History of Boone County, Missouri., Part 62

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Publication date: 1882
Publisher: St. Louis, Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1220

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ANCIENT ORDER UNITED WORKMEN.

The Ashland Lodge of A. O. U. W. No. 192, was instituted by O. J. Miller, the date of charter being June 26, 1880. The charter members were J. W. Johnston, W. R. Hopper, H. T. Wright, John T. Rothwell, W. R. Stone, H. S. Baxter, Jas T. Mays, B. P. Matthews, Joe Bauman, S. H. Whitfield, A. J. Harrington, E. R. Westbrook, W. H. Bass, B .. W. Sapp, J. A. Oates, E. M. Bass, W. H. Callaway, H. W. Whipple, W. P. Boqua, M. D. Matthews and Wm. S. Peak. The following gentlemen were the first officers : H. T. Wright, P. M. W. ; W. P. Boqua, M. W .; W. T. Lemon, G. F. ; S. H. Whitfield, overseer ; W. J. Warren, recorder ; W. R Hopper, financier ; Joe Bauman, recorder ; Eli Nichols, guard ; J. A. Kerr, inside watchman ; William Blackburn, outside watchman. The number of present membership is 36. They own, as yet, no hall of their own, but use a rented room. Mr. H. T. Wright is delegate to the Grand Lodge.

PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.

The Ashland Grange, No. 533, P. of H., was instituted by J. R ..

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Cordell, district deputy, and the date of their dispensation was July 30, 1873, their charter being dated December 23, 1873. A. G. Payne, Miles Forbis, James W. Edwards, R. V. Burnett, Milton Forbis, E. M. Bass, J. G. Jones, A. G. Martin, R. T. Bass, R. E. Sappington, J. C. Wilcox, Mrs. Mary J. Martin, Mrs. Julia M. Bass and ten others were the original and charter members. The first officers were as fol- lows : Master, A. G. Payne ; overseer, J. G. Jones ; chaplain, W. T. Waters; steward, J. H. Sappington ; assistant steward, R. T. Bass ; treasurer, James Edwards ; secretary, R. E. Sappington ; lecturer, E. M. Bass ; gate keeper, J. C. Wilcox. The present officers are : Mas- ter, J. G. Jones ; overseer, S. H. Whitfield ; lecturer, R. V. Burnett ; steward, J. H. Sappington ; assistant steward, Eli Winterbower; chaplain, William Coons ; treasurer, T. Christian ; secretary, G. D. Sappington ; gate keeper, J. H. Nichols ; Pomona, Mary B. Sapping- ton ; Ceres, Susan E. Bager ; lady assistant steward, Celestine Guil- loze. The grange at this writing numbers a membership of fifty. They use a rented hall, having never built a room in which to meet.

ASHLAND BAPTIST CHURCH.

As indicated by its name, this church is situated in the town of Ashland, its immediate location being lot No. 1 of block No. 2 Broadway Street. The date of its organization was April 19, 1879, about forty members being named on its charter roll. The church, which is a neat and commodious frame building, was erected in 1880, at a cost of about twenty-five hundred dollars. It was dedicated by the Rev. Joseph C. Maple, in November, 1881. The names of the pastors are Jonathan M. McGuire, who served the church a short time after it was constituted, and Rev. E. D. Isbell, D. D., who suc- ceeded Rev. McGuire, and is still the preacher in charge at this writing. The present membership. numbers seventy, and the church bids fair to be a power for good in the community.

M. E. CHURCH (SOUTH)

Was organized in 1854, the names of original members being James Roberts, Sr., Thomas H. Roberts, Lawrence Bass, Edwin Bass, Eli M. Bass, W. C. Maupin, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Maupin, George W. Dennis, Lewis Percell, Jacob Morris, Mrs. G. W. Dennis, Mrs. Lewis Percell, Whitley Madden, Mary F. Martin, and William T. Elliott. The first church building was a frame structure erected the same year after the church was organized. The present building was

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finished in 1875, and is also a frame, the cost of which was fifteen hundred dollars. It was dedicated in 1876 by John D. Vincil, D. D. The present pastor is Rev. H. D. Groves. George W. Rich, A. P. Linn, William Penn and Samuel W. Cope were connected with the organization of this church. The historian was not furnished with sufficient statistics from which to make out a complete history of the church, but has done the best he could with the matter at hand.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

This church was organized April 20, 1881. The elegant new church house is a frame structure erected in January, 1882, at a cost of twenty- five hundred dollars, and was dedicated the same month by Rev. C. H. Hardin, of Mexico, Missouri. Rev. O. A. Carr, the present preacher in charge, is the first and only pastor the church has yet had. The particular aim of Elder Carr and his congregation is the restora- tion of Apostolic Christianity in faith and practice, with no creed but that " Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God," and the Bible as the only rule of faith and guide of action. The present membership numbers fifty-two. Nothing is required as a test of fellowship but what the New Testament enjoins as necessary to pardon.

