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County Officers .- The following are the county officers who have
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been elected from the township, since 1882, with the dates of their elec- tion :
1882-1886-1890-John M. Rice (Democrat), county clerk.
1908-1912-Charles L. Gillilan (Democrat), recorder.
1890-1892-1894-James A. Anderson (Democrat), county judge.
Personal Property and Products .- Agriculture and personal prop- erty statistics for Columbus township, as given by Missouri State Reports for 1877, and Johnson county assessors' lists for 1881, 1896 and 1916, are:
1877
1877
1896
1916
Wheat, bushels
12,515
Horses
626
671
756
Corn, bushels
243,080
Mules
240
302
310
Oats, bushels
6,705
Cattle
1,226
1,261
1,941
Rye, bushels
832
Sheep
646
299
510
Barley, bushels
80
Hogs
2,976
2,392
2,307
Tobacco, pounds
17,250
Asses
none
14
9
Hay, tons
397
Wool, pounds
2,992
Molasses, gallons
3,224
Wine, gallons
22
1881
1896
1916
Notes and money.
$ 23,304
$20,115
$ 41,030
Other personalty
31,415
17,677
19,110
All personalty
109,214
89,840
143,370
County Road Improvements .- County road improvements made by the township, since this system was established in 1911, were up to Janu- ary 1, 1918, twenty-three in number, and aggregated $1,319.50 furnished by citizens of the township, and $1,250 by the county. In the amount of this work Columbus ranks third among the townships of the county.
Population .-- The population of Columbus township, by United States Census, was :
-1870-
White.
Colored. Total.
1880
1890
1900
1910
1,279
115
1,394
1,307
1,195
1,092
962
Organizations .- The following is a complete list of organizations in Columbus township. Full details of each organization are in this book in separate chapters of the different organizations:
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Churches-Baptist, Honey Creek ; Catholic; Cumberland Presbyte- rian ; Methodist South ; Presbyterian, at Columbus; Presbyterian, Jacoby Chapel.
Fraternal Organizations-Modern Woodmen, Royal Neighbors. Homemakers Clubs-Greendoor, McCoy.
Total number of organizations is ten.
CHAPTER XXV .- KINGSVILLE TOWNSHIP.
ORGANIZATION, NAMING-GEOGRAPHY AND SOIL-EARLY SETTLEMENTS-FIRST POSTOFFICE-EARLY CHURCHES-EARLY CEMETERIES-EARLY SCHOOLS- EARLY TEACHERS-JUSTICES-COUNTY OFFICERS-POPULATION-PERSONAL PROPERTY AND PRODUCTS-COUNTY ROAD IMPROVEMENTS-ORGANIZA- TIONS-KINGSVILLE.
Kingsville township was organized May 12, 1870, after the railroad had been built. It took its name from Kingsville village, which was named for Gen. William King, who laid out the town in 1856.
Geography and Soil .- Area, 35 square miles, or 22,400 acres. Geo- graphically, and according to the United States Department of Agricul- ture's Soil Survey of 1914, Kingsville township is a smooth body of good upland soil (Summit silt loam, or "black limestone" soil), broken by tributaries of Blackwater, south fork in the northeast, with irregular strips about one-fourth mile wide, of Boone silt loam ("sandy" soil) adjoining the bottom soil, and by the headwaters of Lost creek, a tributary of Big creek, in the southwest, with irregular strips also about one-fourth mile wide adjoining the bottom soil, of Bates silt loam (dark, gray-brown soil). It is the smallest township in area in the county.
In detail, these soils are :
Summit silt loam, upland, "black limestone" soil, about 75 per cent. of the township. This lies all over the whole township, and it constitutes a larger proportion of the soil of this township and of Madison township than any other townships in the county.
Boone silt loam, upland, "sandy" soil, 10 per cent. This lies chiefly in the northeast part of the township, in irregular one-quarter to one- half mile wide strips next to the bottom soil of Blackwater tributaries.
