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The Ancient Order of United Workmen has a flourishing lodge in El Dorado, of which the official list is as follows: J. M. Ramsey, M. W .; J. B Smith; F. Fowble, O .; M. A. Patrick, I. W .; W. Gentry, O. W .; H. J. Babler, R .; W. A. Ewen, F .; C. A. Edgar, Rec.
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WEST EL DORADO.
A point of great interest is the Nine Wonders, a cluster of springs about a mile southwest of El Dorado Springs. A few years ago these springs were in quite a secluded spot, which to-day is known as West El Dorado. A syndicate of capitalists took it upon themselves to build a city that would rival El Dorado Springs. They bought up about seven hundred acres of land surrounding what was then known as the Nine Wonders, and laid out a town site, which has not yet been incorporated. They have spared no money or pains to make it an attractive place, building an elegant amphitheater at an expense of $6,000, and fenced and laid out a beautiful park, with gravel walks and flower beds. They have also built a large two-story double-front brick and galvanized iron storehouse with plate-glass front, and three or four frame houses. This place is a beautiful suburb to El Dorado, and, with the coming of the railroad, which is to have its terminus here, bids fair to soon grow to considerable prom- inence. -
CLINTONVILLE.
Clintonville is in the northern part of Box Township, in the northwestern part of the county, eighteen miles northwest from Stockton. It was laid out in 1857. Among its promoters were Green B. Adcock and Waldo P. Johnson. It has a population of about seventy-five. The local merchant and postmaster is G. W. Adcock, while another merchant well known is J. B. Warren.
CAPLINGER'S MILLS (SACVILLE).
This village, located on the Sac River, in the northwest part of Washington Township, seven miles north of Stockton, was laid out in 1870, by Shadrach Chandler. It is the seat of one of the early mills of this section, and has always been one of the best-known places in the county. It contains a flouring mill, owned by the Sacville Flouring Mill Company, a wagon shop, and two stores, the proprietors of which are Elliston & Oakes and Kennedy & Jackson.
LEBECK.
Lebeck, in the northeast part of Cedar Township, sixteen miles northwest of Stockton, was laid out in 1870 by August
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Schmidt, and was formerly known as Clair Springs. Its popula- tion is about 100, and it contains a grist-mill, a harness shop and the stores of F. M. Hurt, H. J. Mandeville and B. R. Smith.
VIRGIL CITY.
This village is located on the western line of Cedar County, in the southwest corner of Box Township, and extends partially into Vernon County. It is seventeen miles from Stockton, north- west. It was laid out in 1869 by James Henderson and Bartlett R. Conyers. Its population is about 300. It contains a hotel, a wagon-maker's shop and a general store, kept by John Wielms. This village was incorporated in 1870, with A. Carroll, A. N. Wallace, J. H. Callender, J. R. Outman and Andrew Arnett as trustees.
FINCASTLE (ARNICA).
Fincastle is a small place in the northwest part of Jefferson Township, seven miles northeast of Stockton, which was laid out in 1882 by Thomas T. Loy and M. Jacobs. Considerable lum- bering has been done here. There are three stores, kept by J. R. Daugherty, W. T. Kennedy and Moser & Detheridge.
PAYNTERVILLE (BEAR CREEK).
This is a village of about 75 population, in the northeast part of Madison Township, on Bear Creek, which has given its name to the postoffice, the oldest in Cedar County. Its other and more popular name was given it in honor of the Paynter family, long prominent there. It is distant about eight miles from Stock- ton, and contains a hotel kept by Judge C. W. Paynter, a black- smith shop, a wagon-maker's shop, and the stores of Paynter & Jackson, A. Rickman and George E. McDowell & Co.
BALM (CEDAR, SPRINGS).
Balm, in the northwest part of Cedar Township, is a flourish- ing village, growing in wealth and population. Its merchants are G. E. Dunham, Mollie Fraley, S. L. Hardy, J. W. Lesley, M. V. Messick and Steward Sample, and it has a convenient number of small manufactures and mechanics' shops. It was laid out in 1884, by Thomas Eslinger.
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SUNDRY VILLAGES.
White Hair is a small hamlet in the northwest part of Linn Township. It is one of Cedar County's oldest settlements. Centerville, in the southwest part of Box Township, was laid out by Joshua Howell, in 1857. Meadow is a hamlet in the western part of Washington Township. C. E. Buster is the local mer- chant. Cane Hill, in the south part of Madison Township, nine miles southeast of Stockton, has a population of about 100. It contains a flour-mill, blacksmith and wagon-maker's shops, and three stores kept by William Cavenee, W. A. Dale and P. A. Stockton. Filley is a post-town in the southern part of Box Township, ten miles northwest of Stockton. It has three stores, of which R. V. Duncan, J. S. Leonard and George W. Oakes are proprietors. Pleasant View, a postoffice on Cedar Creek, in Cedar Township, ten miles northwest of Stockton, has a popu- lation of about 50. The postoffice is in the store of Joseph and E. W. Hess.
