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USA > Missouri > Harrison County > History of Harrison and Mercer Counties, Missouri : from the earliest times to the present : together with sundry personal, business, and professional sketches and family records : besides a condensed history of the State of Missouri, etc > Part 49
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Judge William Canaday was born in Highland County, Ohio, April 15, 1823, and is the eldest of three children born to John and Sarah (Purteat) Canaday, natives of Alabama and Kentucky, and born respect- ively in 1802 and 1801. After their marriage in Highland County, Ohio, they lived upon a farm there until 1828, and then immigrated to what is now McLean County, Ill., where the father died June 3, 1835. He was a farmer, and at one time kept a store in Illinois. He was a Whig in politics, and in religion was reared a Quaker. After his death the mother married Benjamin Slatten, and in the spring of 1855 came to Harrison County, Mo., where she died February 19, 1887. She was a member of the Christian Church. Her second hus- band died in April, 1867. William Canaday received a common-school education during his youth, and has devotod his entire life to agricult-
ural pursuits. March 24, 1842, he wedded Miss Elizabeth Leeper, a native of Hendricks County, Ky. He farmed in McLean County, Ill., until the spring of 1855, and then immigrated to Colfax Town- ship, Harrison Co., Mo., where he now owns 160 acres of land after giving to his three sons-John, Christopher and Joseph W. Canaday-240 acres apiece. In September, 1864, he was commissioned as first lieutenant in Company E., Forty-third Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and served until the cessation of hostilities. He was elected county judge in 1864, and served in that office until his enlist- ment in the United States service. Upon his return he was ap- pointed to the position of judge by the Governor, and served a short time. In politics he is a Democrat, and himself and wife are mem- bers of the Christian Church.
Alfred N. Cave was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1840, and is a son of Rev. Alfred N., Sr., and Rebecca (Anderson) Cave. The father is of Irish, German, English and French descent. He was
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born in Kentucky in 1814, and until twenty years of age engaged in farming, but since that time has been a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. When young he went to Ohio, and in 1833 went to Fairfield County, where he married the mother of our subject, who was a native of that county, and born in 1814. About 1845 Mr. Cave moved to Clinton County, Ind., where he lost his wife in 1847, who had borne him five children. In 1850 he married Elizabeth M. Loveless, who was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1828. In 1858 Mr. Cave went to Daviess County, Mo., and the following year bought eighty acres on Sugar Creek, in Harrison County. In 1869 he came to Bethany, where he has since resided, and where he lost his wife April 28, 1887. Mr. Cave is a highly esteemed Christian gentleman, and for many years was a circuit rider in Grundy, Daviess and Har- rison Counties, Mo. For nearly two years he was chaplain in the Twenty-third Missouri Regiment, United States army. Of late years he has done local work, but as he is now advanced in years and in feeble health, does but little preaching. Alfred N. is the fourth child born to his father's first marriage, and has one surviving brother, James E., a resident of Tippecanoe County, Ind. At the age of five years A. N. went to Indiana, where he received a district school edu- cation. He came to Missouri with his father, and at the commence- ment of the war, being a Union man, enlisted August 3, 1861, in Company F, Second Missouri Cavalry, known as "Merrill's Horse." He was in the battles of Silver Creek, Memphis, Moore's Mill, Kirks- ville, Little Rock, Brownsville, Kingston and several skirmishes. He was captured at Sedalia, but was paroled the same day. After his discharge at Chattanooga July 21, 1865, he returned to Harrison County, and January 1, 1866, married Miss Martha Meek, daughter of G. W. Meek, a minister of the United Brethren Church. Mrs. Cave was born in Wabash County, Ind., in 1846, and came to Mis- souri when nine years old. She is the mother of five children: Ollie M., R. Anna, Mary E., Lillie E. and Ettie M. With the exception of the years 1877 and 1879, which were spent in Republic County, Kas., Mr. Cave has resided in Harrison County, Mo., since his marriage. In 1882 he located where he now resides, and where he owns thirty acres of land. He is a Republican in politics, and himself and wife are active and devoted Christians.