Bates silt loam, upland, dark gray-brown soil, 10 per cent. This lies chiefly along the small branches of Lost creek, in the southwest, in irregular strips one-quarter to three-fourths mile wide directly ad- joining the bottom soil.
Crawford silt loam, upland, "red limestone" soil, 2 per cent. This lies in small patches of one-fourth to one mile wide in the northwest ..
Osage silt loam, ordinary bottom soil, 2 per cent. This lies chiefly along Blackwater, south fork, in the northeast.
Chariton silt loam, second bottom, 1 per cent. This lies in a patch of about three-fourths of a square mile in the southwest corner.
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Of the foregoing, the Summit silt loam and Crawford silt loam are ranked in the best three common upland soils of the county, with Bates silt loam next.
For further soil details, refer to chapters on Agriculture and Soils.
Early Settlements .- It is said that Judge Anderson Smith, son of William Smith, the second sheriff of this county, was the first settler in Kingsville township. He located at Bluff Spring and built the first house there. This was probably about 1835 or 1836. In 1836, he sold to Benjamin Longacre, who soon put up a tanyard and tanned skins for the settlers for a radius of fifty miles. Henry Colbern, the first sad- dler of Warrensburg, grandfather of John R. Colbern, the stock man, came here for his supplies. He also built the first mill in the town- ship, which was probably in 1837. Prior to that time the pioneers beat their corn in a mortar. A son of Benjamin Longacre, Joseph D., from Tennessee, was also an early settler in this township, coming about 1839. He was a soldier in the Mexican War and also served . in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He and Joe Howard were noted wolf hunters and frequently hunted together. The first settle- ment on Pleasant Run, or Duncan's branch, was also in 1839. P. W. Paul settled here prior to 1840. Samuel Boljack was an early settler and in 1844 bought the Longacre mill. At first this grist-mill was a two-horse mill of the old fashioned sweep lever type. Later it was converted into a two-horse tread mill and operated by Joe Howard. This was considered a model modern mill.
Benjamin F. Lewis settled here in 1853. Dr. William G. King came here in 1851. He was born in Independence, Missouri, Decem- ber 28, 1831. Prominent among other early settlers of the township were Hon. W. F. Ralston, Hon. R. T. Fryer, Josiah Smith and John R. French.
First Postoffice .- The first postoffice was Bluff Spring and Ben- jamin Longacre was the first postmaster. He was succeeded by Samuel Boljack. In 1856, the postoffice was changed to Kingsville.
In 1860, Dr. W. H. Carpenter built a distillery and carding ma- chine, which he operated about a year. It was later destroyed by fire.
Early Churches .- The first religious denomination to hold services in this township was the Methodists. Reverend Lee preached the first sermon at the residence of Benjamin Longacre. Soon after this a regu- lar Methodist organization was effected here. which continued until
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the Civil War broke out. Rev. Daniel K. Pell was in charge of the circuit in 1844, and it was at that time that the vote was taken for the division of the North and South branches of the Methodist church. The congregation at first voted against the division, but they were all Southern people and upon reconsideration voted in favor of the division, and the church was named Bluff Spring Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Some of the early ministers in charge of this circuit prior to the time of the division in 1844, were Reverends Lee, Martin Paul, W. Ferrell, Mckinney, Thomas Wallace, B. F. Love, George W. Love, Maj. Jonathan Fine, Samuel Colbern, Pratt, George W. Bewley, Daniel Leaper, Ashby and Daniel K. Pell. Rev. Jesse Greene was the first presiding elder of this district. The ministers after the division were, Revs. Robert Foster and Warren M. Pitts. There was no church building ever erected here. The other early churches were in the town of Kingsville, and are given in the history of the town.
Early Cemeteries .- The oldest cemetery in the township is perhaps what is known as Hopper cemetery, located on section 3 in the western part of the township. It was the private cemetery of the families of William Hopper, Houston Helms and Thomas Savage, early settlers here. A blind man, who was accidentally killed, was the first to be buried here.
