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"THE BLUE AND THE GRAY."
DAVID GEORGE LEE KABRICK
H. V. P. KABRICK
Spanish-American War Veteran.
C. S. A. Civil War Veteran.
MRS. FRANCES (GEORGE) KABRICK.
MRS. LORENA (KABRICK) PEERSON.
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child born to Mrs. Kabrick's first marriage was an infant who died at the age of six months. The children born to H. V. P. and Frances F. Kabrick are: Lorena Peerson, residing on the Kabrick home place; D. G. Lee, born April 15, 1877, died in Jan. 3, 1916, was a soldier in the Spanish American War as a regular in the United States army and saw three years of service in the Philippines ; Lulu Edna died at the age of one year. The mother of these children was born June 14, 1841 on the old George homestead near Oak Grove. She is a daughter of David C. and Nancy E. (Bass) George, natives of Pulaski County, Tenn., who came to Jack- son County Oct. 9, 1836. David C. George was killed by Federal militia- men Feb. 15, 1863 while returning home from the South, southeast of Eldorado Springs. Mrs. George died in 1888.
Mr. Kabrick has always been a Democrat. He is one of Jackson County's sturdy and well known citizens who has witnessed the making of this county and has done well his part in its upbuilding. Mrs. Kabrick, his faithful helpmeet during these many years, is a member of the Prim- itive Baptist church and ranks among the oldest pioneer women of this section of the state.
David Philpot Dyer, senior member of the firm of Dyer and Son, Lake City, Mo., is a Missouri pioneer. He has been engaged in the mer- cantile business in Jackson County since December, 1882. His first ex- perience in business in Jackson County was at Grain Valley, Mo., where it was necessary for him to take charge of a store in the settlement of a relative's estate. He came to Lake City in 1903, and has one of the best stocked retail country stores in the county. He and his son, John H. Dyer, are partners in the business, which has an excellent patronage.
David P. Dyer was born in Virginia in 1839, and was a son of George W. and Mary Ann (Philpot) Dyer, who removed from Virginia to Warren County, Missouri, in 1842. George W. and Mary Dyer were the parents of ten children, two of whom died in infancy. The others are as follow: Mrs. Sina Ann Jennings, Grain Valley, Mo .; Mrs. Martha Jane Locke, Kansas City; Mrs. Minnie Minton, St. Louis; Truston P., Los Angeles, Calif., who, with the subject of this sketch, are the survivors of the family.
Mr. Dyer enlisted in the Missouri State Guard in Calloway County in 1861, as a private in Company B, under Captain Berry, and later in Regan's battalion. He was elected lieutenant of his company. He fought in the battle of Lexington, and after six months service was taken pris- oner by the Federals in Randolph County. He gave a $2,500 bond for his parole, and was banished from the State. In the spring of 1865 he went
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to Colorado, and cut logs for a sawmill in the mountain country until No- vember, 1865. He then returned to his home and family in Warren County, and remained there until December, 1882, when he located at Grain Valley.
Mr. Dyer has been three times married. His first marriage was in December, 1860, with Mary Catherine Jackson, a daughter of former Lieut .- Governor Jackson, of Randolph County, Missouri. She died at Grain Valley in 1888, leaving five children, as follow: Robert Edwin, John Hancock, Ursula, Lee and David B. Robert Edwin Dyer lives in Texas. He married Alice Lakey, and has five children: John Earl, who served in the National Army and fought with the A. E. F. one year in France; Mrs. Mary Woods, mother of two children, Edwin and Virginia; David Woodson was married in Scotland, while serving as a volunteer in the United States Navy; Wayne and Robert.
John Hancock Dyer was born in 1866, and is his father's partner in the business at Lake City. He was married in 1890 to Josie Vaughn, and has children as follow: Claude C., a farmer, who married Lorene Van- dyke, and has one child, Joseph Carlyle ; Golden R., wife of Julius W. Mann, mother of one child, Asa Dyer Mann, lives at San Benito, Texas; Mary Belle, deceased ; and Agnes.
