History of Howard and Cooper counties, Missouri : written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, towns, and villages : together with a condensed history of Missouri, a reliable and detailed history of Howard and Cooper counties-- its pioneer record, resources, biographical sketches of prominent citizens, general and local statistics of great value, incidents and reminiscences, Part 112

Author: National Historical Company
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: St. Louis : National Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 1198

USA > Missouri > Cooper County > History of Howard and Cooper counties, Missouri : written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, towns, and villages : together with a condensed history of Missouri, a reliable and detailed history of Howard and Cooper counties-- its pioneer record, resources, biographical sketches of prominent citizens, general and local statistics of great value, incidents and reminiscences > Part 112
USA > Missouri > Howard County > History of Howard and Cooper counties, Missouri : written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, towns, and villages : together with a condensed history of Missouri, a reliable and detailed history of Howard and Cooper counties-- its pioneer record, resources, biographical sketches of prominent citizens, general and local statistics of great value, incidents and reminiscences > Part 112

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CHARLES C. ELDRIDGE,

farmer, section 2. Mr. Eldridge is native of Rhode Island, and was boru at East Greenwich, Kent county, of that state, September 29, 1840. He was a son of Charles and Sarah Eldridge. At the age of sixteen he came west and lived in Wisconsin about three years, where he learned the machinists' trade, at Beloit. Returning to his native state in 1861, he enlisted in the 1st Rhode Island battery, in which he served three months. After this he enlisted for three years in the 4th Rhode Island, and was subsequently promoted to the position of lieutenant. At Petersburg, Va., he was wounded in the shoulder by a minnie ball. At the conclusion of his military service, he re-

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turned to his trade and worked at Providence, Rhode Island, at Cleveland, Ohio, and at East Greenwich, his birth-place. In 1866 he came to Missouri and worked with his brother, James. He was mar- ried December 23, 1869, to Miss Martha A., daughter of North Davis. She was born in Macon county, and her father having died was reared by her grandfather, Drury Davis. About this time he bought the Talbot place, and has since added to it until now he owns 250 aeres of fine land, substantially improved. He grows over 100 acres of grain and raises some stock, principally cattle, hogs and sheep. Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge have a family of eight children, James S., Lucy S., Elizabeth D., Margaret.A., Charles C., Anna M., Mary F., and an infant. He is a member of the A. F. and A. M., and of the Christian church.

NEWTON A. GILBREATH,

farmer, section 25. One of the substantial and well-to-do farmers of Prairie Home township is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. His farm contains over three-quarters of a section of good land, and he gives his attention to both grain and stock raising, mainly cattle and hogs in the stock line. He was born on the farm where he now and has since lived, November 11, 1834. His father, Hugh Gil- breath, who was a native of Virginia, came to this county from Tennessee, in 1827, and principally improved the place. He first bought a tract of land of eighty aeres of William Martin, and then the following year eighty more of Jesse Martin, to which he after added other tracts until at his death, January 21, 1852, and many years before, he owned about 800 acres. Newton A. was a son by his father's second marriage. By the first marriage there were six children : John, Jane, Catherine, Nancy and two others. Their mother, formerly a Miss Conover, died before the family came to this state. After her death their father married Miss Flora McDuffy, originally from South Carolina, but then a resident of Tennessee. Twelve children were the fruits of this union, of whom N. A. was the eighth, as follows : James C., Derinda, Hugh F., Mary A., Nancy E., William M., Louisa, Newton A., Alfred W., Flora L., Thomas J. and Minerva. Seven of these are still living, and most of them became heads of families. Newton A. in common with the other children, received an ordinary good education as he grew up, and was married November 18, 1863, to Miss Logie A. daughter of Logan Forsythe, an early settler of the county. He has had charge of the farm since his father's death, and owns the homestead tract. During

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the war Mr. G. was taken prisoner by the Unionists and confined in St. Louis and Alton military prisons some time, after which he was released on parole on condition that he would remain in Illinois. He was absent from home about one year. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbreath have no children of their own, but have three that they are rearing : Joseph Potter, aged thirteen ; Lizzie McArthur, aged twelve, and Ellis Hoden, aged seven. Mrs. G.'s father was killed when she was less than a year old. Her mother is now the wife of John R. Williams.

