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William Bartlett was born September 5, 1864 on a part of the land entered by his maternal grandfather in early times. He was educated in the rural schools and has followed farming all of his life. He now owns twenty-five acres of land a half mile east of Bethany which he bought in 1917 and on which he has built a modern country home. He has a large barn and a three acre orchard and keeps ten acres in alfalfa.
Mr. Bartlett has filled the office of road overseer for twenty years and served on the school board for ten years. His many years of road work has given Mr. Bartlett many opportunities to put into practice his progressive ideas. He is a thorough believer in the practical benefits to be derived from good bridges and culverts. He put in the first cement culvert installed in Bethany Township and has put several in Sherman Township. The largest one he has ever put in is near the County Home and is forty feet long. Mr. Bartlett made the first road drag that he ever saw in Bethany Township, about seventeen years ago and it is still in use.
Mr. Bartlett has been twice married. By the first marriage he had two daughters, Catherine, now Mrs. Nichols of New Hampton; and Flora Alice, later Mrs. Maxey. Mrs. Maxey died at the age of thirty-one and her remains are buried in Antioch Cemetery. She left two children, Brook and George. Mr. Bartlett was married the second time to Mrs. Maggie Mullex, of Bethany, in 1917. The present Mrs. Bartlett has one daughter, Vatur Mullex, a teacher in the Bethany public school.
Mr. Bartlett is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 129, of Bethany. He is an enterprising citizen whose work as a public official attests to the merits of his progressive ideas.
R. B. Tedlock, prominent farmer and ex-sheriff of Harrison County, was born in Jefferson Township, June 25, 1883 and lived there until he was sixteen years old. He is the son of Barnett M. and Nancy B. (Cooper) Tedlock, both members of well known families in the county.
Nancy B. (Cooper) Tedlock was born in Harrison County, a daughter of Jerry and Martha Cooper, both early settlers of Jefferson Township and both deceased, the former dying in Union Township and the latter dying in Jefferson Township. The remains of both are buried in the Morris Chapel Cemetery. Nancy B. (Cooper) Tedlock died in October, 1912, and her remains are buried in the Antioch Cemetery. Her husband,
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Barnett M. Tedlock, was born in Indiana and came to St. Clair County, Missouri, with his parents . Later the family moved to Daviess County and here the father died. Barnett M. Tedlock and his mother then came to Harrison County where he has lived for more than fifty years. He is at present living on his home farm in Sherman Township.
To Barnett M. and Nancy B. (Cooper) Tedlock the following chil- dren were born: Melinda, later Mrs. Williams, died in 1899; Stiel, now with the Ragland Corn Company in Kansas City, Missouri; R. B., the subject of this review; Emma, now Mrs. Parker of Sherman Township; Etta, now Mrs. Gutshall, of Adams Township; J. W., of Adams Township; and Ella, died in November, 1918.
R. B. Tedlock was educated in the schools of the county and moved to his present home, a farm of 105 acres one-eighth mile from the Bethany city limits, which he bought from T. C. Munson, December 14, 1910. The farm is well watered by Tallow Fork, a small stream running through it, and there are also three good wells on the place. Mr. Tedlock keeps about one-half of his farm in pasture and the remainder in meadow. He raises Shorthorn cattle, Duroc hogs, Percheron horses and has about 300 Shrop- shire sheep. Mr. Tedlock takes an active interest in politics and was elected sheriff of Harrison County in November, 1916, the first Democrat to be elected to that office in the county for sixty-two years, his wife's grandfather having been the man elected about 1854. Mr. Tedlock filled the office capably and well. The esteem in which he is held by the com- munity is shown by the fact that he was the chairman of the local draft board during the World War. He was commissioned June 19, 1917, and served efficiently.
R. B. Tedlock was married February 5, 1905, to Catherine D. Monson, a daughter of T. C. and Edna B. (Skinner) Monson. Mrs. Skinner was à daughter of Dr. H. J. Skinner, a pioneer physician of this county who practiced at Eagleville in the early days and later located at Bethany. After a practice covering forty-nine years here, he went to Woodward, Oklahoma, wheer he died. His remains are buried in Miriam Cemetery. Edna B. (Skinner) Monson was born while her father lived at Eagleville where she lived until three years before her death which occurred in April, 1910, when Mrs. Monson was forty-five years old. Her remains are buried in Shawnee, Oklahoma. T. C. Monson was born in Bethany, a son of Thomas and Catherine (Current) Monson. T. C. Monson lives now at Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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To R. B. and Catherine B. (Monson) Tedlock the following children were born: Doris, a freshman in the Bethany High School; Marie and Ma- mie, twine now in Junior High School; and Robert Monson, born in Febru- ary, 1918, in the county jail building while his father was serving as sheriff of Harrison County.