PROVIDENCE.

This village, which is situated on the Missouri, in section 20, of township 47, range 13, now contains several buildings, though, of course, is unincorporated. The first building erected there is the house now occupied by Dr. Riggs, and was built in 1844, by John Parker, who put it up for a residence. The next house was a store, built and occupied by Dr. Riggs, the same year, on the site now occu- pied by Tuttle & Connelly. It was destroyed by fire, and replaced by the present building. James Wood next erected a stone store, and then came a saloon, on the site of the present one. Other build- ings soon followed, and Providence became a village and post-office. G. S. Tuttle served as postmaster many years, and doled out the mail to the good people of Providence. At this time the place boasts of two general merchandise (Tuttle & Conley and R. A. Roddy & Co. ), one drug store (R. A. R. & Co. ), and one grocery and liquor house (Frank Austeel). Bradford Lanham is the general mechanic and un- dertaker, and Robert Nivens plies the " art of Vulcan."

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NASHVILLE.

One among the first towns projected within the present limits of Boone county was laid out in 1819, just below the present site of Providence on a tract of land owned by Ira P. Nash, an eccentric genius, who lived in that vicinity for many years, from whom it was named " Nashville." In 1820 Nashville contained a tobacco ware- house, kept by James Harris and Abraham J. Williams, a post-office and several other buildings. It at that time promised to be one of the largest shipping points on the Missouri, and grew to be a place of some enterprise, when the treacherous river swept it away .

Old Ira P. Nash was indeed an eccentric genius, as stated. He was quite wealthy, and it is said did many a generous deed. He was pug- nacious and would fight on small provocations. At an early day he was tried in the Boone County Circuit Court for fighting a duel. He was convicted and fined $100. He was among the very first slave owners in Boone County to manumit certain of his slaves. (See also general history, pp. 147, 148).

STONESPORT.

This is another of the defunct villages that once had " great expec- tations." Its site is a little over a mile above Claysville, on the Mis- souri river, and it was laid out in 1836, by Asa Stone and William Ramsey, Peter Wright doing the surveying. Mr. Mark Sappington is authority for the statement that Mat West was the first merchant at Stonesport, and was there in 1830. At one time Stonesport stood a good show of being selected as the capital of the great State of Mis- souri, but the committee chose Jefferson instead.

BIOGRAPHIES.

FRANCIS AUSTEEL.

Joseph Austeel, father of Francis, was a native of Canada, and of French origin. His mother, Mary Grindstaff, was a native of Ken- tucky, but a resident of Boone county, Missouri, at the time of her marriage. The subject of this sketch was born near Burlington, in Cedar township, July 31, 1840. He is the oldest of a family of six

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sons and five daughters, of whom three sons and four daughters are living, all in Boone county. Mr. Austeel was reared in Boone county, with the exception of a few years spent in Saline county, Missouri. In 1866 he went into business at Providence, a small village on the Missouri river, situated in the upper corner of Cedar township, deal- ing in groceries and liquors, in which business he is still engaged. Part of the time he has conducted a farm in connection with his other business. He was married in Boone county, December 29, 1867, to ' Miss Fannie E., daughter of David Tooley, native of Illinois, but more recently of Cooper county, Missouri. They have had three sons and two daughters. Two of their sons are dead. In 1864 he enlisted in Captain Webb's company, of Colonel R. C. Bradshaw's regiment, the 44th Missouri Infantry. He took part in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, and was at Nashville, Spanish Fort and Mobile. He served until the close of the war. He was corporal of Company E, during this campaign.

WILLIAM BALDRIDGE.

Robert Baldridge, the father of William, was a native of Kentucky, but left that state with his parents when but five years old. They came to St. Charles county in 1795. The father of William was married in 1809 to Miss Margaret Rybalt, a native of Kentucky. Robert Baldridge was a soldier in the war of 1812. He died December 3d, 1865. Mrs. Baldridge died in Boone county, May 16th, 1878. Will- iam was the sixth son and eighth child of a family of seven boys and five girls, of whom three sons and two daughters are now living. One sister, Mrs. O'Neil, lives in Boone county. William Baldridge was born in St. Charles county, Missouri, February 26th, 1827. He re- mained on his father's farm until he was eighteen years old, when he came to Boone county. He farmed for two years, then entered the shop of John Batterton, where he learned the carpenter's trade. After three years' apprenticeship, he commenced work for himself, and con- tinued the business until 1854. In 1855 he bought a farm on Dry Ridge, which he cultivated until 1865. He sold the place in 1868 and removed to the farm where he now lives, seven miles northwest of Ashland. Mr. Baldridge was married, November 30th, 1854, to Miss Louisa J. Dickey, a native of Kentucky, but a resident of Boone coun- ty. They have five sons and four daughters, all of whom, except one son, are living. In the winter of 1862, the subject of this sketch en- listed in the Confederate service, but did notgo South until the summer

