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Jefferson Jackson, general merchant, and a member of the firm of Owen & Jackson, of Stockton, Mo., was born in Roane County, Tenn., in 1818, and is a son of John and Jane (Preston) Jackson, who were also Tennesseeans, born in 1792 and 1795,
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respectively. The father was a farmer and carpenter, and served in the War of 1812. They both died in 1840, her death preced- ing his nine days. Jefferson is the fourth of their nine children, and was educated in the early subscription schools, and was reared in a mill and still house. After remaining with his parents until twenty-one years of age, he began doing for himself, and, in 1843, was married to Miss Matilda Crawford, who was born in Roane County, Tenn., in 1818. To them were born seven children: Elizabeth Jane, wife of J. R. Owens; James M., a merchant of Stockton, Mo .; Margaret, the deceased wife of C. W. Paynter, of Stockton; Nancy S., wife of Daniel M. Bailey, of Kansas City; Sarah, wife of Dr. R. A. Brown; Amanda, wife of Lon Pyle, and John R. (deceased). Mr. Jackson left his native State in the fall of 1843, and moved to the State of Arkansas, but, in Novem - ber, 1845, came to Cedar County, Mo., and settled, and until the late war was engaged in farming eight miles east of the county seat. In 1861 he enlisted in the Home Guards, but soon after returned home, and resumed farming. In 1862 he enlisted in Company M, Fifteenth Regiment Missouri Cavalry, and, after being in the service twenty months, was discharged at Spring- field. His son James M. was in the same company. In the fall of 1865 he commenced clerking in Stockton for his son, James M., and J. R. Owen, remaining with them five years. In 1870 he was elected sheriff and ex-officio collector, and served two years. In 1880 he and J. M. Thompson purchased an interest in the gen- eral store of J. R. Owen, in Stockton, but, in December, 1888, Mr. Thompson sold his interest, since which time Mr. Owen and Mr. Jackson have been in business alone. Since 187 1 he has had an interest in the store belonging to his son and C. W. Paynter, eight miles east of Stockton. He owns 550 acres of land in Cedar County, and is one of the substantial business men of the com- munity. When he commenced life for himself he was the owner of two ponies, two cows, and one colored man, but at present is one of the wealthy citizens of the county. He is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for Harrison for the presidency in 1840, being then a Whig. He is a Mason, and has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for twenty-five years. His wife died in 1876, and in 1881 he married Harriet E. Pollard, a native of Tennessee, whose maiden name was McMinn. James M. Jackson, his son, was born in Roane County, Tenn., and received his education in Fayette College, Howard County, Mo., which institution he entered in 1858, remaining eighteen months. When eighteen years of age he began teaching school in Cedar and Polk Counties, continuing this occupation until the fall of 1863, when he enlisted in Company M, Fifteenth Missouri Cav- alry, U. S. A., and served for twenty months in Southwest Mis- souri, receiving his discharge at Springfield. January 1, 1865,
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he formed a partnership with J. R. Owen, and, until 1872, the firm was Owen & Jackson, but, at that date, Mr. Jackson pur- chased Mr. Owen's interest, and, almost immediately, A. J. Bacon and Jefferson Jackson became members of the firm, which is now known as J. M. Jackson & Co. The establishment comprises two rooms and a basement, and is filled with a first-class stock of general merchandise. Mr. Jackson is a live, energetic business man, and, besides his store, owns 240 acres of valuable land, a one-third interest in Caplinger's mills, and a general merchandise store, managed by T. B. Kannady, at the latter place. He is a Democrat, politically; his first vote being cast for John Bell, in 1860. He has served as a member of the town council, and has been secretary of the same. He is a Royal Arch Mason. On the 15th of March, 1866, he was united in marriage to Miss Sera- phine Bacon, a daughter of Abel J. and Hannah (Hembree) Bacon. She was born in Roane County, Tenn., in 1849, and she and Mr. Jackson are the parents of four children: Walter L., a salesman in his father's store; Abel J., a student at Morrisville College; Otis M. and Pearl C.