CAPTAIN ALBERT HORNBECK,

farmer. Captain Hornbeek, assessor of Cooper county, and for a number of years a prominent merchant of the eastern part of the county, at Prairie Home, was born in Saline township August 30, 1840. He was a grandson of Michael Hornbeek, who came to this county from Tennessee with his family as early as 1814, and built the second house ever erected in Boonville. In 1817 Michael Horn- beck settled the Muir farm, near Boonville, and afterwards removed to Saline township and opened the farm where 'Squire Freeman now lives. He died about 1858, his wife having preceded him in death some ten years. They had nine sons and one daughter, most of whom became heads of families. Andrew, their second son, and the father of Captain Hornbeck, was born in May, 1814, in Tennessee, just before his parents started for this country. He grew up here and was twice married, rearing two families of children. His first wife, formerly Miss Sallie Woods, to whom he was married about 1836, was a daughter of Alexander and Nancy Woods, early settlers in the county, from Tennessee. She had two sisters and five brothers, all but two of whom are still living. She died about 1846, leaving five ehil- dren : Gilbert, Albert (the subject of this sketch ), William, Riley and Nancy. Gilbert died in boyhood and William at the age of twenty- four. His second wife was Elizabeth, a cousin of his first wife, and daughter of Jesse Woods. Nine children followed this union : Jere- miah, Jackson, Samuel, Thirza, Jesse, Michael, Robert, John and Martha-all of whom are living in Saline township except Thirza and Michael. In 1849 the father settled about a mile and a half east of Prairie Home, where he lived a well respected life and was satisfactor- ily successful as a farmer until his death. Albert, the second son by the first marriage, grew to manhood on his father's farm, and in the spring of 1861 enlisted in Captain Simmons' company, under Gover- nor Jackson's first call. In the following August he entered the 10th Missouri regiment as first lieutenant of Captain Barry's company, in

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which he served until well along in the war, when he recruited a com- pany of volunteers, of which he was elected captain. This he com- manded until he was wounded in a charge at Mine Creek, Kansas. Recovering, however, he rejoined the command, and served until the general surrender. Coming here after the war, he was married Octo- ber 11, 1866, to Miss Mary E., daughter of William McClanahan, of this county. She was born October 22, 1842. They have a family of five children : Gilbert, Hattie E., Sallie, Charles M., died in infan- cy, William A. and Jessie Lee. Captain Hornbeck has followed farm- ing all his life, except while in the army, and from 1869 to 1878, during which time he was merchandising. ' He lived three years in Henry county - 1867, 1868 and 1869 -and one year in Texas - 1878. He has a neat, comfortable farm at Prairie Home. In 1882 he was elected county assessor for two years. He is a member of the Chris- tian church and of the A. F. and A. M.

WASHINGTON A. JOHNSTON,

farmer. Between 1817 and 1821 four brothers, Garvin, Robert B., Alexander and James, the sons of Alexander and Margaret ( Barnett ) Johnston, came out from the chivalric Palmetto state of the south and made their homes in Missouri, the first in Jackson county, and the other three in Cooper county. Robert B. came in 1819, and in 1824 was married to Miss Elender, daughter of William and Nancy ( Pem- berton ) Powell, of this county. On coming to the county Robert B. Johnston settled on a claim he bought, and improved an excellent farm, afterwards adding to it until it contained 240 acres of fine land. There he lived a quiet, industrious and honorable life, and died in 1868 at the advanced age of ninety-three. He was an old-time Jackson democrat, strongly southern in sympathies, and for sixty years a ruling elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian church. His wife is still living at the age of eighty-three. They lived together within a fraction of sixty years, and reared seven children, all of whom are still living, there having been but one death in the family, that of the father, since they were married. Their family of children consisted of one son, the eldest, and six daughters, as follows : Washington A., the subject of this sketch ; Nancy J., wife of Asa McClain, in Carroll county ; Martha R., wife of Rev. W. D. Mahan ; Mary Barnett, wife of Judge J. S. McFarland ; Elizabeth A., wife of Henry Howard, Carrollton ; Margaret E., wife of F. M. Smith, and Susan E., wife of James Parsons. Washington A. was born January 1, 1825, on the farm upon which he still lives, and received an ordinary, good educa-

