History of Carroll County, Missouri : carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, cities, towns and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri ; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri ; a military record of its volunteers in either army of the Great Civil War ; general and local statistics ; miscellany ; reminiscences, grave, tragic and humorous ; biographical sketches of prominent men and citizens identified with the interests of the country, Part 50

Author: Missouri Historical Company
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: St. Louis : Missouri Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 732


USA > Missouri > Carroll County > History of Carroll County, Missouri : carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, cities, towns and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri ; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri ; a military record of its volunteers in either army of the Great Civil War ; general and local statistics ; miscellany ; reminiscences, grave, tragic and humorous ; biographical sketches of prominent men and citizens identified with the interests of the country > Part 50


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Methodist E. Church, South .- This denominational branch of christians was organized in the year 1869, by the following original members: Jas. Young, Martha Young, Mary and Sarah Young, Martha Lee, Richard


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Crumpacker, Lester Crumpacker, Mildred Crumpacker, William and Lovie Craig, A. Powers, Maria Bressler, Emma Cleary, John Lee, -- Crutchly and Wm. Dunkle. Their church building is a beautiful frame, large and commodious, and was erected in 1872, and cost about $2500. In the fall of 1873, Bishop E. M. Marvin, in the presence of a large audience, dedicated the house to the worship of deity, the ceremony being impressive and solemn.


Under the charge of Revs. G. W. Bone, R. A. Austin, J. L. Meffrets, G. J. Warren, M. M. Hawkins, and G. W. Hirley, its several pastors, it has grown in numbers till they have attained a membership of upwards of seventy.


. Missionary Baptist .- The Missionary Baptist church was organized on the 25th of October, 1870, by C. D. Latimer, J. H. and E. J. Oatman Harvey Woolverton and Hannah E. Hayes. In July, 1870, their present church building, a tasty and convenient structure of frame, was erected at a cost of $1,800, and was dedicated January, 1872, by Rev. Duncan R. Selph, assisted by Rev. W. R. Rothwell. From those five original mem- bers, Christians in the faith of an all-wise and merciful God, were sown the seed that in a few short years ripened and bore fruit, and to-day seventy souls are enrolled on the church books. Revs. T. H. Graves, D. C. Bolton, G. W. Smith,and F. Meulfee, are the efficient pastors whose labors have been rewarded with so much good already accomplished, and the promise of the future brightens for the little flock, with the co-workers they can hope and expect yet to come.


HURRICANE TOWNSHIP.


Hurricane embraces thirty full and six fractional sections of land, and is one of the northern tier of townships of Carroll county. The character of the country is rolling prairie, as fertile as fertile can be, and settled by a vigorous, industrious, honest community. The first settler was W. W. Compton, from Tazewell county, Virginia, who came in 1835, and located on section 11. Col. Compton in after years represented Carroll county in the lower house of the Missouri legislature. Next came Josiah Grey of Indiana, and located on section 23. He was followed by Ruben Burrow of Tennessee, in 1841 or '42, locating on section 26. In 1845 came Dan. Sharp, locating on section 22, and Flanders Calloway, who settled on sec- tion 27. Following came Wm. P. Dulaney, from Howard county, Mis- souri, in 1836, and located on section 11, Jacob Taylor, on section 17, Jas. A. Hancock, R. C. Harding, on section 22, N. Hubbard, on section 26, in 1846, and Samuel B. Hurd, the same year on section 9.


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The first child born in this locality was a daughter to Col. W. W., and Ruth E. Compton, named Nancy A.


The first death was in the fall of 1835, the wife of W. W. Compton, and mother to the first child born in that locality.


W. P. Dulaney taught the first school on section 23. He had 28 pupils and received one dollar per month for each scholar. The first school house was built on section 23, about 1852, by Elijah Jeffreys and W. P. Dulaney, being erected by voluntary contribution by the neighbors in work.


Game was abundant, and fish plentiful in Grand river, but flour was almost a myth, and corn was ground only on hand mills.


