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Callie Halliburton attended the district school of his neighborhood and later entered the State Normal School at Kirksville, Mo., where he took a two years' course. He taught school for ten years in Randolph County and between terms was engaged in farming, and now owns a farm of 42 acres near Moberly. He was employed by the Wabash Rail- road Company for ten years. In 1914, Mr. Halliburton was county re- corder of Randolph County and assumed the duties of that office in Janu- ary, 1915. At the expiration of his term of office he was re-elected with- out opposition and is faithfully and efficiently discharging . the duties of his office.
Mr. Halliburton was married August, 1900, to Miss Sallie B. Mag- gard, of Jacksonville, Mo. She is a daughter of Thomas and Mollie Mag- gard, both of whom are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Halliburton
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have been born five children, as follows: Hertha H., a graduate of the Huntsville High School; Hester R., a junior in the Huntsville High School ; Emily, Harlan and Herbert, students in the Huntsville grade school.
Mr. Halliburton is a Democrat and a member of the Baptist church. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is one of the progressive men of Randolph County and a substantial citizen.
Dudley T. Bradley, a prosperous farmer and stockman who is also operating a coal mine on his farm, three and one-half miles southwest of Moberly in Sugar Creek township, is a native of Randolph County and belongs to one of the very early pioneer families of this section. He was born about four miles south of Huntsville, March 25, 1846, and is a son of of William and Sarah Bradley. William Bradley and his wife were among the early settlers of Silver Creek township and resided there until the discovery of gold in California when he joined the great host of gold seekers and went to California where he died in 1850 and his wife de- parted this life in 1852. Dudley T. Bradley is the only surviving member of the children born to his parents. A brother, Benjamin Franklin, died at Grant Pass, Ore., which had been his home since 12 years old, in 1911.
Dudley T. Bradley was reared in Randolph County and educated in the early day schools of this section. Randolph County has been his home all of his life, with the exception of two years which he spent in Nebraska. He has followed farming and stock raising since early man- hood and has been successful in his undertakings. In 1879, he bought 100 acres of land which is a part of his present farm. He now owns 420 acres, located in Sugar Creek, Prairie and Salt Springs townships. He has a well improved and valuable farm which is well adapted to both gen- eral farming and stockraising.
Dudley T. Bradley was united in marriage Feb. 13, 1873 with Miss Martha T. Jennings, a native of Johnson County, Mo., and a daughter of William T. and Elizabeth J. Jennings, the former a native of Howard County, Mo., and the latter of Johnson County. The Jennings family lived in Johnson County until 1870 when they came to Randolph County and settled in Prairie township. Later they removed to Cedar County, Mo., where they spent the remainder of their lives. The father died in 1911 and the mother in 1894. Their remains are buried at Warrensburg, Mo. They were the parents of the following children: Martha T., wife of Dudley T. Bradley of this sketch ; John E., lives in Oklahoma; Mrs. Hester
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Hagger, Huntsville, Mo .; Richard, lives in Okla .; W. P., Coffeyville, Kans .; Elmer T., Honeywell, Kans .; Frank, Carthage, Mo .; Charles O., Pilot Rock, Wash .; Edward, Wheatland, Wyo .; Elizabeth Smith, Sulphur, Okla .; and Onie, Moberly, Mo.
To Mr. and Mrs. Dudley T. Bradley have been born the following children : Sarah Elizabeth, deceased; Mrs. Emma Leslie, deceased; Wil- liam, died in infancy; Mrs. W. D. Marshall, Moberly, Mo .; Mrs. M. C. Garber of Enid, Okla .; (the town of Garber, Okla., where the Garber family have extensive oil land holdings was named for M. C. Garber's father) ; Mrs. O. D. Hartley, Billings, Mont .; Mrs. Bert Shearer, Moberly, Mo .; Odessa J. Burton, Huntsville, Mo .; D. L., married Hattie Randolph of Moberly, is engaged in operating on the home place; Frank T., further mention of whom is made in this sketch; Robert Claude, further mention of whom also is made here; Aubrey Martin, resides at home; Gussie M., died at the age of four years.
Frank T. Bradley enlisted in the United States army after the United States entered the World War and became a member of Battery F., 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division. He went overseas with his command, arriving in France May 6, 1918 and participated in the battles of Argonne, St. Mihiel, Verdun sector, Vosges Mountains and the Meuse. He was injured while moving heavy guns and was confined in a hospital at Vittel, France from November, 1918 until March, 1919. He returned to the United States and was discharged April 29, 1919. He was married March 11, 1918 to Miss La Vonne Smelzer, of Kansas City, Mo.
