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WILLIAM G. PETTY, sheriff of Dunklin County, was born January 25, 1853, in Hickman County,
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JOHN MCKAY.
JOHN MCKAY is the oldest teacher in the county, and is a Democrat and a member of the M. E. C. S. He has taught school in nearly every district of the county, and as a most successful teacher is well and favorably known all over the county.
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Tennessee. His parents, Milford M. and Nancy Petty, were natives of the above mentioned State. The father was a farmer and resided in Hickman County for over thirty-five years, removing to Dunklin County, Mo., in 1882, where he and wife have since died.
W. G. PETTY, Sheriff.
W. G. Petty, the subject of this sketch, grew to manhood in his native county and State and immigrated to this county in 1874. In 1879 he was married to Miss Amanda B. Herrmann, daughter of William Herrmann, an early settler of this county, who resides at Hornersville, but who was for long years a promi nent farmer and operator of a cotton gin and grist mill near Nesbit, this county. He was also the inventor and patentee of one of the first " cotton cleaners," an attachment to the cotton gin. A few years after his marriage, Mr. Petty purchased timbered land in Salem Township and opened up a farm. In 1887 he pur-
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chased 200 acres of land near Nesbit, about 160 acres of which was in cultivation. This is one of the best farms in the country. Mr. Petty has farmed the greater portion of the time before and since his marriage. In 1894 he made the race for sheriff and was elected at the November election. In the early part of 1895 he removed to Kennett and took charge of the jail and sheriff's office, which position he is filling to the satisfaction of the general public. Mr. and Mrs. Petty are the parents of six children, Harry, Curtis, Neel, Bertie, Cohnie and Genie.
Mr. Petty is a member of the Masonic fraternity and Mrs. Petty of the M. E. C. S.
C. A. PETTY, son of M. M. and Nancy Jones- Petty, natives of South Carolina, was born Feb. 15, 1851, in Hickman County, Tenn., where he resided until 1874, when he came to Dunklin County.
In 1876 he joined the I. O. O. F. at Cotton Plant and the Masonic order in 1882, and has passed- through all the chairs of both orders and the Re- bekah Degree of I. O. (). F. and is a member of the Dunklin Encampment. A Democrat in politics, a member of the M. E. C. S., always taking an active part in the duties of the societies to which he belongs, he has become well and favorably known, being recognized as a man of noble principles and unques- tionable integrity.
Mr. Petty first married a Miss Miller in 1873. She died in January 1890, having borne him eight children, seven of whom are now living. Willie, a young man
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of about 21 years of age, is the eldest. In 1891 Mr. Petty took for a wife a Miss Baugus, who died in 1894, leaving one child. His present wife was a Miss Latty and they were married in January, 1895.
These ladies were all natives of Tennessee two of them from the same county. The present Mrs. Petty is a member of the Primitive Baptist Church.
Mr. Petty is a farmer, owns about 350 acres of good land, and resides one mile west of Kennett.
J. R. POOL.
JOHN RICHARD POOL, proprietor of Hotel Cardwell, at Cardwell, Mo., was born May 5, 1845, in Hardin County, Tennessee. He is the son of John C. and Susan Haggard-Pool, natives of the above county and State. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood and was educated in the common schools of his native county, later taking a course in Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, St. Louis, Mo. August 12, 1866, he was married to Barber E. Pearson and they became
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the parents of nine boys and two girls, all yet living. Mrs. Pool died July 11, 1889, and Mr. Pool took for a second companion, Rebekah J. Thomas on February 1, 1891. Both ladies were natives of Tennessee, of the same county as Mr. Pool. He came to Dunklin County in 1880, located on Grand Prairie and was subsequently in the merchandising business at Caruth. He removed to Buffalo Island in 1891, where he had bought a hundred acres of land near the present site of Cardwell. Mr. Pool has helped to start several post-offices in this county, " Hasty," among others ; this office was lately discontinued in favor of Cardwell. The post-office is now kept in Hotel Cardwell and Mrs. Pool, who is of a Democratic turn of mind, has been the postmistress under the Cleveland administration. She is quite an enterprising and progressive woman. Mr. Pool is in politics a Republican, and was the nominee of that party for sheriff of this county in 1888. He helped to organize the first Republican convention of this county and is at present chairman of Buffalo Township Committee. He is notary public and agent at Cardwell for the Paragould and Southeastern Railroad.