Mr. Tedlock is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of which he is the Patriarch in his chapter, and of the Daughters of Rebecca. His wife also belongs to the Daughters of Rebecca. Mr. Ted- lock has always been a progressive citizen with high standards of civic pride.
James Hawkins, a well known farmer of Sherman Township, was born in Huntington County, Indiana, November 29, 1859, the son of Uriah P. and Martha Ellen (Price) Hawkins. Uriah Hawkins died in Indiana in 1865 and his wife then came to Harrison County, Missouri, but returned after a few years to Indiana where she now lives at the age of eighty- eight years.
Mr. and Mrs. Uriah Hawkins were the parents of the following chil- dren: Mrs. Sarah E. Abbott, of Michigan; E. B., of Portland, Oregon; Clarence, who died in Marion, Indiana; Naomi Croninger, of Butler, Indi- ana; John, of Marion, Indiana; Uriah P., deceased; and Jacob Bryant, of Butler, Indiana, the last named by a second marriage of Mrs. Hawkins.
James Hawkins located in Harrison County, March, 1886, and bought his present farm in 1894 from Perry M. Fravel. This farm, which con- sists of 120 acres, is situated four and one-half miles northeast of Beth- any and is well improved and adapted for general farming.
James Hawkins was married in January, 1897 to Mary E. (Fravel) Inks, a native of Virginia and daughter of William and Sarah (Perry) Fravel. Mr. and Mrs. Fravel located in Ray County, Missouri, in 1869, where Mrs. Fravel died in 1877 and her husband in 1889.
Mr. and Mrs. Fravel were the parents of the following children: Vir- ginia, the wife of Isaac Whittaker, of Bethany Township; Perry M., of Ray County, Missouri ; Mrs. Hawkins, the wife of James Hawkins; Lewis, who died in Ray County, Missouri; and William, who died in Texas.
By a former marriage of James Hawkins to Ruth Ann Helm, he had four children: Eva Watson, of Watonga, Oklahoma; Edna May Foster, of Carnegie, Oklahoma; Frank, who was killed in France, further mention
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of whom is made in this review; and Harry, whose address is in Saskatch- ewan, Canada.
By a former marriage of Mrs. Hawkins to William Inks, deceased, she has four children: Mrs. Lela Casebolt, of Grant Township; Charles M., of Bethany, Missouri; Mrs. Stella Hines, of Mountain View; and Mrs. Grace Travis, of Watonga, Oklahoma.
Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins are the parents of six children: Clarence, at home: Marian, of Kansas City, Missouri; Nellie, Lewis and Doris, all at home; and Ruth, the second child, who died in infancy.
Frank Hawkins enlisted at Bethany, Missouri, for service in the World War, with Company M of the 34th Infantry and was killed in action in France while scouting, October 22, 1918.
W. Clay Burris, an enterprising farmer of Harrison County, lives in Bethany Township, a mile north of the court house. He is a native of this county, having been born in Cypress Township, June 14, 1884, the son of Frank P. and Emma C. (Barlow) Burris. Frank Burris was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in October, 1852, and came to Harrison County with his parents in 1857. They were George and Elizabeth Burris, who settled in Cypress Township where their son, Frank P., was reared. George Burris was prominent in Harrison County and was a judge of the county court in the early days. He died in Bethany in May, 1893 and his remains are buried on the Burris home farm. Frank P. Burris was also a prominent man in his community and manifested an active interest in politics. He made the race for representative on the Democratic ticket and was one of the organizers of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of which he was the president for over twenty years, his term of office ceasing only with his death. His wife, Emma C. (Barlow) Burris was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1857 and still lives on the Burris home place in Harrison County.
To Frank P. and Emma C. (Barlow) Burris the following children were born : George R., of Mt. Moriah ; J. Harvey, one of the strong men connected with the Great Western Sugar Company; W. Clay, the subject of this sketch; F. Ed, a graduate of the Missouri State University, a prominent educator who was at one time assistant principal of the Bethany High School, later a teacher in Denver, Colorado, and then superintendent of the Helena, Montana public schools, during which term of office he became
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ill and came to his home in Cypress Township where he died; K. Clifford, a resident of Bethany Township; Don C., died in infancy ; Ruth, now Mrs. Carter of Dallas Township; Joseph, living in Bethany Township; Mary E., living at home and a teacher in the county; Grace, living at home; J. J., now in St. Joseph with the Street Railway Company ; and Bruce, living at home.