John A. Jackson, Sr., who is classed among the prominent farmers and stock-raisers of Cedar County, was born in Ander- son County, East Tennessee, April 21, 1820, and is the son of Claiborne and Kizzie Jackson, natives of North Carolina, where Mrs. Jackson had married a Mr. Cheek, who died. She went to Tennessee in about 1817, and was there married to Mr. Jack- son in 1819, after which they spent their lives in that State, she dying just before the war, and he just after. Mr. Jackson was a farmer and trader, and was a member of the Baptist Church. John A. Jackson, the eldest of three sons and four daughters, received a very limited education, never attending school more than a few months in all. He was married September 15, 1842, to Miss Sarah L. Hardin, the daughter of Marlin and Maria Hardin. Mrs. Jackson was born in East Tennessee, August 28, 1822, and died December 9, 1888, aged sixty-six years three months and eleven days. When nineteen years of age she had joined the Baptist Church, but, at the time of her death, was a faithful member of the Christian Church. She left two sons and two daughters: Abner, John A., Jr., Sarah E. and Margaret C., wife of Elihu Hess. All are living in the neighborhood of their father. One son, Samuel Fuston, lost his life in the Confederate army, it is supposed. Mary J. died in August, 1865; Nancy A. died January 1, 1884; and Samantha A. died in September, 1880. In 1854 Mr. Jackson came to Cedar County, Mo., settled on his present farm, and there he has since lived, with the exception of a short period during the war. He has about 300 acres in different tracts of land, and is one of the substantial farmers of the county. He is honest, industrious, and is one of the county's
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first-class citizens. He is a member of the Christian Church; was a justice of the peace about three years previous to the war, and is virtually the founder of El Dorado Springs. For some years prior to its publicity he had made considerable use of the water, carrying it a distance of two miles in a jug to his home, and, during the summer season, he would frequently spend nearly the entire day at the spring. It was he who piloted Joshua Hightower and family through the woods to the spring, they being the first to camp there. Mr. Jackson is a Democrat politi- cally, and his first presidential vote was for James K. Polk, in 1844. He is one of the pioneers of northwest Cedar County, and at the time of his settlement on his present farm there were but eight acres cleared. He now has a well improved farm.
John Montgomery Jackson, a farmer and stock-dealer resid- ing two miles northeast of Stockton, Mo., was born in Roane County, Tenn., in 1842, and is a son of James Preston and Mar- garet (Montgomery) Jackson, who were also Tennesseeans, the former born in Roane County in 1816, and the latter in Roane County in 1822 .. They were married in their native State, and in 1843 came to Cedar County, Mo., and located on a farm eight miles east of Stockton, where the father has since been living. The mother was a daughter of John Montgomery, and died Janu- ary 9, 1888. The paternal grandfather, John Jackson, was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., in 1792. John Montgomery Jack- son is the eldest of five surviving members of a family of ten children, his brothers and sisters being as follows: Mary, wife of Samuel McAckron; Sarah, wife of John B. Salmon; Nancy A., wife of John Oldham; and William. John Montgomery Jackson has been a resident of Cedar County since he was one year old, and remained under the shelter of the paternal roof until he was twenty years of age. March 18, 1862, he enlisted in Com- pany D, Eighth Regiment Missouri Cavalry, and August, of the same year, was wounded in Benton County, Mo., by a gun-shot, which disabled him for seven months, being in the hospital at Jefferson City two months, and the rest of the time at home. February 1, 1866, he was married to Miss Amanda J. Connaway, a daughter of Dennis H. and Rebecca (Tatom) Connaway, who came to Cedar County, Mo., in 1838. Rebecca Tatom was born in Bond County, Ill. Soon after Dennis H. Connaway came to Missouri his father died, leaving him, the only son, to care for the family - a mother and three sisters. He had a fair educa- tion, but maintained the family principally by farming and teach- ing school. Until later on in years, he honorably filled several prominent offices - that of clerk, collector and representative. He was married to Rebecca Tatom in the year 1844. They lived happily together eight years, when Mrs. Connaway died, leaving three small children, of whom Mrs. John M. Jackson is the old-