J. Q. Chambers was born in Jennings County, Ind., in 1831, and is a son of John and Elizabeth Chambers. John Chambers was a native of North Carolina, and immigrated to Indiana in an early day. He married Elizabeth Hankins, afterward settled in Jennings County, 32
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and remained there until 1832, when he moved to Decatur County, where he reared a family of thirteen children, all living but one. In 1845 he immigrated to Harrison County, Mo., and entered 320 acres of land. He and wife were members of the Baptist Church. He died from the effects of a wound received by a fall in 1851. His wife lived until 1862, when she died, and was buried by the side of him in the same graveyard, near Cainesville; his family are all dead now but four-two girls and two boys. J. Q. Chambers lived with his father until of age, when he married a Miss M. E. E. J. Bishop, a daughter of Absalom Bishop. He subsequently entered land, and farmed for a few years, then sold his farm, and went to blacksmithing, which trade he has followed most of the time since. Himself and wife have had ten children, five of whom are now living, viz .: Joab, Mary C., Tali- tha J., David M. and Ida B. Mr. C. owns his shop and residence in Cainesville. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and himself, wife and family, except one son, are all church members. During the war Mr. Chambers enlisted in the United States army, Company F, Thirty-fifth Missouri Infantry, under Col. Kimball, but was not in any regular engagement, and was soon discharged on account of disability, from which disability he still suffers.
George W. Chancy, a farmer of Sugar Creek Township, was born in Russell County, Va., in 1831, and was the eighth of ten children of John and Elizabeth (Blair) Chancy, who were also natives of that State, living there until their marriage. About 1840 they moved to Grundy County, thence in 1853 to California, where he died in 1854. Mr. Chancy was twice married, and his life-long occupation was farming in connection with blacksmithing“ The mother died in Minnesota about 1877. George W. was reared at home, without the advantages of an education, and was married in 1852 to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Isabel Hudson, formerly of Tennessee, where their daughter was born. This union has resulted in eight chil- dren, seven of whom are living: John Henry, Mary (wife of James Jolly, of Kansas); Andrew Green, Emerson, Milton V., Thomas R. and Albert E. Mr. Chancy remained in Grundy County but a short time, then settled in Sugar Creek Township, twenty miles southeast of Bethany, where he has since resided (with the exception of two years spent in California, where he engaged in mining and teaming) follow- ing the occupation of farming, and as a result of his efforts he has a fine farm of 240 acres. During the war he served under Capt. Hut- ton in the Missouri State Militia. Politically he was formerly a Whig, casting his first vote for Pierce. Both he and his wife are members
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of the Baptist Church, and take a great interest in all educational and other laudable enterprises.
Henry B. Christie, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Shelby County, Ky., June 2, 1839, and is a son of Israel and Elizabeth (Cook) Christie, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, and born in 1796 and 1799, respectively. In the fall of 1849 the family moved from Kentucky to Missouri, and for six years made their home in Buchanan County. In the spring of 1856 they moved to Daviess County, where the father improved a farm of 400 acres, upon which he resided until his death in January, 1873. That of Mrs. Christie occurred in 1877. Mr. Christie served in the War of 1812, as did also a brother of his, and for services they received land warrants. Henry B. is next to the youngest of a family of fifteen children who grew to maturity; all are members of the Baptist Church except one, and two of the sons are ministers. Henry B. passed his youth in Buchanan and Daviess Counties, and to a great extent is self-educated. He possessed nat- ural musical ability, and becoming proficient in that art, taught vocal music some time in Daviess County. February 10, 1859, he was mar- ried in Harrison County, Mo., to Martha E., daughter of Abram Bur- ton, and a native of Gentry County, Mo., born August 21, 1842. To this union the following children have been born: Charles C., James A., John F., Laura J., Lizzie, Lucy M., Mattie, Lettie, Abram B., Israel, and Willie (who died at the age of seven months). Mr. and Mrs. Christie and all their children, with the exception of the three youngest, are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. After this marriage Mr. Christie farmed in Daviess and Gentry Counties until 1876, when he came to Harrison County, and bought and located where he now resides. He owns 175 acres of fenced land, 75 acres of which are timbered, and the remainder devoted to meadow, pasture and plow land. His buildings are good, and he has a fine bearing orchard of about 200 trees of select varieties. He is a stanch Democrat, and in 1883 was elected township trustee in which office he is serving his third term. In 1886 he was nominated for county judge of his dis- trict, and polled a vote ahead of his ticket.