MILITARY HISTORY.
On account of its location in the border-land between the North and the South, Cedar County, in common with other parts of Southwest Missouri, was the scene of considerable local political disagreement, as well as of some exciting episodes of the war. The spirit of violence which marked the time and the country was rife here, and lawless deeds of irregularly organized bands of both Northern and Southern sympathizers were by no means infrequent, and men were killed at and near the seat of justice and in other parts of the county, whose slayers were never brought to trial, and men were hanged to convenient trees without the preliminary services of judge and jury. The num- ber who enlisted regularly as soldiers in the two armies was nearly equal, and it cannot be said that either Unionists or Con- federates from Cedar County were braver or more devoted to the cause they espoused than their neighbor-foemen; and, though they were foemen, they did not then or later forget that they were neighbors, and that in the woods and on the prairies of the
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same county stood the dwellings that sheltered the loved ones they had left behind.
The Livingston and Shelby Raids .- For a considerable period during the war, Stockton, the only town of importance in the county, was guarded. The court house was barricaded and supplied with arms, and regarded as the place of safety in case of attack. It was in the possession of Union troops much of the time, and the town was picketed and in other ways guarded against a descent by the enemy. Small bodies of armed riders were often seen, and house-burnings and other lawless deeds were of frequent occurrence. The two most note- worthy events of the war, locally, were the raids mentioned above. The first occurred July 11, 1863, when nearly every man in town (most of whom were soldiers, or at least armed), who was not on guard at some point of approach, was in the court house, listening to a joint debate between Orville P. Welch and William C. Montgomery, rival candidates for the assembly. One of these aspirants for political preferment was speaking when word came that the raiders were descending upon the town. It was very foggy, and their approach had not been noticed by the pickets until it was too late either to give warn- ing or offer resistance, and almost as soon as the first alarming cry was heard in the court house the enemy was seen dashing into the center of the town by different streets. A brief engage- ment ensued, the raiders firing on the soldiers and others to be scen about the court house, and the soldiers returning the fire through the court house windows and other loopholes, in which Col. Livingston, who commanded the attacking party, was killed and Capt. Vaughn, the next in command, mortally wounded, the latter dying in a few minutes. A Unionist named Holman was killed in the affray, and another, George Kingston, was taken prisoner by the raiders as they rode out of town, and shot soon afterward. The attacking party numbered some 300 or 400 men. In the fall of the same year, Shelby's force, of some 3,000 or more, descended upon the town, and, without blood- shed, burned the court house. Stockton was much damaged, and the Crow and Caplinger mills, with most of the farm houses in the western part of the county, were destroyed.
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Removal of the County Records .- At the outbreak of the war most of the Cedar County officials were Southern sympa- thizers, and the records were taken South, it is said, by some of them, and hidden in Arkansas. Near the close of the war some Union soldiers discovered the books in a cave in Arkansas, and brought them to Springfield, whence later they were returned to their legal custodians.
Federal Soldiers .- Two companies were recruited in Cedar County entire for the Union service, and a large number of men from the county attached themselves to other than Cedar County organizations. The two companies mentioned served seven months in the Seventh Provisional Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia. November 3, 1863, they were mustered into the Fif- teenth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, as Companies A and M. Of the former, P. H. Rohrer was captain; A. C. Montgomery, first lieutenant; and Samuel Hornbeck, second lieutenant. Of the lat- ter, Dennis H. Connaway was captain; W. A. McMinn, first lieu- tenant; and Jesse Spencer, second lieutenant. The Fifteenth
Missouri Cavalry saw service in the campaigns against Marma- duke, Shelby and Price, and in scouting in the Southwest. It was mustered out of service at Springfield, June 30, 1865. Cedar County's most distinguished Union soldier was Col. Joseph J. Gravely, of the Eighth Missouri State Militia, and there were others who distinguished themselves in regiments organized in other localities. Battery H, Twentieth Missouri Light Artillery, was commanded by Capt. William C. Montgomery. Attached to this organization were Lieuts. T. M. Montgomery, T. J. Travis, and other Cedar Countians.