Mr. Dulaney relates that in those early times, that all the men in the locality went hunting, taking the flints with them. His mother wanted a fire, but there was no " lucifer, locofoco, or parlor matches." to be had. Taking her son, who was then but a little shaver, and mounting old "Blaze" if that was the name of the old family horse, they rode four miles to a neighbors, and by means of a lighted piece of hemp which the boy carried, they returned and kindled a fire.


He also relates that they sometimes succeeded in bringing fire from the lid of an old skillet and a case knife.


The name Hurricane was given this Township from the fact that at some time long anterior to its settlement by the whites, a severe and dam- aging hurricane swept over a portion of territory contigious to Grand River, and leaving traces of its destruction that was plainly to be seen for years after settlements had been made by the early pioneers.


Mrs. Carson says: when her father came to the county the settlers were so far apart and so scarce, the men plowed furrows from house to house to enable the women and children to find their way back and forth.


Since the organization of the county the following persons have served as Magistrates in this Township: 1852, G. H. Ballew; 1854, Jas. R. Jeff- ries; 1856 and 1862, J. W. Staton; 1862, M. Williams; 1866, S. D. Daily; 1870, P. C. Lowery; 1872, N. B. Curl; 1872 and 1873, M. R. Sturgeon; 1874, W. P. Dulaney; 1875, M. R. Sturgeon; 1876, W. P. Dulaney; 1878, L. W. Vonell; 1879, S. A. Cronch; 1881, W. H. Carsons; 1881, Ira R. West.


CHURCHES.


Bridge Creek Episcopal Methodist. This organization was affected in 1875, with D. B. Walt and Mrs. Bottsford as two of the original members.


This church building is a fine frame, located on section 20, and cost $1,800.


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The dedication took place on the 16th day of October, 1877, and the church records show a membership of forty at this time.


Revd's H. C. Dayhoff, N. Cordray, Chas. Vasseth, Wm. Ely, Wm. Sellers and H. C. Roberts, have officiated in the past at its altar.


Hurricane Missionary Baptist. The date of the orginization of this Church has not been furnished us, nor has the date of the building, loca- tion, cost or dedication of their Church house, if they have one.


· All we have learned in connection with the church is, that Thos. Bal- lew, G. W. Hubbard and wife, Eliza Creel, Mrs. Mansom, Mary C. Owens, Green and Elizabeth Shermate organized the society in the Town- ship.


The names of the pastors are Thomas Graves, Samuel Huff, F. M. Wadley and W. W. Walden, the present Minister. The congregation at this time numbers one hundred and thirty members.


Elizabeth Southern Methodist. This organization was consummated November 16th 1873, by the following original members: Jas. L. Vaughn, Geo. R. Vaughn, Elizabeth Lucas, Mary A. Lucas, Mary Duvall, Linnie Duvall and James T. Duvall.


A fine frame building was put up in the fall of 1876 at a cost of $1,500, and is located in the N. W. Cor. Sec. 25. For a number of years the only member of this church was Mrs. Elizabeth Lucas.


The house was dedicated in 1877, by Rev. Joseph Devlin, and the con- gregation numbers fifty members. Revd's Henry Leeper, M. G. Greg- ory, John L. Moffert and W. M. Sutlin have officiated.


BATTSVILLE.


Battsville, the metropolis of Hurricane Township, is located in the extreme south east part of the Township, surrounded by thousands of rich acres of the finest prairie land. It is named in honor of Harvey Batts, the first merchant in the village, and contains one church, two stores, school house and Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges.


Mr. Batts has a small herd of Antelope on his farm close by. On the night of the 16th of June 1881, the herd was augmented by the birth of two Antelope; the first no doubt born in the county since its settlement and organization.


Battsville Lodge I. O. O. F .- Battsville Lodge No. 361 was instituted by D. D. G. M., A. D. Richards, under dispensation issued by the Grand Lodge and dated May 19th 1877, and the charter members were Harvey Batts, B. F. Newkirk, J. D. Utley, J. E. Tatham, N. W. Chain and T. Brown.


The first officers were T. J. Brown, N, G; J. D. Utley, V, G; Harvey Batts, Secretary and C. T. Shinthelm, Treasurer. Present officers H. C.