Samuel A. Claytor was born in Bedford County, Va., November 14, 1827, and is a son of William P. and Martha (Robinson) Claytor, also natives of Virginia. Both grandfathers, Samuel Claytor and James Robinson, were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. The grandparents of William P. Claytor died in Virginia. The family of our subject's father moved from Bedford to Tazewell County in 1835, and William P. afterward moved to Smyth County, Va., where he died
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in 1887, aged eighty-five. Samuel A. grew to manhood upon the farm in Tazewell County, and was married there July 3, 1851, to Margaret J. Six, a native of the county, and daughter of William Six. Mr. Claytor then farmed in Tazewell County until 1859, and in the summer of that year came to Harrison County, where he at first bought ninety-four acres of land, to which he has since added from time to time until he now owns 1,060 acres, about 275 being in the home place, which is all fenced, and about 100 acres well timbered. The remainder is in meadow, pasture and plow land. He has good buildings, and his farm is in every way well equipped for the pursuit of agriculture. Mr. Claytor has been a member of Miriam Lodge, No. 129, I. O. O. F., since early in 1865, and in politics is a member of the Democratic party. To himself and wife six children have been born: Nancy Ann, wife of Mark Smith; William N .; James W. ; Mary J., wife of William McCoy; John Edward and Robert S. Mr. and Mrs. Claytor are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
S. R. Cleveland was born in Rutland County, Vt., in 1822. His parents were Eastern people, and of English descent. S. R. Cleveland was a carpenter by trade, and worked at that business the greater part of his life until late years. Up to 1864 he resided in Illinois, Ohio and California, and in that year came to Harrison County, Mo. He was twice married: his first wife, Lucinda (Tubbs) Cleveland was the mother of four children only one of whom is living, viz. : Annie Morgan. After a long illness Mrs. Cleveland died in October, 1879, and Mr. Cleveland then married January 22, 1885, Mrs. Rebecca Pierce, widow of Joseph Pierce, who was born March 11, 1811. He was a blacksmith by trade. He died in Harrisonville November 20, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pierce had five children : Theodosia, Joseph, Effie, and Damsel T. and Bert (twins). Mrs. Cleveland's maiden name was Rebecca J. Chambers. She was first united in marriage to Isaac N. Bishop, a farmer, who died during the war at Macon, Ga., from the effects of hardships endured after being taken prisoner at Shiloh. To himself and wife two children were born, both now deceased. Mrs. Cleveland was a member of the Baptist Church, to which Mr. Cleve- land was united, and is a member of the W. C. T. U. She is the owner of a farm of sixty acres, and lives in a handsome residence beautifully situated outside of the Cainesville limits.
George W. Clinkenbeard is a son of Jonathan and Sarah (Smart) Clinkenbeard, and was born October 24, 1817, in Bourbon County, Ky. The father was born in Tennessee, and when a lad went to Franklin County, Ky., where he was married. In 1836 he moved
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to Arkansas, where he died of a fever caused by overwork. He was a farmer and stock dealer by occupation, a soldier in the Black Hawk War and the War of 1812, and in politics was a Whig. After his death the mother returned to Kentucky in 1837, and in 1839 settled in Platte County, Mo., with her children, coming to Harrison County in 1855. She lived with the subject of this sketch until her death. She was a member of the Christian Church, and the mother of four sons and four daughters, of whom George W. is the eldest. He was reared upon the farm, receiving a good education for those days, and after the death of his father managed his business and cared for the younger members of the family. In 1838 he wedded Elizabeth For- man, a native of Kentucky, with whom he moved to Platte County, Mo., in 1840, where she died five years later. In 1846 he married Susan C. Rhea, who was born in White County, Tenn., in 1823, and is the mother of seven children: Sebird M., Oscar J., Otway L., Oliver B., Spartan R., Osborn H. and Linny P. B. Both Mr. and Mrs. Clinkenbeard are members of the Christian Church. In 1847 they went to Mercer County, Mo., and in 1855 came to Harrison County, and lived in Fox Creek Township until 1885. Since that time they have made their home in Bethany Township. Mr. Clinkenbeard is a Democrat in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay. He served as a magistrate at a time when that official consti- tuted the county court of Mercer County, filling the position in 1851 and 1852. In 1877 he was collector of Fox Creek Township. Mr. Clinkenbeard is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He began life a poor boy, but became a successful farmer, and the owner of 440 acres, 120 of which he still owns. He traces his ancestors back to Germany and England upon the paternal and to Scotland and England upon the maternal side.
