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Mrs. Hooper was educated in the public schools and Howard Payne College, Fayette, Mo. H. B. Hopkins, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Hooper, was a native of Mississippi, and a pioneer of Wooldridge, Mo. He married Rebecca Burcham, of Kentucky, and they came to Cooper County in 1858. They once owned the original townsite of Wooldridge. A more extensive history of the Hopkins family is given elsewhere in this volume, in connection with the sketch of Farris B. Hopkins.
W. E. Hooper is a member of the Woodmen of the World and the W. C., and is one of the substantial and representative citizens of Cooper County. He and Mrs. Hooper are members of the Baptist Church at Wooldridge.
Willis Hurt, a prominent citizen of Clarks Fork township, is a native of. Page County, Va., born Aug. 2, 1850. He is a son of Acrey and Ma- tilda (Rickard) Hurt, both natives of Virginia, and early settlers in Cooper County. Acrey Hurt was born in Virginia in 1820, and his wife was born in that State Dec. 20, 1827. They were married Sept. 23, 1847, and in 1855 came to Missouri, settling in Clarks Fork township, Cooper County. They located near Washington school house, which was then an old log building. Acrey Hurt was an industrious man and a good citi- zen. During the Civil War he was a member of the Home Guards. He died on his place in Clarks Fork township in February, 1883, and his wife died April 9, 1898. Their remains are interred in Green Ridge Cemetery. Acrey and Matilda were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Jeannette Arnold, Boonville; Willis, the subject of this sketch; Benjamin, resides in Henry County ; Mrs. Arabella Albin, resides near Clarksburg, Mo .; Mrs. Eliza Copas, Jefferson City ; Newton, died in Henry County ; Acrey, a sketch of whom appears in this volume; Silas, Boonville; and William, Pilot Grove.
Willis Hurt was reared to the age of manhood in Cooper County, his parents having settled here when he was about five years old. He re- ceived his education in the Washington School district, and recalled among the early teachers of that district, Dock Freyer, who lived near
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Lone Elm Prairie. Mr. Hurt remained on the home farm with his parents until he was about 27 years of age. In 1877, he moved to his present farm, having purchased it two years previously. This place was for- merly owned by the Berry heirs, their father having entered it from the Government. Mr. Hurt bought the place from Sylvanius Young. He has made many improvements, and while Mr. Hurt is not the owner of a large farm, it is one of the well improved and valuable places of the county, and here Mr. Hurt has successfully carried on farming and stock raising for over 40 years.
March 4, 1877, A. W. Hurt was married to Miss Emma Bear, a daughter of Samuel K. and Susanna (Woods) Bear, both natives of Vir- ginia. Samuel Bear was born May 26, 1825, and died Dec. 30, 1882. Susanna (Woods) Bear was born in January, 1828, and died Dec. 9, 1887. The Bear family consisted of the following children: Mrs. Barbara J. Clawson, Barnard, Mo .; Charles, of Alva, Wy .; Mrs. Mary C. Cox, Den- ver, Colo .; Emma S., the wife of Willis Hurt; Mrs. Sarah Moffitt, Barnard, Mo .; Cornelia M., Morphew, N. M .; Mrs. Martha Smith, Santa Ana, Calif .; and Mrs. Laura Robinson, Spearfish, S. D .; William Henry, died at the age of 16 years, and Benjamin Alfred, died in infancy.
To Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hurt have been born the following children: Minnie Bell, was born Aug. 3, 1879, married Harry Kirchner, Clarks Fork township, Nov. 28, 1900; Alva Willis, an attorney and counselor at law in St. Louis, Mo., was born March 30, 1882; Alvina, born Feb. 8, 1884, and was married to Frank Kalb, April 26, 1905; Clarence Lee, born May 8, 1888, married Luda Anna Blanck, May 22, 1912, now resides in Boon- ville. Mr. and Mrs. Hurt have six grandchildren: Richard Kirchner, born Nov. 16, 1905; Mary Josephine Kircher, born Nov. 23, 1909; Emma Louise Kircher, born July 16, 1912; Wilbur Hurt Kalb, born Jan. 19, 1907; Charles Marvin Kalb, born Feb. 2, 1908, and Hazel Emma Kalb, born Dec. 30, 1912.
A historic landmark in the way of a hackberry tree adorns the front yard of the Hurt place. This tree is 42 years old, and came up from its own accord the year that the Hurt family settled on the place, 42 years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Hurt are members of the M. E. Church South, and the members of the Hurt family are well known and prominent in the community.