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est. The other two children, both boys, are now living in Ore- gon, the elder a doctor, and the younger, cashier of the First National Bank, Independence, Oregon. After the death of Mrs. Connaway, Mr. Connaway, with the help of his oldest sister, took care of his children and aged mother, for five years, at which time he married Serena J. Bugg in the year 1857. They had five children, four boys and one girl, two of the boys living in this State - one a veterinary surgeon, living at Colum- bia, Mo., and the other a doctor, living in Cedar County, Mo. The other three are living in Kansas, engaged in farming and raising stock. Mr. Connaway spared no pains in educating his children, and teaching them to be useful members of society. His mother died in the year 1864, aged seventy years. He is now in his seventieth year, and is in poor health; is now visiting his sons and relatives in Oregon. He is a strong Republican; held the offices of lieutenant and captain in the late war; has been a strict member of the Christian Church for a number of years. Mrs. Jackson was born in Cedar County in 1846. She and Mr. Jackson have four children: Oscar C., Samuel E., Mar- garet R., and Walter T. In 1864 Mr. Jackson bought 370 acres of land twelve miles west of Stockton, but in 1881 located on the farm of 360 acres where he now lives, where he is quite extensively engaged in stock dealing. He is a Democrat in poli- tics, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Theo. L. Kerr, editor and proprietor of the Jerico Springs Optic, was born in Newark, N. J., in 1854, and is the youngest of four children born to Joseph and Jane (Hopkins) Kerr, both of whom were born in Sussex County, N. J., the former in 1819, and the latter about 1825. They are now residing in Newark, and are hale and hearty old people. The father is a printer by trade, and as early as 1850 published the Temperance Advocate in Newark, and is now the proprietor of a job printing office in that city. Here it was that the immediate subject of this sketch, Theo. L. Kerr, received his education, and in his youth learned the printer's trade of his father, afterward working in different offices. In 1877 he went to Stafford, Kan., and for a short time edited the Stafford Citizen. He then gave up this work, and went to Arkansas, but, after tilling the soil for a short time near Little Rock, he was employed on the Little Rock Gazette, and at the end of six months came to Jerico Springs, and March 30, 1888, the first copy of the Jerico Springs Optic was issued. The paper is published in the interest of the Democratic party, is bright and newsy, and some useful information can always be gleaned from its columns. In 1876 he was married to Miss Hannah Myers, who was born in Bradford County, Penn., in 1856, and is a daughter of Jacob and Hilah Myers. He and
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wife are the parents of four children. He is a member of the Typo- graphical Union, and his wife belongs to the Christian Church.
Simon B. Leedy has resided in Cedar County, Mo., since 1878, and has a fertile farm of 160 acres nine miles west of Jerico. His native State is Ohio, and he was born in Knox County of that State, December 14, 1838, being the eldest of twelve children of Samuel A. and Elizabeth (Bostater) Leedy, and the grandson of Abraham and Elizabeth (Zook) Leedy, the latter couple being Pennsylvanians, who died in Ohio, whither they had moved in 1829. The Leedys are of Swiss descent. Samuel Leedy and wife were born in Bedford County, Penn., and Washington County, Md., May 19, 1816, and August 26, 1815, respectively, and the former was a farmer and Brethren minister, but is now retired from the active duties of life, and is residing with his son, Simon B. His wife died in February, 1887, in Cedar County, Mo., whither they had come in 1882. Simon B. Leedy resided with his parents until his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Martin, which event took place in 1865. She was born in the " Buckeye State" in 1835, and is the mother of five living children: Ira C., Orpheus A., Elda M., Aquilla G. and Lucian G. Samuel is deceased. In 1878 Mr. Leedy removed to Cedar County, Mo., where he has since made his home. He has 100 acres of land under cultivation, and forty acres of timber land. Stephen A. Douglas received his first vote for the presidency, and he is now a Democrat politically. Mr. Leedy is a Brethren minister, and all the family are church members.
James William Legg, sheriff of Cedar County, and proprietor of the Tennessee Hotel at Stockton, Mo., was born in Cole County, of the same State, August 13, 1855, and is a son of Samuel Harrison and Elizabeth (Merritt) Legg, who were born in Tennessee and Virginia, respectively, the former's birth occurring in 1831. He came with his father, Henry Legg, who was also a Tennesseean, to Cole County, Mo., and was there married, in 1866 moving thence to Morgan County, and ten years later to Barton County, and in the spring of 1889 to Vernon County, where he is at present residing. His wife died in 1874, having borne a family of nine children, eight of whom are still living: James W .; Sarah E., wife of Rev. DeJarnot, of Sheldon, Vernon County, Mo .; Ellen, wife of Leo Rouselbaugh, of Morgan County; Emma, John H., Edward F., Margaret and Alice. James William was reared on his father's farm, and resided under the shelter of the paternal roof until twenty-one years of age, and on the 20th of February, 1876, was married to Miss Martha Jane Buzan, a daughter of Payton Buzan. She was born in Cam- den County, Mo., in 1855, and she and Mr. Legg are the par- ents of five children: Charles S., Gracie, Laura B., Blanche E. and Evert. After his marriage Mr. Legg began depending on
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his own resources for obtaining a livelihood, and in 1882 came to Cedar County and began merchandising at Jerico, and in November, 1888, was elected to the office of county sheriff by a majority of fifty-five votes. He is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for Tilden in 1876. He is a member of Bear Creek Lodge No. 447, I. O. O. F., at Jerico, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.
