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Charles August Reichle was born May 9, 1864 in Ross county, Ohio, on the farm of his father, a place located near Chillicothe. He is a son of John Jacob and Anna Barbara (Reichle) Reichle, both of whom were natives of Germany. John Jacob Reichle was born March 16, 1820 in Guttenburg and Anna Barbara was born March 21, 1825 in Wurtemburg. They were united in marriage in Germany in 1849 and two children were born to them in the old country: Margaret and Christopher. In 1854, the father emigrated from his native land and came to America, where he located temporarily in Pennsylvania and then in Ohio. In the latter state, he engaged in general farming and when he had accumulated sufficient savings, John Jacob Reichle sent for his wife and children, who had remained in the old country on account of the hard times, and the mother came to America in 1856, bringing the two children with her to Ohio. In Ross county, Ohio, three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Reichle: Mary Eliza- beth, Clara Christina, and Charles August. The Reichle family moved from Ohio to Missouri in 1865 and located on the farm, known as the Robertson place, in Johnson county. In 1867, they settled on the farm now owned by Charles August Reichle, the land formerly belonging to Daniel Adams. This place comprised ninety acres and here the father was engaged in farming and stock raising for many years. He died in August, 1906 and in the same month of the year, seven years later the mother joined hint in death, August 29, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Reichle were valued members of the German Lutheran church.
December 27, 1888, Charles August Reichle and Elizabeth Mack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Mack, of Johnson county, were united in marriage. To them were born the following children: Ger- trude Elsie, born August 4, 1890 and died October 27, 1907; Ora Ethel, born July 10, 1892; and Charles August. Jr., born December 19, 1901. The mother died September 18, 1907. She was one of Johnson county's bravest and noblest women.
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For seven years after his marriage, Mr. Reichle was engaged in farming on rented farms. At the close of that period of time, he moved back home with his parents and has resided on the home place ever since. He now owns the one hundred thirty acres comprising the home farm and one-third interest in a tract of land of one hundred sixty acres adjoining the homestead. Mr. Reichlie is an earnest Christian gentle- man, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. It is a delight and pleasure to talk with a man such as Charles August Reichle, who always looks on the bright side and turns all "clouds inside out to find the silver lining." He is of the opinion that the present times are not so bad or so hard. Mr. Reichle has experienced all the hardships of pio- neer life and war and he knows the meaning of really "hard times," when people considered themselves well off if they had plenty of corn bread and hominy. Yeast bread was a luxury, indulged in about once a month, and deemed so fine that it was called "cake." Prices for food and clothing are high now, but the wages of the working man of any intelligence are also high and conditions are not to be compared with those when he was a young man trying to get a start in life, work- ing for a dollar a day and flour ten dollars a barrel, hogs twelve dollars a hundred weight, and even calico one dollar a yard.
J. G. Gillilan, a competent and industrious farmer and stockman of Columbus township, is a son of an honored pioneer of Johnson county, a member of one of the first families of Columbus township. Mr. Gillilan was born in Columbus township in 1871, son of John M. and Rachel Ruth (Kelly) Gillilan, the father, a native of West Vir- ginia and the mother, a daughter of an early pioneer of Johnson county, John Kelly. John M. Gillilan was born in Greenbrier county, West Virginia and when a mere lad, sixteen years of age, came West and located temporarily in Lafayette county and then settled on a farm in Columbus township, where he has since resided continuously, with the exception of four years when he was in the Confederate service during the Civil War. Mr. Gillilan was born in 1837 and in October, 1853 purchased the farm which is now his home. To John M. and Rachel Ruth Gillilan have been born twelve children: Mrs. Martha Grin- stead, Kingsville, Missouri; William Price, who died at the age of twenty-five years ; Mrs. Anna Van Meter, Odessa, Missouri; Mrs. Lydia Violet, Hazel Hill township; J. G., Columbus township, the subject of this review: R. R., Odessa, Missouri; Bertie, at home; Mrs. Ger-
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trude Anderson, Odessa, Missouri; Charles, the well-known cashier of the American Trust Company of Warrensburg; Ethel, at home with her parents; Clarence, at home; and one child, deceased. Both par- ents are still living. The father is now eighty years of age, but nearly as active as his sons, and as bright and alert mentally as most men of fifty years. A more comprehensive sketch of the Gillilans appears in connection with the biography of John M. Gillilan, which will be found elsewhere in this volume.