Mrs. Ursula Galloway, lives in Kansas City, and has five children: Emmett, a sailor in the United States Navy, Mrs. Nannie Thomas, Wood- son, Chester and Vernon.
David B. Dyer is at home. He married Effie Stout, and has three children: Lee, David and William. Lee died at the age of 16 years, in 1892.
Mr. Dyer's second marriage was with Benita Capelle, in 1889, a sister of John O. Capelle, former county treasurer. She died in 1890.
Mr. Dyer was married in April, 1897, to Josephine Powell, who died in 1914.
Mr. Dyer is a Democrat, and has always taken a decided interest in political matters. He was prominent in the civic and political affairs of Warren County, and was elected judge of the probate court of the county in 1874, serving four years in that capacity. He was appointed justice of the peace at Grain Valley, and served for a time in this office. While a resident of Warren County he was a candidate for sheriff, and ran for the office in the face of a Republican majority of 800 votes, and ran far ahead of his ticket, his opponent winning the office by but 90 votes. Mr. Dyer served as deputy sheriff of Warren County before the war. In
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1860 he served as deputy United States marshal. Mr. Dyer has been a member of the Masons since 1863, and is one of the oldest Masons in the county.
Reeves Propst, successful farmer of Fort Osage township, owner of one of the best quarter sections in Jackson County, upon which he has resided since 1888, and had the satisfaction of building up and prac- tically creating his farm and erecting all of the splendid existing improve- ments, is one of the substantial citizens of this county. He was born Feb. 27, 1865, in Pickaway County, Ohio, and is a son of William and Elizabeth Propst, a sketch of whom appears in connection with that of James W. Propst. In the same year that Reeves Propst was born his par- ents removed from Ohio to Illinois, and there resided until 1874, when William Propst came to Jackson County and purchased 400 acres of prairie land south of Buckner.
Reeves Propst grew up in this county, and assisted his father in the cultivation of his farm until 1888, when he began farming on his ownl account. He received as his share of the Propst estate, a farm of 133 1-3 acres, but purchased a sufficient acreage from his brother to make 166 acres. He was married in 1890 to Miss Catherine Mitchell, who was born at Irondale, Mo., in 1867. She is a daughter of John and Mary (McDonald) Mitchell, the former a native of Ireland, and the latter born in Cincinnati, Ohio. John and Mary Mitchell were married in Pennsylvania. The Mitch- ells moved to Irondale, Mo., and Mrs. Mitchell died in 1870. The father died at Bismarck, Mo. Mrs. Catherine (Mitchell) Propst was living in Kansas City at the time of her marriage. To the union of Reeves and Catherine Propst have been born children as follow: Clarence, Mary E., Julia, Celia, William, James, John, Francis Vincent and Richard Reeves.
Clarence was born Feb. 28, 1891, and served one year and 20 days in the National Army during the World War. He was inducted into the service May 23, 1918, and was in training at Camp Colt, Gettysburg, Pa., and went from there to Camp Merritt, N. J., October 10. He was a mem- ber of the Tank Corps at Camp Colt, and was attached to the Utility De- tachment at Camp Merritt. He was honorably discharged from the ser- vice June 12, 1919. Mary E. was born Sept. 3, 1892. Julia E. was born Jan. 3, 1894, married Oct. 29, 1919, to Adolph Leiback, and resides at Lenexa, Kan. Celia was born Aug. 1, 1897. William was born July 28, 1899, and died at the age of two years and nine months. James was born June 20, 1901. John was morn March 27, 1903. Francis Vincent was born Sept. 26, 1901. Richard Reeves was born Sept. 1, 1909.
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Mr. Propst is a Republican. Mrs. Propst is a member of the Cath- olic church. They are affiliated with the Modern Brotherhood of America.