Confederate Soldiers .- The " Stockton Grays " were organ- ized, with about ninety men, with B. F. Walker as captain, and Russell Lilburn as first lieutenant, in 1861. Capt. J. W. Prowell and Capt. J. A. Musgrove also organized companies in the county, of eighty and seventy-five men, respectively. These companies were recruited under Gov. Jackson's call, and attached to the Missouri State Guard; but later most of the members of these companies connected themselves with the Confederate States army, and served until the close of the war. At Cowskin, where the first general organization was effected, Capt. Walker
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was made lieutenant-colonel of his regiment, under Col. James Cawthon. Subsequently, at Oak Hill, Col. Cawthon was killed, and Lieut .- Col. Walker was promoted to the colonelcy. Lieut. Lilburn succeeded to the command of Capt. Walker's company. Besides the engagement at Oak Hill, where forty of Walker's company were killed, the regiment was in the fighting at Lone Jack, Prairie Grove, Lexington and other places. Many men from Cedar County were in a company recruited by Capt. (afterward Maj.) Reynolds, then of St. Clair County, now of Jerico.
EDUCATIONAL.
First and Early Schools .- Andrew Steel Stewart taught the first school in Cedar County, in 1841, in what is now the Powell District, in a log house which had been erected that year, and which has been described thus: Eighteen feet square, benches of split boards, no windows, rock fireplace at one end, an entrance, but no door; floor covering one-half of floor space only; no chimney. It was what was termed a subscription school, and lasted three months. There were eighteen scholars, and the price each was one dollar. Only one of the pupils, Thomas B. Graham, is now living. Probably the next school was taught by C. Lindsey, another well-remembered pioneer pedagogue. All of the early schools were similar in character to the one described above. Under the school laws of the State the public school system has developed to its present excellent status.
Sale of School Lands .- The first official act of Cedar County Court relative to school interests, is thus recorded: " It is ordered by the court that the sheriff of the county of Cedar proceed to sell Section 16, in Township 36, Range 27, on the second day of the fall term of the Cedar County Court, which will be holden at the court house on the first Monday after the fourth Monday in September, said sale to be conducted in all respects according to law, said sheriff giving at least sixty days' notice thereof; it appearing to the satisfaction of this court, by a petition this day filed herein by a majority of the citizens of Cedar Township,
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praying for the sale of said 16th Section." This was the first order for the sale of school lands. At the November term, 1847, it was " ordered that the sheriff of Cedar County proceed to sell Section 16 of school township 4, Range 28, Township 26, at the court house door, in the town of Fremont, at the next regular term of the Cedar Circuit Court, after giving sixty days' notice." Other similar orders followed, and May 16, 1848, the sheriff reported that, at a duly authorized and advertised public sale, he had sold school lands, as follows: The southwest one-fourth of the northeast one-fourth Section 16, Township 35, Range 26, to Samuel Caplinger; the southwest one-fourth of the northwest one-fourth of Section 16, Township 35, Range 26, to R. O. Maracle; the northwest one-fourth of the northwest one-fourth of Section 16, Township 35, Range 26, to John I. Hindsley; the northwest one-fourth of the northeast one-fourth of Section 16, Township 35, Range 26, to James Cawthon; and the southwest one-fourth of the northeast one-fourth of Section 16, Township 35, Range 26, and the southwest one-fourth of the northwest one-fourth of Section 16, Township 36, Range 28, to James Mayfield. This is the first recorded sale of school lands.
Township Organization for School Purposes .- Following is . a copy of the record of the first order to organize a township in Cedar County for school purposes:
At a county court begun and held for said county, on the 16th day of February, 1847, among others were the following proceedings, to wit: It is ordered that school township No. 35, in Range No. 26, in the county aforesaid, be organized for school purposes, agreeably to the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of the State, entitled an act to provide for the organization, support and government of common schools, approved February 9th, A. D. 1839, a majority of the qualified voters in said township having petitioned for said organization; and it is further ordered that the first meeting of the inhabitants thereof be held at Caplinger's mill on the first Saturday in March A. D. 1847, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. In testimony whereof, I, Joseph Allen, clerk of said court, have hereunto set my hand and private seal, there being no official seal provided, this 16th day of February, 1847. (Signed) JOSEPH ALLEN, Clerk.