Eli Cochran was born in Perry County, Ohio, October 8, 1823, and is a son of James and Catherine (Reddinger) Cochran, natives of Penn- sylvania and Maryland, and of Irish and German descent, respectively. He was a farmer, and followed that occupation in Perry, Hocking and Jackson Counties, Ohio. He lost his wife at the last-named place. She was the mother of eight children, five of whom are living; one son died in the army, a daughter in Illinois, and a son in Missouri. The father then married Mrs. Mary Reynolds, who was the mother of several children by each of her husbands. Mr. Cochran died in Jack- son County, Ohio, and was buried by the side of his first wife. She was a New Light and he a Lutheran in religion. Eli Cochran was reared by his parents in Ohio, and attended school but nine months dur-
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ing his youth. At twenty-two he began life for himself by farming upon rented land for three years, and then spent a year prospecting in Illi- nois, Iowa and Missouri. He helped build the third house erected in Poplar Bluff, Mo., and then worked eighteen months at iron works in Lawrence County, Ohio. November 4, 1852, he married Miss Letitia J. Stropes, a native of Jackson County, Ohio, and afterward bought a farm in that county upon which he remained until 1867. He then located in Harrison County, where he now lives. To Mr. and Mrs. Cochran ten children have been born, four of whom are living. One son, Ezekiel, at the age of fifteen, when swimming, was attacked with cramps and drowned. The others died in infancy. Those living are Leander D., married, in Harrison County; Mary E., wife of D. R. Glaze, of Cainesville; Harvey E. and Alva W. Mr. Cochran is the owner of 170 acres of good land, and is one of the useful and success- ful men of the township. In politics he is a Democrat, as have been his ancestors for generations.
B. C. Collins, nursery man and fruit grower, of Bethany, Mo., is a native of Clermont County, Ohio, born in 1824, and a son of Peter and Rebecca (Stewart) Collins. The father was of English descent, and was born in New Hampshire in 1795. When fifteen he accom- panied his father, Benjamin Collins, to Clermont County, Ohio, where he was married. In 1826 he moved to Hamilton County, and bought eighty acres of land, which are now in the city of Cincinnati. Here he died in 1864, having passed his entire life engaged in farming. The mother was of Irish-German descent, born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1799, and died in 1880. She was the mother of twelve chil- dren, of whom Benjamin is the third. He was but eighteen months old when his parents moved to Hamilton County, and it was there that he spent his boyhood days and grew to manhood. He attended com- mon schools, and spent five months at Farmer's College. After be- coming of age he followed the carpenter's trade two years, and in 1855 went to Anderson, Ind., and established a nursery which was the first one in the county seat. He engaged successfully in business in that place for ten years, and in 1865 returned to his old home in Ohio, where he resumed the nursery business in connection with farming. In 1868 he removed to Springfield, Ohio, and raised fruits, vegetables, etc., with fair success. In 1874 he came to Harrison County, and located four and a half miles southeast of Bethany, within a half mile of which place he has made his home since 1876. Since that time he has been in the nursery business. January 31, 1865, Mr. Collins married Mrs. Henrietta Bozarth, nee Miller, daughter of Daniel and
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Elizabeth Miller. Mrs. Collins was born in Clark County, Ohio, in 1858, and she and her husband are members of the Methodist Epis- copal Church. In politics Mr. Collins is a Prohibitionist.
John K. Copeland is a native of Ohio, was born in Gallia County, May 31, 1826, and is a son of Samuel and Rhoda (Kelly) Copeland, natives of Ireland and Virginia respectively. At the age of nineteen the father left his native land, and coming to the United States made his home in Gallia County, Ohio, until his death at the age of ninety. His wife also lived to that advanced age. Mr. Copeland was a weaver by trade. Both Mr. and Mrs. Copeland had been previously married, and to their union two sons and two daughters were born, all of whom grew to maturity. The daughters are now deceased, and the sons are residents of Phillips County, Kas. J. K. Copeland grew to manhood in his native county, and in March, 1845, married Miss Catherine Branderberry, also a native of the county. In 1850 they moved to Vermillion County, Ill., where Mrs. Copeland died Septem- ber 18, 1853. In 1855 Mr. Copeland came to Missouri, and bought the land upon which he now resides and upon which he moved in the fall of 1865. This farm contains 400 acres of finely improved and cultivated land, upon which Mr. Copeland has erected a large two- story residence and good outbuildings. In March, 1857, while in Vermillion County, Mr. Copeland was united in marriage with Sarah Jane Barker, sister of T. J. Barker [see sketch], and to this union ten children have been born: Laura (wife of Dr. H. M. Eades, of New Hampton), Emma (wife of A. G. Rogers, of Kansas), Fannie (a music teacher), David, Maggie, Oscar, Burr, Cube, Bey, and Maude, who died March, 1887, aged sixteen. By his first marriage there were two children: Nancy (deceased wife of John Robertson), and Mary Jane (wife of M. Lewis). Mr. Copeland is a member of the higher order of Odd Fellowship, and himself and wife have been identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church over thirty years.