O'Donnell Brothers .- Michael, Richard and Mounie O'Donnel, of Fort Osage Township, owners of a splendid tract of rich land near Levasy, consisting of 240 acres, have achieved a more than ordinary success in Jackson County. They came to this county from Howard County, Mis- souri, in 1880, with very little money, but endowed with an ambition and energy to work hard and build up a home for their parents and themselves. They first bought a farm on the bank of the Missouri River, and farmed it for a time, and then bought their present farm, upon which they have built a substantial and handsome residence and placed other improve- ments which have added to the value of the farm, including a fine or- chard. They use a tractor for the greater part of the farm work. The tractor was made in their own shop, the boys being natural mechanics. The machine which was assembled in the shop does excellent work. A son of Mounie O'Donnell also built an automobile. Every member of the family is a mechanic and the O'Donnell shop resembles a small factory. When not employed on the farm or attending to business they can be found working in the shop, building some new piece of farm machinery or overhauling the old machines.
Dominick O'Donnell, the father, was born in Ireland, and immigrated to America in' his youth. He was married in Pennsylvania to Sarah Wing- ler, and moved from that State to Ohio, thence to Indiana, and from there they came to Howard County, Missouri, in 1878. They came to Jackson County in 1880. Dominick O'Donnell died in this county, Jan. 6, 1902. Mrs. O'Donnell died Dec. 4, 1911. Dominick and Sarah O'Donnell were the parents of children as follow: James, lives in Arkansas; John, deceased ; Mrs. Mary De Garmo, St. Louis; Michael, of this review; Daniel, Howard County; Richard, a farmer in Fort Osage township; Mrs. Willie Gam- mon, Odessa, Mo .; and Mounie, of this review.
Mounie O'Donnell was born in 1870. He was married in 1900 to Jennie Bergschneider, who has borne him two children, Frank and Jennie.
Michael O'Donnell was born July 3, 1862, and is a bachelor. He is one of the substantial citizens of Jackson County.
Both O'Donnell brothers are Democrats. Their creed of life is "do right," and they have followed this maxim since boyhood. As a result they have made a success of their every undertaking, and are regarded highly among the citizens of their township and county.
Richard O'Donnell was born in 1870, and is a bachelor.
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Thomas C. Pemberton .- The late Thomas C. Pemberton, of Fort Osage township, was a successful citizen, who not only achieved material prosperity as an artisan, and farmer in this county, but bequeathed to his adopted county a family which occupies a high place in the esteem and regard of the citizenship. Mr. Pemberton was born near Augusta, Ga., Aug. 12, 1827, and died at his home near Sibley, Feb. 19, 1905. He was a son of Russell and Hulda (Carner) Pemberton, who removed to Kenton County, Kentucky, in 1833. Mr. Pemberton made his home in Kentucky until he had attained his majority. When 17 years of age he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and learned the brick mason's trade, serving an appren- ticeship of two years. When he had learned his trade he went south and followed his trade in Indiana and other sections through the building
season. During the winter he engaged in steamboating on the Missis- sippi River, and thus employed his time for several years. He made his home at Covington, Ky., until 1850, when he started overland to the gold fields of California, accompanied by his wife and one child. His wife was taken sick, and he landed in Jackson County, and for a short time made his home in Independence, and gave up the plan of going to California. He soon engaged in the manufacture of brick at Sibley, and successfully carried on his business in Sibley, Lexington, Wellington and other towns in this vicinity. He also erected or supervised the erection of many brick residences in Jackson and Lafayette counties, and was kept busily and profitably employed until the outbreak of the Civil War. He took no part in this struggle, but was persecuted and harassed by invaders from Kansas and Union adherents because of his Southern birth. Several times he was forced to flee for his life, and kept in hiding until he went to Arkansas, where he remained for a few months, and then went to Leaven- worth, Kan., following his trade in that city for two years until the close of the war. Returning to his home in Fort Osage township, he resumed the pursuit of his trade and set about improving his farm. In 1877 he turned his attention exclusively to farming and stock raising, and built up one of the fine estates in Jackson County, comprising 300 acres.