Much of the rapid progress of Cardwell is due to Mr. Pool's energy ; he has himself built several houses in that town and helped to get up an interest in the schools of his neighborhood.
GEORGE W. PECK, Mayor of the city of Malden, Mo., was born November 22, 1848, at Madrid, St. Lawrence County, New York, and is the son of Burley
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and Sophronia Fish-Peck. His parents were of English descent, their grandparents having crossed the ocean in the year 1735, and settled at Norwich, Con- necticut. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of his native county and at the St. Lawrence Academy at Potsdam, N. Y. He taught in the public schools of his county for several years, but
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in 1872 went to Chicago, Ill., and was employed in the office of the City Railway Co., for some time, return- ing to New York in 1875. Still he desired to locate in the West, his inclinations being toward the railroad business. He learned that a railroad was being con- structed from New Madrid, Missouri, in a westerly direction and went there in the fall of 1876. He soon secured a position on the engineering corps who were surveying the new road under Chief Engineer Hon. Oscar Kochtitzky, who was also Labor Commis- sioner of Missouri during Gov. Marmaduke's adminis-
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tration. George W. Peck assisted in laying out the town of Malden and was afterward railroad and land agent of the railroad company until it was merged into the Cotton Belt System, when he re- signed at once engaging in the grain business, and to him belongs the honor of having bought and shipped the first car load of grain that ever left Malden. His business has since grown until it is one of the leading enterprises of his town and county. It may be said that Mr. Peck handles nearly all of the surplus corn, etc., raised in the north half of Dunklin County. He is also engaged in the real estate business, owns sev- eral fine farms, bodies of timbered land, considerable town property, building lots, etc. In 1878 he was married to Julia A. Hopper, a native of Tennessee. They have four children, Wilbur, now a young man and a student of Searcy College, Arkansas, Elmer, Irene and Chester. Mr. Peck is in politics a Republi- can and was the nominee of that party for Repre- sentative of this county in 1892. He is at present Worshipful Master of the Masonic Lodge of Malden, President of the Board of Trustees of the Malden Public School, has been a member of the City Council for twelve years and is Mayor of his city. He is one of those men whom Democrats say have but one fault, that of voting the Republican ticket. Nevertheless Malden is as proud of George W. Peck as any man it has.
HON. D. C. POLLOCK was born in Obine County, Tenn., June 18, 1839. Was reared from four years of
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age in Lake County, Tenn., and when the war came on, went in the army with the Madrid Bend Guards, and was attached to the 15th Tennessee Regiment under Col. Counol. In 1872 he came to the State of Missouri and resided in New Madrid County for about ten years, then came to Dunklin County. He was educated in the common schools of Lake County
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Tenn., and studied medicine under Dr. Theodore Case. Attended lectures at Memphis, Tenn., and has practiced in the medical profession twenty-three years. Dr. Pollock was elected to the State Legisla- ture from Dunklin County in 1894, which office he is now filling. He with his family reside at the new town of Cardwell. He is Democratic in politics and popular among the masses of the people.
MOORE M. RAYBURN was born September 8, 1843, in Mississippi, and is the son of Maj. W. C. and Melissa J. Malone Rayburn, natives of Alabama and
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Mississippi respectively. The parents came to Missouri in 1865, and located near Clarkton, Dunklin County. Maj. Rayburn was always much interested in the schools, churches and public affairs of the county and was surveyor for a number of years. He resided in Clay County, Arkansas, from 1857 until the time of
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his coming to this county just after the close of the war.
His son, Moore M. Rayburn, grew to manhood in Arkansas, and in 1862 enlisted in the Confederate Army, in Col. Hart's regiment of Arkansas Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was in the battles of Pleasant Grove, Mansfield, and Pleasant Hill. At the close of the war he returned home and came to this county with his parents.
He has held the office of Sheriff and Collector of Dunklin County four years, since which time he has devoted himself to farming and stock-raising. In
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1866 he married Fannie Ake, who died in 1882, having become the mother of six children.
In 1882 he married Miss L. E. Giles, by whom he also has several children.
Mr. Rayburn is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the I. O. O. F. and is a well-known and much respected citizen.
