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For further history of the settlement of this township, see the history of the Sappington neighborhood, and other early settlements.
The lead mines in this township may in time become fully developed and of considerable value. Some mining has been done by the Missouri River Valley Mining Company. The first operations were begun in the winter of 1873 and 1874, with varied success. In June, 1876, the company named took charge. The company has leased 220 acres of land for twenty years. The mines are situated on section 19, township 49, range 19. Large quantities of lead ore have been taken out, but the work in the mines has been suspended, on account of their liability to overflow from the south of Salt Fork and Blackwater, near the junction of which streams the mines are situated,
The coal mines, of both cannel and bituminous coal, have so long been worked, and are so abundant, that their history would be hard to give, and their description too lengthy here to state. Probably, however, Dr. Sappington opened the first coal bank.
COUNTRY CHURCHES.
CONCORD CHURCH ( CHRISTIAN ).
The date of organization of this church cannot be definitely ascer- tained, but it was in 1845 or 1846. Some of the first members were Chas Wood, Daniel Thornton, Philip Thompson, Sam'l Green, Rob't Fields, Adam France, Wm. Roper. A frame church building, costing $700 or $800, was erected in 1845 or 1846, and dedicated in the latter year, by Rev. Thomas Allen. Only the names of two pastors have been
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learned, Lewis Elgin and Allen Wright. The number of members at present is about one hundred. The church building was erected partly by subscription and partly by work and labor furnished by the different members. It was at this church where, during the war, the Federal militia came upon a portion of Col. Jackson's " partisan rangers," and wounded and captured Lieut. Durrett, afterward taken to Arrow Rock and shot.
WALNUT GROVE CHURCH-METHODIST.
Walnut Grove Church, M. E., South, was constituted in 1877, but not recognized in the Conference, until in September, 1880. The original members were J. H., Edmonia B., Mary E., Edmonia E., and Newton H. Jamison; Rector James and wife; Martha E. and Delia McMahan; B. E. Lawless, John Smith and wife, Isaac Nave, Jr., and Mary E. Brown. A frame church building was erected in 1877, by the Grangers, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians, and in this building Walnut Grove Church meets. The pastors have been J. F. Hogan, W. R. Bennett, W. B. Pal- mer, E. G. Frazier, L. H. Vandoren. The present number of members is only 18.
THE TOWN OF ARROW ROCK.
This town, one of the oldest in the county and country, is situated on the right bank of the Missouri river, on a high and commanding plateau over- looking a magnificent forest valley on the opposite or Howard county side, that stretches away for miles. It is situated in a rich farming, horticul- tural and stock country, which contains also unlimited natural resources.
. The place was formerly called "the Arrow Rock." As such it was know by the early French voyageurs, and the trappers and hunters. This name was given to the large rock or cliff at the town. Upon the forma- tion of the town it was christened after the rock.
There are divers versions of the origin of the name. One is that the rock or bluff was much frequented by the Indians hundreds of years ago, who here obtained the material (flint) out of which they manufactured their arrow-heads and lance-heads. Every year, it is said, the Indians came for many miles to " the arrow rock" to obtain flint. Another ver- sion is that ages ago the Indians on this side of the river repelled an attempt to cross on the part of a hostile tribe on the other side. The river being narrow at this point it was selected by the would-be invaders as the best crossing place. The Indians on the Saline county side took position on the high bluff bank and defied their adversaries, who, from their strong bows, let fly clouds of flint-pointed arrows at them. Many of these arrows, it is said, came a little short of their intended destination and fell at the foot of the bluff. Afterwards the site was found to abound in these arrow- heads, which all pointed one way as they lay upon the earth, and the first whites that landed at the bluff gave it the name it now bears. There is a
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tradition, old and musty, and not abundantly supported by good evidence, that there was such a battle here fought as has been described.