Mr. Pemberton was first married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1848, to Miss Louise Leier, a native of Baltimore, Md., who died in Sibley, Mo., in 1853, leaving two children, Thomas A., died at the age of three years ; and Louise, deceased wife of Robert Hughes, who died in Wyandotte County, Kansas, leaving two children, Olivia and Emma.
Mr. Pemberton's second marriage was in Fort Osage township, Dec. 10, 1856, with Miss Armilda Thompson, a daughter of John K. and Jerusha Thompson, natives of Kentucky. Four children were born to this union,
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as follow : Thomas C., Anna M., Cora Belle, Elwin S., and Margaret. The mother of the foregoing children was born in Jackson County, Dec. 10, 1837, and departed this life Nov. 2, 1917. Thomas C. Pemberton died in 1911. He had married Nellie Hayes, who bore him four children: Charles, Jefferson, Thomas C., Jr., and Maude. Anna M. died in 1886. Elwin S. is a prosperous farmer, living in Fort Osage township, a sketch of whose career appears elsewhere in this volume. Cora Belle and Mar- garet reside on the Pemberton home place of 200 acres, which is im- proved with a handsome brick residence erected by their father. Miss Belle Pemberton has charge of the farm, and has proven herself to be an able manager.
Thomas C. Pemberton devoted his life to his affairs and to the rearing of his family, in whom he took great pride. His ambition in life was to provide amply for their welfare. In this he succeeded while doing his part as a citizen in the upbuilding of Jackson County. His honorable dealing, his steadfast determination to succeed in whatever he undertook won him success. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias.
Henry S. Kritser, owner of a splendid farm in Brooking township of 40 acres, on which he has resided since 1883, and which is one of the best appearing and most fertile farms in the neighborhood, is on of old timers of Jackson County. Mr. Kritser has lived all of his 75 years in this county, and is one of the oldest of the native born pioneers in Brooking township. He was born Jan. 5, 1844, in Independence.
His father, Martin L. Kritser, was born in Pennsylvania, and went from his home on the border line of western Pennsylvania to Kentucky, and there married Mary Jane Wilson, at Mays Lick, Ky. He came to Missouri in 1834, and conducted a grocery store at Independence until 1855. In 1855 he located on a farm of 240 acres south of Raytown, in Brooking township, and lived on this farm until his death. He was the father of seven sons and seven daughters, 11 of his children attain- ing maturity. Three sons are living: Millard F., Kansas City; John S., Taylor, Texas ; and Henry, the subject of this sketch. Two daughters are living: Lydia, Kansas City, Mo .; and Kate, Independence. Two of his sons, John S. and Martin Kritser, were members of Gen. Joe Shelby's bodyguard, or Langhorne's company, during the Civil War, and served throughout that conflict.
Henry Kritser, of this review, wanted the worst kind to go to war and fight for the Southern cause, but someone had to stay at home and assist his parents. Once when Shelby's men were passing through the
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country, his brother, John, stopped at the home for a meal. Henry had made up his mind to join him and go with Shelby, but his brother insisted that the hardships were such that he should not go, and that it was his duty to stay at ome. He stayed with his father on the home farm until 1868; he then married and located on a farm one and a half miles south, until he bought his present place.
Mr. Kritser was married in 1868, to Elizabeth Davenport, who was born in 1845, and died Oct. 2, 1915. She was born in Jackson County and was a daughter of Stephen Davenport, a Jackson County pioneer, who came here from Kentucky. Three children blessed this union: Mrs. Maude Patrick, lives in Kansas City, and has two sons, Frank and Charles Patrick, both of whom served in France with the A. E. F .; Jesse J. Krit- ser lives in Texas; and Charles lives on the home place and has charge of the Kritser farm. He married Mary Dripps, and has one child, Mary Alice.