Robert Claude Bradley also served in the National Army during the World War, entering the service Sept. 21, 1917. He received his train- ing at Camp Funston and went overseas with the 89th division and was a member of Company L, 356th Infantry. He went to France in June 3, 1918 and was returned to the United States in May 27, 1919. He served as mess sergeant and was with his division during its military operations in France and later as part of the army of occupation in Germany. He is now a student in the Teachers State College at Warernsburg, Mo.
Dudley T. Bradley is a member of the Masonic Lodge, as are also his sons, D. L., Aubrey and Robert Claude. The Bradley family stands high in the community and its members are representative of the best citizenship of Randolph County.
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Samuel E. Phipps, a member of the Edwards and Phipps Lumber Company, of Huntsville, is one of the progressive business men of Hunts- ville and Randolph County and the Edwards and Phipps Lumber Company is one of the important industrial institutions of Huntsville. They carry a very complete line of lumber and building material and this firm is known over a broad scope of country for its reliability.
Samuel E. Phipps was born at Kirksville, Mo., Oct. 17, 1861 and is the son of Silas G. and Amanda (Drennan) Phipps. Silas G. Phipps was born in Randolph County in 1835. He was the son of Silas and Virginia (Burke) Phipps, natives of Kentucky and early settlers in. Randolph County, coming here in the twenties. In early life he removed from Randolph County to the vicinity of Kirksville but returned to Randolph County in 1868. Silas G. Phipps served in the Confederate army throughout the Civil War in General Price's division. After returning to Randolph County he settled on a farm near Darksville, Mo., and later moved to a place west of Huntsville where he spent the remainder of his life.
Amanda Drennan Phipps was born in Sangamon County, Ill., in 1840. She was a daughter of Ezekiel Drennan, a native of Ireland who immi- grated to America with his parents who located near Springfield in Sanga- mon County, Ill. He was reared in that county and was a schoolmate of Abraham Lincoln. He married Miss Mary Kenney. Silas G. Phipps died Sept. 4, 1901 and his wife died Sept. 9, 1903. They were the parents the following children: O. A., Reno, Nev .; Mrs. Effie G. Brown, Joplin, Mo .; C. E., lives in Nebraska; Mrs. Blanche Hall, Dayton, Wash .; Mrs. Flor- ence Musick, Huntsville, Mo .; E. G. Sedalia, Mo .; Frank, Moberly, Mo .; Melvin, College Mound, Mo .; Von, died at the age of 12 years; and Samuel E. the subject of this sketch.
Samuel E. Phipps was reared on a farm and educated in the public school. In 1886 he began farming for himself on his father's place. He followed farming there for four years. In 1892 he came to Huntsville and entered the employ of Richeson Lumber Company and remained there for two years and then worked for James G. Dulaney for 12 years when he engaged in business for himself, the lumber firm of Edwards and Phipps being established in 1906.
Mr. Phipps was married in 1886 to Miss Ida Baker, a native of Ran- dolph County. She is a daughter of Rev. Thomas H. and Nancy J. (Lay) Baker, both natives of Randolph County. Rev. Thomas H. Baker was
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born in 1844 and died June 1, 1914 he was a Baptist minister and spent the later part of his life in Huntsville. His wife was born in 1848 and died in 1912. To Mr. and Mrs. Phipps have been born two children : Janie, born Sept. 17, 1891 and died Jan. 10, 1902, and Ruth, married John G. Harris and has one child, John Edward, born July 19, 1916.
Mr. Phipps is a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen of America, Mystic Workers of the World. He is a Democrat and a member of the Baptist church. He takes an active part in church work and for 17 years he has been super- intendent of the Baptist Sunday School at Huntsville and is secretary and treasurer of the Mount Pleasant Sunday School Association and president of the Sunday School Association of Randolph, Chariton and Monroe Sun- day School Association and is vice-president of the Randolph County Sun- day School Association. He was one of the four delegates from Missouri to the World's Sunday School Convention, held at Washington, D. C., in May, 1912.
Cyrus Leonard Edwards, of the well known firm of Edwards and Phipps, lumber dealers, of Huntsville, Mo .. was born at Dallas, Texas, May 14, 1871. He is the son of William Taylor and Martha (Terrill) Ed- wards, the former a native of Randolph County and the latter a native of Macon County, Mo.
William T. Edwards was born in 1845 and died in 1912. His wife was born in 1848 and died in 1895. Shortly after their marriage they drove to Texas with Robert Terrill in 1870 and for two years Mr. Edwards was engaged in farming near Dallas, Texas. They returned to Randolph County in 1872 and located three miles north of Clark, Mo. Here Mr. Edwards remained until 1881 when he went to Audrain County where he remained until the fall of 1882. He then bought a farm near Elliott, Mo., and remained on this place until the time of his death.