Another version of the origin of the name is that given by Mr. Now- lin, an old citizen. The Indians, in the long ago, were in the habit of crossing the river at this point, in the summer, from their encampments in the bottom, on the opposite side, where the heat, at that season, was uncommonly intense and severe. This side of the river gained, they would repair to the high bluffs, to cool off. One particularly rocky point was a favorite resort, for there a cooling breeze almost constantly swept and fanned the swarthy brows of the perspiring savages. This point was called the " Windy Rock," or the "Airy Rock," and the latter designation became the more common. When Mr. Ferrell established his ferry he called it the "Airy Rock Ferry." In time this name became corrupted or changed to Arrow Rock, and was thus known ever after. It is said that the Tennesseeans pronounced the word arrow as if it was spelled arry, or airy, and when they heard the place called Airy Rock, understood it to mean Arrow Rock.
Mr. J. T. Pattison states that the first ferrying was done here by Mr. Becknel, in 1811. The crossing was made by having two canoes fast- ened together and a platform on top. Mr. Berknel afterward repre- sented Saline county in the Missouri legislature. On the 23d of May, 1829, a meeting was held at the Arrow Rock ferry, for the purpose of receiving propositions, made by different parties, wishing to donate land for the town site; and Joseph Huston, Peyton N. Nowlin, Rudolph Hawpe, Joseph Patterson, and Benjamin Huston were appointed commis- sioners to select a town site, and receive deed to the same. They made choice of the present location, which was deeded to them on the 10th day of June, 1829, by Burton Lawless and Nancy, his wife, and by John Bingham and Mary, his wife, and containing fifty acres. Also, the free use and benefit of all the springs and water that may be on any of the lands of said Lawless, near and adjoining the said town tract of land, for the benefit of the citizens of said town in general. M. M. Marmaduke (afterward governor of the state) was county surveyor, and was employed by said commissioners to lay out the fifty acres into town lots. The first dwelling house built on the fifty acres donated for the town site, was built by Joseph Patterson, in the fall of 1829. The same timbers are yet in the house, which has been remodeled, and is now occupied. 1
For some time the place was called New Philadelphia, but gradually its present designation came to be universally used.
In 1839, the county seat was removed to Arrow Rock. (See general history.) Thereafter it gradually increased in importance, and in time became the most important town in the county. It was a great shipping
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point, and in the palmy days of Missouri river steamboating, became a port and a mart of considerable repute.
In 1859, a branch of the Bank of Missouri was established at Arrow Rock. The first officers were W. B. Sappington, President, and W. L. Boyer, Cashier. After the breaking out of the civil war, Gen. Fremont ordered the money of this bank to be removed to the vaults of the parent bank, at St. Louis. The officers refused to obey orders, but took the specie in the bank to a certain hole in the ground, where it was buried and remained for a year or so, under the sod and the daisies, where moths did not corrupt, nor bushwhackers and militiamen break through and steal. It was at last resurrected and taken to the State Bank, at St. Louis, where it remained in safety until the close of the war. (The old State Bank of Missouri, at St. Louis, in 1878, suspended, causing a loss to the citizens of this county of about $100,000.)
Arrow Rock had a newspaper in 1860-61, the Saline County Herald, removed to that place from Marshall. In May, 1861, the editors and pro- prietors, Col. G. W. Allen and his son James, having enlisted in Gov. Jackson's Missouri State Guard, the paper was suspended. The press and material were boxed up and stored in a house which was burned by Blunt's guerrillas in their attack on Arrow Rock, in 1864.
Early in 1861, after the firing on Fort Sumter, certain citizens of Arrow Rock and vicinity fired on some steamboats that were ascending the river, and supposed to contain Federal arms and munitions of war.
The majority of the people of Arrow Rock were strong southern sym- pathizers during the war, and were often charged by the Federals with "giving aid and comfort to the enemy." Accounts of certain military operations in the place are given elsewhere.