F. JOE RICE.
F. JOE RICE, Collector of Dunklin County, is a native of this county, born December 3, 1859. He is the son of Hon. David Rice of this county and was educated in the common schools of Dunklin County and at the Southeast Normal of Cape Girardeau. Married Miss Minnie L. Fleer, of Franklin County, Missouri, on Nov. 5, 1882. She died June 23, 1884, having become the mother of one.child, who died in infancy. August, 1895, he married Miss Katie Fleer. To this marriage two children have been born, Vessie, August 2, 1891, and Hubert M., born June 4, 1884.
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Mr. Rice taught school for a few years, but was elected to the office of Treasurer of Dunklin County in 1884. In 1886 he was elected to the Legislature and in 1894 to the office of Collector. His political career has at- tracted more attention than any other man's in the history of the county, and he makes staunch friends and bitter enemies. He is a Democrat in politics, and both he and Mrs. Rice are members of the M. E. C. S.
Hon. DAVID RICE was born in Henry County, Ten- nessee, March 20, 1837. His parents, James P. and Casendaney Hearn-Rice, were of French and English descent. The subject of this sketch is a pioneer of Dunklin County, having arrived here February 14th, 1853. He located northwest of Campbell, Missouri, where he married Jane Himmel, a native of Tennessee, May 6th, 1856. They have never lost a child by death but all of their children, five in number, are liv- ing and residing in this county. Their only daughter, Luretta, is the wife of John B. Cook, a merchant of Kennett; their sons are F. Joe, who has represented this county in the Legislature and is now Collector of same, Ned N., a merchant of Kennett, and Van B. and Jimmer E., who are both prominent farmers. Mr. Rice has resided near Vincit for many years and has devoted most of his life to farming and stock raising. He owns 165 acres of good land, with large orchard, good house and outbuildings. Mr. Rice has also quite an extensive record in public life. In 1860 he was elected to the office of Assessor and served until the breaking out of the Civil War. From 1872 to
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1876 he was Public Administrator, and in 1876 was elected to represent this county in the State Legisla- ture. He is a Democrat in politics.
N. N. RICE was born September 1, 1867, in Inde- pendence Township, on the Old Rice farm, seven miles south of Kennett, Dunklin County, Mo. Here he
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grew to manhood, laboring on the farm and enjoying the privilege of the country school only, until 1885, when he attended the Southeast Normal School at Cape Girardeau, Mo. He returned to this school in 1887, but soon decided to take a business course instead of the course at the Normal. He entered the Central Business College at Sedalia, Mo., and on completing the course returned home and began work as salesman for T. E. Baldwin & Co. of Kennett. In 1889 he commenced business for himself at Vincit,
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Mo., and in 1891 moved his mercantile business to Kennett. The firm of N. N. Rice & Co. deal in fancy and staple groceries, farm machinery, hard- ware, stoves, tinware and sporting goods. They are also large shippers of fish, game, poultry, eggs, etc. N. N. Rice was married August, 1890, to Dora Beidlee, of Rector, Arkansas. Their son Bland is two years of age. Mr. Rice is Democratic in politics.
PASCAL RICE is, excepting Mrs. V. Horner, the oldest citizen in the county. Mr. Rice is in years older than Mrs. Horner. But his father, Abija Rice, did not bring his son when he first came into the county with Mr. Braunm, but later in the same year, 1830, so they have been in the county about sixty-five years. Mr. Rice thinks he was born in 1818, and is therefore about seventy-seven years of age. He has been to Indian war dances and was well acquainted with Chil- letacaux, Cornmeal, Moonshine, Chickolee and many other Indians who used to live in this county. He also resides near Hornersville.
LOUIS RIGGS, of the firm of L. Riggs & Co. , hardware, Kennett, Missouri, was born May 18, 1862, in Fred- ericktown, Mo. He is the son of A. and Fannie E. Gabriel-Riggs, natives of Indiana and North Carolina, respectively. They were, however, early settlers of Fredericktown, Mo., and Mr. Riggs was, until his death on August 26, 1882, proprietor of the A. Riggs hardware store of that place. On the death of his father L. Riggs took charge of the business. He ran
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the same in Fredericktown until March, 1892, when the bright prospects of Kennett, Mo., tempted him to remove to that place and establish the present firm of L. Riggs & Co., hardware dealers. Mr. Riggs has identi- fied himself with the people of this county by bringing his mother and sister, Miss Hattie, to Kennett to reside, and by marrying a Dunklin County girl, Miss Anna L. Jones, of Nesbit, on September 19, 1895.