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tion in youth. April 20, 1848, he was married to Miss Martha, daughter of William Hunt, of this county. She was born Jannary 4, 1829. They have two children : Nancy, wife of William J. Lacy, and Jennie L., still at home. Both were educated at Prairie Home insti- tute, and the latter filled the position of music teacher at that school. Mr. Johnston joined General Price's army in 1861, but was captured three months afterwards and paroled. He remained true to his pa- role until the close of the war. He is a worthy and exemplary mem- ber of the Christian church, and a warm friend to education. His farm contains 320 acres of excellent land. Mr. Johnston is one of the sterling, true and staunch men of Cooper county.

JOHN S. JOHNSTON,

farmer, section 2. James and Martha ( Brown ) Johnston, the parents of John S., emigrated from Tennessee in 1818, and settled in Clark's Fork, in this county, where the father afterwards died about 1870, his wife having preceded him to the grave during the late war. There were six children - John S. being the eldest - as follows : John S., Hugh, James B., Joseph R., Mary and Ann. Mary married North Davis, and died prior to 1860. Ann married William Parsons, and died about 1868. John S., the eldest, was born before his parents left Tennessee, in Warren county, October 25, 1816, but was reared in this county. Reared on a farm, he devoted himself to a farm life, and followed that occupation first in Morgan and Pettis counties after he grew up, where he had entered 200 acres of land. Subsequently he lived a year in Macon county, and, after his marriage, settled near Prairie Home, where he owned a 200 acre tract of land. In October, 1855, he engaged with his brother Hugh in merchandising at Otter- ville, Missouri, and followed it for four years. He then came to his present farm, which contains over a quarter section of good land. He raises wheat principally, but also raises other cereal products and some stock. He was married October 14, 1850, to Miss Naney C. Zollinger, originally of Frederick county, Maryland. She was a daughter of George Zollinger, who came to this county in 1818. They have three children : James, married Kate Gilbreath, now residents of Prairie Home township ; Kate attended Haynes' school, of Boonville ; and George attended Prairie Home school. The last two are at home. Mr. J. is a member of the I. O. O. F., and was a school director for ten years.

REV. H. D. KENNEDY;

Cumberland Presbyterian minister. Rev. H. D. Kennedy was born in Todd county, Kentucky, September 1, 1837. His father was

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Hon. Urban E. Kennedy, and his mother formerly Miss Lavina Bryan, both natives of the same state. They were married in that state, and lived in Todd county until their deaths. The father was a prominent citizen of the county, and was for several terms a member of the state legislature. He lived to the advanced age of eighty- three. The son, H. D., was educated at Bethel college, Tennessee, from which he graduated in 1858. He has been a life-long member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and commenced his ministry in Tennessee and Kentucky. In 1871 he came to Verona, Lawrence county, Missouri, and had charge of the church there nearly three years. He then assumed control of the church at Independence, Missouri, and remained there a year ; after this he went to Columbus, Johnson county, and occupied the pulpit at that place until 1876. From Columbus he came to Otterville, and served the congregation there until 1880, when he took charge of the New Salem, Bethel and New Bethlehem churches, and made his home at Prairie Home, where he has since resided. Rev. Mr. Kennedy is a member of the Pres- byterian committee on theological examinations of candidates for ad- mission to the ministry of the New Lebanon presbytery, and is also chairman of the home missionary committee. He was married in Christian county, Kentucky, February 24, 1861, to Miss Antoinette Barnette, but she died August 17, 1873. About five years afterwards, March 28, 1878, he was married a second time. Ilis present wife was the widow of George W. Stevens, brother to the late Colonel Joe L. Stevens. Her maiden name was Mary E. Morris ; she was a daughter of William Walter and Sarah E. (Spenney ) Morris, and was born March 2, 1847. Mr. Morris came to Cooper county early in life, and for many years was a prominent merchant of Boonville. He and his wife were both natives of Virginia; her father, Weeden Spenney, ran a mill near Bunceton, and was well know and highly esteemed throughout the country where he lived. He had but two children, both daughters, and both married, Miss Morris, the younger danghter, having become his wife after the death of her elder sister. The present Mrs. Kennedy is the only living representative of either the Spenney or Morris families in this state, except her daughter by her first marriage, Miss Celeste Stephens, aged seventeen, now at- tending school at Boonville. Weeden Spenney died in 1859; Mr. Morris died in Texas about 1855 ; his wife, Sarah E., died September 14, 1848 ; Mrs. Kennedy's first husband, George W. Stephens, died July 29, 1874. Rev. Mr. Kennedy has one sister in this state, Mary E., widow of Rev. J. H. Niskell, late of the Cumberland Presbyte-