Lewis B. Nelson, a well known and successful citizen of North Moni- teau township ,was born in Page County, Iowa, Oct. 2, 1878. He is a son of John E. and Julia H. Nelson, natives of Sweden. John E. Nelson came
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to America when he was about 23 years of age. He is now deceased. His widow now resides in Coin, Page County, Iowa. They were the parents of the following children: Ellen A., married August S. Lind, and resides at College Springs, Iowa; Sophia J., married J. F. Johnson, Coin, Iowa; Oscar, lives near Canton, Mo .; and Lewis B. the subject of this sketch.
Lewis B. Nelson was reared in his native State, and educated in the public schools and Amity College, College Springs, Iowa, and graduated from this institution in the class of 1896. He then engaged in farming in Iowa, until 1906 when he located in Nodaway County, Mo. He bought a farm there, and was engaged in general farming and stock raising until 1918, when he came to Cooper County and purchased his present place in North Moniteau township, 41/2 miles south of Prairie Home. His farm consists of 120 acres of well improved land, located on the Prairie Home- California highway.
Mr. Nelson was married Oct. 20, 1916, to Miss Nora A. Odneal, a daughter of G. C. Odneal.
Peter P. McNeil, a former railroad foreman of construction, and now a substantial farmer and land-owner, who died at his farm home near Otterville in the spring of 1914, had been a resident of that neighborhood for 30 years, and during that period had done much for the general ad- vancement of the community. He was born at New Boston, N. H., Sept. 13, 1833, a son of Peter and Mary McNeil, both of whom were of Scottish stock. He was reared in the East, and when the Missouri Pacific Rail- road was being constructed in Missouri, he became connected with that work as a foreman, his first work being in Cole County, where, in 1858, he married and established his home. He later lived in Bates County, and in 1884 came to Cooper County with his family and bought a farm near Otterville, being attracted to that location by the educational advan- tages thus offered his children at the Otterville Academy, which then was presided over by Professor Curlin. On that farm he spent the remainder of his life, one of the substantial factors in the community life. He died there. April 15, 1914, and his widow and two of her daughters are still living there. Mr. McNeil was particularly attentive to the work of the Baptist Church at Otterville, of which he was a devout member, and for 20 years was superintendent of the Sunday School of the same, in that capacity rendering an effective service for good in the community to which he had become greatly attached, and his memory will long be cher- ished in that connection.
Jan. 1, 1858, at Elston Station, in Cole County Mo., Peter P. McNeil
PETER P. MONEIL
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was married to Sarah Jane Elston, who was born there Oct. 13, 1841, and to this union 12 children were born. Of these the following are still living: Mrs. Hattie M. Leach, of Otterville township; Arthur L. McNeil, of Sedalia; Mrs. Jennie S. Evans, also of Sedalia; Mrs. Lydia S. Kelby, of Cole County ; Margaret, who is at home with her mother; Lulu J., also at home, and Dr. Charles A. McNeil, a practicing physician at Sedalia. As noted above, Mrs. McNeil has continued to make her home on the farm at the edge of Otterville, where she and her daughters are very comfort- ably and pleasantly situated. She owns 146 acres of well improved and profitably cultivated land, and takes a personal interest in directing the management of the same. Mrs. McNeil and her daughters are members of the Baptist Church, to the affairs of which the husband and father was so long and so earnestly devoted, and have ever taken a warm interest in church work, as well as in the general social affairs of the community in which they live, doing well their part in the promotion of all move- ments having to do with the advancement of the common weal there- about, and are held in high esteem in the community.
Henry Jenry, a prosperous farmer and stockman of Prairie Home township, is a native of Cooper County. He was born in the township where he now lives, March 27, 1861, a son of John P. Jenry, who was a native of Germany, born in Darmstadt, and came to America, 1842. H)3 parents came later and located in Buffalo, N. Y., where they spent the remainder of their lives. John P. Jenry came from New York State to Boonville about 1850. He was a bricklayer and worked at his trade here for a number of years. He built the Lohse building in Boonville, as well as many other structures in that locality. He spent the latter part of his life in Clarks Fork township, where he died June 14, 1905, and his widow, who is now 85 years of age, still survives him. She has been an invalid for 56 years. They were the parents of the following children: John, died in New York State; Mrs. Caroline Defress, Kansas City, Mo .; Mrs. Louise Smith, deceased; Daniel, deceased; Charles, resides near Gooch Mill, Mo .; Henry, the subject of this sketch; George, lives in Wyo- ming ; Mrs. Kate Hundley, lives on the old home place in Cooper County ; and Mrs. Mary Smith, Blue Springs, Mo.