Since the war and "reconstruction," the town has gradually and com- pletely recovered from the prostration into which it then fell, and has made very much of improvement and advance, keeping step with the universal advancement of the entire county.
CHURCHES.
M. E. CHURCH SOUTH.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at Arrow Rock, (now called M. E. South), was organized about the year 1831. Some of the first members were Wm. Brown and wife, Miss Nancy Fretwell, Mrs. Mary Bingham, Rudolph Hawpe and wife, Joseph Patterson and wife, Benj. Huston and wife, Jesse and Margaret Reid. A frame church was built in the year 1849, at a cost of $2,000. It was dedicated in 1850 by Rev. James Mitch- ell. Names of pastors- Jesse Greene, -Jameson, - Dodds, B. F. Johnson, W. R. Bewly, and others. Present membership, one hundred. Since the organization of this church the great division between the Northern and
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Southern Methodists has occurred. Information concerning this church has been derived from Mrs. Margaret Reid, its oldest living member, and a worthy Christian lady.
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN.
This church was organized December 12, 1853. The original mem- bers were J. E. Ancell, Elisha Ancell, Sam'l Oldham, J. H. Sutherlin, Samuel Stewart, Margaret W. Wallace, Lucinda Ancell, Susan West, Catharine S. F. Steel, Catharine Wallace, Sarah J. Brownlee, Laura E. Neill, Mary L. Stewart, Elizabeth Turley. A frame house of worship was built in the year 1857, at a cost of $2,250. It was dedicated the same year by Rev. E. D. Pearson. The pastors have been P. G. Rea, R. S. Read, W. D. Mahon, M. B. Irvin, J. E. F. Robertson. Present member- ship, 51.
No reports have been received from the Christian and Baptist church organizations.
CIVIC SOCIETIES.
MASONIC.
Arrow Rock Lodge No. 55, A. F. and A. M., was organized October 17, 1842, by A. T. Douglas, G. V. The charter members were P. W. Nowlin, E. C. McCarty, John Piper, Joseph Huston, Rudolph Hawpe, Benj. Huston, Wm. Roper, Thos. McMahan. The first officers were Rudolph Hawpe, W. M .; Benj. Huston, S. W .; Wm. Roper, J. W .; Jos. Huston, treasurer; W. S. Long, secretary; John Piper, S. D .; Bernis Brown, J. D; Henry Nave, tiler. The present officers are C. M. Suth- erlin, W. M .; P. T. Reynolds, S. W .; A. Neff, J. W .; H. S. Wilhelm, trea- surer; G. H. Bowen, secretary; J. C. Thompson, S. D .; G. W. Herrold, J. D .; S. C. McClain, tiler. B. F. Thompson and H. T. Montgomery, stewards. Present number of members, 42. The lodge meets in a brick hall, built by the lodge in 1868, at a cost of $4,000. This was the first Masonic lodge organized in Saline county.
ODD FELLOWS.
Friendship Lodge, No. 40, I. O. O. F., was organized August 23, 1849, by the Grand Lodge of the state. The charter members were Abner Trigg, J. A. J. Aderton, H. V. Bingham, James E. Ancell, B. H. Hawpe, and Thos. M. Davis. The first officers were Abner Trigg, N. G .; J. A. J. Aderton, V. G .; B. H. Hawpe, Secretary; H. V. Bingham, Treasurer. The present officers are Hugh Cragg, N. G .; E. T. Alexander, V. G .; P. H. Goetz, P. Secretary; W. M. Tyler, Recording Secretary; W. M. Putch, Treasurer. The number of members at this time is twenty-five. The hall is a two-story brick, built in May, 1868, by Ancell & Fitzgerald, at a cost of $3,000. There have been several other lodges started from
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this one since its organization, which in part accounts for the small number of members at present on the roll.
GOOD TEMPLARS.
