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HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY.
Wolters, H. Friday, Henry Reiter, William Bodenstab, H. Deus, Henry Grotmann, Fritz Detner, Fritz Brockman, William Brockman, Henry Meins, and D. Carsons. H. Dickenhorst, Judge Prigmore, and Henry Vrede, were killed at their homes, on the same day, and by the same bushwhackers.
The St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, situated one half mile north of Concordia, was organized in 1844. The original members were J. H. Brunes, Conrad Stuenkel, Fritz Stuenkel, J. H. Brackman, Fritz Frerking, Christ. Liever, F. Fiene, H. Hartman, Louis Evers, G. F. Rake and H. Frank.
The first building occupied by this congregation was built of logs, erected in 1844, and cost $200. The dedicatory services were conducted by Christ. Liever, a teacher.
In 1859, a brick edifice was erected, at a cost of $5,000. It was par- tially rebuilt in 1880, with an additional expenditure of $4,500. This building was dedicated in 1860, by the Revs. G. Johannes, M. Hahn, and F. J. Biltz.
The successive pastors are as follows: A. Franke, eight years; Quast, two years; N. Volkert, one year, and the Rev. F. J. Biltz, the pastor, who has occupied the pulpit since 1860.
The present number of communicants is 500. Three parochial schools have been established in connection with this church, numbering respec- tively, 35, 44, and 100 pupils.
A short time since a pipe organ was purchased by the congregation, at an expense of $1,200, which sum is included in the cost of the church, as given above.
Parochial School .- This school, situated one-half mile north of Con- cordia, was established by, and is under the auspices of the Lutheran Church. The present building was erected in 1865, and has a capacity for seating and accomodating eighty pupils. Mr. Max Browning was the first teacher. The rapid increase of pupils has necessitated the erection of a larger building, preparations for which are rapidly going forward.
THE TOWN OF AULLVILLE.
was founded by Hall Hungate and C. B. Russell in July, 1869, and was incorporated in 1876. The first mayor was James H. Barnes. The first postoffice was established in 1871, with M. T. Hartman as post-master. The first business house was built by Bell & Erskin. The first school- house was built in 1873, and cost $1,500 .* The first school was taught by Miss Lilly Tolbert, for which she received twenty-five dollars per month. Her school numbered sixteen pupils. The first marriage was Wm. C. Price, of Lexington. The first male child born was John Ennis, son of G. M. and Tenny Ennis, born 1871. The first female child was Nola,
*The present board of directors are Dr. T. J Watson, John Cooksey, James Barnes, and Edward Williams, with T. H. Fitzgerale as president.
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daughter of John W. and Franky Endley. The first death occurring was Mrs. Miller, died July, 1872. The first physician was M. T. Hartman, who was a native of the county and is still a resident of the village. The first religious service was held on the second floor of Mr. Geo. Emn's store building, by the missionary Baptists. The first minister was Rev. E. Roth. The town officers are: for council, T. H. Fitzgerale, Chas. Man, J. J. Cookey, Ed. McVey, G. Roberts, Alfred Major. Abner More built the first dwelling house.
Mulkey Creek was so named for Christopher Mulkey, one of the pio- neers of the county.
The Christain Church, at Aullville was organized in 1850, at the house of Robert Littlejohn. The original members were R. T. Littlejohn, Joseph Major, C. Young, Jerome Greer, Wm. Lemmons, Joseph Major, Senior, Wm. L. Bullard, Patrick Woods, S. S. Burton, and families.
This congregation held its first meeting at the house of Robert Littlejohn, and the second in a grove near his house, and for several years afterwards in a school house near by. They then built a small church at a little village named Bethany Church, near Aullville, in which their services were held until 1875, when a frame building was erected in Aullville, at a cost of $1,800, which was dedicated in the same year, the Revs. James McHatten and Thos. Hancock conducting the services.
