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Mr. Hough added all the improvements upon his well-kept farm. The residence, a cozy cottage of six rooms, was erected about forty years ago. An excellent barn 40 x 60 feet in dimensions was built in 1907 and a silo having a capacity of one hundred tons, was connected with it two or three years later.
Daniel Hough deserves much credit and high commendation, for his life has been a noble one of honest endeavor and upward striving. He came to Cass County a poor, young man. It takes courage to start the
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battle of life with an empty purse in a strange land, with a wife and babe dependent upon one's care and protection. There are men of strong calibre who can unflinchingly overcome all handicaps. Such a man is Mr. Hough. Honest and straightforward he readily won the confidence of many who were willing to lend a helping hand in times of need. Mr. Hough has lived past the allotted three score years and ten and still the Fates have been kind. It is now only given to few to be able to look back over so many years of a useful, well-spent life and it is with much pleasure that we pause in a work of this character, to give honor where honor is due. Mr. Hough has forty-four living grandchildren and three deceased and twelve living great-grandchildren and two deceased.
Robert S. Coe, a prominent farmer and stockman of Sherman town- ship, was born in 1874, in Cass County, on his father's farm in Sherman township. He is one of four children born to David P. and Hattie (Par- sons) Coe, honored pioneers of Cass County. David P. Coe was born January 3, 1839, in Jefferson County, Ohio. His wife, Hattie Parsons, was born July 9, 1846, in Knox County, Illinois. When David Coe was but a child his father, Moses Coe, moved his family to Illinois. David P. Coe served in the Thirty-third Illinois infantry during the Civil War. In 1869 he immigrated to Missouri and located upon a farm in Sherman township, which he purchased from Mr. Lewis. This farm comprised two hundred forty acres. His death occurred here January 6, 1887. His wife died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Tillie Dale, February 10, 1908, and is at rest beside her husband in Byler Cemetery. Of the four children born to David P. and Hattie (Parsons) Coe, only two are living, namely: Charles D., who resides in Meade, Kansas; and Robert S., sub- ject of this review.
Educational opportunities were necessarily limited in so new a coun- try forty years ago. Robert S. Coe received a good common school edu- cation, however, attending the country school in his neighborhood. When he was twenty years of age he began life for himself. His youth had been spent working upon his father's farm and going to school, and he had laid well the foundation of a sound, physical constitution, such as only agricultural pursuits can give, and in the rural school room his mind had been well trained for active, practical business. In 1894 he began farming for himself.
In 1894 Robert S. Coe and Birdie L. Cox, daughter of Horace and
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Permelia (Byler) Cox, of Sherman township, were united in marriage. Mrs. Cox died when her daughter, Birdie L., was a babe one year old. Mr. Cox lives in Lees Summit. He was born in Johnson County, Missouri, July 11, 1841. His wife was born in Cooper County, March 22, 1849, and died August 16, 1877. They were married December 30, 1869. Robert S. and Birdie L. (Cox) Coe have been blessed with five sons, namely: Horace, who is attending the Garden City High School; Everett, at home; Ralph, who is attending the Garden City High School; Roy, at home; and Hubert, at home.
Robert S. Coe sold his interest in the home place and purchased one hundred twenty acres in September, 1899, which is a part of his present stock farm. This place was formerly known as the J. D. Byler farm, and it is located five and a half miles southeast of Garden City. Mr. Coe has added to his original farm, and now has one hundred sixty acres in the home place and eighty acres one-fourth mile east of his home. He has added all the improvements upon his place and they are among the best. The residence is a fine, large structure of nine rooms, and the three commodious, well-constructed barns are in keeping. The barns are 24x40, 24x28, and 28x20 feet in dimensions, respectively. The silo is 12x28 feet in dimensions. Mr. Coe handles a good grade of cattle, horses and hogs, and his stock farm is an excellent one.
Robert S. Coe is one of Cass County's most enterprising citizens, and he and Mrs. Coe stand very high in their community.