Samuel D. Light, another substantial farmer and stock- raiser of Box Township, Cedar County, Mo., and the son of Henry and Nancy (Dinwiddie) Light, was born in Floyd County, Va., in 1820. His parents were natives of New York and Mary- land, respectively, were married in Virginia, and there spent the rest of their lives, he dying in 1823, and she in 1856. Mr. Light was a farmer by calling, and was of German descent. Samuel D. Light, the ninth of seven sons and three daughters, received a very limited education, and remained with his mother until grown. He was married in 1843 to Miss Margaret Smith, daughter of John and Nancy Smith, all natives of Virginia. To Mr. and Mrs. Light were born eight sons and three daughters: the eldest son Ferdinand, died August 30, 1878, in Cedar County, Mo .; Henry J., of California; McIlvaine, of Cedar County, Mo .; Angelina, wife of William D. Richardson, of Texas; Nancy E., wife of S. W. Beck, of Cedar County, Mo .; Nathaniel G., of Cedar County, Mo .; Lydia M., wife of Joseph E. Davidson, died June 29, 1882, in Cedar County, Mo .; James S., of Texas; Samuel W., of Vernon County, Mo .; Ellis H., and William U., at home. In 1857 Mr. Light moved to St. Clair County, Mo., resided there until 1862, then came to Hickory County, where he remained until 1866, and then moved to Cedar County. Here he settled on his present farm, which was then small, but which has been increased to 280 acres. This farm he has carefully improved, and here he has engaged in stock raising in connection with his farming interest. He is a Democrat in politics, his first presiden- tial vote being for J. K. Polk, in 1844, and he was elected to the office of court and deputy sheriff in Virginia by that party. He and wife have been members of the Baptist Church since 1872. Mr. Light's grandfather, Lazarus Light, was born in New York, and died in Virginia. He was for many years a successful phy- sician. The maternal grandfather, James Dinwiddie, was prob- ably born in Virginia, and is supposed to be of the same family as Gov. Dinwiddie of colonial days.
Rev. Jacob Lindley, a highly esteemed resident of Cedar County, Mo., is a native of Christian County, Ky., and was born in 1814. His parents, Jahu and Parthenia (Gibson) Lindley, were born in North Carolina, in 1782, and died in Christian County, Ky., and Cedar County, Mo., in 1847 and 1824, respect- ively. In 1832 the father came to the State of Missouri, and
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located in Cedar County (Jacob afterward being engaged in merchandising at Orleans). Two of his four children are now living: Jacob, and Sallie, the wife of James Taylor. The former grew to manhood on his father's farm, obtaining his schooling by working Saturday and at night for his board, and in the fall of 183I came to Missouri with his Uncle, Jacob Lindley, and located in what is now Miller County, near Osage. Here Mr. Lindley taught his first term of school, which lasted three months, and was on the subscription plan, the tuition of each pupil being $2. About this time he embraced Christianity, and did some preaching that winter. During the summer of 1832 he farmed near Edwardsville, Ill., but returned to his birthplace in the spring of 1833, returning, in the fall of the next year, to his. uncle's, in Missouri, where he resumed teaching and preaching. In 1836 he went to Polk County, where he taught school, and in 1855 he moved to Cane Hill, where he lived for ten years, and in 1865 located where he now lives, and has been engaged in farming and preaching, being an expounder of the Christian doctrine. He taught the first term of school ever taught on Horse Creek, and the second ever taught in Polk County. He has been preaching the gospel for the past fifty-seven years, and is the oldest minister living in Cedar County. In 1840 he espoused Miss Matilda Hembree, a daughter of James Hembree. She was born in Warren County, Tenn., and died in 1841. Four years later he married Miss Jane Roundtree, who was also born in Tennessee, and died in 1864, leaving three children: Bettie, wife of Rev. D. M. Cotton; 'Alice, wife of Jackson Hacker; and Sarah. Mrs. Hester Ann (Campbell) Dudley, a daughter of Robert M. and Elizabeth (Smith) Campbell, who were Ken- tuckians, became his wife in 1865. Mrs. Lindley was born in Columbus, Adair County, Ky., in April, 1822, and first married, in 1835, Christopher Corbin, who was born in Hopkins County, Ky., in 1811, and died in 1843, and by whom she became the mother of four living children: George R., county treasurer of Cedar County; James M., master mechanic, designer and builder, . of Nevada, Mo .; Mary, widow of Jackson Cluch; and Catherine, wife of David Roundtree. In 1849 Mrs. Corbin married Dr. James Dudley, who was born in Adair County, Ky., in 1807. They came to Stockton, Mo., in 1855, where he practiced medicine until his death, February 17, 1863. Her union with Dr. Dudley was blessed by one child, John, who is the popular and courteous clerk of the Tennessee Hotel, which house his father built. Dr. Dudley was a skillful physician and surgeon. His widow married Rev. Lindley, as above stated. The latter is a Republican in politics, and cast his first vote for Harrison for the presidency in 1840. Mrs. Lindley and her children belong to the Christian Church, of which she has been a member for the
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past forty-six years, also being a member of the Eastern Star Lodge.