The successive pastors are as follows: Allen Wright, John W. McGar- vey, G. W. Langen, George W. Plattenburgh, C. A. Hedrick, Samuel McDaniel, D. Greenfield, E. A. Slater, -Sanford, Hiram Bledsoe, - Proctor, and -Carl. Present membership, 65.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Aullville was organized in the year 1871, by W. H. Powell. The first members were: Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Elliott, T. H. and M. E. Fitzgeral, Mr. Cleveland, Isaac McDey, Sallie McDey, Eliza McDey, Isaac Reed, E. A. Reed, Mary Wilson, Cynthia Calhoun, and Isaac McClure. A frame church was built in 1871, at a cost of $700, and was dedicated about the year 1875, by W. K. Marshall.
The following are the successive ministers that have been in charge: W. W. Powell, G. P. Sullivan, E. Kelley, James I. Porter, Samuel Jones, Olan B. Jones, Jno. W. Acres, and Stanford Ing. The present member- ship is thirty-six. Before the church was built meetings were held in a shoe shop.
Aullville Lodge, No. 464, A. F. & A. M., was instituted by Zenophon Reyland, P. G. M. of dispensation dated Nov. 15, 1872.
Charter was issued Oct. 16 1873. The following were the first officers and charter members: Lewis Carthrae, W. M .; C. A. Graham, S. W; John W. Weeks J. W .; James F. Downing, treasurer; W. C. Orear, sec- retary; George Osborn, S. D .; Alex Osborn, J. D,; M. M. Gladdish, tyler; John Snyder, C. C. Mitchell, and Robert Littlejohn.
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The present officers are: B. R. Bams, W. M .; E. A. Williams, S. W .; James H. Bams, J. W .; John W. Brown, treasurer; J. Rędeck, secretery, M. M. Gladdish, S. D .; C. A. Graham, J. D .; Geo. W. Trent, tyler. Pres- ent membership, 26. Hall was built in 1872, at a cost of $1,000.
flouring Mills .- In 1876 Dr. J. T. Watson established the mill now owned by Major & Ridgeway. It is frame, with brick basement, and cost about $2,500; the machinery cost about $4,000; three hands are em- ployed. The product last year, 1880-81, was 3,200 barrels of flour, sold to surrounding towns and some shipped to St. Louis.
Squire Lillard has a spring on his farm, the water of which is supposed to be chemically of the same nature as that of the famous Sweet Springs and is equal to it in its health-giving qualities.
Iron ore has been discovered on Coat's Creek, a branch of the Davis.
THE TOWN OF FREEDOM
was laid out in 1860, by Franklin Mock, on section 9, township 48, range 25. The plat was put on record. The first store, a frame building, two stories, 40x24, was erected by Wm. Kane, in which he carried on a general mercantile business. The first dwelling house erected, is the one in which Dr. Belt now lives. Messrs. Davis, Livengood & Son, put up and operated a grist mill, which has since been moved to Aullville. Wesley Cox put up the next store, and kept a stock of dry goods and groceries.
In 1857, three years prior to the platting of the town, a church building was erected by the Christian denomination, at a cost of $1,400. The Methodists purchased an interest in it, and occupied it a portion of the time. It has since been taken down and moved to Aullville, where it is entirely under the auspices of the Christians, the Methodists having a house of their own. Prior to the construction of the Lexington & St. Louis railroad, Freedom was a town of considerable importance; but rap- idly declined after it was built and Aullville laid out. Since then every business enterprise, with the exception of a blacksmith shop, owned by L. C. Matthews, has been moved to Aullville. The postoffice was kept at Dr. Wilborn's, for a time, and afterwards in Mr. Kane's store.
Freedom Chapel, of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, was organ- ized in about the year 1842, at which time the church building was erected. It is located on section 11, township 48, and range 25. The original members were, Dr. H. Davis, George Davis, David Mock, Sr., and David Mock, Jr., John W. Walker, William and Nathaniel Davis. The church is a frame building, built by the community, who contributed the labor and material.
The successive pastors are as follows: Revs. Thomas Ashley, Thomas Wallace, Joseph Dines, --- Hopkins, Dr. Prathman, J. R. Bennett, and -- Burley.