Duncan Russel, ex-judge of Cass County, is of sturdy Scotch lineage and possesses the genial characteristics and noble qualities for which his race is so justly famous. He was born in Scotland in 1847. His parents, William and Margaret (Duncan) Russel, were born in Scotland. William Russel was born in 1820. He emigrated from Scotland to America in 1852 and located in St. Louis, Missouri. He remained in St. Louis for a few years and then went to Virginia, soon returning to St. Louis. Will- iam Russel was a skilled iron manufacturer and he operated a rolling mill and a furnace in Virginia. In 1866 he came from Virginia to Cass County and located temporarily near Drexel. In 1868 he purchased the farm in Grand River township, which became the home place and which has never since been allowed to pass out of the ownership of some member of the family. William Russel lived but three short years to enjoy his estate. He died in 1871, and is buried in East Cemetery in Harrisonville.
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Margaret (Duncan) Russel was born in 1821. She survived her husband forty-one years, her death occurring when she was eighty-one years of age, in 1912. William and Margaret (Duncan) Russel were the parents of six children, who were, namely: Mrs. Margaret Brown, deceased; Duncan, subject of this review; Mrs. Ellen Wilson, Kansas City, Missouri ; Sarah, Harrisonville, Missouri; D. B., Harrisonville, Missouri; and J. D., Harrisonville, Missouri.
Duncan Russel received his education in the public schools of St. Louis. He has always been a student and increased his store of knowledge by private reading at home. He remained with his parents until he was twenty-seven years of age when he began life for himself upon the farm, which is his present home.
In 1874 Duncan Russel and Eliza Jack, daughter of John and Emma- line (Creed) Jack, of Lamar County, Texas, were united in marriage. Eliza (Jack) Russel was born in Tennessee in 1853. Both her parents died in Barry County, Missouri, prior to the Civil War. To Duncan and Eliza (Jack) Russel have been born six children: Dollie, wife of Harry Trebert, of Cass County, Illinois; William, Harrisonville, Missouri; Wal- ter, Grand River township; Margaret, wife of R. R. Easton, at home; Anna, wife of Charles R. Hoover, Chickasha, Oklahoma; and C. W., at home.
Mr. Russell purchased his home, which is located four and a half miles southeast of Harrisonville, in 1879, from W. H. Wells, who had entered the place from the government. He bought one hundred twenty acres then and later added two hundred acres. Part of his farm Mr. Rus- sel has divided among his children. He has followed stock raising rather extensively. When he came to his place he had open range.
Duncan Russel was elected presiding judge of the county court and served faithfully and well a term of four years. During his encumbency the present court house was erected in Harrisonville, the pride of the county, even today. The records were not safe in the old court house, and a guard had to be stationed to safeguard them prior to their removal to the new court house. The court house was built with a levy of twenty- five mills for two years without the issue of bonds. Many said that it could never be built with the money thus raised, but it was built and with a five hundred-dollar surplus. The judges with whom Mr. Russel was associated in the building of the court house were Thomas Kirtley, of Austin township; W. H. Myers, of Pleasant Hill, and J. T. Parker,
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Grand River township, who served during the second term in place of Kirtley. Judges Kirtley and Myers are dead, but Judge Parker resides in Grand River township, west of Harrisonville.
Duncan Russel is just rounding out his allotted three-score years and ten, and few men in Cass County can look back over a more honorable past. A farmer's boy, with few advantages, he rose to fill a position of trust, and only admiration and regard can be felt for one whose success has been so richly deserved and so honorably attained.