Arrow Rock Lodge, No. 489, I. O. G. T., was organized January 21, 1881. The charter members were J. P. Wagner, Miss Ida I. Bradford, R. N. Reynolds, M. P. Holmes, Capt. C. M. Sutherlin, J. P. Cochran, J. G. Reynolds, J. M. Green, Frank West, Lee Wagner, and A. M. Hall. The first officers are the present ones, viz .: J. M. Green, L. D .; Dr. J. P. Wagner, W. C. T .; Ida I. Bradford, W. V. T .; J. B. Cochrane, W. Chaplain; R. M. Reynolds, W. S. C .; M. Sutherlin, W. F. S .; M. P. Holmes, W. Treasurer; J. G. Reynolds, W. M .; E. Randolph, W. D. M .; Lee Wagner, I. G .; Frank West, O. G .; Mrs. J. P. Wagner, R. H. S .; Miss Nena McMahan, L. H. S .; A. M. Hall, P. W. C. T. There are thirty-eight members. The lodge meets in a brick hall.
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Worthy Grange No. 99, P. of H., was organized March 26, 1873, by J. R. Cordeel. The charter members were W. M. Price, T. W. Russell, Dr. A. Neff, N. H. Huston, J. R. Dickson, J. L. Smith, Jas. Thornton, John Neff, W. S. Jackson, Mrs. T. W. Russell, Mrs. W. S. Jackson, Miss Kate Dickson, W. H. Huston, Jas. West, L. R. Reynolds, J. Bingham, S. F. Crockett. The first officers were W. M. Price, Master; T. W. Russell, Overseer; A. Neff, Lecturer; N. H. Huston, Steward; J. R. Dickson, Asst. Steward; J. L. Smith, Chaplain; Jas. Thornton, Treas .; W. S. Jackson, Secy .; Jno. Neff, Gatekeeper; Mrs. T. W. Russell, Ceres; Mrs. W. S. Jackson, Flora; Miss Kate Dickson, Pomona; Mrs. A. E. Price, Lady Asst. Steward. The present officers are N. H. Huston, Master; J. L. Howell, Overseer; R. E. Richart, Lecturer; J. Diggs, Chaplain; W. R. James, Steward; J. N. Jameson, Asst. Steward; W. Davis, Treas .; J. R. Dickson, Secy .; R. T. Huston, Gatekeeper; Mrs. Louise Neff, Ceres; Mrs. M. Edwards, Flora; Mrs. M. E. Price, Pomona; Miss Delia McMahan, Lady Asst. Steward. The grange meets in a hall built in 1876 by themselves principally. It is a frame, and cost about $1,000. The secretary writes that this was the first grange organized in Saline county. Worthy Master Price was chosen chairman of the executive committee of the Missouri State Grange at its first meeting, held at Knob Noster, Mo., and was appointed grain agent for the state, which position he still holds.
JONESBORO.
This town, once the capital and the metropolis of Saline county, and known far and wide, has become, by the mutations of time and the pro- gress of events, so reduced in size and population as to now be but a wreck of its former greatness. Although its population, in its most flour-
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ishing days, was but a few hundred, it was still a place of considerable importance. In addition to its being the seat of justice of the county, where all public business was transacted, it was a favorite outfitting depot and starting point for many traders, explorers and adventurers, who trav- eled to and from Santa Fe, in early days, and who preferred this place to Independence, in Jackson county, as a port from which to set sail for their long voyages over the prairie seas.
Jonesboro was also visited by the early settlers from Grand Pass, and from other parts of this county, and by the people of Cooper and Pettis, who came here for the few supplies they were compelled to buy.