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of 1863. He was a member of Capt. Twist's company, Dorsey's bat- talion and Hindman's division. On the retreat from the Prairie Grove- battle, Mr. Baldridge was captured by the enemy and taken to Spring- field and from there to Gratiot street prison, St. Louis. He was after- wards sent to City Point, Virginia, for exchange, which was effected June 7th, 1863. Mr. Baldridge at once reported to his battalion at Arkadelphia. He was detailed to remain at this post with the sick. Having been transferred to Young's battalion, he was sent by Gen. Shelby to Boone county, for the purpose of recruiting a company. He afterwards joined Mitchell's brigade, becoming a member of Searcy's battalion of sharp-shooters. He remained with this com- mand until the close of the war. He is a member of the Nashville Baptist church, also of the Nashville grange.

JOHN GASPER BARGER.

Henry Brown Barger, the father of John, was born near Sparta, West Tennessee, June 12, 1803, and came to Boone county, Missouri, in 1819. He was married, February 26, 1826, to Phobe Wilfley. He died January, 1872. The subject of this sketch was born October 2, 1828. Moved from Callaway county, Missouri, to Atchison county in 1858, where he lived for seven years, moving next to Moniteau county where he staid for two years, then to Boone where he has lived ever since. He was raised on the farm, but learned the carpenter's trade. Farming is now his chief occupation. Was married, Decem- ber 25, 1855, to Miss Harriet, daughter of Philip and Sarah Barger. One child was born of this marriage, Sarah Jane, now dead. Was married the second time, March 28, 1858, to Miss P. A. Roads, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Roads. She died April 23, 1864. Three children were born of this marriage, two of whom are now liv- ing, Harriet Ann, and John William. Mr. Barger was married the third time, March 11, 1866, to Miss Elizabeth S., daughter of Jesse and Jane ( Wilfley ) Nichols. They have no children by this marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Barger are both members of the Baptist church at Mt. Pleasant. They are also members of the grange, of which he was master for two years. Mr. Barger is a member of the Masonic lodge at Ashland. He makes a specialty of growing all kinds of fruits. He was first to introduce the English gooseberry, and has paid as high as three dollars for a single pear tree. He has about two hundred apple trees, and four hundred peach trees, and small fruits almost without number. His farm is situated in the northeast quarter sec-

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tion 33, township 46, range 12. He possesses a relic of the last century, a die and bolt for cutting wooden screws, which his father brought from Tennessee in 1819.

ELIAS BARNES.

The subject of this sketch is the son of Benjamin Barnes, a native of Kentucky, and, with one exception, the only citizen of Boone, now living, who came to this county in 1817. He is now eighty-five years old. The mother of Elias Barnes was Lucretia Simms, who came to Missouri when a child. Elias was born June 15, 1839. He was the seventh son and tenth child of his father's family. He was raised on the farm entered by his father soon after his arrival in Boone county, and was educated at the common schools of his neigh- borhood. He remained with his father until 1864 when he enlisted in the Confederate army, joining Captain Strode's company, of Searcy's regiment, in which he served until the close of the war. He was in Price's raid and took part in all the battles fought on the re- treat from Independence to Cane Hill. After the close of the war he was a member of the home guard at Columbia for several months. In the fall of 1865 he went to work on the farm owned by Mrs. K. Fort- ney. July 29, 1867, he was married to Miss Lou, daughter of Mrs. K. Fortney, who is still living at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. In the winter of 1870 he came to the farm where he now lives, in sections 6 and 7, township 47, range 12. He has always followed the occupation of a farmer. They have one daughter, Cannabel.

LAWRENCE BASS.