S. K. Yoder, a prosperous and substantial stockman of Camp Branch township, was born in Lagrange County, Indiana, December 6, 1871. His parents, Levi E. and Fannie S. (Kauffman) Yoder were natives of Pennsylvania. Levi E. Yoder was born December 24, 1844, son of Jacob S. and Nancy Yoder. Jacob S. Yoder was born in 1815 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near Davidsville. Jacob S. and Nancy Yoder came with their son, Levi E., to Cass County in April, 1880, and made their home with him. Nancy Yoder died in 1891, at the age of seventy-five years, and Jacob S. died in 1907, at the age of ninety-one years. Levi E. Yoder and his father located near East Lynne, Missouri, and remained there one year and then the Yoders moved to the farm, now the home of S. K. Yoder. Levi E. Yoder died upon this farm November 20, 1896. He was a very prosperous farmer and stockman, and at the time of his death owner of four hundred acres of valuable land. Father, mother, and son, Jacob S., Nancy and Levi E. Yoder, are buried in Clearfork Cemetery. Fannie S. (Kauffman) Yoder was born August 9, 1846, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Levi E. and Fannie S. (Kauffman) Yoder were married September 8, 1867, and this union was blessed with three chil- dren: Adam, who was born July 26, 1868, and died May 26, 1869; Nancy, who was born September 8, 1869, and died August 14, 1872; and S. K., subject of this review. The mother died in 1906 and is buried in Clear- fork Cemetery.
S. K. Yoder received his education in the South School in Camp Branch township. He began life for himself at the age of twenty-one, farming near his present home, to which he moved in 1906. Even in his youth, he manifested the traits of character which have been such potent factors in is later success in life, industrious, conscientious in the per- formance of every duty and strictly honest in every business transaction.
April 13, 1893, S. K. Yoder and Mary E. Martin, daughter of Chris-
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tian and Phoebe (Nafzinger) Martin, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony. A brief sketch of Christian and Phoebe (Nafzinger) Mar- tin appears in connection with Amos J. Martin, a review of whose life will be found elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Martin were the par- ents of the following children: Ida May, deceased; Amos J., a well- known and prosperous stockman, near Garden City, Missouri; Ben, Minot, North Dakota; Mrs. Otilla Miller, Garden City, Missouri; Mrs. Phoebe Goode, deceased; and Mrs. Nellie Kenagy, Garden City, Missouri. To S. K. and Mary E. (Martin) Yoder have been born four children: Amos C., who was born April 17, 1896, and resides near Littlefield, Texas, in Lamb County, where Mr. Yoder purchased seven hundred forty-four acres of land a year ago; Levi B., who was born April 20, 1899, and is at home with his parents; Omer M., who was born March 31, 1901, and is at home with his parents; and Elda Marie, who was born July 16, 1908, and is at home with her parents.
The Yoder place is an ideal stock farm, comprising seven hundred ten acres, all, with the exception of sixty-five acres of timber land, ad- joining, and splendidly located. The farm is well watered by excellent ponds, and Mr. Yoder has a large cistern at the stock barn, which is 40 feet deep, 12 feet at the top and 17 feet at the bottom. A well con- structed, commodious barn, 46x80 feet; a tile silo, 20x60 feet, and other buildings in keeping with the surroundings make this a complete stock farm. There are three sets of improvements upon the farm. Mr. Yoder handles Galloway and Aberdeen cattle, and at the time of this writing, had fifty-two head. Until recently he also kept Poland China hogs. He keeps registered males in hogs, cattle and horses, and at present has thirty head of thoroughbred Percherons.
Mr. and Mrs. Yoder are members of the Mennonite Church, and good, conscientious followers of the precepts of their faith. They are highly respected and esteemed in Camp Branch township, and valuable citizens of Cass County.