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rian church at Salem, Illinois. She now resides in Lexington, Missouri.

WILLIAM KIRSCHMAN,

farmer, section 8. Mr. Kirschman was born in the vicinity in which he now lives October 21, 1841. He was the fourth of a family of nine children of Ernst Kirschman and wife, formerly Miss Anna Muri. His father was a Prussian by nativity, but his mother was originally from Switzerland. They were married in Ohio, and removed to Mis- souri and settled in Cooper county in 1835. The father died here in 1854; the mother survived the husband nearly thirty years, dying January 23, 1883. The following were their family of children : Mary A., now the wife of G. H. Meyer, of California, Missouri ; Caroline, now wife of J. N. E. Moser, of the same place; Thomas, residing at Jimtown ; William, the subject of this sketch ; John, residing at Jimtown ; Henry, residing in Cole county ; Charles, residing on the old family homestead ; Elizabeth, widow of A. L. Maas ; and Ernst, residing near William. The father had no brothers or sisters, and his descendants are the only ones known of the name. William grew up on his father's farm, and when the war came on was old enough for military duty. He joined the 5th Missouri state militia, commanded by Colonel Albert Siegel, in which he served two years. He then turned his attention to farming, and was married March 22, 1865, to Miss Matilda, a daughter of Christopher and Ruth ( Martin ) Jahn, of Moniteau county. She was born February 28, 1843, After farming a year, Mr. Kirschman ran a saw, grist and carding mill three years, in Cole county. He then, in 1868, bought land at Prairie Home and tarmed there until 1881, when he came to his present place, a good farm of 160 acres of land, known as the " Hanshaw farin." He raises nearly 100 acres of grain annually, and also raises some stock. Mr. and Mrs. Kirschman have a family of eight children. Henry G. died November 22, 1882, in his seventeenth year. The others are as follows ; Mary A., Elsie J., Benjamin F., Wm. C., Emma R., Erust M., Ida L. and Charles P.

ARCHIBALD J. LACY, M. D.,

physician and surgeon. The Lacys and the Johnstons are two well- known and worthy families of the Old Dominion, members of each of which occupy prominent places in the history of that state. Of these families, Dr. Lacy, the subject of this sketch, for over thirty years a practising physician of this section of the state, is a direct descendant and lineal representative. William Lacy was the founder of the first

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named family in this country, a native of England as his name implies. He had six sous, Archibald being one of these. Archibald settled in Kent county, Virginia, and reared a family, of whom Theophilus and William Adam were his two sons. William A. became a physician, married and reared a family. His wife was formerly Miss Agnes Johnston, whose family is too well known to require further notice. They reared five children, of whom Dr. Archibald J., the subject of this sketch, was the only son. In 1836 the family came to this state and settled in Cole county (the part that is now in Monitean ), and in 1851 they removed to Saline county. Subsequently they went to Vernon county, where Dr. William A., the father and his family still live. Archibald J. was born in Stokes county, North Carolina, July 25, 1823, and came with his parents to Cole county, this state, in 1836. He was educated in the common schools of his native state and of Cole (now Moniteau ) county, and studied medicine under his father, a very able and successful physician. In 1848 he entered MeDowell's medical college, at St. Louis, and was graduated from that celebrated institution in 1850. He then entered upon the prac- tice of his profession in Moniteau and Cooper counties, and soon ac- quired an enviable reputation as a skilful and thorough physician. He has since been engaged in the practice in the surrounding country with but few intermissions of only a short time each. In 1863 he entered the Confederate army as contract surgeon in Shelby's brigade, and continued there until the elose of the war. He then practised at Clark's Fork, this county, until 1879, when he came to Prairie Home, where he has since lived. Dr. Lacy has been twice married. His first wife, formerly Miss Mary L. Winston, originally of Stokes county, North Carolina, when he married in Platte county, Missouri, February 25, 1846, died October 24, 1848. April 1, 1851, the doctor was again married, Miss Julia A., daughter of Dr. R. W. M. Gale, of this county, becoming his wife. She was born in Boonville, April 21, 1832. His last wife died June 28, 1870. Of the first union there is a son : William J. married Miss Nannie S. Johnston and resides near Prairie Home. Of the second wife there were three children : Robert A. married and subsequently died July 18, 1878 ; George G., married and resides in Saline township ; and Agnes G., died January 3, 1875, near Salado, Texas. The doctor has been a member of the A. F. and A. M. for ten years and is secretary of the Prairie Home lodge. He has a picture of his father, himself, his son and his grandson - the eldest sons in lineal descent for four generations.