The room in which court was held, when the place was the county seat, was the upper story of a double log building, which was situated on a kind of elevation or second bank of the creek (Salt Fork). The lower story was divided into two rooms, in one of which a grocery was kept, and in the other, a livery stable. To this latter room, juries retired for deliberation, after the horses had been led out. But in that very unpre- tentious court room were gathered, from time to time, some of the best and brainiest men in Missouri. Judge Todd, Abiel Leonard, Hamilton R. Gamble, Gen. Duff Green, John E. Ryland and other able lawyers and good men, were members of this court. The hotel, at which the lawyers and court attendants stopped, was a simple structure, plain as to adorn- ment, circumscribed as to accommodation, substantial as to fare, rea- sonable as to rates. There was plenty of food always to be had, and the establishment was rarely without a very fair article of Kentucky whisky, unadulterated, uncontaminated and untaxed.
But with the departure of the county seat to Arrow Rock departed the glory of Jonesboro. Its stores and Galbraith's mill drew people thither for a time, but as time passed other stores were established and other mills were built, and the place dwindled and shrank away until its size was insignificant, its streets were vacated, "nettles and brambles grew in the fortresses thereof," and the old court house became a habitation for bats and a court for owls.
Here, too, was the great mustering ground of the Saline county militia in the days when the yeomanry of the land were required to assemble on stated occasions and at designated places to drill, and " in time of peace pre- pare for war." From these musters and by reason of the requirements of the militia laws, there sprang a bountiful crop of military titles, and generals, colonels, majors, and captains became as plenty as blackberries in their season.
ZOAR CHURCH.
At Jonesboro is this reverend old church, now nearly sixty years old. It was organized by the Baptists in the year 1827, with nine members, whose names it is now impossible to obtain. The first church was built
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in 1831. It was composed of logs, and was 40x20 feet in size, costing per- haps $200. The congregation met in this house for eighteen years, or until 1849, when a new church building was erected at an expense of ' $1,000. Eleven years thereafter another house of worship, the present one, was built at a cost of $1,500. The pastors have been Peyton Nowlin, Thomas Fristoe, David Anderson, Wm. Bell, Thornton Rucker, Wm. Gentry, J. D. Murphy, Thos. Hudson, John C. Hamner, Wm. Cleaveland. J. L. Tickenor, C. T. Daniel, J. L. Tickenor. The present membership is 120. There has been no cessation of preaching for any length of time, since the organization, as far as known at present. During the war, Rev. J. D. Murphy was pastor, and services were continuous, the pastor resid- ing at Jonesboro. On one occasion the church was surrounded by the militia during preaching. The services were closed, and the men inside were made to fall in, and were marched off.
SALT FORK AND BLACKWATER TOWNSHIPS.
These two townships, lying in the same neighborhood and only sepa- rated by the Blackwater river, may have their history written in one chap- ter. Their settlements were intimately connected, and their general his- tory is nearly the same, and Salt Fork was formed from Blackwater only . recently.
. At the November term of the county court, held at Old Jefferson in 1825, the boundaries of Blackwater were established, it being formed from Arrow Rock. It then comprised a large extent of territory, reach- ing westward into what is now Salt Pond township, and northward into Marshall and Clay. In Blackwater, Renault's men continued their search for valuable minerals, begun on Finney's creek. About the year 1819, nearly one hundred years thereafter, Chas. Lockhart, who was from Cooper county, prospected through this township and the Blackwater country generally, continuing the search begun by the Frenchmen.
At Jonesboro, in Salt Fork township, in 1824, Alex. Galbraith had a water-mill on the Salt Fork, the first of the kind in Saline county. Gal- braith was the first settler in that section, and built the first house, but when he came is not certainly known. The settlers from all the adjacent country helped him in his enterprise. Henry Nave, who then lived in the Big bottom, says that he gave him a week's work, and "we all assisted him what we could." Mrs. Adkinson, then a young wife of seventeen, says the other settlers in the "Jonesboro country " at that time were Walker Adkinson (her husband), Jas. Robinson, Samuel Davis, Richard Scott, who "lived up the creek," Henry Galbraith, " west of us," and
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Wyatt Bingham. In two or three years Dr. Geo. Penn came and lived on the hill just above Jonesboro. Asa Finley lived near the mouth of Blackwater.