James Simrell was appointed commissioner of School Town- ship No. 35, Range 26, and Jeremiah Rea and Washington Crab- tree, inspectors. At the August term, 1847, it was “ ordered that School Township No. 2 (Township 34, Range 27) be organized for school purposes, the first meeting of the inhabitants thereof to be held at the house of John Satterfield on the first Saturday
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in October. James M. Allen was appointed commissioner, and he and John Carter inspectors. At the same time, School Town- ship No. 3 (Township 33, Range 27) and School Township No. 4 (Township 3, Range 25) were ordered organized on the same day, the meeting, in the first, to be at the house of Jeremiah Lacy, and in the second at the house of Alanson Packard. David Hunter was appointed commissioner, and Gideon Hamier and George W. Wiley inspectors of No. 3; and M. Box, commis- sioner; and John Fergus and Alanson Packard, inspectors of No. 4. At the February and May terms, 1848, the following townships were ordered organized: No. 35, Range 27, first meeting second Monday in April, at the house of John B. Gordon; No. 33, Range 25, first meeting June 10, at the house of Richard Tatum. Robert A. Ray was appointed inspector of No. 35; Isaac Routh and Morris Mitchell of No. 33; Thomas Smith, commissioner of No. 33. May 19, 1848, it was ordered " that School Township No. 34 be organized for school purposes," with Nicholas McMinn as commissioner, and James M. Frazier and James M. Blake as inspectors. August 21, Township 34, Range 25, was ordered organized, the first meeting to be at the house of Robert Sim- mons on the fourth Saturday in September. The officers appointed were: John B. Ingram, commissioner, and William H. Curle and L. B. Tulley, inspectors. November 20, Township 35, Range 25, was ordered organized. Jacob Dixon was appointed commissioner, and Harry Ecleston and William F. Rogers, inspectors; the first meeting to be held at the house of Jacob Dixon on the last Saturday in December. Township 34, Range 26, was also ordered organized, the first meeting to be held at the court house on the same day, and Washington Crabtree was appointed commissioner, and Richard G. Roberts and William Guinn, inspectors.
The Schools of To-day .- Such, in brief, is the interesting history of the early efforts to establish public schools in the county. Fostered by the State school laws, and aided by the efforts of officials and citizens, the school interest has been advanced until there are now eighty school districts in the county. As a rule the houses are large and conveniently located, so that no child is deprived of school privileges. The school population is
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6,000, the average length of terms seven months, and schools are ably and efficiently conducted. The citizens have a com- mendable pride in school matters, fully realizing the importance of educating the young. The rate of taxation, State and county, is $2 per capita of school age, which is ample for all purposes. Teachers' institutes have been introduced successfully. The total enrollment of scholars in the county is as follows: White, 5,328; colored, 65; total, 5,393. The number of teachers employed is II2, of whom 28 are males.
CHURCH MATTERS.
Early Preachers. - The Baptists seem to have been first in the county. The first preacher was Rev. James J. Johnson, from Kentucky, who organized the Cedar church, in Washington Township. He began his labors about 1837. Other Baptist preachers were Revs. Obadiah Smith, J. Lunsford, Daniel Mur- phy and Daniel Satterfield. The early meetings were held in private dwellings and school-houses, and at this time there are few church buildings in the county remote from the larger towns.
Churches at Stockton .- At Stockton are organizations of the Cumberland Presbyterians, Baptists, Christians and Methodists (North and South). Some of them were formed prior to the war, and most of them have always been weak, both numerically and financially. The Christian Church is now the strongest in both respects. A small frame church was built about 1871, by this sect, but, on account of monetary difficulties, was sold under a deed of trust. The purchaser deeded it to a board of trustees representing a goodly number of citizens of varying and of no church affiliations, who bought it of him by a subscription, in 1879. The deed bears date May 4, that year, and conveys the property to Carter Pritchard, William Hulstone, George R. Cor- bin and J. M. Jackson and their successors, as trustees. Efforts now being made will doubtless result in the erection, at an early day, of a house of worship of the Christain Church in the south- ern part of the town. A member of the Presbyterian Church (Old School) died some years ago, who left a farm on the
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Sac River to be disposed of to build in Stockton a house of worship which should form the nucleus of an organization of that denomination, and it is believed, not many years will elapse before steps will be taken to utilize this benefaction.
Churches at Ferico Springs .- The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Jerico, was organized by Rev. Mr. Trone, in 1884, and, since Mr. Trone went to another appointment, has had the following pastors: Revs. R. G. Flummer, R. W. Rey- nolds, G. W. Mitchell and J. T. Loyal. The Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1884 by Elder Horn. Its pastors, since Mr. Horn, have been Revs. C. Ingram, Meacham, S. P. Collins, J. H. Moore and Charles Logan. The Christian Church was organized by Elder Turner in 1885. Next in turn, as pastors, came Elders Elliott and Randall. The present pastor is Elder J. B. Carrico. A small frame church house was built by public subscription in 1885, and deeded to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, but, under a satisfactory arrangement, is used by the different denominations.