Major's cemetery is an old burial ground supposed to have been laid out in 1837 and was used as early as 1840 as a public cemetery. One of the Major family was one of the first to be interred here. It is located on East fork of Lost creek in section 13.
Bluff Spring cemetery is also an old burial ground and was laid out by Benjamin Longacre in 1837. It is in section 25, on the ridge dividing the Osage and Missouri water sheds.
Duncan cemetery is located in section 14. The first burial here was that of Gideon Cunningham. In 1841 a man named Savage was buried here.
Hornsby cemetery, in section 15, is a family burial ground and the first to be interred here was Mrs. Esther Hornsby, the aunt of J. N. Ferguson, old county surveyor, in 1845.
There are numerous other private burial grounds and many lone graves in various parts of the township, the exact location of many of which is unknown.
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Early Schools .- The first schools of Kingsville township were lo- cated at what was known as Lost creek and Bluff Spring. Hackney school house, an old log cabin which stood near Bluff Spring, was said to be the oldest school house in the township. The second school house to be built in the township was also a log structure known as Hornsby school house and stood in the southwestern part of the town- ship.
Early Teachers .- Some of the teachers who taught in these log school houses were Alfred Hawker, James Allen, William W. Sparks, Joseph Y. Alexander, J. N. Ferguson, A. J. Longacre, Hugh Wallace. Ben Howell and R. G. Stokley. Later teachers were, William T. Johnson, Thomas McKee, Maggie Duncan, J. K. P. Howe, R. T. Fryer, P. L. Hyer, Stanley T. Rogers. James A. Wright, T. A. Reavis, Maggie A. Totten, Dora Douthit, C. H. Hartzell, T. N. Haynes, F. E. Meigs, William L. Nelson.
Justices .- The justices of the peace of Kingsville township as far back as the county records show are: 1870, George Monroe, James Morrow; 1878, C. W. Moss, T. A. Conrad; 1880, John S. Jones; 1882, G. G. Valentine, J. R. White; 1886, G. G. Valentine, J. B. Lampkin ; 1890, J. B. Lampkin, Joseph Hobbs ; 1894, J. B. Lampkin, P. J. Burnett : 1898. W. B. Wallace, W. H. Zion; 1902, W. H. Ragsdale, W. H. Zion; 1904, Jacob Hobbs; 1906, Jacob Hobbs, A. L. Garvin: 1910, Jacob Hobbs, Charles H. Horsley ; 1912. D. M. Connell: 1914. E. B. Maxwell, R. A. Berry.
County Officers .- The county officers of Kingsville township. as shown in the county records, since 1882. are as follow :
1882-84-86-R. T. Fryer (Democrat), presiding judge.
1890-W. P. Gibson ( Democrat ), presiding judge.
1894-George G. Valentine (Democrat), county clerk.
1896-98-John B. Lampkin ( Democrat ), treasurer.
Population .- The population of Kingsville township, as shown by the United States census reports :
-1870-
White.
Colored. Total.
1880
1890
1900
1910
1,347
13
1,360
1,100
1,090
1.258
1,106
Personal Property and Products .- The agriculture and personal
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property statistics as shown in the Missouri State Census of 1877 and Johnson county assessors' lists for 1896 and 1916 are as follow :
1877
1877
1896
1916
Wheat, bushels
29,053
Horses
407
763
833
Corn, bushels
184,240
Mules
202
216
332
Oats, bushels
2,016
Cattle
958
1,060
1,202
Barley, bushels
87
Sheep
820
170
225
Rye, bushels
1,011
Hogs
2,076
1,388
1,376
Tobacco, pounds
9,916
Wool, pounds
1,897
Hay, tons
88.
Molasses, gallons
1,971
Wine, gallons
6
Notes and money
$ 27.155
$ 66,415
Other personalty
24,741
24,255
All personalty
102,575
181,201
County Road Improvements .- County road improvements made by Kingsville township since this system was established in 1911 were, up to January 1, 1918, twelve in number, and aggregated $633.75 furnished by citizens of the township, and $625 furnished by the county.