Both Mr. Riggs and his partner in business, Mr. Charles Lanpher, have proved themselves to be enter- prising business men, and are always ready to do anything or assist any enterprise that will stimulate the growth of their adopted town, and are the kind of young men that Dunklin County likes to welcome.
THOMAS B. REEVES, born February 26, 1819, is the son of William T. and Michal (Hoskins ) Reeves, natives of Virginia. T. B. Reeves, the subject of this sketch, was married to Miss Louisa E. Ford, a native of Tennessee, in 1848. Mr. and Mrs. Reeves came to Dunklin County in 1859, and located at Clarkton, but in 1880 they settled in Malden, where they now reside.
Their oldest child, Michal E., born June 28, 1849, married James M. Corder, and died February 8, 1876, leaving three children, Mattie B. (Mrs. Utley ), Nannie C. (Mrs. Hampton ), and Luther E.
The first son, William Wilson, born January 18, 1851, married Rachel E. Nunley, and William Timothy and Walter G. are the children of this marriage, now living. His first wife having died, Mr. W. W. Reeves
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married Belle Marshall, who has become the mother of Decatur F., Michal E., Leonard L., Jennie C., Fred, and one infant.
Lou A., second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Reeves, was born September 18, 1853, and married John W. Stephens. By this marriage she has one son,
T. B. REEVES AND WIFE.
Herbert N., who married Belle Kedy, and now resides in Malden.
Mrs. Stephens lost by death Elizabeth E., born June 3, 1872, Lara M., born December 26, 1873, and William T., born February 1, 1875. But the fifth child is a bright young miss in Minnie L Stephens.
After the death of her first husband, Mrs. Stephens married Charles F. Moore ( see sketch elsewhere) and their two sons, Edgar A., born December 18, 1883,
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and Arthur B., born October 20, 1887, are both deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Reeves have two sons dead. Thomas P., born February 2, 1856, and Luther E., born February 6, 1858 ; John H., born November 8, 1860, and James L., born September 13, 1863. With William W. are now living in Texas John H., married Mary E. Twittie and became the father of Wilbur B. Raymond, Ola E. Hurburt, and one infant, James L. married Alice E. Wood and their children are Lola P. and Joe Amous.
The pictures accompanying this sketch represent the faces of a couple who have lived in Dunklin County for nearly forty years and who have thirty-one grand- children and thirteen great-grandchildren.
They are both consistent members of the Baptist Church.
Uncle Tommie, as he is affectionately called, owned and occupied one of the first business houses in Malden but has been principally a farmer. He and his son W. W. are both charter members of Cotton Hill Lodge, I. O. O. F.
Mr. Reeves and all of his sons are Democrats in politics.
MAJOR WILLIE RAY AND WIFE, Dunklin County's little people, are known all over the county, Major Ray as the Missouri Midget. He was born in Perry County, Tennessee, April 22, 1860, and is the son of J. M. Ray and Mary (Wade) Ray, both natives of Tennessee. The parents, who were ordinary-sized
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people, removed to Dunklin County, Missouri, January 1, 1870. The Major was educated in the common schools of this county, and was first exhibited. as a midget in 1881.
In 1886 he made his first engagement with Sells Brothers' show, and has traveled with them every
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season since. Married in Yates Center, Kansas, to Miss Jennie Meadows, February 6, 1891.
Their home is near Caldwell, Dunklin County, Missouri, where they own 160 acres of fine land which is being rapidly converted into a beautiful home. Major Ray is a member of the I. O. O. F. and .Bap- tist Church.
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Mrs. Jennie Meadows-Ray is a native of Franklin County, Illinois. Born March 16, 1871, and is the eldest child of L. F. Meadows and J. C. (Kaar) Meadows, both natives of Tennessee, but married and reared in Franklin County, Illinois. They removed to Woodson County, Kansas, in 1885. Since her marriage Mrs. Ray has traveled regularly with Sells Brothers' show ; is a member of the Rebekah degree of I. O. O. F. and M. E. C. S. The little lady is 37 1-2 inches high, weighs 38 pounds, and is 28 inches bust, and 16 inches waist measurement. She wears a shoe the size of a child's No. 7 and a number four glove.
The Major is purely honorary, but is never omitted from the little man's name. He is 36 inches high, weighs 38 pounds and his shoe is one size larger than his wife's. Major Ray and wife are the smallest married people in the world, and are the shortest, best formed, and intelligent midgets exhibited in either America or the Eastern Continent.