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During the war the membership was broken up, and at its close the building was torn down. It has never been rebuilt.
Freedom Chapel Graveyard, also contains one acre, and is situated in the southeast quarter of section 11, township 48, range 25. Elizabeth Mock, wife of David Mock, Sr., Mrs. Hargrave, and Charles H. Bradley were among the first buried there.
Zion Church, was organized in 1850. The following were the original members: Henry D. Stunchel, C. Uphause, H. Uphause, P. Uphause, H. Giesselmann, G. Helms, Wm. Cuppingbrinch, and others. The church building is a frame one, and was erected in 1872, at a cost of $1,500. It was dedicated in 1872, by the Rev. H. Fiegenbaum. The following pas- tors have since been in charge: Revs. Charles Bruegger, John Hausam, and F. Amsperger. The present membership is one hundred and twenty.
Union Sabbath School, was organized in 1871, at the Mock schoolhouse, on section 9, township 48, range 25, with Franklin Mock first super- intendent. When first organized it had 40 members, which have since increased to 60. B. Whitworth is the present superintendent. Sessions are held every Sunday afternoon.
New Hope Church. A frame church was built on section 11, township 48, range 25, by the Baptist, Cumberland Presbyterian, and Old School Presbyterian members in 1881, costing $600, and free to all denomina- tions for religious services. This building is not yet cempleted, as it is neither plastered nor seated.
The Chihuahua Grange, No. 1438, in this township was instituted by Lewis Neal and the date of its charter is Jan. 24, 1874. The names of the charter members are Julius D. Clarkson, Wm. H. Pilkington, James A. Anderson, Theodore Wilson, John H. Wilson, Philip Atkinson, Wm. Means, Hugh M. Pool, Charles R. Anderson, Mrs. Nancy Mathews, Julia Clarkson, Mrs. Nancy Mathews, Jr., James Mathews. First Master, J. D. Clarkson; O., Wm. H. Pickington; Lecturer, J. A. Anderson ; Steward, The. C. Wilson, A. S., J. H. Wilson; Chaplain, P. E. Atkinson; Treas- urer, W. H. Means; Secretary, H. M. Pool; G. K., C. R. Anderson; C., Mrs. Nancy Mathews; P., Julia Clarkson; Flora, Lucy Wilson; Lady Assistant S., Miss Nannie Dalton.
The names of the present officers are, Wm. H. Pilkington Master; Henry Anderson, James A. Anderson, John H. Wilson, John T. Hanys, Rice Fox, Samuel Williams, H. M. Pool, Harrison Anderson, Terry Fox, Lucinda Browning, Minnie Atkinson and Mary Atkinson.
There are at present seventeen members of the Grange. The house is a frame building.
Excelsior Lodge, I. O. G. T., No. 302, was instituted by - Hutch- ison. Date of charter, Oct. 13th, 1879. The charter members were L. Ellege, James Belt, Maggie Whitworth, J. W. Robinson, Rev. L. M. Da-
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vis, O. Wilson, Miss C. E. Belt, Miss Sallie Douglas, B. D. Green, Emma Saunders, Mrs. B. E. Matthews, Miss G. S. Belt, Miss M. Ellege, Frank Saunders, J. A. Belt, B. Hopper, W. A. James.
The first officers were James Belt, W. C. T .; Maggie Whitworth, W. V. T .; L. M. Davis, W. C .; O. M. Wilson, W. S .; Sallie Douglas, W. F. S .; Miss C. E. Belt, W. T .; B. Green, W. M .; Mrs. B. E. Mathews, W. D. M .; Emma Saunder, W. I. G .; W. A. James, W. O. G .; Miss G. S. Belt, W. R. H. S .; Miss M. Ellege, W. L. H. S .; J. N. Robinson, G. W. C. T .; L. Ellege, L. D.