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Duvall, N. G; Taylor Ray, V. G; H. G. Brown, Secretary, and T. J. Brown, Treasurer.


They meet in a rented frame hall and their present membership is twenty-eight.


Thos. J. Brown by virtue of his office as representative of the lodge,. makes him a member of the Grand Lodge of the State.


TROTTER TOWNSHIP.


Trotter Township, named in honor of Judge James Trotter, one of the early settlers in the county, embraces thirty six full sections, of 640 acres each.


The first settlers came to this township in 1829, among whom were John Trotter, Wm. Trotter, Judge Thos. Minnis, Jas. Standley, A. Gar- man and one Huffstutler. In 1830, Wm. Beaty located about six miles direct west of where Carrollton now stands, and in the south west portion of Trotter Township. In 1832 Judge James Trotter located on section 25. Later came Goodson and Brocks. John Trotter became a resident in this Township in 1834, and Wm. Trotter also. John Hall and Wm. Irons came still later. Phillip Stamm, a german, who had followed Napo- leon in several of his campaigns, was one of the early settlers. Following rapidly came others, many of them Germans, locating in timber or prairie as they saw fit, felling trees, hewing logs, erecting houses and fencing land, preparatory to making the wilderness a garden. There were no roads marked out at the time Judge Trotter came, in 1832. Provisions had to be carried a long distance, and from 1831 to 1840 the only means of grinding flour was with the hand. Later however an improvement was made in the shape of a small hand mill run by horse power.


The first school taught was by James M. Goodson, on section twenty- five, and numbered about fifteen pupils. The first school house was built on section twenty-five, out of logs, and built by the settlers In the neigh- borhood of section thirty-two, George Cloudis taught a school in what was called a pole school house; he had few pupils, and the salary was small. The first death we have any note of was Mrs. Bennett Brock, about 1835, her husband following her about three years later.


The first religious service was by William and Wiley Clark, Presby- terians, at the residence of Wm. Waller, near McCreskey church.


Many of the descendants of the Standleys' and Trothers' in after years settled in this township, and they and their generations are at this time among the best and most influential citizens. Robert Standley, one of the grandsons of old John Standley, is located on the northwest of section thirty-six. He has a fine farm of 136 acres, and a feature on his farm,.


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which is attractive to all who pass that way, is the fine herd of deer, num- bering about twenty-five head, that is kept close to the' residence of Mr. Standley. John Stamm, one of the old settlers of the township relates that there was across McCreskey's creek for a foot bridge at an early day what was supposed to be a log. He had crossed it many times and it was a common pathway to all who desired to use it. On being exam- ined closely, it proved to be an enormous bone about twenty feet in length, and in diameter large enough to be used for the purpose of a bridge. Some parties appreciating its value to science, removed it to New York.


Trotter township · comes in for her share of dark deeds committed dur- ing the war. In October, 1864, the 28th day of the month, and the day after Bill Anderson was killed, a company of his men were passing Mr. Beaty's home, one of the number deliberately shot Wm. Beaty, in his own field, while at work. The same parties also shot Caleb Shirley, who was at Mr. Beaty's house at the time. Both Beaty and Shirly belonged to the militia. After killing these men they ransacked the house and took all the money and valuables they could find. After taking a horse and saddle in addition to the money, they left.


In Trotter township the following persons have served as justices of the peace since. the organization of the county: 1836, Reuben Harper; 1837, Jas. M. Goodson; 1842, Samuel Brock; 1844, T. W. Gilreath; 1848, Jos- iah · Goodson; 1862, J. S. Harford, W. J. Poindexter; 1872, J. P. Minnis; 1873, M. A. Trotter; 1873, T. H. Bridges; 1875 T. J. Irwin; 1877, J. W. Kelley; 1881 J. L. Austin.


CHURCHES.