To William T. and Martha (Terrill) Edwards were born the following children: Cyrus Leonard, the subject of this sketch; Dallas Cora, died at the age of 13 years; Anna Belle, married George Thornberg and they live four miles south of Moberly; J. Garland, Billings, Mont .; John K., Bill- ings, Mont .; Ruby Mildred married Roy Thornberg and lives south of Moberly; Grace lives near Gerald. Mo.
Cyrus L. Edwards was reared on a farm and educated in the district schools of Randolph County. He was engaged in farming until 1895. He then worked in the mines at Kimberly, Mo., for four years and in
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1891 he moved to Moberly. In 1892, he engaged in mining again, near Huntsville. He then operated a sawmill for a time and cut railroad ties and mine timbers and in 1906 engaged in the lumber business to which he has since devoted his attention and has been successful.
Mr. Edwards was married Nov. 22, 1893 to Miss Lucy Lamb, who was born east of Jacksonville, Mo. She is a daughter of John and Amanda Frances (Poleson) Lamb, early settlers of this county. To Mr. and Mrs. Edwards have been born the following children: Frank, who is engaged in farming east of Huntsville, married Grace Minor and has one son, Leonard Allen; May, married L. L. Harbert of Akron, Ohio, and Kath- crine, who is at home with her parents and a student in the Huntsville school.
Mr. Edwards is a Democrat and a member of the Methodist church. He is a Mason and a substantial citizen.
Joseph Frank Carter, who is employed by the Edwards and Phipps Lumber Company at Huntsville, Mo., is a progressive and enterprising citizen and a representative of one of the pioneer families of Randolph County. He was born near Darksville, Mo., May 20, 1876, and is a son of Isaac and Mary Jane (Haines) Carter.
Isaac Carter was born in Randolph County in 1848. He was a son of Watson and Martha (Van Cleve) Carter, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Liverpool, England. Watson Carter was a woolen manufacturer in Virginia. He came to Randolph County, Mo., in 1848 and settled on a farm near Darksville. This farm was later owned by his son, Isaac Carter, and still later by Joseph F. Carter of this review. Isaac Carter died in November, 1905 and his widow now resides in Kan- sas City, Mo. They were the parents of 11 children, nine of whom were reared to maturity, as follows: Willie Haines, died in 1902; Joseph Frank, the subject of this sketch; Ed, deceased; George Watson, Kansas City, Mo .; John, Linneus, Mo .; Isaac Raymond, Kansas City, Mo .; Mrs. Mattie McQuerry, of Howard County, Mo .; Mrs. Carter, of Huntsville, Mo .; and Hannah Sophia who resides with her mother in Kansas City, Mo.
Joseph Frank Carter was reared at Darksville and educated in the public schools of that locality. He remained on the home place which he purchased in 1908. It consisted of 125 acres and after buying the place he was engaged in farming there for six years. He then sold out and bought a farm of 55 acres adjoining Huntsville which he now rents out on the grain rent plan. Mr. Carter has lived in Huntsville since he became connected with the Edwards and Phipps Lumber Company in 1917.
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Mr. Carter was united in marriage in September, 1896 to Miss Joella Wright. She was born in Chariton County, Mo., and is a daughter of Samuel Anderson and Sabrina Wright, the former of whom is deceased and the mother lives on the old home place in Chariton County. To Mr. and Mrs. Carter has been born one child, Anna.
Mr. Carter is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church and is a Democrat. He holds membership in the Modern Woodmen of America.
Benjamin Hesselridge Ashcom, a former sheriff of Randolph County, who during his lifetime was a prominent factor in the affairs of this county was a native of Kentucky. He was born at Lexington, Ky., Jan. 6, 1840 and was a son of Samuel P. Ashcom. The Ashcom family which consisted of father, mother and five children of whom Benjamin H. was the eldest, came to Missouri from Kentucky and settled in Randolph County in April, 1840, when Benjamin H. was about three months old. They located near Huntsville and the parents died about ten years after locating in this county.