Organizations .- The following is a complete list of all organizations of every kind in Kingsville township. Full details of each organization are in separate chapters on the different organizations.
Churches-Baptist, Kingsville: Christian, Kingsville; Methodist, Wesley Chapel : Seventh Day Adventists.
Fraternal Organizations-Masons, Blue Lodge: Odd Fellows, Mod- ern Woodmen, Eastern Star.
1917 War Organizations-Red Cross, Kingsville Branch.
Business-Bank of Kingsville.
Miscellaneous-Valley View Grange. Women's Christian Temper- ance Union, Kingsville ; Women's Christian Temperance Union, Duncan ; Homemakers Club, Duncan.
Total number of organizations in township is fourteen.
KINGSVILLE.
Kingsville was laid out in 1856 by General William King, from whom it takes its name. General King built the first house here in
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1853 and Samuel Bolejack built a residence here shortly afterward.
A postoffice was established here in 1856 and Samuel Bolejack was the first postmaster, continuing to serve in that capacity until the Civil War broke out in 1861. The postoffice was discontinued for a time during the Civil War but was reestablished in July, 1865 about the time the Missouri Pacific railroad was built to this point.
Some of the early physicians who practiced in Kingsville and vicin- ity were Dr. James S. Fulkerson, Dr. H. W. King, Dr. W. G. King, Dr. B. King, Dr. W. H. Carpenter, Dr. T. A. Reed, Dr. J. A Houston, Dr. H. D. Douthit and Dr. W. D. Pinkston.
J. N. Ferguson taught a subscription school here in the winter of 1859-60 and a Mr. Belmont conducted a subscription school some time prior to that. Martha Givens and W. H. Duncan also taught school here prior to the Civil War. School was suspended most of the time during the war as Kingsville and vicinity suffered much from devasta- tion during that period. Among some of the early day teachers of Kingsville who were identified with the schools after the war were W. P. Baker, Henry Harmon, J. Kline, J. Johnson, Rev. Isaac N. Newman, Maggie M. McCarty, Abagail Whitson, Rev. R. G. Thompson, William P. Hunt, George G. Valentine, Dora Douthit, A. C. Jones, Mollie John- son, Maggie Duncan, Lizzie Hamshaw, Carrie Maynard, Mrs. Mattie George, Addie Johnson, Laura A. Glasse, George B. Longan, Mrs. Emma Longan, F. E. Meigs, John Moran, Sally King, J. D. King. Mrs. Adelia S. Boswell, and A. J. Sparks. At the organization of the Kings- ville school district in 1868 the first board of directors consisted of the following : A. G. French, Jacob Glasse, James Robinson. A. J. Buchanan, John Hickman, and J. S. Jones.
Kingsville cemetery is located on Chair Knob, near the village and was laid out in 1856 by General William King. He was buried here July 26, 1870. There is also another cemetery in the vicinity of Kings- ville which was formerly known as the People's Public cemetery. The Catholic church also has a cemetery here which is located on the west- ern slope of Chair Knob. This property was purchased and first used for a cemetery in 1881.
Kingsville to-day has a bank, high school and stores representing the chief lines of business.
Its population in 1910 was 238.
It was incorporated May 27, 1885.
CHAPTER XXVI .- CENTERVIEW TOWNSHIP.
ORGANIZATION AND NAMING-GEOGRAPHY, SOILS-EARLY SETTLERS-EARLY SCHOOLS-EARLY CHURCHES-OFFICIAL RECORDS, STATISTICS-JUSTICES- COUNTY OFFICERS-POPULATION-PERSONAL PROPERTY-ROAD IMPROVE- MENTS-ORGANIZATIONS- CENTERVIEW TOWN.
Centerview was organized by order of the county court, November 17, 1870, and named from its high and central location.