Mrs. Ann Adkinson, the lady referred to, was a daughter of Cornelius Davis, and was born in Kentucky in 1807. She moved with her father to Missouri in 1810, and settled at New Madrid. The earthquake broke him up, and he received a "New Madrid certificate," which he located five miles above above Booneville in 1819. In the spring of 1821, he located in the Big bottom, opposite the town of Old Chariton. In 1823, she mar- ried Mr. Walker Adkinson, a native of Halifax county, Virginia, born in 1789, who had removed to Missouri in 1819 with Joseph Robinson. The marriage ceremony was performed by Esquire Geo. Tennille. Mr. A. died in 1844. In March, 1824, Mr. and Mrs. Adkinson left the Big bottom and settled on Salt Fork, near Jonesboro.
In her neighborhood, Mrs. A. says, the first school house was at Wy- att Bingham's, and John Scott taught the first school, in 1829. The first house was built by a son-in-law of Alex. Galbraith's, on the Stephen Smith place, about 1821. The first church built was Zoar, near Jones- boro, about 1825; the next was Smith's Chapel. In that day wild beasts of many different species infested the country, and panthers were quite plen - tiful. Mrs. A. started her children to school one morning, and shortly after she heard the scream of a panther. For some time she was very uneasy, but the children were not harmed. The scream of a panther, says Mrs. Adkinson, is very much like that of a person calling in distress.
`Mr. Wm. A. Findley, guardian of his sisters and his brother, Walker H. Finley, settled with them December 24, 1829, near Jonesboro, on section 22, township 49, range 20, being a tract of land entered by him. "Here," Mr. Walker Finley says, "I labored for about ten years. At that time the country seemed to be almost a wilderness. There were only small neighborhoods and they few and far between. The winter of 1830-1 was the severest ever known in Missouri. Snow fell the last of Novem- ber, 1830, and remained on the ground till the first of March. No such snow storms have I ever witnessed since, and much of the temperature was extremely cold. The snow at that time, on a level, was from four to five feet deep, and drifts on the prairie were from ten to twenty-five feet in depth. At that time most of the people lived in moderate-sized houses; they were their own architects, and built to suit their means and surroundings. The snow was so terrible, and the quantity so large, that it would bank up and close their windows-if they had any, and not unfrequently reach the 'button-pole' or the eave of the house, and mechanical means had to be used to remove the obstruction. The decade following 1830 was one of well-regulated seasons. The springs and summers were pleasant; the winters were regularly cold and severe, with continued snows from the last of November and first of December, with but little variation, till the last of February or the first of March, when spring would come in with all its verdant glories, and with the rays of sunshine to warm the earth and cheer the people of Missouri, and especially of Saline county.
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" In September, 1830, in company with my sister, Phil Houx and David Morrow, I went from Wyatt Bingham's to Lexington. By an early start we made the trip in a day, then called sixty miles. There were only two or three settlements between Jonesboro and Lexington. Cornelius Davis lived near where Marshall now is. The Hayeses, Owenses, Hunters and Gillettes were on Salt Pond creek; Johnson Grove, and Page and Sam- uel Walker were on the Tebo. The trail or road was not more than eight or ten inches wide. It led through the prairie, on which, in many places, the grass was taller than a man on horseback. I returned home after an absence of one week, without missing the road.
" The seasons since that time have been variable; snows have not remained all winter. Wheat has often been sown in January; but the spring has often been of the same character as the winter, to the detri- ment of the prosperity of the farmers.
"At that time, (1830) game was plentiful; deer were abundant. I might stand on an elevated piece of prairie, between the mouth of Salt Fork and Marshall, and count on various other elevations, twenty, forty and sometimes sixty deer, in a herd, quietly feeding. It is probable that these animals were more numerous at that day than domestic stock, in this county. It was no trouble to kill deer then; three or four a day was not considered very great work. * * * *
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