Pleasant Hope M. E. Church .- Pleasant Hope church was organized in 1865, with eleven members, consisting of J. L. Austin, Jackson Stand- ley, W., R. Sheehan, B. J. Hart, T. J. Hart, Granville Austin, J. W. Crank, C. J. Tomlin, Jas. B. Rose, W. C. Austin and John Glaze. Their first and present church building was erected in 1874. It is a neat and roomy frame, and is located on section 3, costing about $1,000. It was dedicated in 1875 by Rev. Jacob Ditzler, in the presence of a great crowd. For nine years before the erection of their church building their service was held in Forest Grove school house. From the few original members who buckled on the armor of faith and entered the vineyard to labor for the cause, a congregation of seventy-five has been the result. The pastors who have labored with the flock are Revs. Meffert, H. L. Leeper, R. A. G. Kuran, A. T. Lewis and M. G. Gregory. J. L. Aus- tin and Philip Best hold local service. The most noted revival was held in 1874, when twenty-five additions were made to the church.


McGills Creek Missionary Baptist .- McGills Creek church was organized in 1871, and erected a house of worship on section 26, and


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cost $1,500. It is a large frame, nicely located, and its present member- ship is over sixty. The friends of the church are indebted to the liber- ality of Mrs. Bristow for the ground on which the church stands. The building was put up in 1874, and in November of the same year it was dedicated by Rev. J. M. Goodson. The original organizers were Jas. Trotter and wife, Ed. Templeman and wife, Frank Miller and wife, Rebecca Shinn, Martin A. Trotter and wife, W. T. Goodson and wife, N. and Joel Trotter, Jane Standley, Robert Standley and wife, David Serank, Pres. Goodson and Mrs. S. A. Bristow. The pastors were Revs. J. M. Goodson and J. D. Murphy.


McCroskie Creek Baptist .- This church was organized February, 1855, with Jesse Anderson, John P. Keltner, Jas. Rafferty, Haney Beatty, Richard Woodward, Daniel Hoover, Edward Miller, Amos Sil- key and Mrs. Beatty as original members. Their first building is of brick, plainly finished and well located, and was dedicated by Rev. James M. Goodson. They are now erecting a fine frame church house on the same location. The names of the pastors who have officiated at the altar are Revs. James M. Goodson, G. T. Kinneard, G. W. Hatcher and R. H. Moody. The old house was partially blown down during a severe storm in 1862. In 1867 and in 1876 revivals of great interest were held, and many added to the church. Present membership, about eighty.


M. E. Church .- This organization was consummated in 1870, with A. R. Derry, wife and daughter, F. B. Catron and wife, James Martin and wife, and John Hamilton and wife as original members. Their house of worship is a fine, tastily built and commodious frame, nicely located on section 17, and cost $1,500. The church has not yet been dedicated. Revs. Brockman, Tibbetts, Edmonds, Bratton, Hooper, Allen and C. Johns, present pastor, have labored with the flock. A Sabbath school of fifty enrolled members is connected with the church. Present member- ship, thirty-seven.


STOKES MOUND TOWNSHIP.


Stokes Mound Township embraces thirty full and six fractional sec- tions, the north line of the township bordering on Livingston county. From the best information received, the first settlements were made on or about 1832. During this year Elijah and William Compton, Solon Lewis and A. Lewis, of Tennessee, Charles Wilcox, Virginia, James Bunch, Tennessee, Eben Odell, Dr. Wolfscale, and Dr. Burnsides of Kentucky, settled in different portions of the township. Later, came Hutchings Burton, Joseph Burton, - Campbell, Clabe Owens, James Brant, Isaac and B. F. Owens.


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The first marriage in this immediate locality was Ned Smith and Miss - Messer, but by whom the ceremony was performed is not now known. John Owens, - Nare, settled on sections 9 and 4, and a Mr. Welch loca- ted on section 4 also, in an early day. William Lewis and Mary Brant was the first couple married in this locality, the ceremony being per- formed at the residence of Squire Brant, and by him, he being the first justice of the peace in the township.