The present officers are O. Wilson, W. C. T .; Miss Sallie Douglas, W. V. T .; Mollie Saunders, W. S .; W. A. James, W. T., Miss Maggie Wadsworth, W. F. S .; Frank Saunders, W. M .; J. A. Belt, Sr., W. C .; Jas. Belt, Jr., W. I. G .; B. Hopper, W. O. G.
The Lodge holds its meetings in a house rented for that purpose.
LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP.
May 4th, 1824, the following appears of record: " Ordered that the fol- lowing bounds be considered and known by the name of Lexington town- ship, within and for Lillard county, to-wit: Beginning at the mouth of the Big Sniabar; thence up the east fork of the said Big Sniabar to its source; thence due south to the middle of the Osage river; thence down said river to where a line running due south from the head of the Big Tabo or main Tabo crosses; thence with and along said line due north to the head of said creek; thence down said creek to its mouth, or where it empties into the Missouri river; thence up the Missouri river to the [place of] beginning. "
This is the first mention of Lexington township. Its western boundary as described corresponds with the eastern bounary of Fort Osage town- ship; thus wiping out Sniabar township for the time. The eastern and northern boundary of Lexington township remain the same to this day. East of Tabo Creek was then called Tabo township. It was at the same time ordered that Julius Emmons, John Wallace and Abel Owen should be judges of the first election in the new township, and the elections were to be held always at the town of Lexington. August 3d, James Fletcher was recommended by the court to the governor to be commissioned as a justice of the peace for Lexington township. The same day it was certi- fied to the court that James D. Warren had been elected constable, and he was accordingly sworn into office.
February 7, 1826, Henry Rowland, as captain, John Robinson and Har- vey Owen were appointed a company of patrols for Lexington township for one year. This was the first appointment of such police.
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THE HOUX SETTLEMENT.
According to the statements of Dr. Sanford Smith and others, the first settler who appeared in this neighborhood was Gilead Rupe, who located about two and a half miles southwest of where Lexington now stands, in about 1815. As near .as can be ascertained it appears that Mr. Rupe was also the first settter in the territory now known as Lafayette county; his nearest neighbor at that time being Jesse Cox, who settled about the same time in the bottom north of Arrow Rock, sixty-five miles distant.
In 1818 or '19, Dr. Smith says that the Indians were somewhat trouble- some. A party of them surrounded the house of Mr. Rupe and beseiged him and his family for three or four days. Two of his sons, who were carefully watching for an opportunity, succeeded at last in slipping out unobserved and made their way to Booneville, where assistance was pro- cured and the savages were driven off.
In about 1817 David James, with three grown sons, two of whom were named Jesse and Henry, settled on section 16, township 50, range 27. Subsequently ascertaining that he was occupying a school section, he moved and made a location a little south of what is now known as the "Silver" farm and afterwards moved to the head waters of the Little Sni.
In 1818 or '19, Nicholas Houx appeared in the vicinity and built a tan- nery, which in 1827, was purchased by Wm. Smith, (father of Dr. Smith) who operated it for over eight years.
The first regular physician who appeared in this settlement was Dr. Rankin, from Kentucky, whose father founded Shakertown, of that State. The doctor located near the camp ground, situated on section 17, town- ship 50, range 27. He now resides with his son-in-law, Judge Findley Barnet, near Odessa. Is over ninety years of age.
The first school was taught in a log cabin, near where John R. Houx now lives, by Robert D. Morrow, in 1821 or '22; so Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Smith say. Mr. Morrow subsequently became a Cumberland Presby- terian minister. The first public school building was built of hewed logs, in 1829 or '30-labor and material furnished by the neighborhood. The first teacher to occupy it was Harry Bellows, who now lives in Platte county, Missouri. Weaving was done by nearly every housekeeper, from the products of the farm.
The first steamboat landing at Lexington was at the mouth of " Rupe's branch "-so named for Gilead Rupe. Dr. Smith distinctly recollects seeing the first steamboat land there when he was quite a small boy.
MURDER OF MR. WHITE.