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FRANK S. MENEFEE,

farmer, section 24. Mr. Menefee is a representative of two of the most respectable families of northeastern Kentucky, the Menefees and Allens. His father was Dr. Jonas Menefee, for over forty years one of the prominent physicians and leading citizens of Nicholas county, and his mother, formerly Miss Jane Q. Allen, was a daughter of Judge Allen, of Paris, Bourbon county. Frank S. was born in Paris, Ken- tucky, January 30, 1825, but was reared in Corlish, Nicholas county, where his parents lived, and near which his father owned a fine farm. His mother, however, died when he was about ten years of age, and his father was married twice afterwards. The second wife, formerly Miss Maria Hedges, lived only a short time after her marriage, and after her death his father married Miss Nancy Thomas. Dr. Menefee died September 13, 1866, and his last wife in 1879. There were but four m his family of children, and two of them, Laura and John Allen, died before reaching their tenth year. The eldest, Grosjean, died in 1849, at the age of twenty-seven. All were children of the first mar- riage. Frank M. was educated for a physician, but his natural inclina- tion led him to prefer the life of a farmer. In 1846, however, his youthful enthusiasm led him to enlist for service in the Mexican war, but the company was never called into the field. Animated by a spirit of adventure, he then came west to Leavenworth, Kansas, and there entered the service of the Government and drove a team across the plains into Chihuahua, Mexico. He was out on this trip about eighteen months. He then engaged in driving stoek south, but after- wards returned to Kentucky, and on the 28th of September, 1849, was married at Aberdeen to Miss Mary, the accomplished daughter of Colonel Hamilton. Her father had been a gallant officer in the war of 1812. Mr. Menefee then followed farming in his native county until 1860, when he removed to Knox county, this state. But three years afterwards he returned to the Blue Grass state, and in 1868 came out to Missouri again and settled on his present farm, the Jesse McFarland farm, as it is called, a fine estate of over 400 acres, handsomely lo- cated and comfortably improved. Here he has since lived and fol- lowed grain and stock raising. Mr. and Mrs. Menefee have a family of four children : Charles, married Miss Lizzie Taylor, of Saline county, and resides near Pilot Grove ; John A., farming in Colorado ; Miss Laura, at home, and William H., in stock business in Nevada ; Jonas and Samnel G., both at home. Mrs. M. and Miss Laura are members of the Christian church, and the latter received a superior education at the Prairie Home Institute.

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FRANK SIMMONS.