Henry Jenry received his education in the public schools of Cooper County, attending the New Salem District School. Cooper County has always been his home, and he has made farming and stock raising his life occupation. He owns a valuable farm of 91 acres in Prairie Home township, which he purchased in 1892. His place is located on the Jef-
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ferson State Highway, 11 miles southeast of Booneville, and is one of the valuable farms in that section of the county.
Feb. 21, 1901, Henry Jenry was united in marriage with Miss Mary Allen Chappell, a daughter of Anderson and Sarah Morland, of La- Clede County, Mo. The father was a Civil War veteran, having served in the Union Army for four years. He settled in Cooper County, near Gooch Mill, and spent the remainder of his life in this vicinity. He died Feb. 21, 1897, aged 52 years, and his wife died at Raleigh, Mo., Sept. 23, 1918, aged 71 years. Mrs. Jenry is one of the following children born to her parents: Mary Ellen, wife of Henry Jenry, born July 20, 1869; Harriett, born April 25, 1871, married Louis Rhodes, and resides at Vida, Mo .; and Joseph, born Aug. 20, 1875, resides at Raleigh, Mo.
Mr. and Mrs. Jenry are well known in Cooper County and rank among its leading people.
Frank H. Denel, a well known farmer and stockman of Prairie Home township, was born in Pottawatomie, Kan., Aug. 11, 1868. He is a son of L. W. and Nancy J. (Davis) Deuel. L. W. Deuel was born in New York State in 1836, and in 1849 started to the gold fields of California with his father, who died at Salisbury, Mo., and was buried there. L. W. then went on west to Kansas, remaining in that State until 1882; he then returned to Macon County, Mo., and five years later settled in Cooper County. Here he bought a farm in Saline township, where he resided until 1909, when he went to Sedalia, where he now lives. L. W. Deuel had an extensive experience as an early day plainsman. During and after the Civil War he crossed the plains 12 times, being employed in driving cattle. During some of these drives in the wild and unsettled West, hostile Indians were frequently encountered. Nancy J. (Davis) Deuel, wife of L. W. Deuel, was born in Macon County, Mo., in 1850. They were married at Manhattan, Kan., in 1867, and the following chil- dren were born of this union: Frank H., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Maggie Gupton, Sedalia; Charles, Sedalia; Deam, Sedalia ; George, Sedalia ; Mrs. Mattie Hoerl, Boonville; Oscar, now serving in U. S. Army in France; and Mrs. May Heckerdt, Sedalia.
Frank H. Deuel was educated in the public schools of Kansas. After coming to Missouri with his parents, he was rural mail carrier on the first route that was established out of Prairie Home, for 16 years. He resigned this position in 1917, and bought his present farm of 61 acres in Prairie Home township. This place is located about 11/2 miles south of Prairie Home, and is a well improved, productive and valuable place.
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Mr. Deuel was married Feb. 20, 1889, to Miss Laura Dishion a daughter of James F. and Nancy J. (Adair) Dishion, the marriage cere- mony being performed by Rev. O. P. Davis. James F. Dishion was a farmer and died in 1911; the widow now resides on the home place in Prairie Home township. To Mr. and Mrs. Deuel have been born the following children: Nellie, married Earl Ford, Bunceton; Mollie, married Charles Friday, Bunceton; Ola, married Louis L. Blank, Prairie Home; Icie, resides at home; Ira P., who served in U. S. Navy from May, 1918, to March, 1919, being connected with the medical department; and Stella, who resides at home with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Deuel have 10 grandchildren: Margaret, Agnes, Nannie Laura, and Harold Ford; Sarah Frances, Charles Robert, and Harry Lee Friday ; Louis Hilton; Kenneth and Randall Blank.
Mr. Deuel is a well posted citizen, and takes a commendable interest in public affairs. While a resident of Prairie Home he served as mayor of that town for two terms, and was a member of the City Council for a number of terms. Mr. and Mrs. Deuel are members of the Christian Church at Walnut Grove, of which he is a deacon.
G. C. Odneal, a Civil War veteran and a member of one of the pioneer families of Missouri, was born in Moniteau County, Sept. 22, 1846. He is a son of Valentine and Dicy (Gilbreath) Odneal, both natives of Ten- nessee, the former born in 1812, and the latter in 1816. Valentine Odneal came to Missouri with his father about 100 years ago; he died in 1852. Dicy Gilbreath was a daughter of Hugh Gilbreath, who was born in Ten- nessee in 1782, and came to Missouri about the same time that the Odneals came. He died in 1852. To Valentine Odneal and wife were born the following children: William, who was killed at Tipton, Mo., during the Civil War; Hugh G., died in 1912; Thomas B., died in 1873; John W., died in 1912; James M., died in 1916; G. C., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Nancy Foster, deceased; and Mrs. Dora Hannah, resides in North Moni- teau township.