Benjamin H. Ashcom was about 10 years of age when he went to live with William Terrill and made his home with the Terrill family until he was about 17 years old. He attended the public school and by close application to his studies, had acquired an education when he was 17 years old that was far in advance of the average student of his age. About that time, 1857, the North Missouri Railroad was being surveyed from Sturgeon to Macon City and he was employed in the civil engineering corps which was locating the route. This gave him an opportunity to learn the practical side of civil engineering and as he was an apt student, especially in mathematics, it was not long until he became a very pro- ficient civil engineer. After working at civil engineering about two years, he felt the need of further educational preparation and in 1859, entered Mt. Pleasant College and completed the course in that institution. He then taught school for a time at Renick, Mo. In 1861 the Civil War came on which changed all of his future plans. During the first few months in the war, he served as first lieutenant in the state guard under Colonel Jackson. Later he enlisted in the regular Confederate service and was commissioned first lieutenant under Colonel Perkins. Later his command joined General Vandorn in Arkansas and he afterward served with Colonel Dorsey. In 1863, he became first lieutenant of a company in Colonel Elliot's regiment, under General Shelby and served in Shelby's brigade
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until the close of the war. Mr. Ashcom was taken prisoner in December, . 1861 and was shortly afterwards paroled and soon rejoined the Confed- crate army. He took part in the battles of Boonville, Drywood, Lexing- ton and numerous other engagements and was at Shreveport, La., when the war closed. At the battle of Fayetteville, Ark., he was wounded three times and confined to a hospital about six weeks.
After the close of the Civil War, Mr. Ashcom returned to Randolph County and engaged in teaching school for a time. About 1869, he engaged in the mercantile business at Renick and was thus engaged when he was elected sheriff of Randolph County in 1882. After the expira- tion of his term as sheriff, in 1886, he was elected county collector of Randolph County and served until 1890, when he was elected county treasurer and served in that office two years, then was assistant cashier in the J. M. Hammett Bank of Huntsville, Mo. He died Feb. 22, 1911 at his home in Huntsville. He was a member of the Baptist church and a deacon for many years and for several years taught a Sunday School class of Young ladies.
On April 25, 1867, Benjamin H. Ashcom was united in marriage with Miss Susan Elizabeth Goin, a daughter of Archibald and Sophia Goin of Jessamine County, Ky. The Goin family came from Kentucky to Audrain County, Mo. about 1832 and to Randolph County about 1856. To Mr. and Mrs. Ashcom were born two children: Effie Maude, married Ed Tieman, deputy commissioner of pensions, at Washington, D. C. and they have re- sided in that city for the past 20 years; and Roy Princeton, who now re- sides at Huntsville, where he is a coal operator and also city assessor.
Mrs. Ashcom is one of the representative pioneer women of Randolph County. Coming here with her parents in 1856, she has spent practically all her life within the confines of Randolph County and has been. a wit- ness to a great development that has taken place here within the last half century. She lost two brothers in the Civil War, John David and Benja- min Franklin Goin. The former served under General Price and died in an army hospital and the latter was also with General Price and was killed in southwestern Missouri.
Andrew Jackson Ferguson, now deceased, was prominent in the affairs in Randolph County for many years, and served six terms as county treasurer. He was born at Danville, Va., Sept. 10, 1828 and died at Huntsville, Feb. 27, 1906. He was a son of John and Sarah Ferguson, natives of Virginia, who at an early day went to Tennessee and from
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there to Kentucky. They then moved to Missouri, first locating at Cape Girardeau and from there they came to Glasgow, Howard County. Andrew J. Ferguson was married at Glasgow and in 1854, came to Hunts- ville where for a number of years he was engaged in the saddlery and harness business in partnership with Mr. Eberle, under the firm name of Ferguson and Eberle. They built a brick store building and continued business in Huntsville for several -years.
Mr. Ferguson was appointed county treasurer to fill out the unex- pired term of County Treasurer Gilman, and was elected to that office six terms, serving 12 years in all. He was treasurer of this county during the Civil War and at the same time was interested in the harness busi- ness at Huntsville. When Bill Anderson and his gang raided Huntsville, they looted Mr. Ferguson's store and at that time the outlaws started to burn the courthouse at Huntsville and Mrs. Ferguson and the wives of some of the other courthouse officials persuaded Anderson and his gang not to burn the courthouse which meant much to the future of Randolph County, in that the county records were saved.