J. G. Gillilan attended school at McCoy school house in Columbus township. He remained with his parents until he was twenty-four years of age and then rented land for three years and, in 1897, pur- chased his present home from J. W. Campbell, a place formerly known as the Grover farm, which is located three miles northwest of Colum- bus. Mr. Gillilan has added all the improvements on the place, includ- ing the buildings, fencing, and the residence. The residence was built in 1897 and a barn has been built in recent years, in 1906. The farm is well equipped for general farming and stock raising and is abun- dantly watered. The J. G. Gillilan home is one of the pleasant and attractive homes of Johnson county.
In 1895, J. G. Gillilan and Essie Boone, daughter of Manlius and Mattie Boone, pioneers of Lafayette county, Missouri, were united in marriage and to them have been born four children: Russell, Man- lius, Ruth, and Jay George, all at home with their parents. Manlius Boone came from his native state of Kentucky in 1854 and settled in Lafayette county, Missouri. He was a distant relative of the famous Daniel Boone, the pioneer huntsman of Kentucky. Mrs. Boone died in 1883 and her remains were laid to rest in Mount Tabor cemetery. Mr. Boone died in July, 1909 in Columbus township, Johnson county and he, too, was buried in Mount Tabor cemetery. Manlius Boone was a son of Samuel Boone and both father and son served with "Fighting Joe" Shelby during the Civil War. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gilli- lan are descendants of brave Confederate veterans and honored pio- neers and they are numbered among the best families of this part of Missouri.
F. Allen Roberts, farmer and stockman, is a native-born son of Missouri. Mr. Roberts was born in Madison township, Johnson county in 1884. He is a son of Thomas Jackson ("Jack" Roberts, as he was familiarly known) and Catharine (Hayes) Roberts.
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Thomas Jackson Roberts was born in Tennessee in 1843, son of George K. and Mary Elizabeth (Rhodes) Roberts, the former, born in 1812 and died in 1898 and the latter, the mother, departed this life in 1886. Both parents of Thomas J. Roberts were born in Kentucky. They immigrated to Missouri in 1845 and settled in Madison town- ship about three miles north of Holden. Mr. Roberts was educated here at Round Grove school house and grew to sturdy manhood on his father's farm. When war broke out between the the North and South, Mr. Roberts enlisted shortly after the battle of Lonejack was fought. He served under General Price and took part in a number of battles and served until the close of the war. He was discharged from service at Baton Rouge. Not long after, taking up the peaceful pursuits of farming, he married Catharine Hayes, in 1865. For forty-nine years, he resided on his farm in Madison township. Mrs. Roberts was born in Cass county, a daughter of Montgomery and Mary (Cockrell) Hayes, her mother being a sister of Senator Cockrell. Montgomery Hayes, the father, was a native of Kentucky. He was reared in Saline county, Missouri. He made the long trip overland to the gold fields of Cali- fornia in 1849 and died there. Thomas J. Roberts died at his old home in 1915. Mrs. Roberts died on August 11, 1885.
Thomas J. and Catharine Roberts were the parents of seven chil- dren, as follow: Anna, wife of George Brock, living near Strasburg, Missouri in Johnson county; Bettie, deceased; Mrs. John F. Baker, Holden, Missouri; Minnie, wife of P. A. Harvey; Margaret, wife of John C. Mayes, of Montserrat ; Birle, wife of Finis E. Mayes of Mont- serrat ; and F. Allen, the subject of this review, who is now owner of the home place in Madison township. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. Mr. Roberts was a life-long Democrat.
F. Allen Roberts was reared on the home place and received his education in the district schools and the Holden High School. He is farming on the home place, a farm of three hundred forty-eight acres, and is making a fine success cultivating his land. Mr. Roberts keeps a large herd of white face Hereford cattle, with a registered male as herd leader, being a firm believer in the fact conceded by the most successful Missouri farmers that this section of the state is best adapted to stock raising. He likewise believes that it pays to keep the best breeds of stock.
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Mr. Roberts was married in 1911 to Miss Howard, daughter of Mack Howard, of Kingsville township, one of the old settlers of John- son county. Mr. and Mrs. F. Allen Roberts have two children: Mary Frances and Edith. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are members of the Chris- tian church. Mr. Roberts is a Democrat, politically, and is fraternally affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America.
Richard Henry Tatlow was born on a farm near Palmyra, Mis- souri on July 29, 1841. His parents, Thomas H. Tatlow and Eliza Jane Tatlow, his wife, whose maiden name was Barr, came to Missouri from Delaware in 1840 and settled on a farm near Palmyra in Marion county.