The first male child, Van Buren Owens, son of Clayborne and Mary Owens, was born in 1838, on section 4, and the first female, Sarah J. Bunch, to James and Hannah Bunch, on section 9. Mrs. Nancy Brant died in 1846, the first in this locality to join the innumerable caravan that is float- ing to eternity. The first physician was Dr. John Wolfscale, from Vir- ginia, who died in Livingston county, in 1877. The first religious service was by John Spencer, methodist, in the school-house on section 9. Jack Wilcox taught the first school, in section 9, having about twelve pupils at >2 per month each. B. F. Owens, James Brant, James Owens, Thomas Asbury, Perry Todd and Clayborne Owens, built the first-school-house, locating it on section 9. To Mrs. Mary Owens belongs the honor of hav- ing woven the first cloth or carpet.


These settlers, with ox teams, were compelled to go forty miles to Caldwell county, without roads, to obtain flour, and it required a week to do so. Their trading. was mostly done in Chariton. They frequently had to grate corn, and resorted at times to pounding it in a mortar and beating with a pestle.


The first child born was about 1836, and named James McKinney, and the first death was that of Charles Wilcox, whose remains repose in the Maberry graveyard. Dr. Wolfscale, of Kentucky, the first regular phy- sician who located here, died only a few years ago, 1879. The first relig- ious service was held in the Mound Grove, by Chas. Wilcox, hard-shell baptist. Ned Smith taught the first school, in a log house on section 4, and had about twenty pupils. Afterwards, on the site of this old log house, a school-house was built by Joseph Burton, Brant Todd, James Bunch and James A. Lewis. Mrs. Elizabeth Burton was the first who did any weaving. Supplies for the support of the settlement were pro- cured at Brunswick, Carrollton, and at a point four miles north-west of Chillicothe. Henry Hicks, Ira Todd, Gabe Brown, Jasper Todd, Perry Todd, - Stone, Wm. Lewis, Peter Gibbs, Mrs. Sarah Ross and Thomas Miller also located at a still later day, and in this locality the first mar- riage solemnized was Elijah Stephens and Elizabeth Burton. Elijah Todd, son of Joseph and Martha Todd, was the first child born in the neighborhood. Dr. Thomas Brown, now a resident of Hurricane town- ship, was the first regular physician. The first school taught was at the mound school-house, by William Crampton, and the first school-house


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was located on section 9, and built by Henry Hicks, Wm. Colliver and Perry Todd.


In the vicinity of Wm. Colliver's in section 14, the first marriage was John Mounts and Mary Lewis, by N. Frizzell, justice of the peace, and the first birth was James Collins, son of W. F. and M. J. Collins, in 1857. The first death was that of. Sarah Weathers, in 1859, and was buried in Livingston county. Rev. Burton held the first religious service at mound school-house, and was of the Christian pursuasion.


Wm. H. Plaster, on section 18, represents the first settlers in his neigh- borhood to have been Hiram McCall, who located on section 29, in 1840, Matthew Mullins on section 30, in 1854, Allen Caskey, Kentucky, on sec- tion 30, John Walker, Kentucky, on section 30, William A. Lewis, Ten- nessee, on section 16 in 1840, and S. Bishop, Howard county, Mo., on section 6, in 1854.


The first child born was a daughter, to Hiram and Harriett McCall, in 1857. The same year the remains of Mrs. Godsey was buried in Caloma burying ground. Dr. Burnsides, a practicing physician of Livingston county, was the physician of this neighborhood, but has been gathered to his last home.


In this section religious service was held by Rev. A. Cooper Cumber- land Presbyterian.


Thos Miller on section 26 gives the names of Burley Godsey, Saline county, Mo., 1844, Abner Godsey, 1844, located on section 35, Burton Godsey on section 34, Thos. Thurman (Old Wormy) on section 2, E. G. Stone on section 35, E. B. Stone, Jarvis Warder and James McDowell, as the first settlers in that locality.


The first wedding was that of Tad. Warden and Mary A. Stone in 1856, at Barnard Stone's house, section 35, Rev. J. R. Porter officiating.


The first child, a son named Burton, to Burley and Nancy Godsey, and the first daughter, Idelia, to Jarvis and Elizabeth Warden in 1854.


In 1854 Tabitha Warden died and was burried in Brown's gravegard in Hurricane township.


Rev. Joseph Devlin, M. E. church south, conducted the first religious service in this locality at the residence of B. W. Stone on section 35.