Mr. Kritser is a Democrat, emplatic in his views and a strong Wilson adherent, and decidedly in favor of President Wilson's policies and the League of Nations. He is a member of the Christian church. During his entire life he has been active in furthering good movements, which have had much to do with the development of the county. He started the movement for the building of the Raytown-Lees Summit rock road, and had the satisfaction of seeing this splendid project pushed to com- pletion. He was one of the originators of the No. 2 consolidated school district. Mr. Kritser talked this school to the patrons and stayed with the proposition until all opposition was vanquished, and the school was established and a new building erected. He is a good citizen, a fine type of the old time pioneer who has progressed with times, and is young in enterprise and thought.
James Alvin Debord has the distinction of being the third oldest native born pioneer in Brooking township. He was born in this township, Nov. 4, 1855, on the Alvin Brooking estate north of Raytown. His father was William C. Debord, who married Serena M. Brooking, a daughter of Alvin Brooking, a pioneer settler of Brooking township, and after whom this township was named.
William C. Debord was born in Virginia, and died in Brooking town- ship in 1860. He came to this county when a young man, and was here married to Serena M. Brooking, who was born in Kentucky, and died in Jackson County in 1904. William C. Debord was well educated, and taught school in this county when he first came here and boarded at the
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Brooking home. He later engaged in farming, and was the father of five children, four of whom were reared: William H. and Alice, deceased ; James A., of this sketch; John Debord, living in Brooking township; and Mrs. Emma Bull, living near Raytown.
In 1861, Mrs. Debord was married to Logan Pendleton, and bore him six children: Mrs. Lillie Rice, living near Raytown; Robert, deceased; Edward, Raytown; Mrs. Mattie Whitehouse, near Brooking cemetery ; Alex, deceased; Mrs. Elvira Wilson, living on the Brooking home place ; and Marcus, living near Brooking cemetery.
James A. Debord attended the Chapel school and the Lane and Pitcher school, which were conducted mainly on the subscription plan. When he became of age he began working on his own account, and was employed on the Henry Brooking place for three years. He was married in 1879 to Amanda Stapp, who was born in Kentucky in 1853, and was a daughter of Washington Stapp. Mrs. Debord died Nov. 20, 1917. The children born to this union are: Jessie, wife of M. W. Sechrest, Brooking township, mother of three children, Elsie, Mildred and Clyde; Wallace, at home, married Myrtle Stout, and has two children, Leonard and Stay- ton Alvin, and Alice, deceased.
After his marriage, Mr. Debord settled on the Rube Marckaby place, and lived there for one year. He then rented the farm belonging to the Campbell heirs, east of the cemetery, for two years. He moved to his present farm in 1882, at which time he bought 40 acres and improved it. Mr. Debord owns 30 acres of the old Brooking farm, and has 110 acres of valuable land in all.
He has always been a Democrat. Mr. Debord is well informed, takes a keen interest in every day affairs, lives comfortably and happily and is a thoroughly good citizen.
Ottis Adams, farmer and stockman, proprietor of 385 acres of well improved farm land, is a native of Jackson County, and a descendant of one of the first pioneer settlers of Jackson County. The Adams farm is situated in Sniabar township, and is improved with a splendid farm house, set in a grove of evergreens and all buildings are in good condition. Mr. Adams has made his home on the place since 1897, and is making a spe- cialty of breeding Shorthorn cattle, of which he has a fine herd of 20 pure-breds. This herd is 22 years old, and was purchased from the Chiles herd of Shorthorns. Mr. Adams disposes of his fine cattle at private sale.
Ottis Adams was born Sept. 17, 1878, and is a son of the late Hon. James M. Adams, who was one of the best known citizens of Jackson
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KEITH, ROMA GEORGE AND KENNETH OTIS ADAMS.
JOHN B. CAMPBELL.