J. E. Heady, the well known and highly respected pioneer stockman of Sherman township, was born September 24, 1852, in Larue County, Kentucky. His parents, Z. T. and Eliza (Mattingly) Heady, were natives of Nelson County, Kentucky, and to them were born the following chil- dren: T. M., Pittsburg, Kansas; J. E. Heady, subject of this sketch; and W. A., Hodgensville, Kentucky. Both Z. T. and Eliza (Mattingly) Heady
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died in Kentucky. Z. T. Heady died about 1886, his first wife having pre- ceded him in death twenty-five years. Her death occurred in 1861. Mr. Heady is interred in the Big Spring Cemetery in Kentucky, and Mrs. Heady's last resting place is in the Catholic Cemetery, near Bardstown, Kentucky. By his second marriage, to Lizzie Mattingly, the following children were born: Mrs. Fannie Bell, Chickasha, Oklahoma; Jefferson, who is unmarried and resides in Hodgenville, Kentucky; C. M., Hodgens- ville, Kentucky; Mrs. Mary Tabb, Glendale, Kentucky; Mrs. Nancy Stuart, Elizabethtown, Kentucky; Zachariah, Hodgensville, Kentucky; and Katy, Hodgensville, Kentucky.
J. E. Heady attended school at Lynland Institute, near Glendale, Kentucky. When he was twenty-four years of age he came to Cass County, and located in Sherman township, where he farmed for one year on the David Byler place. He returned to Kentucky the next year and remained there eighteen months, but the lure of the west was too strong, and in 1878, he came back to Cass County, locating upon the farm which is now his present home. This farm had been entered by William M. Settles, the father of Mr. Heady's wife, about 1857.
February 14, 1878, J. E. Heady and Luvenia Settle, daughter of William M. and Sarah J. (Woolery) Settle, of Sherman township, were united in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Settle were pioneers of the early fifties, who emigrated from Kentucky. William Settle located first in that part of Van Buren County, which is now Bates County, and operated a flour and lumber mill upon the ford, which was named Settle's Ford in his honor. The Settle's Ford bridge now spans Grand River where the Settle ferry was first established. In the early part of the Civil War both the mill and ferry boat were destroyed by Kansas raiders, and Mr. Settle's stock, with the exception of two horses, were all killed. When Order No. 11 was issued, William Settle moved his family to Boonville, Cooper County, and there he died in 1864. His last resting place is in Boonville. His widow and Jeremiah Tomlinson were later married, and to them were born three children: George, Morgan County, Missouri; Jeremiah, Otterville, Cooper County, Missouri; and Eugene, New Lebanon, Cooper County, Missouri. Luvenia (Settle) Heady is the only one who lived of the children born to William M. and Sarah J. (Woolery) Settle, the others dying in infancy. Mrs. Tomlinson, mother of Mrs. Heady, died near Pilot Grove, Missouri, in 1876. To J. E. and Luvenia (Settle) Heady have been born six children: Mrs. Sallie Brocaw, Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs.
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Mary M. Dewalt, Tonganoxie, Kansas; Harry, who died at the age of four years; Rochelle E., Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Opal N. Kahn, Reno, Kansas; and W. V., who lives at home with his parents.
Mr. Heady's place is one of the best stock farms in Cass County, comprising four hundred thirty-eight acres, one hundred fifty of which are Grand River bottom land. The farm is well watered and there is plenty of grass. The cyclone of June 15, 1912, struck the Heady place at eight o'clock in the evening and all the buildings were destroyed, in- cluding the residence, barn, granary, and two stock sheds. Four mem- bers of the family were in the residence, but none was seriously injured. Fifty-five acres of the finest timber in the country were ruined, a loss which cannot be repaired in a life-time. Mr. Heady, undaunted, rebuilt and the farm is again well improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Heady have brought to Missouri the sunshine of Ken- tucky in their hearts and manners. During their long residence in the county they have made numberless friends and have ever been known for their integrity, uprightness of character, and many benevolent virtues.
Mark V. Ruckel, a prosperous young farmer and stockman of Sher- man township, is one of Cass County's own sons. He was born May 11, 1884, upon his father's farm in Sherman township, and is a son of George W. and Ellen (Smith) Ruckel.