W. Clay Burris was educated in the rural schools of the county and then attended the Bethany High School. He has followed farming and stockraising all of his life. He lives on the Hickman farm where he has 160 acres in oats, hay, corn and blue grass pasture and raises cattle, hogs and sheep. His wife is much interested in poultry raising and at present has over 600 fowls of Brown Leghorn chickens and Bronze turkeys. Mr. Burris is a believer in progressive farm methods and is proving most successful in his work.
W. Clay Burris was married November 10, 1909 to Abbie F. England, a daughter of David and Margaret England, of Dallas Township, where Mrs. Burris was born and reared. To Mr. and Mrs. Burris have been born two children, Elizabeth, and Lucille, who died when two years of age.
Mr. Burris is a member of the Yeoman Lodge and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a Democrat in politics. The Burris family has always been highly esteemed in the community.
J. W. Berry, an industrious farmer of Bethany Township, living a half mile south of the city limits of Bethany, was born in Dallas Town- ship, February 20, 1881, the son of H. M. and Matilda R. (Bender) Berry. H. M. Berry was born in Pennsylvania, September 6, 1855, the son of James Berry who came from Pennsylvania to Harrison County in the fifties and settled in Dallas Township. He served in the Missouri State Militia during the Civil War. He was an active member of the Presby- terian Church. James Berry died in 1907 and his remains are buried in Kidwell Cemetery. H. M. Berry died February 18, 1909 and his remains are buried in Kidwell Cemetery. His widow, Matilda R. (Bender) Berry was born in Harrison County. She is now sixty-seven years of age and lives in Bethany. To the union of H. M. and Matilda R. (Bender) Berry the following children were born: J. M., now a resident of St. Joseph ; J. W., the subject of this sketch ; Rosa, now living at Bethany ; Ethel, now living in Portland, Oregon; and Nettie, at home and employed with the Harrison County Bank.
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J. W. Berry was educated at the Mount Tabor school in Dallas Town- ship and has followed farming all of his life. He bought his present farm of sixty acres, formerly the Doctor Blackburn place, in 1916. Since com- ing to this farm, Mr. Berry has made several improvements and has re- modeled the place. He raises corn, has ten acres in alfalfa and uses sou- dan grass for pasture. He has five Jersey cows and intends to run a dairy.
Mr. Berry was married December 24, 1911, to Delinena West, a daughter of W. D. and Mattie (Huss) West of Bethany. Mr. West was born in Iowa in 1860. He owns a farm in Bethany Township and runs a jitney in Bethany. Mrs. West was born in Illinois in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. West have three daughters: Dellnena, now Mrs. Berry; Floy, wife of Orville Grant of Dimmitt, Texas; and Clonda, living at home and em- ployed with the Bethany Trust Company.
Mr. Berry is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No. 97, of Bethany. He is an energetic and highly esteemed young man in the community.
Carl Allen, well known farmer of Bethany Township, is a native of Harrison County. He was born in Bethany Township in 1879, the son of Thomas B. and Eliza (Neal) Allen. Thomas B. Allen was a native of Harrison County where he was a farmer and stockman for several years. He was in the Union Army during the Civil War and while in service lost his right arm from a wound which caused his death in 1881. His remains are buried in Miriam Cemetery at Bethany. His widow, now seventy-six years old, lives on the home place.
To Thomas B. and Eliza (Neal) Allen the following children were born: Grace, the wife of John Bradney of Lawton, Oklahoma; Roy, living on the home place; Guy, married to Maggie Mccullough and living in Iowa; Len, married to Bell Hamilton and living at Vinita, Oklahoma; Mabel, wife of Charles Reidmann of Vinita. Oklahoma; Carl, the subject of the present review; and Thomas, married to Lucy Couch and living at Vinita, Oklahoma.
Carl Allen was educated in the public schools and has followed farm- ing all of his life. He owns a farm of 235 acres formerly the Derias Maxey farm, on which he does general farming and stockraising. He handles thoroughbred Poland China hogs, his brood sows being among the best in the county. Mr. Allen has improved his place extensively since he bought it. He has remodeled the house and has good farm buildings.
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Mr. Allen was married October 13, 1901 to Martha Adelia C. Maxie, who was born and married on the farm where she now lives. Mrs. Allen is the daughter of Derias Maxie who was a native of Virginia and was brought by his parents to Missouri when he was a child of nine years. They settled first in Howard County and then came to Harrison County to live. Mr. Maxie was twenty-one years old when he came to Harrison County in 1853 and he spent over fifty years here. He was a veteran of the Civil War having been a member of the Missouri State Militia. He used to haul goods from St. Joseph to Bethany in the days when stores were very infrequent. During war times this trip required a week or more time. Mr. Maxie was one of the hardy, brave hearted men who did much toward founding the development of Harrison County. He died at his home in 1907 and his remains are buried in Antioch Cemetery. His wife, Catherine (Hilton) Maxie, was a native of Washington County, Kentucky. She died in 1908 at the age of sixty-five years. The Maxie children were: Martha Adelia C., now Mrs. Allen; and Joseph N., now a resident of Bethany.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen have five living children: David, Ruby, Bell Verda, Buford, and Eunice. Their second child, Ralph, died at the age of 13 years. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are sending their children to the Bethany Public School.