The subject of this biographical sketch is the son of George P. and Susan ( Wiseman) Bass. He was born on the old Wiseman place, January 22, 1830. He is one of a family of eleven children - nine sons and two daughters - of whom five sons and two daughters are now living. When a small boy his parents removed from the old home, in the vicinity of Ashland, to a farm in Howard county, where Lawrence lived and labored until seventeen years of age. The next three years were spent in learning the saddlery business, but not liking the trade, he has never followed it. In the spring of 1850 Mr. Bass started for California by the overland route, reaching his destination in the month of July following. He remained in California and Ne- vada until 1875, making several business trips East, at one time bring- ing with him from Colorado a herd of 2,000 cattle. While in the West

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he was actively engaged in freighting, mining, and trading in stock. In the spring of 1876 he moved to the A. E. Ellis farm, where he now resides. He is a member of the firm of Bass, Johnston, Brooks & Harris, Ashland. The firm is known as the Trade Centre. They have a branch store at Guthrie, in Callaway county. Mr. Bass is also a member of the Ashland Mill Company ; also a stockholder in the Ashland Bank, and one of the directors. He was one of the origi- nators of the Boone county stock sales. He has been an extensive sheep-raiser, having large flocks in Texas. His experience in business is of wider range perhaps than that of any other capitalist or trader in his locality. Mr. Bass was married November 17, 1870, to Miss Sallie Ellis, only daughter of A. E. Ellis, of Boone county. They have had three children - two sons and one daughter - of whom only one, the youngest son, is living. Mr. Bass has had many adventures during his extensive travels, the most thrilling of which perhaps was a shipwreck off the coast of British Columbia in 1858. The vessel was a total wreck. Mr. Bass and several others escaped in an open boat. He is an affable gentleman, kind and courteous in his manners, and is justly honored and esteemed by all who know him.

ELIJAH BOOTHE.

Elijah Boothe is the son of Elijah and Sarah (Woods ) Boothe, and was born about 1839, near Lexington, Kentucky. His parents came to Missouri and settled near Harrisburg, Boone county, Missouri, when Elijah was about one year old. His mother died in 1847, and his father in 1849. When Elijah was twelve or thirteen years of age he started with two mules, one to ride and one for a pack animal, for Cali- fornia, and with the exception of a few days made the trip alone. He had two brothers there and went out in search of them. He worked in the mines and freighted goods from Los Angeles to Texas. He was poisoned while working in the mines by striking a spring contain- ing corrosive sublimate. His hair came out three times, and the last time it grew it was perfectly white. He appears to be at least sixty years of age, but is young yet and vigorous. When out in the " dig- gings " he says he only saw a white man once a year, during his long stay in the West. He took passage on a vessel for some island belonging to some English colonists, and prospected for about six months. Then he went to Australia and was there for about four months, being gone, in all, a little over a year. He states that when he first reached Sacramento he was so small that he could not procure.

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work, and almost starved to death. At last, after a four years' search, he found his brothers. He came home about five years ago, and · stopped a short time near Rocheport. His oldest brother, David H. Boothe, was a farmer in the Western part of Boone county, and died recently. One brother, William, is living in Columbia. Elijah came back to Missouri over the old overland stage route with five horses. He has had a world of ups and downs in life, and his descriptions of places and things he has seen is truly wonderful. He has a chair fac- tory and blacksmith shop on the southwest quarter of section 20, township 45 and range -, established in 1879. He makes good, substantial chairs, which he sells to all the neighboring towns. He is an Odd Fellow, but is not at present connected with any lodge. He was a charter member of five lodges in California.

D. A. BRADFORD.

Daniel Alexander Bradford is the son of Austin Bradford, a native of Virginia, who came to Boone county in 1836, and to the farm upon which Alexander now lives in 1837. His mother was Lavinia Hume, also a native of Virginia. The elder Bradford was married in Ken- tucky. The subject of this sketch was born on the farm upon which he now resides, April 21st, 1842. He is the third son and seventh child of a family of three boys and five girls, all of whom are living. With the exception of a few years he has spent his life on the old home place. He was educated at Bonne Femme Academy and at the State University. He is a farmer, and is largely interested in the breeding of thoroughbred cattle. He was married in Boone county, November 24th, 1863, to Miss Harriet E., daughter of Rollin Lyman. They have had two sons and four daughters, all living except one daughter. Mr. Bradford is a member of the Columbia lodge of I. O. O. F.

MAJOR WM. W. BRYAN.

The venerable subject of this sketch is a native of Bryan's Station, Kentucky, and was brought by his widowed mother from that State to Missouri in the fall of 1827, and has lived in Boone county most of his life. In early times he attended school at the now defunct, but then famous " Bonne Femme " Academy. In 1832 he was sent by Capt. Hickman on a business trip to Northwest Missouri, on which he was gone six months. When not engaged in handling stock, Major Bryan worked on the farm, and in his time has done much of that kind of invigorating labor. His title was acquired during the Mormon

PHOTOENE CONX.

MAJ. WILLIAM W. BRYAN.