It was about 1830 that Bell Simmons, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, emigrated from North Carolina with his family, and settled in Moniteau county. He lived in that county until his death, which occurred about 1844. His wife, whose maiden name was Ellen Hawkins, survived him some twenty-five years, dying in Henry county, this state, in 1869. They had a family of five children. Nancy, became the wife of John Murphy, but both she and her husband are now deceased. Kelly, the father of Franklin, to be noticed further along ; Noah died in Texas about six years ago, leaving a widow, formerly Miss Lucy Vivion of 'Monitean county, Missouri ; William, married Miss Calphurnia Alexander and died about four years ago in Henry county, and Litia, wife of William Deatherage. Kelly Simmons, the second of these, after he grew up, was married August 21, 1833, to Miss Malinda, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Yount), Smith, mention of whom is made in the sketch of Jeremiah Smith, their son, Mrs. Simmons was born in Tennessee, March 21, 1816. Mr. and Mrs, Simmons reared a family of ten children, of whom Franklin is the youngest, as follows: Thomas, resides at Prairie Home ; Manson B., resides in Barton county ; Margeret E., wife of Richard Hudson, Tipton, Missouri ; Martha J., wife of Henry Shores of Salem, Missouri, but died in 1875; Susan A., wife J. S. Shores, Brownsville, Missouri ; Joseph H., resides near Fort Worth, Texas, Ephraim, resides in Prairie Home township ; William, on a part of the old homestead ; Richard T., resides near Flora Orr, and Frank- lin. The father of these commenced in life a poor man, and by industry, good management and fair dealing, accumulated a comfortable estate long prior to his death, which occurred June 10, 1882. His home- stead numbered 400 acres of fine land and he had it well improved. He was a member of the Baptist church for nearly forty years and his widow, a motherly good woman, partook of the communion with her husband during all this time. She is still living where so many happy years have been spent. Franklin, her youngest son, who was born April 22, 1858, a young man of great industry, excellent character and superior intelligence, has charge of the homestead part of the farm, and is conducting it with the most gratifying success. He was educated at Prairie Home institute and has every promise of becoming one of the successful farmers and useful citizens of the county.

JEREMIAH SMITH,

farmer, section 19. One of the oldest citizens of Cooper county, and one whose life has been such that in the past he ean find nothing

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to regret in the future, nothing to fear, is the venerable old gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He was born in Campbell county, Tennessee, May 16, 1810. His father, Thomas Smith, was a native of Virginia, but in early life made his home in Tennessee, where he met and won in marriage Miss Margaret Yount, originally of North Carolina. Eight years after the birth of Jeremiah they started by wagon in a train of pioneers consisting of five families- James and Henry MeKinney, Dave Chambers, William Poe, and themselves - across the country to the frontier of civilization - the territory of Missouri. Mr. Smith's parents settled in Old Franklin, and six years afterwards, when the river swept the place away, they removed to Moniteau (then Cole) county. His father was a brickmason, and built most of the early brick houses in this section of the State. In 1830, he returned to Cooper county and entered a tract of 160 acres of land near Prairie Home, now owned by N. Reader, where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1848. He entered other lands besides that, and when he died owned about 1,000 acres. His wife died in 1873, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. They had a family of eight children, Jeremiah being the eldest. The others were Richard, now resides near Jefferson City ; Maria, wife of P. W. Bankson, but died abont 1870; Matilda, married William Moore, in Monitean county, and died about twenty years ago ; Malinda, widow of Kelly Simmons ; John, died in California about 1850; Boon, a merchant at Belton, Cass county, died February 1, 1883, leaving a widow and children ; and Mary, wife of C. C. Banta, of Heury connty. Jeremiah after he grew up started out in the world for him- self by working for $100 a year, and thus secured money to enter eighty acres of land, which he did in 1837. The first winter he im- proved forty acres, having but one horse to use on his place. From this small beginning he increased his possessions to over 500 acres, and after having giving lands liberally to his children he still has a large and comfortable homestead. In 1839, he went to Louisiana in the horse and mule'business, and has had considerable to do with stock. He has entered lands in various parts of the state, and dealt to some extent in real estate. Mr. Smith was married April 11, 1845, to Miss Lititia C., daughter of Jesse George, of this county. She was born March 1, 1823. They also have had a family of eight children - Thomas R., who married Mary Wall, and lives in Cass county ; George A., married Dora Williams, of Bates county ; Martha E., married Joseph Franklin, of Bates county ; Robert B., married Katie, daughter of James Boswell ; Alice, William A., John H., and Josie

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Author: National Historical Company Publication date: 1883 Publisher: St. Louis : National Historical Co. Number of Pages: 1198

Author: National Historical Company
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: St. Louis : National Historical Co.
Number of Pages: 1198