The first school was taught at Rock Branch, and the first school house was built on section 35, in 1871, and cost about $700.


It is related that Tom Benton and Jim Green . were canvassing the county, and while speaking at a point in this township, Green pitched into Benton without gloves. Benton in order to cut Green off, rose up in all his well-known dignity and said: "Mr. Green, remember the good book says, 'Thou shalt not lie!" Green's ready wit did not desert him, and he replied, " Mr. Benton, remember the good book also says 'Thou shalt not steal.'" Benton having been charged when a boy with having stolen ten


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dollars and hiding it in his cravat, felt the force of Green's reply, and bothered him no more.


It is also related that one Worden was left alone one night by reason of his wife having been called away to attend a sick woman in the neighbor- hood. The chimney of Worden's house was built of sticks and mortar and a gang of wild turkeys took up their abode in the chimney for the night. During the night one of the turkeys lost its footing and fell down the chimney, crying, " Put, put, put!" Worden jumped from his bed and said, " Wait till I get my breeches on and I'll 'put' d-d quick." Again Mr. Turkey said, " Put, put, put!" Worden grabbed his pants, jumped through the door and ran like a scared deer for neighbor Lewis half-a-mile away. Lewis, in the morning, went back with Worden and the turkey tracks told the tale. It became a standing joke at every frolic in the neighborhood for years after.


This section of the county was the best for hunting, and many are the marvellous stories told of the deer and wolf fights of the early days. A Mr. Stone killed 150 deer in five years. Owen Todd, a great deer hunter of pioneer times, in the falls of 1857 and 1858 killed about 200 deer. One Worden killed over 2,000 turkeys. Elijah Stephens, another old hunter killed in two seasons, 278 deer.


On one occasion, Mr. Stone from whom we get our information, and Thomas. Miller got Stone's old mare "Jule" to go hunting. "Jule " was tranied to hunt, and when she saw a deer she would stop for him to shoot. Miller was riding "Jule " and seeing a deer lying in the road just ahead, Jule stopped for Miller to shoot. Miller blazed away and the deer jumped up and skips, having received the load on his horns.


Dr. Brown now living in Hurricane township was then a young man, and in 1855 went on a hunt north of Coloma, killing six deer without get- ting out of his tracks.


In early days a party consisting of Wm. Kavanaugh, his sons John and James, E. G. Stone, Hugh Brewster and an old darky took a hunt near Coloma. They were out five days, and on preparing to.return, Kava- naugh discovered that he had lost his gold watch. Search was made but abandoned as no trace of the watch could be found. The circum- stance was forgotten until 1877 when Cornelius Vaughn, while attending stock in his feed lot, picked up the gold watch that had been lost years before. It was damaged to some extent, but careful repairs put it in run- ning order, and it is a valuable time piece at this day.


It is said that the first house roofed with shingles was built by John F. Hill, or (Cottonwood Hill) as he was called, and that Hill rove, shaved and put the shingles on with wooden pins, no nails could be had; he boring holes and driving the pins to hold them on.


A good joke on Dr. Wolfscale, the first physician in the township is,


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related as an actual fact. A woman in the neighborhood was taken sick and the doctor sent for. He left some medicine with instructions to take it in water, and he would be back the next day to learn the effect of the potion. On his return the following day the doctor enquired of his patient what effect the medicine.had. The patient replied that she could not tell yet, that she had the boys carry up a barrel of water and she had got into it and took the box of medicine, but that the lid had not yet come off the box, and she would have to wait before she could tell.


In Stokes Mound township the following named persons have served as justices of the peace since the organization of the county: 1842, Hiram McCall; 1848, Davis P. Todd; 1852, B. W. Stone; 1866, S. S. Bartlett; 1870, Charles West; 1872, Charles West; 1872, Dan R. Bartlett; 1873, Dan R. Bartlett; 1873, Enoch Lytle; 1873, Wm. Johnson; 1875, Wm. Johnson; 1875, John D. Cowles; 1877, Wm. Johnson; 1877, W. H. Plaster; 1877, Wm. Johnson; 1881, L. C. Conger; 1881, Jas. H. Baker.




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