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war, he being a Major in Col. Gilmore's regiment in the campaign against the " Latter-day Saints." In 1848 Major Bryan was clerk in Lamme & Bryan's store at Nashville. He also did business for John H. Bryan & Co.'s paper-mill, distillery and pork packing establish- ments throughout the Southern States. He became captain of the steamer " Warsaw " in '41, and in '47 was principal clerk in D. S. Lamme's commission house, on Water street, St. Louis. He became agent for the United States bank in 1849, attending to the affairs of that concern in three States, being constantly immersed in a sea of business for twenty years, during which he obtained one judgment for the bank of $369,000. The manuscript of the concern was sold to the paper-mill when its affairs were wound up, and weighed eighty- four tons. He has spent five winters on his land in Dallas, Texas. At this writing he resides on the Peter Bass mill tract, in Cedar town- ship. He is quite robust in health, and even yet can do any kind of hard labor. During the civil war, he was a Washington Union man, but never a Lincoln man. Major Bryan was never married. He has never asked an office of the people, never engaged in a lawsuit of his own, and all through his useful and eventful life never asked any- thing but even-handed justice from any man, nor would he ever have less. He has done a great deal of business for others, and his record is one of which he is not ashamed, but on the contrary, is as justly proud as are his many friends.

E. C. BURNETT.

Edward Camplin Burnett was born in Boone county, October 13th, 1838. He is the son of Dabney and Elizabeth ( Ramsey ) Burnett, natives of Kentucky. Mrs. Burnett was the daughter of Capt. Ram- sey, an associate of Daniel Boone's in the early settling of Kentucky. The parents of Edward Burnett first settled in St. Charles county. In 1825 they came to Boone and settled on a farm one and one-half miles north of Ashland, where the elder Burnett died in 1845. On this farm the subject of this sketch was born. He was the fourth son and ninth child of a family of seven boys and four girls. Was educated at the district schools of his own neighborhood. In the spring of 1859 went to Colorado, and the year following to New Mexico, remaining three months in Santa Fe. He remained in the West until the fall of 1868, visiting Montana, Arizona, Utah, Idaho and Oregon. Returned to the old farm, where he has since lived, except during the year 1871, which was spent on another farm. He is an official member of the New Sa-

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lem Baptist church, also of the Ashland Lodge of A. F. & A. M. He was married October 13th, 1870, to Miss Sarah E. Rice, a native of Boone county, the daughter of David Rice, who emigrated from Ken- tucky to this county in 1819. They have had four children, one son and three daughters, of whom only the three daughters are living.

R. V. BURNETT.

Robert V. Burnett is the son of Joseph Burnett, a native of Virginia. He removed to Kentucky and from thence to Ohio, finally coming to Missouri in 1820. He settled first in Howard county, but soon re- moved to the place known as Burnett's ford, on Cedar creek, where he remained until his death in 1853. His wife was Mary Ann Leopard, a native of Kentucky and pioneer settler of Missouri. He built one of the first mills ever erected in Boone county. Robert V. was born December 6, 1837. He was the second son and second child of a family of four boys and one girl, of whom only Robert and one brother are now living. He remained on the farm until the spring of 1854, when he commenced working at his trade, that of stone mason. He entered the Confederate service August 14, 1861, under Captain John M. Robinson. In December, 1861, he was transferred to a company of 1st Missouri Infantry under Colonel Burbridge. Was re-organized and put under Colonel Cockerill as the 2nd regiment after battle of Shiloh. Mr. Burnett belonged to this command until he left the ser- vice, January 2, 1865. He took part in the battles of Lexington, Baker's Creek, Champion Hills, Big Black River and Vicksburg. During the siege he threw a thirty-two pound shell among a party of Federal soldiers who were undermining the Confederate works, being the first man to throw by hand a shell with lighted fuse attached. After the surrender and while on the way to the place where they were to be paroled, he left the line to get something to eat and was captured by the enemy and held a prisoner of war. Was kept two weeks at St. Louis and from there sent to Camp Morton, Indianapolis, where he remained until near the close of the war when he was re- leased and allowed to return home. In the fall of 1873 he bought and moved to the farm upon which he now lives, one-half mile north of Ashland. He was married in Boone county, April 25, 1865, to Miss Martha Martin, daughter of John P. Martin. Has had four sons and two daughters, of whom the three oldest, two sons and one daughter, died within the space of fifteen days of diphtheria. Mr. Burnett is a

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History of Boone County, Missouri., Part 62

Author: Publication date: 1882 Publisher: St. Louis, Western Historical Company Number of Pages: 1220

Author:
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: St. Louis, Western Historical Company
Number of Pages: 1220