Churches at El Dorado Springs. - The first church organized at El Dorado was the Free Will Baptist, in 1882. Its house of worship was built in the same year. Its pastor is Rev. D. W. Pasham. The Christian Church was organized in 1883, and its house of worship was built in 1886. Rev. H. W. Robertson is pastor. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was organized in 1884, and its church house built in 1886. The pastor is Rev. A. L. Walker. The Methodist Episcopal Church, organized in 1884, erected a building in 1886. Rev. R. G. Flummer is pastor. The Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1884, and its house of worship was built in 1888. The present pastor is Rev. T. G. Hendricks. The Presbyterian Church, of which there is no resident pastor at this time, was organized in 1886, and its house was built in 1888. All of these several church houses are substantial, and some of them are elegant and attract- ive. All are frame.
Churches Elsewhere in the County .- The Lindley Prairie Methodist Episcopal Church Society, in Jefferson Township, is an old congregation. Its house of worship was built in ISSS. The Mount Gilead Baptist Church, in the same township, was
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organized some years ago, and has a comfortable church house. The Green Springs Christian Church is a flourishing organization, having a substantial church building which was erected about four years ago. The Wrenn, Edge, Pankey, Church and other families of that part of Linn Township are prominent members. The Antioch Baptist Church, of Cedar Township, has a building which was put up in 1882. The Cedar Baptist Church is an old organization, and also has its house of worship, built some years since. The Red Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Jefferson Township, was organized in 1881, and its services are held in the Red Hill school-house. There are other congrega- tions in different parts of the county which worship in school- houses, and in some places measures are being taken toward the building of suitable church houses.
HISTORY OF DADE COUNTY.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION, TOPOGRAPHY, ETC.
The County of Dade lies on the western slope of the Ozark Mountain Range, in the southwestern part of Missouri, is the third county north from the Arkansas line and the second east from the Kansas line, and is in latitude 38° north, and longitude 94° west. It occupies portions of Townships 30, 31, 32 and 33 north, and Ranges 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 west of the fifth prin- cipal meridian, and is bounded on the north by Cedar, on the east by Polk and Greene Counties, on the south by Lawrence, and on the west by Jasper and Barton Counties. Its area consists of 500 square miles, or 320,000 acres; being 25 miles in length, east and west, and 20 miles in width, north and south.
Physical and Natural Features .- The dividing ridge or summit of the Ozark Range, between the waters which flow north- wardly to the Osage River, and thence to the Missouri, and the waters which flow southwardly to the Neosho River, and thence to the Arkansas, runs diagonally across the southwestern part of the county. The average elevation of the county above sea-level is about one thousand three hundred feet, and the surface is about equally divided between timber and prairie lands. That part lying in the timber and near the watercourses is rolling, and in many places very rough and hilly, while the western portion of the county more especially breaks down from the elevated Ozark ridges into the beautiful valleys and broad prairies of the Neosho and Osage basins.
Streams .- Several cold, swift streams course through the county from south to north, which, with their numerous tribu-
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taries, furnish an unfailing supply of the best water for use, and water-power inexhaustible. Turnback heads in Lawrence County on the south, and flows into the center of the county, where it is joined by Sac River from the east, and together flow into the Osage. Limestone Creek rises in the southwestern portion of the county, and empties into Turnback near Greenfield, and furnishes power for mills. Other and smaller streams, Son's Creek, Horse Creek, Cedar Creek and Sinking Creek, traverse considerable portions of the county, and are fed by never-failing springs of pure cold water. Along Sac River, Turnback and Son's Creek, the surface of the country is bold and precipitous, with fertile valleys composed of the richest loam lying between the picturesque hills and bluffs. These hills are covered more or less densely with all kinds of oak, hickory and other valuable timber, and furnish good grazing. Maze Creek, a branch of Sac River, enters the county from the east, and flows in a northwest- erly direction, across its northeastern portion. Muddy Creek, being the only one in the county south of the dividing ridge, enters the county from the south, and flows in a northwesterly direction across the southwestern portion thereof, into Barton County, where it changes its course toward the south and empties into the Neosho River. The larger streams of the county, at all times, afford abundant supplies of stock water, and abound in a variety of choice fish. Many portions of the county are well sup- plied with springs of pure, clear water, and excellent well water may be obtained in almost any part of the county, at a depth of from twelve to twenty feet, thus assuring an abundant supply of water for all purposes.
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