G. C. Odneal was educated in the public schools and Prairie Home College. He spent all his life in North Moniteau township, where he has been engaged in farming and stock raising, except two and one-half years when he was in Texas. During the Civil War Mr. Orneal served in the Confederate Army under Fighting Gen. Joe Shelby. He was with his command in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, and when the war closed he was at Shreveport, La. Mr. Odneal had some narrow escapes during the course of his military career, and at one time was severely wounded by
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a piece of shell which entered his side and which remained there until about seven years ago when he had it removed.
Mr. Odneal was married Sept. 30, 1875, to Martha J. Harris, a daugh- ter of William and Nancy (Martin) Harris, both of whom are now de- ceased. The mother died in 1895, and the father died in 1896. Mrs. Odneal was born in North Moniteau township Feb. 27, 1854. To Mr. and Mrs. Odneal have been born three children, as follows: Nora A., married Louis Nelson, North Moniteau township; Flora N., married William Schaaf, and lives in Moniteau County ; and Thomas A., married Augusta Stuckfoden, and they have one child, Edna May. Mr. and Mrs. Odneal have the following grandchildren: Dorsey, Harold and Estella George; Floyd Nelson; Lucile, Floyd, George, and Curtis Schaaf; and Edna May Odneal.
Mr. Odneal commands the respect of all who know him, and the Odneal family stand high in the community.
Peter J. Strickfaden, who departed this life July 19, 1919, was a well known and successful farmer and stockman of North Moniteau township, a native son of Cooper County, and a descendent of pioneer parents. He was born on the place where he now resides, April 16, 1854, a son of Am- brose and Gertrude (Henhover) Strickfaden. Ambrose Strickfaden was a native of Germany, and when a young man settled on the place where Peter J. now resides, in the early forties. At the time of his death, in 1888, he owned over 525 acres of land. His wife preceded him in death several years. They were the parents of the following children: Vinse. deceased; Sebastian, deceased; Mrs. Mary Stembach, deceased; Frank, resides in California, Mo .; John, deceased ; Mrs. Catherine Sheidt, deceased ; Peter J., the subject of this sketch; Ambrose, resides in North Moniteau township; Leap, Pilot Grove; and Josie, deceased.
Peter J. Strickfaden was reared in Cooper County, and received his education in the public schools. He followed farming and stock raising all his life. He owned a valuable farm of 155 acres, six miles south of Prairie Home, where successfully carried on general farming and stock raising for many years.
May 7, 1889, Peter J. Strickfaden was married to Miss Anne Schaber, a daughter of Andrew and Mary Schaber, both natives of Indiana. The father was born Oct. 18, 1846, and died in 1912, and the mother now resides at Pilot Grove. They were the parents of the following children: Annie, the wife of Peter J. Strickfaden; Tony, deceased; George, Bea- man, Mo .; John, resides in Florida ; Mrs. Kate Mullet, Pilot Grove; Tena,
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resides in Sedalia; Mrs. Mary Hayes, deceased; Mrs. Lena Mullet, lives in Oklahoma, and Mrs. Lucy Alberts, Marshall, Mo.
To Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Strickfaden were born the following chil- dren: Mary, who resides at home; Andy and George. Andy Strickfaden was born Jan. 3, 1893, and is now serving as road overseer of District No. 2, North Moniteau township. George W. Strickfaden was born March 31, 1894. He was married Nov. 30, 1917, to Miss Wilhelmina Keil, a daughter of William and Louisa (Heernleben) Keil, the former now de- ceased, and the latter resides at Cedron, Mo.
George W. Strickfaden enlisted in the U. S. Army, April 29, 1918, and for a time was trained at Camp Funston, Kan. Later, he was sent to Camp Mills, N. Y., and from there to Liverpool, England, where he arrived June 16, 1918. He was then taken sick with measles and sent to a hospital, where he remained until July 23, after which he was detailed on special duty at an American rest camp at Liverpool, until March 20, 1919. He was then returned to New York by way of Brest, arriving March 30, 1919. He was then sent to Camp Taylor, Ky., where he was discharged, April 21, 1919. While in the army he was a member of Company L, 356th Infantry, under Captain Wear, who was killed in France.
The Strickfaden family are well known and highly respected in Cooper County.
Dr. A. L. Meredith, a well known physician and surgeon of Prairie Home, is not only a leader in his profession, but is one of Cooper County's most progressive and enterprising citizens. Dr. Meredith was born at Lupus, Moniteau County, March 30, 1879, and is a son of J. F. and Mal- vina (Clay) Meredith, natives of Kentucky. Malvina Clay is a daughter of Green Clay, who was a second cousin of Henry Clay. J. F. Meredith and his wife now reside at Lupus.