Ellen (Smith) Ruckel was born in Pennsylvania, November 4, 1847, daughter of John and Jane (Buxton) Smith. John Smith was born in 1807, in Manchester, England. Jane (Buxton) Smith was born in Derby, England, in 1812. To John and Jane (Buxton) Smith were born eight children, namely: Mrs. Jane Williamson, who died near Altona, Missouri; Thomas, who died in Newcastle, Pennsylvania; John, Rose Hill, Missouri, who came west in 1866 and located near Latour, in Johnson County ; Henry, who died near Holden, in Johnson County, Missouri; Mrs. Sarah Hess, who died in Colorado; James, who died near Holden, in Johnson County, Missouri; Mrs. Phoebe Baker, Latour, John County, Missouri; and Mrs. Ellen Ruckel, widow of George W. Ruckel, mother of the sub- ject of this review.
Mrs. Ellen (Smith) Ruckel attended school in Newcastle, Pennsyl- vania. Her parents moved from Newcastle to Youngstown, Westmore- land County, Pennsylvania, in the days of her early girlhood, and from Youngstown moved to Sharon. John Smith, father of Mrs. Ruckel, died
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in Pennsylvania. When Mrs. Ruckel was nineteen years of age she came to Johnson County, Missouri, in 1866. April 6, 1872, George W. Ruckel and Ellen Smith were united in marriage in Holden, Missouri. George W. Ruckel was born October 1, 1839, in Medina County, Ohio, son of Peter and Sarah (Heckman) Ruckel, who were pioneers of Medina County. Peter and Sarah (Heckman) Ruckel were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Mrs. Rachel Wetmore, Akron, Ohio; Mrs. Phoebe Rock- wood, Akron, Ohio; John, who died in Akron, Ohio; Henry, who died in Akron, Ohio; and George W., who died March 29, 1911, upon the home farm in Sherman township, Cass County, Missouri, and is interred in Parker Cemetery.
George W. and Ellen (Smith) Ruckel were blessed with five children, all of whom are now living: George, an influential and prosperous stock- man, who lives upon part of the home place, and a sketch of whom ap- pears elsewhere in this volume; Ida, wife of C. D. Hopkins, Urich, Mis- souri; Clarence, a prominent and respected young farmer and stockman, near Creighton, Missouri; Nellie, wife of C. B. Wade, Creighton, Mis- souri; and Mark, subject of this review. Mr. and Mrs. Ruckel came to Cass County, Missouri, in 1876, and located upon the place which is now her home. They purchased one hundred sixty acres at the time and constantly added to their original holdings, until at the time of Mr. Ruckel's death their place comprised more than seven hundred acres. George W. Ruckle was a very prominent stockman and well-known feeder. He handled extensively Galloway cattle, Poland China hogs, and fine, thoroughbred horses. Mr. Ruckle was highly esteemed throughout the county, having by his fair and honorable dealings gained the confidence of all who knew him. No name stands higher than his in the estimation of the people of this community, and his death will ever be a source of universal regret.
Mrs. Ruckel is in her seventieth year, but she is far more active than many women a score of years her junior. She has lived a good, pure life, close to the heart of nature, and now in the advanced years of her maturity, is reaping the benefits. She possesses a bright, alert mind and remarkable memory, and enjoys recalling the old scenes and days. Having lived in this vicinity so many years she has witnessed the many changes which have occurred in the transforming process which has developed raw prairie into a well settled county. Mrs. Ruckel re- members that back in the late sixties padlocks on the doors of smoke-
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houses were unheard of, for then they were never needed. She particu- larly remembers among many old pioneer families, the Grossharts, Walk- ers, O'Bannons, Wades, and Taylors. Mrs. Ruckel passed safely through the cyclone of June 15, 1912, and lived to see the terrible havoc and de- vastation which the fury of the elements can bring upon the work of one's life-time. Part of the residence, three barns, all the out-buildings upon the place were demolished, and the many fine old trees which were planted in the early days, were literally torn up by the roots. The place was left so denuded that, as Sherman said in 1865, "a crow flying over the country would need to carry his rations."