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County. See sketch of James M. Adams in this volume. Ottis Adams was reared in Jackson County, and attended the district schools. He was mar- ried Feb. 8, 1897, to Miss Nellie G. Campbell, born in Jackson County, Feb. 4, 1879, a daughter of John B. Campbell, Jr., born Aug. 13, 1856, and died on April 30, 1886. J. B. Campbell, Jr., was a son of John B. Campbell, a pioneer in Jackson County, and became a large land owner. John B. Campbell, Sr., was born Jan. 20, 1822. Rachel A. Campbell, his wife, was born Oct. 6, 1822. He died March 4, 1884. J. B. Campbell, Jr., was mar- ried to Alice Latimer, March 21, 1878. Mrs. Adams mother was Alice Latimer, prior to her marriage. She was born Feb. 4, 1860, in this county, and was a daughter of the late Washington Latimer, a pioneer.
To John B. and Alice Campbell were born two children: Mrs. Nellie G. Adams, and Ruth, born July 15, 1881, and died Oct. 13, 1885. Mrs. Adams inherited the home place. In 1893 Mrs. Campbell married Newton J. Love, and this marriage was blessed with four children: Mrs. Ruby Chapman, Sniabar township; Terrence, who was a soldier in the World War, and served in France as a member of Company C, Eighty-ninth divi- sion; Ralph and Jewell, at home with their parents in Buckner. Mrs. Adams has resided on the home place since she was two years old, with the exception of one year's residence in Kansas City with Mr. Adams after their marriage. The children born to Ottis and Nellie G. Adams are: Keith, Roma George, and Kenneth Ottis.
Keith Campbell Adams was born Feb. 25, 1900, and is now attending high school in Kansas City. He enlisted in the United States Navy June 5, 1918, spent six months in the training station at Seattle, and three months at Norfolk, Va., and was discharged in February, 1919. Roma George Adams was born Sept. 27, 1903, and is a junior at Central College, Lexington, Mo. Kenneth Ottis Adams was born Dec. 12, 1916.
Mr. Adams is a Democrat, who takes an interest in political and civic affairs. Mrs. Adams is a member of the Methodist Church South, and they are sociable, companionable, well-read people.
William C. Potts, extensive farmer and stockman, owner of 400 acres in Sniabar township, is a native of Jackson County. He was born on an adjoining farm, June 28, 1861, and is a son of Levi and Sina Emily (Slaughter) Potts, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Mis- souri. Levi Potts served in the Confederate Army during four years of the Civil War. During the early part of the war he served with Quan- trell, and during the last part of the war he was in General Price's com- mand.
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Levi Potts was born in 1827, and died in 1913. He was a son of John Potts, who married a Miss Morrow, and who came from Kentucky to Jackson County in 1829, and entered government land near Lake City. He later left the county and moved to a farm near Columbus, Johnson County. After some years spent in Johnson County he returned to Jack- son County and purchased the land whereon a part of Grain Valley is now located. The land adjoining the site of this town later passed to Levi Potts, when the estate was divided among the heirs. Some of this land is still owned by descendents of John Potts. In the early fifties Levi Potts located southeast of Grain Valley, and purchased land which is now owned by his son, William C. Potts, and accumulated a total of 360 acres. In his later years he made his home with his son, William C. Mrs. Sina Emily Potts was born in 1837, and died in April, 1903. She was a daughter of Josiah Slaughter, an early pioneer of this county, who came here from Virginia. There were ten children born to Levi and Sina Emily
Potts, as follow : Mary Elizabeth, deceased wife of John Gore; Mrs. Sarah Frances Snodgrass, Grain Valley, Mo .; Lethia, deceased; William C., of this sketch, and Eliza, who died in childhood; Josiah Potts, lives on a ยท nearby farm; Mrs. Ida Lynch, lives on an adjoining farm; John, died in youth; Riley, died in September, 1902; Mrs. Georgia Hoar, Kansas City.
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