James H. Cover, editor and proprietor of the Bethany Broad Ax, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, December, 10, 1837, and is a son of Daniel and Hannah (Smith) Cover, natives of Maryland and Ohio respectively. The father immigrated to Pike County, Ill., in 1853, with his family, and there resided until the death of the mother, May 6, 1887. James H. made his home with his parents upon the farm, and, having secured a good English education, taught school for a number of terms in his youth. In 1880 he came to Missouri, and after farming two and a half years in Chariton County removed to Albany, Mo., where he embarked upon the journalistic sea and suc-
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cessfully conducted The Ledger, a newspaper of that place, until Janu- ary, 1884. He then came to Bethany and bought the Broad Ax, which is the only Democratic paper in the county, and has a large circulation. November 22, 1860, he was united in marriage with Margaret F. Pine, who was born in Pike County, Ill. This union has been blessed with four children: Alvin, Annette, James Wilbert and Charles L .; the eldest died when one year old. Mr. Cover is a Select Knight of the A. O. U. W., and himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and well respected citizens of the community in which they reside.
J. T. Crawley was born in Barren County, Ky., May 22, 1843, and is a son of William and Mary (Stallsworth) Crawley, natives of Ten- nessee and Kentucky, and of English descent. The father was a farmer, and married in Kentucky, where he lived until 1855. In 1848 he lost his wife, by whom he had three children, viz .: Mary J., wife of . Jesse Stallsworth, of Sherman County, Kas .; Sarah F., wife of Will- iam Stallsworth, of Siskiyou County, Cal., and J. T. Crawley. Mr. Crawley afterward married Mrs. Baker, who had been married twice, and by her first husband had six children. By Mr. Crawley she had two, only one of whom survives-Samuel Crawley, Mr. Crawley im- migrated to Harrison County, Mo., in 1855, and located near his son's present residence. He was a Democrat, and a Union man, and during the Rebellion served about a year in the Missouri State Militia. J. T. Crawley passed his boyhood in Kentucky, and at the age of eleven years accompanied his father to Harrison County, Mo., where he now owns 200 acres of good land, and is a well respected citizen. At the age of twenty he married Miss Mary Stallsworth, who was a member of the Christian Church, and with whom he lived happily about twenty years. She was the mother of seven children, five of whom are living: Lou Ann, wife of James Drurg; Oliver B., Delia M., John B. and Mary, all of whom live at home. Mr. Crawley remained a widower about two years, and then wedded Miss Nancy Bain, of Siskiyou County, Cal., who has been his wife since Decem- ber 31, 1886. Mr. Crawley is a Republican in politics, and his grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
David Crickett is a native of Muskingum County, Ohio, and was born December 24, 1839. His parents, Thomas and Harriet (Carter) Crickett, were natives of Washington County, Penn., and Muskingum County, Ohio, respectively. The father spent his life engaged in farming, and when a young man immigrated to Ohio, where he was married and passed his life. He was for many years a member of the
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Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics was a Democrat. He was twice married; his first wife bore him three children, all of whom are living: James M., Emily C. Thompson (widow) and His second wife was Margaret (Mickmahan) Crickett, who bore him seven children, all deceased save one-Jemima, wife of A. W. Penny, of Kansas City. David Crickett, the subject of this sketch, was reared under the paternal roof, and at the age of eighteen began to care for himself, and also reared and educated the younger children of the family. At the age of thirty-two he wedded Miss Sarah E. Smith, a native of Iowa, by whom three children were born: Alma E., Charles C. and Benjamin D. Mrs. Crickett died in 1878, and two years later he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Bunney, a native of Illinois, by whom he also has three children: Norma, Maggie and Dale. Mr. Crickett is a Democrat in politics, and during the Rebellion served fifteen months in Company D, Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. J. S. Riggs, Col. Cantwell's command, during which time he was in the battles at McDowell, Port Republic and Monazus. At the latter battle he was wounded in the knee, but continued to serve until February, 1863. He now receives a pension of $10 per month. In 1870 he came to Missouri, and has since resided in this State. He now owns 160 acres of good land in Clay Township, Harrison County, and is a successful farmer. Him- self and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which faith his first wife died.
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