David J. Lindley, M. D., a well-known practicing physician and surgeon of Cedar County, Mo., makes a specialty of chronic diseases, in the treatment of which he has won an enviable repu- tation. His birth occurred in Christian County, Ky., on the 20th of February, 1831, being the third of six children born to the marriage of Jonathan Lindley and Margaret Armstrong, who were also born in Christian County, the former in 1806, and the latter in 1807. Jonathan Lindley was of English descent, a farmer by occupation, and emigrated to Webster County, Mo., where he died in 1884, at the age of seventy-eight years. His father, Jahu Lindley, who was born in England and emigrated to Ken- tucky at an early day, died in that State, also at the age of seventy- eight years. David J. Lindley remained with his parents until his mother died, and received the advantages of public and private schools in Kentucky. In 1855 he began the study of medicine under D. J. and J. G. Gish at Hopkinsville, Ky., and, after devot- ing his attention to that science for two years, he began practic- ing in the town, continuing until 1859, when he located in Cedar County, Mo. When the war broke out he was appointed post surgeon and examining physician of Cedar County, and moved to Stockton, the county seat. At the end of three years he moved to Madison County, Ill., and, after practicing medicine there for three years, he located in Lamar, Barton County, Mo., and purchased a hotel, which he managed in connection with his practice until his removal to Papinsville, Bates County, Mo., three years later. After conducting a drug store in this place for about eight years he moved back to Barton County, being engaged in farming and stock raising up to September 1885. Since that time he has resided in Jerico Springs occupied in the practice of his profession. He was married in 1857 to Miss Serena H. Steward, who was born in Trigg County, Ky., in 1838, being a daughter of Wilson and Lucinda Steward. They have a family of four children.
Elisha Liston, nurseryman and fruit-grower, established his business in 1869, and has nearly eighty acres in standard orchard, largely young trees, and a full and complete stock of home-grown nursery trees. He also makes a specialty of raising bees and honey. He has the most extensive nursery in the county, and raises 1,000 to 2,500 bushels of apples per annum. He is also engaged in farming. Mr. Liston was born in Preston County, W. Va., in October, 1835, and is the son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Smith) Liston, natives of Preston County, W. Va., where they have spent all their lives. Mr. Liston died eighteen or nineteen years ago, but Mrs. Liston is still living. He was a farmer by occupation, and was captain of the militia in the days of muster. His father,
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John Liston, was a native of Delaware, and an early settler of Virginia. John Smith, the maternal grandfather of Elisha Liston, spent the latter part of his life in Indiana. Elisha Liston is the eldest of three sons and six daughters. He was educated in the common subscription schools, worked on the farm, and, in 1858, was united in marriage to Miss Martha Matheny, a native of Preston County, W. Va., and the daughter of Isaiah Matheny. She died in 1875, leaving five children: Dr. E. B .; Thankful Lurretta, wife of Rev. J. M. Galbraith, a Methodist minister; Prof. George M., a graduate of Warrensburg Normal School, and school commissioner and teacher of Cedar County; Emma A., and E. Herman. Mr. Liston's second marriage was in 1878, to Miss Nettie Fittsjarrell, daughter of Levi Fittsjarrell, of Illinois. Her parents came to Cedar County, Mo., in 1874, and here her father now resides. The mother died in Illinois. Mr. Liston was a lieutenant in the militia in 1859 and 1860, and served about fifteen months in the Union Army, Company A, Seventh West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, as corporal, enlisting in 1861, but was dis- charged on account of disability. In 1856 and 1857 he was with his uncle in the mercantile business in Indiana, and followed it by himself from 1864 until 1869, when he came to Cedar County to engage in fruit growing and stock raising, but, not being able to obtain the kind of trees he desired, he at once began to grow his own, and has been in the nursery business ever since, meeting with considerable success. He is one of the most active educa- tional workers in the county, and has spared no pains to give his children good education. He is a Democrat in politics, having affiliated with that party almost all his life, and his first presiden- tial vote was for Douglas, in 1860. He has been an active Pro- hibitionist for some years. He and Mrs. Liston and three children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They are temperance and Sunday-school workers. He has has been an active officer in the church since his membership. He has real estate of 240 acres near Virgil City, with about 125 acres under cultivation, all the result of hard labor and good management. He was postmaster at Willow Branch Postoffice, Hancock County, Ind., for five years, from 1864 to 1869.
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