Andrew J. Ferguson was united in marriage Nov. 2, 1853 at Glas- gow, Mo., with Mary Ann Boyd, a native of Versailes, Ky., born May 26, 1836. She is a daughter of William and Hennrietta (Tutt) Boyd, natives of Kentucky and early pioneers of Missouri. They came to Glasgow in 1839 where William Boyd was engaged in the saddlery and harness busi- ness for many years. To Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Ferguson were born 10 children, the following lived to maturity: Ada Tutt, born April 16, 1855, married Houston G. Bourne, Aug. 9, 1875 and they lived at Ham- burg, Ia. for several years and later in Huntsville and then Pueblo, Colo. and are both now deceased and left two children, Harry lives in Utah, is married and has two children, Richard and Bernice, and the daughter, Pearl Bourne, married Maj. G. M. Dameron, of Pueblo, Colo. and has . three children, Thomas Houston, a West Point graduate, now a lieutenant in the United States army, Clare and Dorothy; William Boyd Ferguson, born April 1, 1857, was a postmaster at Fort Assinniboine, Mont. for 20 years and resigned on account of poor health and is now living with his mother in Huntsville; Claude Lyle was born Dec. 4, 1870 and is a travel- ing salesman for the Merrill Bros. Drug Co., of St. Louis, married Mrs. Theressa Tedford, of Moberly and resides at Hot Springs, Ark .; and Beulah Maude, born July 11, 1872, married Walter S. Roberts, a druggist of Cairo, Mo. and they have one child, Claude Ferguson Roberts who mar-
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ried Marie Campbell of Cairo and resides in Kansas City, Mo., where he is a stenographer in the employ of the Missouri Pacific railroad.
Andrew J. Ferguson was a Democrat and a member of the Christian church of which he was an elder and a deacon. He was active in church work and was superintendent of the Sunday school for many years. He was a Knights Templar Mason and prominent in Masonic Lodge work. Mrs. Ferguson is one of the honored pioneer women of Randolph County. She has been a member of the Christian church for 65 years.
Henry Burton, a successful farmer and stockman of Salt Spring town- ship, is a native of England. He was born in the County of Durham, June 30, 1848 and is a son of Henry and Mary (Robinson) Burton. Henry Burton was born in Scotland and his father was a shepherd in early life. Later he removed to England where he died. Henry Burton, Sr., came to America with his wife and children in 1854 and settled in Mahoning County, Ohio, where he resided until his death at the age of 50 years in 1859. His wife, who was a native of England, died at Huntsville in 1884, at the age of 74 years and is buried in the Huntsville cemetery.
Henry Burton, whose name introduces this article, was one of the following children born to his parents: Anna, married John Riley and died in Lawrence County, Pa .; Elizabeth, married William Sandison and is also deceased; and Henry, the subject of this sketch. Four died in infancy. Henry Burton came from England to the United States with his parents and settled at Lowellville, Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1854. In 1868 he came to Randolph County, Mo., and for about a year was engaged in teaming. He then bought 120 acres of land in Salt Spring township to which he has since added 45 acres and is now the owner of 165 acres of valuable land, much of which is under blue grass. This farm was originally entered from the government by the father of Jacob Hocking- smith. Mr. Burton purchased it from Captain Austin. The place is well improved with a good two story six room residence, substantial barns and other buildings and is amply supplied with never failing wells of pure water. Mr. Burton raises Durham and Polled Angus cattle and standard bred white Plymouth Rock chickens.
Mr. Burton was married Feb. 16, 1874 to Miss Jane Walker, a daugh- ter of Morris E. and Mary Jane (McCormick) Walker, both now deceased. The father was born in York County, Pa. and the mother in Frederick County, Va. They were married in Virginia and came to Randolph County, Mo .. about 1857, and first settled on the Scheuemann farm in Salt
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Spirng township. Later they bought this farm of Douglas Baker who entered it from the government. Morris E. Walker died in 1901 and his wife died in 1886 and their remains are buried in the Huntsville cemetery. They were the parents of the following children: Emma, married Oscar Heflin, Huntsville, Mo .; Warren B., Sedalia, Mo .; I. B., Moberly, Mo .; Maude, married George Brockman, Colorado Springs, Colo .; Charles P., died at the age of 50 years and Jane, the wife of Henry Burton, the sub- ject of this sketch, who is the oldest.
To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Burton have been born the following children: Henry M., married Ida Vail, of Ray County, Mo. and lives at Moberly ; John W., married Nellie Jones and lives at Bartlesville, Okla .; Charles W., married Odessa Bradley, and lives on the home place; Mary A., married Evan Mandry, of Salt Spring township; Elizabeth, married David Eubank, Huntsville, Mo .; Joseph, married Bessie Milburn and lives at Moberly ; Emma, married William Francis, Moberly, Mo., and Ella, died at the age of 20 years and is buried at Huntsville. Mr. and Mrs. Burton have 14 grandchildren: Maurine, Don, Willhelmina, Dudly, Elizabeth, John H., Helen and Joe, Jr., Burton; Jennie R. Burton and Thomas Mandry and Irma O. Eubank and Mildred and William Francis.
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