Dr. A. L. Meredith was reared in Moniteau County, and educated in Hooper Institute and Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va. He then entered Beaumont Medical College at St. Louis, where he was graduated with a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1901. He then engaged in the practice of his profession at Lupus, Mo., where he remained but a short time, when he located at Wooldridge, where he practiced for nine years. In the meantime, he took a post graduate course at the Post Graduate Medical College at New York City. He practiced at James- town, Mo., for 18 months, and in 1912 located at Prairie Home, where he has since been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession, except during the period of service in the medical department of U. S.
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Army. On Sept. 30, 1918, he entered the medical department of the army with the rank of first lieutenant, and immediately proceeded to Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., where he served until Dec. 28, 1918, when he received his discharge.
Dr. Meredith was united in marriage June 10, 1908, with Miss Agnes Teel, a daughter of Dr. S. M. and Nettie P. (Williams) Teel. Dr. S. M. Teel was a native of Virginia. He was a graduate of the University of Virginia, and after completing his medical course located at Prairie Home, Mo., and for 30 years was successfully engaged in the practice of his pro- fession there. He died Feb. 28, 1912, and his remains are buried in the New Salem Cemetery. His wife is a native of Cooper County, and a daughter of John R. Williams, a pioneer of Saline township. She now resides at Prairie Home. Dr. Teel and wife were the parents of the fol- lowing children: Garth, resides in Prairie Home; Burke, now serving in the U. S. Navy on the transport Huron, having entered the service in August, 1917; Samuel, died at the age of 3 years; Pearl, bookkeeper in the Bank of Prairie Home; Newell, a teacher in the Cooper County School ; Eva, married Homer Wear, Prairie Home; Polly, married L. A. George, Prairie Home; Willie married Dr. Dorsey Hooper, Warsaw, Mo .; Kelly, married Roy Hadley; and Logan, married C. Reid .Spahr, Oakland, Cal. To Dr. and Mrs. Meredith have been born two children: A. L., Jr., and Virginia Teel.
Dr. Meredith is an able physician and a constant student of the devel- opments in the great science of medicine and surgery, and, notwithstand- ing the requirements of a large practice, he has found time to devote to public improvements and local progressive enterprises. He has served as president of Consolidated School District No. 3 for five years. He was one of the organizers of the Prairie Home Fair, one of the successful institutions of its kind in the country, and for four years he has been president of this organization. He is also the present mayor of Prairie Home, which is one of the most progressive little towns of its size in the State.
Dr. Meredith is a member of the Masonic Lodge, Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen of America, and the Mystic Workers.
Louis M. Meredith, the capable and efficient superintendent of the State Reformatory Farm of Boonville, is a native of Missouri, and belongs to one of the early pioneer families of this State. Mr. Meredith was born in Polk County, Oct. 25, 1860, a son of Joseph R. and Rachel (Leith)
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Meredith. Joseph R. Meredith was born in Cooper County in 1832, and died at the age of 70 years. He was a son of Thomas Meredith, who set- tled near Pilot Grove in the early twenties, and entered 200 acres of land from the Government, and spent the remainder of his life in that vicin- ity. Rachel (Leith) Meredith died in 1892, aged 70 years. Louis M. Meredith was one of the following children born to his parents: Fannie, married S. M. Whitlow; Louis M., the subject of this sketch; R. A., lives at Pilot Grove; Susan, married J. M. Sparkman, and William Henry, Ver- milion, Kan.
Louis M. Meredith was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools. He was engaged in farming and stock raising in the vicinity of Pilot Grove for a number of years. In 1897, he accepted a position as night-watchman at the Reform School, and for four years served in that capacity. He then became captain of Company H, and held that position for two years, after which he was superintendent of the brickyard of the institution for a time. In 1915 he was appointed superintendent of the institutional farm and has held that position to the present time. While Mr. Meredith is a modest and unassuming man, it is a fact that he holds one of the important positions in the State. The work that he is able to accomplish in training the boys under his charge in the proper channel means much to the future citizenship of Missouri. Mr. Meredith realizes this, and has given much thought and study to plans and methods of building up the characters and making good citizens of those boys who are legally delegated to his charge. The State Farm under Mr. Meredith's charge consists of 485 acres, besides another farm of 400 acres, which the State rents. There are a number of departments of the institution, including a blacksmith shop, brickyard, stone quarry, carpenter shop, greenhouse, etc. The 600 boys in the institution are kept busily engaged in beneficial and helpful work in connection with these various depart- ments, in addition to their mental and moral training.
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