Mr. Allen is a substantial and reliable citizen of his community.
Vilas Kimbrough, an enterprising farmer of Bethany Township, liv- ing one-fourth mile from the city limits of Bethany was born in Sherman Township April 2, 1885. He is the son of John C. and Rosina (McGowen) Kimbrough. Mrs. Kimbrough is a native of Sherman Township, a daugh- ter of John and Eunice McGowen, both deceased and buried at Springer Chape !. Mrs. Kimbrough now lives at Bethany. John C. Kimbrough was a native of Illinois and came to Harrison County when he was but a young man. He died, June 14, 1907 and his remains are buried at Antioch Church. He was married twice. By his first marriage he had one son who died in infancy and another son, Charles, now a resident of Sher- man Township. To his second marriage with Rosina McGowen the follow- ing children were born: Vilas, the subject of this sketch; Lillian. now Mrs. Osmundson of Forest City, Iowa; Etta, died in infancy, and Garland, died in infancy. John C. Kimbrough was a democrat in politics and an active member of the Democratic Central Committee.
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Vilas Kimbrough was educated in the school of Hazel Dell District and has followed farming all of his life. He owned the home place of 280 acres in Sherman Township, and in July, 1919 he bought his present farm of 110 acres. He does general farming and raises Duroc Jersey and Poland China hogs. He has a good residence and a new barn on the place. The farm has good soil and is well watered and shows the good effects of Mr. Kimbrough's methods of farming.
Vilas Kimbrough was married December 24, 1905 to Olive Brown, a daughter of J. C. and Amelia (Ward) Brown. J. C. Brown died August 7, 1920 and his remains are buried in Gilman City. His wife now lives at. Gilman City. Their children are: John J., a resident of Gilman City : Frank W., of Gilman City ; and Olive, now Mrs. Kimbrough. To Vilas and Olive (Brown) Kimbrough the following children have been born: Maurine, Bonita, and Brown.
Mr. Kimbrough made the race for trustee of Bethany in April, 1921 on the Democratic ticket, and was elected .. He also served as clerk of the Board of Education in Sherman Township before moving to his present home.
Ovid H. Butler comes of a pioneer family of farmers and stockmen. He was born in Cypress Township, October 19, 1880, the son of Albert and Ella (Sutton) Butler. Albert Butler was a well known farmer and stockman and his farm is still included in the Butler holdings. He was born on the farm where his son Ovid, was later born. He died in March, 1913. His wife, Ella (Sutton) Butler, was born in Preble County, Ohio; she now lives in Bethany and is fifty-nine years of age.
Asaph Butler, paternal grandfather of Ovid H. Butler, came from Vermilion County, Illinois, and, on June 26, 1840, he entered land in Cypress Township, buying out a squatter who lived in a cabin and held forty acres of land. At the time of his death, Asaph Butler owned 360 acres of land which was in the homeplace, besides land that he had already given his children. Asaph Butler was a prominent man who was deeply interested in civic affairs as well as in farming. He laid out a public cemetery on his farm which is still used. One of his sons, Harmon, was buried there in 1852. He built a house in Cypress Township that was the first in Harrison County to have glass window panes and a shingle roof. He was a member of the first County Court ever held in Harrison County. This court met under an elm tree on the banks of Big Creek
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near the Slaughter Bridge. The Butler farm is indeed an interesting old historic place. Taken up by a squatter, the rights sold to Asaph Butler, the birthplace in 1845 of Albert Butler, and later of Ovid Butler, it is also the burial place of Asaph Butler, who died May 8, 1892. The homeplace is now farmed by Otis Butler, the only brother of Ovid Butler.
Ovid H. Butler was educated in the public schools of the county and has been a farmer and stockman all of his life. He bought his present farm of 130 acres, two miles southeast of Bethany from W. W. Myers in 1919. Mr. Butler is a dairyman and has twenty head of Jersey cows. He also raises hogs and does general farming. His farm is well watered and he has a windmill to pump the water to the barn and house.