Young Tatlow was educated in the schools of Palmyra. In 1859, he went to Hannibal and was engaged in merchandising until 1864, when he returned to Palmyra and was engaged in operating a flour mill until 1874. April 18. 1866, he was married to Miss Fannie E. Anderson, daughter of Colonel Thomas L. and Mrs. F. M. Anderson. Mr. Anderson was a native of Kentucky and his wife, of Massachusetts. To this union five children were born, four of whom survived, a daugh- ter, Lillian, dying in infancy. In 1874, he retired to a farm east of Palmyra and farmed until 1879. Then he moved to Holden and re-en- tered mercantile life and was thus engaged until 1886, when he bought a half interest in the "Holden Enterprise," a Democratic journal, and he and John D. Crisp conducted this paper until 1890. He then bought out Mr. Crisp and continued the publication alone until 1917, covering a period of thirty-one years. In 1896, Governor W. J. Stone appointed him a member of the Johnson county court to fill a vacancy. In the fall of 1896, he was elected to the position for two years. He retired in 1899.
R. H. Tatlow, Jr., the only son, with his wife, started from Denver, Colorado on October 15, 1917. in his auto to visit his parents at Holden and when seventy-five miles east of Denver, near Lymon, Colorado, the car skidded and turned over, killing him instantly and seriously injuring his wife. Fortunately, the children, R. H. Tatlow, III, aged twelve years, and the little daughter, Laurine, aged ten years, were left at home at school.
Charles T. Burris was born February 22, 1874 at the Burris home- stead in Columbus township, on the farm widely known as "The Elms
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Stock Farm," a son of Captain Lewis, Sr., and Elizabeth (Upton) Burris, who were the parents of four children: Cornelia M., Warrens- burg, Missouri; Charles T., the subject of this review; H. J., Kansas City, Missouri; and Lewis L., a prominent farmer of Columbus town- ship, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. The father was a native of Lafayette county and the mother of Randolph, Mis- souri. Captain Burris died in 1911 and the widowed mother is now residing in Warrensburg. The history of the Burris family is given in more complete detail in connection with the biography of the son, Lewis Burris, Jr., which will be found elsewhere in this volume.
Captain Lewis Burris, Sr., came to Columbus township, Johnson county within a few years after his return home from the Civil war, in which he served as captain of the confederate regiment from Nodaway county. He purchased sixty acres of land at that time, a tract of timber land, which he cleared and improved and added to, until at the time of his death six years ago he was the owner of one of the most valuable farms in the county, a place comprising more than seven hundred acres of land. Mr. Burris divided his place among his children a short time prior to his death. Charles T. Burris now owns the home farm and resi- dence. He has given much time and attention to improving the soil of the old home farm and by rotating his crops and pasturing stock has met with splendid success and "The Elms Stock Farm" is now consid- ered one of the fine farms of Columbus township. The fencing of the farm has been improved and the residence rebuilt and all the farm buildings nicely painted. All the place practically is under cultivation and in grass and pasture land. "The Elms Stock Farm" comprises one hundred acres of land located five and a half miles northeast of Colum- bus in the northeastern corner of the township. The name of the farm is registered.
Charles T. Burris attended the city schools at Warrensburg and later was a student at the Warrensburg State Normal School from which institution he graduated with the class of 1894. He then returned to the farm and associated with his father and his brother, Lewis, Jr., in cattle raising for fifteen years. The elder Burris retired from active farm work in 1910 and about two years later his death occurred in War- rensburg. Since that time, the two brothers have kept separate herds of Aberdeen Angus cattle. Charles T. Burris has now, in 1917, thirty head of these on his farm. He sells at the home market and has a
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greater demand for his stock than he can supply, and all that is pro- duced on the place finds ready buyers.
April 1, 1897, Charles T. Burris and Lillie Ramsey were united in marriage and to this union was born one child, a daughter, Erma Lee, who is now teaching school in district Number 83. Mrs. Burris died and October 14, 1909 Mr. Burris again married, his second wife being Gertrude Brockman, of Columbus, Missouri, daughter of J. E. Brock- man. Mr. and Mrs. Burris reside at "The Elms," but with the new Ford car their home is but a ride of fifteen minutes from Warrensburg. Mr. Burris recalls vividly the days when it required the entire day to make the round trip. The Burris family have long been prominent in Johnson county and Charles T. is well known as a progressive and suc- cessful farmer and stockman in this part of the state. Both he and Mrs. Burris are highly regarded in their community and they are enrolled among the valued and public spirited citizens of Columbus township.
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