Mark V. Ruckel received his elementary education in the home school in Sherman township. He attended the Springfield Normal School one term, but never entered the teaching profession. October 21, 1914, Mark V. Ruckel and Alma Chandler, daughter of Robert and Lucy (Staley) Chandler, were united in marriage. A sketch of Mr. and Mrs. Chandler appears elsewhere in this volume. To Mark V. and Alma (Chandler) Ruckel has been born a son, George Chandler.
The present Ruckel farm comprises two hundred acres, located three and a half miles southwest of Creighton. It is one of the best stock farms in the county, and is well watered by natural springs, the water being run into concrete tanks for the cattle. One of the springs furnished water for forty head of stock during the recent drought. Mr. Ruckel handles exclusively pure-blood Galloway cattle. He has been remarkably successful in spite of the tornado and gives every evidence of being a worthy successor of his father, George W. Ruckel.
Christian D. Yoder, a prosperous farmer of Camp Branch township, is one of Cass County's pioneers. He was born in 1845 in Champaign County, Ohio, son of Reuben and Martha (Yoder) Yoder, natives of Pennsylvania. Though they bore the same name, Reuben and Martha Yoder were not relatives. Reuben Yoder migrated from Ohio to Michi- gan, where he remained five years, and thence to Missouri, locating in 1867 in Camp Branch township, four miles southeast of East Lynne, upon the farm now owned by his daughters, Saloma and Barbara. This farm originally consisted of one hundred twenty acres, but now com- prises two hundred forty acres. Reuben Yoder died on this farm in 1894, and is buried in Clearfork Cemetery. A few years later Martha Yoder followed her husband in death. Reuben and Martha (Yoder) Yoder
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were the parents of ten children, namely: Mrs. Ary Hartzler, deceased ; Mrs. Mary Hartzler, deceased; Mrs. Martha King, deceased; David, who enlisted in the Union Army in Indiana, was taken prisoner and died in Libby Prison; Christian D., subject of this review; Noah, a highly es- teemed farmer and stockman of Camp Branch township; Saloma, who resides on the home place; Mrs. Carrie Zook, East Lynne, Missouri; Bar- bara, who resides on the home place; and Mrs. Elizabeth Hartzler, wife of John Hartzler, Bellefontaine, Ohio. Barbara and Elizabeth are twins. . The first four children were born in Pennsylvania and the rest in Ohio.
Christian D. Yoder attended school in Ohio and Michigan. He came with his parents to Cass County in 1867, and remained with them until three years after he was married, when he purchased one hundred eighty acres, part of his present home, from James Wilson. In 1874 Christian D. Yoder and Elizabeth Garber, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Winger) Garber, of Johnson County, were united in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Garber emigrated from Ohio to Missouri in an early day. Elizabeth (Gar- ber) Yoder was born in 1855 in Stark County, Ohio. To Christian D. and Elizabeth (Garber) Yoder have been born six children; Edward, who married Della Mast. who died leaving one daughter and he remar- ried, is now deceased, and his widow resides in Camp Branch township; Benjamin, who married Ollie Plank, who is now deceased and he remar- ried, his second wife being Mary Oesch and they reside in Camp Branch township; Martha, wife of Ira Hartzler, the well-known auctioneer of Camp Branch township; Frederick, who married Dora Middlesworth, and they reside in Idaho; Maud, wife of Harry Musselman of near Bethel church; and a son who died in infancy.
The Yoder farm comprises at present three hundred eighty-nine acres, which lie in both Camp Branch and Index townships. The place is exceedingly well located upon the main road from Latour to Harrisonville. There are three sets of improvements upon the farm. The residence is a handsome two-story structure of ten spacious rooms, and strictly modern throughout. Mr. Yoder has erected a large bank barn 42x68 feet in dimensions, which is covered with a substantial iron roof, and provides for the stock below. He has a fine granary and all the buildings upon his farm denote the taste and thoughtful care of a thorough, practical agri- culturist. His farm is one of the places to which the county points with pride. Mr. Yoder is one of the men whose untiring energy has made Cass County prosperous. Mr. and Mrs. Yoder are of the Mennonite faith and have always stood for strict integrity and probity of character.
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