WILLIAM R. SATTERFIELD, of the firm of Baird, Satterfield & Co., Senath, is a native of this county and the son of Wm. M. and Hattie F. Douglas Satterfield. William R. Satterfield is an out-and-out Dunklin County man, having attained his growth and most of his education in this county. In 1894, he took a partnership in the above mentioned firm and is at present a promising young busi- ness man. The father, William M. Satterfield, was the founder of Caruth post-village in this county and was born January 19, 1833, in Kent County, Del.
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Mr. Satterfield was principally reared in Mercer County, Penn., but completed his education in the common schools and Arcadia College of his native county and State. He came to this county and en- gaged in the mercantile business at Hornersville as early as 1857. In 1860, he was married to Melinda Horner, a native of Dunklin County. This wife died October 14, 1862. At the beginning of the Civil War, Mr. Satterfield enlisted in the Confederate Army, First Missouri State Guards, under Col. Walker, and in the Second Missouri Cavalry Regi- ment, serving until the close of the war. He was paroled at Memphis and returned to this county in the fall of 1865. His marriage to Hattie F. Douglass, daughter of A. T. and Elizabeth Mott- Douglass, took place on January 7, 1866. Wm. R., and Jennie and Maggie (twins ) are the children of this marriage living. In 1870 Mr. Satterfield engaged in the ginning business and was also in the mercantile business at Cotton Plant for several years. In 1881 he removed to Caruth and continued in the mercantile business as has been stated in the sketch on that post- village. He operated a cotton seed huller, gin, general store and was postmaster at that place.
He was a man who took great interest in the public schools and in the general advancement of the county. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and Mrs. Satterfield, who resides in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is a consistent member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Wm. R. Satterfield is like his father was during his life, a Democrat in politics.
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T. C. STOKES, merchant, of Malden, Mo., was born in Cape Girardeau County, Mo., August 9, 1847, and is the son of John H. and Lucretia ( Childs ) Stokes, who were born in Ireland and Massachusetts respec- tively ; they came to Missouri in an early day and located in Cape Girardeau County.
The father was one of the early merchants of Cape Girardeau and removed to Dunklin County in 1861 and followed farming and merchandising until his death in 1876. He was judge of the Clarkton Com- mon Pleas and Probate Court for several years.
T. C. Stokes, the subject of this sketch, grew to manhood in Cape Girardeau County, and was educated in the schools of Cape Girardeau City.
He was one of the early merchants of Clarkton and has followed the mercantile business almost con- tinuously since 1872.
Mr. Stokes removed his mercantile business to Malden, Mo., several years ago, and is now one of the most successful merchants of that town.
The firm name is T. C. Stokes & Co., and includes some of the younger members of the Stokes family. This firm carries a splendid line of the best general merchandise, and occupies one of the finest buildings in Malden.
The gentlemen of the Stokes family are among the best known and most successful business men in this county.
Mr. Stokes was united in marriage to Miss Melissa Rayburn in September, 1868. She was a daughter of Maj. W. C. Rayburn ( deceased).
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She bore him two children, Roxie Rayburn and Alma (see sketch ) and died March, 1872.
In 1878, Mr. Stokes married his present wife, a Miss Virginia Coggashall, a native of Louisiana, who has also become the mother of several children.
Mr. and Mrs. Stokes are members of the Cumber- land Presbyterian Church. Mr. Stokes is in politics a Democrat and is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Masonic fraternities.
W. F. SHELTON, senior member of the firm of W. F. Shelton, Jr. & Co., Kennett, Mo., was born June 4, 1838, in Perry County, Mo. He is the son of Enoch and Tabitha Brown-Shelton, natives of North Carolina.
The parents were early settlers of Tennessee, but removed from that State to Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1843, and came on to Dunklin County in 1846, where he died two years later. William F. Shelton, the sub- ject of this sketch, was reared in Dunklin County, re- ceived only a common school education and worked on the farm until he attained to the years of maturity.
In 1861, when Gov. Jackson called for State troops, he enlisted in the militia and served six months in the State Guards.
He then farmed for a short time and run a small business at Hornersville, and about 1865 begun merchandising at Kennett, Mo., where he has since remained, his business growing with the town and county.
He is the oldest merchant in Kennett and in Dunklin
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County and is considered the wealthiest man ; he is, however, a man of small pretensions and makes no display of wealth about his home or person. But his business house in Kennett is one of the best in South- east Missouri and his stock of general merchandise is. large and complete.
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