Geography, Soils .- Area, 60 square miles, or 38,4000 acres. Accord- ing to the Soil Survey of 1914, by the United States Department of Agriculture, Centerview township is a smooth body of soil, chiefly black limestone, summit silt loam and "mulatto" soil, Pettis silt loams, with blackwater bottom across the north end, branches of Post Oak in south- east part and of Brush creek in the west central part.
In detail, the township is divided as follows: Summit silt loam, upland ("black limestone" soil), 35 per cent. ; black, lying in northeast, south of Blackwater, and southwest; Pettis silt loam ; upland "mulatto" soil, 15 per cent. It lies around Centerview town on four sides, extend- ing about two miles west, one mile north and east, and south three miles to a quarter of a mile south of Southern Highway, except for a half square mile of Summit silt loam lying about half a mile due south of town, and except for a narrow strip of Post Oak creek bottom (Osage silt loam) one mile south of town, flanked successively by narrow strips of Boone silt loam and Bates silt loam. There is also about one square mile of Pettis silt loam in the northwest corner. That around Center- view town is one of the largest solid bodies of Pettis silt loam in the county.
Crawford silt loam, upland ("red limestone" soil), 10 per cent. It lies in a half mile wide strip of all the upland east of Brush creek from its head to Blackwater, and in a quarter to half a mile wide strip along the road to Warrensburg from the old Masonic hall in the southeast part of the township.
Boone silt loam, "sandy" upland, 10 per cent. : gray brown, of sand- stone origin. It lies in a narrow strip one-eighth to half a mile wide immediately adjoining nearly all the bottom soils in the township.
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Bates silt loam, upland. 5 per cent. : dark gray, brown to black. It lies in narrow irregular strips in the southeast, adjoining and just above the Boone silt loam.
Osage silt loam, the ordinary bottom soil. 25 per cent. consists of Blackwater and Post Oak creek bottoms.
Summit. Pettis and Crawford silt loams are ranked the best three common upland soils in the county, with Bates silt loam next. Center- view township is one of the best bodies of agricultural land in the county, and contains probably the largest proportion in the aggregate of Sum- mit, Pettis, Crawford and Osage silt loams.
Early Settlement .- The first permanent settlement in the territory now comprising Centerview township was probably made in 1832. Solo- mon Cox, a native of Kentucky, settled on section 1 on the east side of Brier creek in 1832, where he built a log cabin, and remained until 1848. Mr. Cox was a Missouri pioneer, coming to this state long before it was admitted to the Union. He was known as "Uncle Solomon," was a frugal and industrious man and while living in this township he accumulated about four hundred acres of land. This he sold at ten dollars per acre in 1848, when he left for the Pacific coast. He was a man of a roving and adventurous nature and thus his onward march across the plains and over the mountains.
Jeremiah Gregg, a native of Kentucky, settled here in 1832.
Matthias Houx, a native of Kentucky, came here in 1833. He was a successful farmer and stock raiser and became well to do. He spent the remainder of his life in this county and lived to a ripe old age. His children still live at the old home place. In the early days he was a typical frontiersman and a hunter of considerable note. In 1849, dur- ing the gold excitement in California, he went to the Pacific coast overland. It was truthfully said of him that on that overland trip to California he shot nearly every species of animal to be found between Missouri and California, including buffalo, elk, deer, panther. grizzly bear and Indian. He killed hundreds of deer and wolves in his time and in his declining years he retained his trusty old muzzle- loading rifle and double-barreled shotgun. mute comrades of many exciting events in the once wild and unbroken West.
John Conway, of Tennessee, came here in 1833 and died in 1842. James Stirling, also a native of that state, came in 1833 and died here. William Conway came from Tennessee in 1833 and later went
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to Texas, where he spent his life. Jeremiah and Samuel Carmichael and William Cocke, natives of Tennessee, came in 1833; the former spent the remainder of his life here and the latter later removed to California. Isaac Reese, another Tennesseeian, located here about 1834 and later went to Kansas, where he died. James Fisher came to this section in 1835. He was a native of Mississippi and in 1847 went to Texas.
