A. Jopling were married in Caldwell county, N. C, Sept. 3, 1851, came to Hickory county, Missouri, Dec. 22. 1854. Both died in Hickory county, Joel N., Aug. 26, 1902, and Mary A., May 4, 1904.

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.

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, Tennessee, and from there we went to Nashville, and stayed all night. I expected next morning to go on a boat on the Cumberland, 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. Brakebill and Mary A. Moser were married in Monroe county, Tenn., Jan. 16, 1853, by Lewis Carter.

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 Hickory 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 Rappahannock river, near Lancaster Court House. After their marriage they removed to Warren county. III, where they remained 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.

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.

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 Tennessee, 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 Montgomery, Joseph A., now deceased, Charles C, and William H.

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 Franklin 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.

Elijah P. Brown Jesse C. Brown

Jesse C. Brown, born in Green county, Tenn., in 1789, married Nancy C. Parker, of Monroe county, Tenn., in 1827, died in Hickory county, Mo. Jesse C. and family came to Hickory

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.

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 Keokuk, 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.

Jedidiah And Rebecca-Sayers-Darby

Samuel, Ezra, Daniel, Moses, Aaron, Owen, Rebecca, Sarah, Elijah, Elisha, who is now living at the age of 85 years, Elizabeth, Nancy, now living at the age of 87 years, Isaac, Jacob, and Charlotte.

Daniel Darby 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.

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.

Samuel Dent, Sr

Samuel Dent was born Feb. 28, 1832, and died in Wheatland, Mo., May 28, 1906, was married to Elizabeth Brown in 1854. Mr. Dent served three years in the Civil War in Com-

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. Morrison, 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

F., born September 14, 1856. Alanson F., has been twice married, 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 farming 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 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. Rutherford was born in Callaway county, Mo., Jan. 27, 1834, and died Nov 17, 1889.

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 Lafayette Dorman and Nancy Elizabeth Hargiss, were married at Wheatland, Mo., Aug. 23, 1871.

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 Weaubleau. 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, convenient 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,

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.

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 Missouri in 1867.

Dr. A. L. Fisher

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 Joseph 0. Carpenter

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 Catherine, 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 McSpadden, 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., deceased, Hiram D., Elva T., deceased, and Luke Monroe.

George W. Gardner 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.

Joel B. Halbert Sr., was married second time to Mrs. Charlotte A. Noland, Oct. 14, 1869, and to this union was born Robert Noland Halbert, Sept. 28, 1872.

Robert G. Noland, first husband of Charlotte Hall-Noland- Halbert, was born Aug. 8, 1830, and he was married to Charlotte A., daughter of Thomas D. Hall and T. E. Hall, Jan. 20. 1852, and died Oct. 19, 1861, leaving children as follows:

Ephraim Foster Halbert 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

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 county, Virginia, Dec. 24, 1824, and died in Hickory county. Mo., Jan. 4, 1879.

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 foregoing 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, 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 terrible battle with the Confederates at Lone Jack, Jackson county, 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.

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.

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 country. 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, 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-todate 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 secessionists.

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.

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. Breshears, a widow, whose maiden name was Jordan, Oct. 14, 1861, and she was born July 11. 1832, and died in June, 1896. William R., died Feb. 20, 1901.

Phillip H. Lacey 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 Grandfather 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 Hickory County Bank, Henry Paxton, President of the Hickory County Bank, and Ernest Cuthbert, who now resides at Eldorado 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.

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 married to Mary Madison in 1810. They removed to Butler county, 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. Lindsey 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. Anthony 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.

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. ~-,

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.

Lycurgus Lindsey

Lycurgus Lindsey, son of Amos and Mary Madison-Lindsey, was born in Butler county, Ky., Nov. 8, 1825. Mrs. Lucy Tobeylindsey, 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.

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.

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.

Alfred Lindsey Thomas Lindsey

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 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.

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 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.

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 Southeast 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.

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 youngest 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

Mashburn Family Families Of The Sons

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.

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.

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.

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 settled in New York, and John settled in Maryland. Joseph was a Colonel in the Continental Army, and John L., was a noncommissioned officer. The descendants of Joseph and Elizabeth Ann, if they left any, are lost to the McCrackens of Hickory, 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 Scotland, 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 other children went, except Thomas McCracken, is not known by the McCrackens here. Thomas McCracken, fifth son of John

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; Ephraim. 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 Missouri 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 married and went to Arkansas, James, who married Sarah Jarrett, and went to Arkansas, John, who married Jennie Jarrett, Elvira, 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 married 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. Joseph C, Lafayette, and Margaret are dead. Jerome B., lives in Hickory county.

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 Southwest. 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 November flection 1880. He was Sheriff and Collector of the county, and resided in Hermitage, until 1891, when he was appointed 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 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

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 county, 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

We the subscribers do join ourselves in wolf hunt compehy for which we appoint William Montgomery Esqr as our Stockholder 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 provided 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 number 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

I have taken the opportunity of informing you that Elizabeth Ann and myself are well at present I received information by Mr. Ross that you and your Family was in the same state of health Elizabeth Ann have been sick five or six dayspart of the time verry sick, Mrs Stark and Miram is now sick and has been dangerous, but are both better Mrs Stark is 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 expected 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 Sickness 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

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 commission 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.

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

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.

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.

Achilles Morgan

Achilles Morgan was born Aug. 27, 1843. Samantha Hires- Morgan was born Feb. 16, 1839. Achilles Morgan and Samantha Hires were married Dec. 31, 1871. Both had been previously married, he to Nancy Dollarhide, daughter of William 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.

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.

Alexander Murphy, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1802, removed 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: William, 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, EUzabeth married John Kinross, and died, George W., has been twice married, and now lives about five miles North of Wheatland, 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, youngest 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. Hannah 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 Infantry 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 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 Leavenworth, 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.

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.

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.

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.

William, born in Washington county, Penn., Apr. 4, 1807, died in Hickory county. Mo., in 1862, married Rebecca Shinnabarger in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1828, and they came to Missouri in 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

Ethan, born in Wayne county, Ohio, Dec. 31, 1829, died in Hickory county. Mo., Jan. 9, 1898, first married Minerva Bennett, and she died, and after her death he married Mary U. Kinross September 29, 1867. She was born Apr. 24, 1851, in

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.

James H. Holt Bank Of Cross Timbers

This record was furnished me by Fount M. Pitts, son of Meekin Pitts, and Meekin Pitts, it will be seen from the foregoing 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.

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 Continental 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,

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.

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.

John W. Quigg

The maiden name of the mother of John W., was Elizabeth Dasher. His father and mother were both born in Ireland, and lived in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The father of John W., died when John W., was a small boy, and the mother married 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 citizen, 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 Children

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 Washington F. Reser

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.

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 Missouri in 1840. Pleasant E. Robbins and Lucinda Holt were married in Ozark county, Mo., Oct. 7, 1860.

Children

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.

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.

Pleasant J. Rogers Thomas G. Roney

Thomas G. Roney was born in Sumner county, Tenn., Apr. 8, 1813. and died in Hickory county. Mo.. Mar. 9, 1886. Elizabeth R. Lambeth-Roney. was born in Sumner county, Tenn., May 17, 1819, and died July 24, 1906.

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.

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.