Mr. Butler was married December 25, 1902, to Martha McDaniel, a daughter of F. P. and Ida (Slaughter) McDaniel, both of whom live in Bethany. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have five children: Ralph, Mabel June, Bettie, Worth and Geneva.
Mr. Butler is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America at Bridgeport. Mr. Butler is one of the substantial citizens of his township.
U. A. Towns and N. O. Towns, proprietors of the Oak Grove Dairy Farm, are well known in Harrison County where the family has been prominent for years. U. A. Towns was born in Marshall County, Indiana, September 15, 1865, the son of Joseph I. and Rachel (Borton) Towns, both deceased. Joseph I. Towns was a native of Ohio, born near Alliance, September 28, 1836. His father Robert Towns, was a pioneer settler in Alliance, Indiana, where he died. Joseph Towns was educated in Indiana and farmed there until he was nearly fifty years of age, when he and a neighbor, Mr. Burch, left Marshall County and drove through to Harrison County, Missouri, with four wagons. Mr. Burch settled near Eagleville on a farm and Mr. Towns settled on the farm where his son, U. A., now lives. Here Joseph I. Towns died April 17, 1898, at the age of eighty- four years. His remains are buried in Miriam Cemetery. His wife was born in 1825 and died at the age of seventy-two years. The children of Joseph I. and Rachel (Borton) Towns are: Albert, deceased at the age of sixty-seven, was married to Bell Roberts who now lives at Princeton, Kansas; Jennie, the wife of Walter Price of San Francisco, California; Lida, wife of Monroe Bartow of Portland, Oregon; Cynthia, wife of James Hobbs, deceased; and U. A., the subject of this sketch.
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Rev. Daniel Borton, maternal grandfather of Mr. Towns of this sketch, was a minister of the Christian Church who entered land near Alliance, Ohio, where he lived until his death at the age of eighty-five. Besides preaching, he taught school and served as a justice of the peace.
U. A. Towns was educated in the public schools and the Bethany High School when John R. Kirk was the principal, and attended Avalon College for three years when C. J. Kephart was the principal. He re- turned home from college and has been on the home place ever since. He bought 200 acres from the Towns heirs and has since added 200 acres more, making a farm of 400 acres which is registered as the Oak Grove Dairy Farm. The firm name is U. A. Towns and Son, the "Son" being the N. O. Towns named in the heading of this sketch. Mr. Towns has been prominent in general farming, dairying and stock raising for years. For more than twelve years he made a daily trip to Bethany. He now has sixty head of Holstein cattle and raises also Duorc Jersey hogs, and con- tinues to breed horses and jacks. He has at present, thirty-seven head of horses and mares.
Mr. Towns has always taken an active interest in politics and has made the race for office several times. In 1894 he was a candidate for state senator on the Populist ticket and in 1896 he ran for the same office on the Populist ticket indoresd by the Democrats. In 1898 he was a candidate for congress from the Third Congressional District on the Populist ticket.
U. A. Towns was married June 23, 1884, to Nora S. Spears, a daughter of John and Mary E. (Edrington) Spears. John Spears died in Oklahoma where his remains are buried. Mrs. Spears lives with her daughter, Mrs. Towns. To U. A. and Nora E. (Spears) Towns the following children were born: Ollie, now Mrs. Gibson of St. Joseph; Merle, living at home; Doris, at home; and N. O., the oldest child and only living son, born in Livingston County, January 2, 1886, and now a member of the firm, Towns and Son. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Towns, a son and a daughter, died in infancy.
Mr. Towns is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World, and the Modern Woodman of America. He is also a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Towns and his son are both enterprising men who are obtaining marked success by their use of scientific methods and their integrity.
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J. R. Webb, a prominent farmer and stockman and one of Harrison County's large land owners, is a native of this county. He was born on the place where he now resides in Trail Creek Township, March 8, 1866 and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Cockrell) Webb. Elizabeth Cock- rell was a native of Missouri and a member of one of the distinguished pioneer families of the state. She was a cousin of the late United States Senator Cockrell.
Joseph Webb was born at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and when a young man came west and his parents came here sometime afterwards. He was a son of Jonathon Webb, who spent the remainder af his life in Trail Creek Township after coming here. He and his wife are buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Joseph Webb settled on the place where J. R. Webb now lives in 1855, having entered it from the government. He followed farming and stock raising and bought and sold cattle extensively and was also engaged in the mercantile business for over thirty years. During the course of his career he was very successful and acquired a great deal of land. At one time he owned about 2,000 acres but sold some of it before his death and gave most of it to his children. He died December 4, 1913 and his wife died November 16, 1909 and their remains are buried in the Mount Moriah Cemetery. They were members of the Baptist Church and he was a Knights Templar Mason.
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