Philip S. Houx came here in 1838 and died about twenty years later. He was a native of Missouri and the father of Rev. James N. Houx and grandfather of Charles H. Houx. John Kennedy, a native of Tennessee, came here in 1838 and died shortly afterward.
John G. Graham a Virginian, settled here in 1838 and died in 1878. Samuel C. Graham, also of Virginia, settled in this vicinity in 1840. The Grahams left numerous descendants, good citizens and men who still live in the township. James J. Graham, also a Virginian, came in 1850. Samuel T. Thistle settled in this vicinity in 1840 and later moved into Rose Hill township. He was a Virginian. And Gideon Harrison, of Alabama, came here in 1842 but soon afterward returned to his native state. .
Samuel McFarland, a native of Tennessee, came to the territory of Missouri in 1816. Later he lived in Cooper and Lafayette counties and in 1843 settled in Centerview township, about two miles east of where the village of Centerview now stands. He went to Texas in 1850 and died there in 1851. His brother, George McFarland, settled in Centerview in 1843 in the same locality and spent the remainder of his life there. He died prior to the Civil War.
Moses G. Mullins was an early settler in this section and for a number of years lived in Centerview township, two miles southwest of the Centerview depot.
Among other early settlers were William Ramsey, G. Burgess, John Combs, Jacob Fetterling, William Marr, J. W. Houx, John R. Whitsett, T. C. Chamberlain, James Chamberlain, Elhanen Roop, James Stirling, and his son, and P. S. Houx and his two sons.
George Washington, a pioneer of sterling worth, was the first super- visor from Centerview township. He held this office for eighteen months, when the law was changed abolishing the office. Later he was elected a member of the county court. He was also one of the first justices of the peace in the township and was postmaster.
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Early Schools .- The school system of Centerview township had its beginning with the primitive log school house which was maintained by the settlers and known as "subscription schools." This was the method generally in vogue prior to the public school system. Some of the first school buildings in Johnson county were erected in Centerview township. The first log school house erected within the present limits of this township was located on the south side of Brier creek, one and one-half miles south of the present village of Centerview, probably not later than 1835. There has been no tangible trace of this building for over half a century.
Another pioneer log school house was built in the same district one mile southwest of the one above mentioned several years before the Civil War, perhaps about 1850. This school was known by different names but was originally called the Cox school. The Briscoe school and the Owings school were also organized before the Civil War. The former was located in the southern part of the township and the latter in the eastern part. The Briscoe school, like many other buildings, was burned during the Civil War. During the war all the schools in. the township were discontinued.
Some of the pioneer teachers of Centerview township were: Alex- ander Gibbs, Addison Van Ausdol, J. J. Graham and Moses G. Mullins.
The Graham school, a private institution, supported by subscription, was the first school organized after the Civil War. The house was a small frame building erected in 1866 by donations from Samuel C. Graham, James Peak and others. G. H. Sack, who afterwards became county superintendent of the schools of Johnson county, was the teacher. This was the only school in the township for some time and pupils from a radius of six or seven miles attended school here. In 1868, the Centerview school district was organized and purchased this private school house and J. C. Crawford was employed to teach the school, being paid from public funds. In 1872 this school was organized as a graded school and removed to the town of Centerview. John E. Hendrix was the first principal and was followed by George Brinker- hoff, Mr. Wester, Professor Reynolds, Rev. S. H. McElvaine, H. W. Roop and W. L. Shipp.
Early Churches .- Centerview township was active in church organi- zation during the early pioneer days.
The old Smyrna church, four miles southwest of the village of
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Centerview, was the oldest church building in the township. It was a log structure thirty feet square and was known as the Free Church. It was built in 1840, and has long since disappeared, but was one of the famous churches of the early days. Some of the pioneer preachers who held services here were Joseph White, William P. C. Caldwell, Amos Horn, a Baptist minister, J. B. Morrow, of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and Robert Glenn, a Presbyterian minister.
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