Mr. Charles White, originally from New York, who had married the widow Graves and settled as a farmer two and a half miles south of Lex- ington, was a Union man. When Capt. Fred Neet and Major Becker
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were paroled after the battle of Lexington, and had to leave town any way they could, they started afoot to Hamilton on the old Hamilton & St. Joe railroad, which was then the nearest railroad station, and Mr. White went with them. When they had got about three miles beyond Rich- mond, near Duval's, they were overtaken by some cavalry claiming to have an order from Gen. Price to arrest Neet and Becker. Two of the cavalrymen rode up, one on each side of Mr. White and caught him by the ears, pulling him along in this way between them until they had gone out of sight from where Neet and Becker were stopped, three others fol- lowing them. Two pistol shots were heard and then in a few minutes the five riders returned, and the whole party started back to Lexington. At Richmond, Neet saw one of the men who had Mr. White's overcoat pull out the murdered man's pocket book and pay for liquor for the crowd with certain bank bills which Neet and Becker both had seen Mr. White have. The names of the men who took White off and shot him were furnished; they still reside in the county, but we omit them. After being brought back to Lexington and lodged in jail, Neet and Becker learned that they were charged with robbing a jewelry store; Gen. Price found nothing proved against them, and they were again released. They finally escaped by night travel and day hiding, down to Sedalia and thence to St. Louis.
CITY OF LEXINGTON.
The first time that the name "Lexington " occurs in the early court records of Lillard county is under date of August 6, 1822. The record says: "It is ordered that David Ward, Absalom Coleman, Robert W. Rankin, and Joseph Hobson, or any three of them, being first sworn, be appointed to view the nearest and best route for a road to run from Lex- ington by way of the upper ford of the Big Sniabar to Stokely's Ferry, on ·the Missouri river." Then again, August 19th, it is ordered that John Nelson, Markham Fristoe, Ira Bidwell and Jacob Catron, shall lay out a road from Lexington to intersect the road leading from the salt works to Jack's Ferry. This ferry had been established by Wm. Jack, in 1819, its landing place being a little below the mouth of Graham's Branch, or near the foot of Commerce street, which was graded down the bluff and well paved, as the grand thoroughfare from the city on the bluff down to her steamboat landing. But from the very spot where Jack's Ferry, and after- ward steamboats used to land, it is now, 1881, a half mile or more over solid land to the water's edge in the Missouri river; and the Lexington and Kansas City Railroad (narrow gauge), runs here for half a mile over ground where the river used to flow from ten to twenty-five feet deep.
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The first plat in the book of town plats of the county is that of Lexing- ton-the original village, or old town, which was about a mile and a half from the river at Jack's ferry. (The Missouri Pacific railroad depot is now, 1881, in Old Lexington. The following certificate accompanies the plat :
STATE OF MISSOURI, ss. COUNTY OF LILLARD.
We, James Bounds, Sr., John Duston and James Lillard, commissioners in trust for Lillard county, do certify this to be a correct map or plan of the town of Lexington, as surveyed, numbered and sold according to the numbers, and sold on the 8th day of April, 1822.
his JAMES X BOUNDS. mark. JOHN DUSTON. JAMES LILLARD.
The lots were 75x145 feet, streets 75 feet wide, and alleys 16₺ feet (one rod), in width.
Mount Vernon, the first county seat, never was platted, and has now gone entirely out of mark or memory. It was a mere irregular group of cabins situated on the southeast quarter of section 23, township 51, range 26, on the bluff half a mile east of Tabo creek and three-fourths of a mile from the Missouri river. It was a place where three or four tribes of Indi- ans used to come to smoke the peace-pipe and barter with French trad- ers. Terre Bonne, " good land," or "good place," or " no-fight place, ' was what the French had taught the Indians to call it. But the Ameri- cans called the place Mount Vernon, as a token of their reverence for Gen. Washington.
The commissioners whose report is above quoted, had been appointed March 12th, hence they had selected and surveyed the site, made plat, sold lots and filed their report in less than a month. The county court held its last term at Mount Vernon in November, 1822. Its next sitting was at Lexington, February 3, 1823, in Dr. Buck's house, the first one built in the town.
A large proportion of the settlers at this time were from Kentucky, and the town was named in honor of the city of Lexington in that state.
November 23, 1825, the new court house, built by Henry Renick, was accepted and occupied. But it was so defective (for contractors were no honester then than now), that in a few years it had to be abandoned, and on Aug. 1, 1832, it was sold by auction just for what it would bring as old bricks and old lumber. In 1835 a new court house was completed, a three story brick building. This was used ten years, then the present court house was built and occupied.
June 5, 1849, the court ordered " that the public square in the town of
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Lexington, (commonly called Old Town), together with the buildings thereon, be sold to the highest bidder, on the first Monday of August next; and also the lot on which the old jail stood." Louis W. Smallwood was the commissioner to manage this sale.
In 1847, March 25th, an order had been issued for building a new court house on the public square in the city of Lexington. Silas Silver, John Catron, and Robert Aull were appointed as commissioners to oversee the work, with Henderson Young as their attorney for legal council on any contracts they might enter into. Wm. Spratt was afterwards added to the board. In April a plan submitted by Wm. Daugherty for court house was accepted, and $12,000 was appropriated for the building. Daugherty was subsequently paid $40 for his drawing and specification.
The names which eventually appear as the builders of the new court house (the one now in use, 1881,) are Elijah Littlejohn, Alexander Mc- Faddin, John Alford, Wm. Hunter, Gabriel F. Brown, Samuel Ball, and Cyrus Osborn, the latter did the painting.
The stone jail now in use was built by Gabriel F. Brown, in 1846.
The city charter was obtained in 1845, and Eldridge Burden was the first mayor. Also in 1845 a branch of the state bank was established at. Lexington. The presidents of the several state banks were elected by the legislature in joint ballot. The first president of this Lexington branch was Col. Lewis Green; second, Lieut. Col. James Young; third, Judge E. Burden, who served six years. There were one or two afterwards, and the state part of the bank was finally removed to Louisiana, in Pike county. For an interesting episode in the history of this bank, see account of the battle of Lexington, in another place.
UNCLE GEORGE HOUX.
A Mayview correspondent of the Lexington Intelligencer, July 10, 1880, wrote concerning an interview with the above named Lafayette county pioneer: " In comparing early times with now in regard to hon- esty, Uncle George says, that money was sewed up in leather bags with whangs and carried on horseback, like meal sacks from Santa Fe, and when they arrived in Lexington, at the tavern, in Old Town, were thrown down like common luggage. These bags would get so hard and dry that they would feel like logs when thrown down. A man by the name of Green kept the inn, as it was then called, and Ed. Ryland, who was then receiver, would take the money and store it away in the rear of Stramcke's store, and when he got a wagon load it was hauled away in farm wagons to St. Louis, with no other guards than the two teamsters and a man or two. And once when he was in the circuit court, while John F. Ryland was on the bench, he heard the charge given to the grand jury and they went out of doors as they had no jury room, he
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does not know where, whether to a hazel patch or a fence corner, and returned in a few minutes and said that no one had been doing anything wrong and the judge replied that this was the fifth term and no one had been indicted, and complimented the county for its morality and honesty. He tells of another incident connected with the early history. He says that there was no blacksmith shop nearer this county than Old Franklin, and his brother Nick, as he calls him, fixed up the fore-wheels of his wagon, and the neighbors all brought in their old axes and broad axes, and he, with his load, went to Old Franklin to get a box of gold and silver belonging to Mr. Hicklin, father of Mr. James Hicklin. The neigh- bors in both counties knew of it. He says that they had no use for any officers but a clerk to keep the records, and a sheriff to collect and pay over the revenue. He says that doubtless Mr. Stramcke and Rob't Hale recollect these times. He tells how Judge Hicks got to be a lawyer. John Aull's father furnished the money to buy the books, and he was to help his son to keep store in return, and read law at the same time at leisure moments.
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