USA > Missouri > St Charles County > History of St. Charles, Montgomery, and Warren counties, Missouri, written and comp. from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of their townships, towns and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri > Part 120
USA > Missouri > Montgomery County > History of St. Charles, Montgomery, and Warren counties, Missouri, written and comp. from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of their townships, towns and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri > Part 120
USA > Missouri > Warren County > History of St. Charles, Montgomery, and Warren counties, Missouri, written and comp. from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of their townships, towns and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri > Part 120
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spirited interest in civil affairs, he has confined himself simply to the duties of a private citizen, having no taste for public life or desire for prominence or notoriety. His life has been devoted almost exclu- sively to his farming interests, his family and his church for many years.
Throughout his long residence in St. Charles county he was known far and wide as one of the great-hearted, hospitable, old farmer citizens of the county, at whose house it was a pleasure to be. His good wife died in 1872, on the 30th of July, after a happy married life of over 52 years. They were blest with a family of ten children, as follows : Henry C., who is now a retired capitalist, a resident of Golden City, Mo. ; Sarah E., wife of John A. Moore, of Warren county, where Grandfather McGown now makes his home ; Altha N., who is the widow of the late William Gray of St. Louis, and the mother of Mrs. Emily F. Nixon, the wife of John T. Nixon, of the Nixon-Jones Printing Company of that city ; Daniel T., a successful farmer of Barton county, Mo. ; George Q., who died August 3, 1855, in his twenty-seventh year; Francis M., the wife of Benjamin B. Luckett, a substantial farmer of St. Charles county ; Polly A., the wife of William Bowman, also a well-to-do farmer of that county ; Luther A., late a practicing physician of Greene county, but who has been dead a number of years; Martha J., who died in young maiden- hood, in 1854, and James A., who lost his life in Mississippi while in the service of the South, during the late war.
JOHN A. MOORE
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Foristell).
For 45 years Mr. Moore has been a resident of Warren county. He came here from Virginia in 1839, then a young man about 23 years of age. The following year, January 21, 1840, he was married to Miss Sarah McGown, a daughter of Daniel and Frances ( Corley ) McGown, also formerly of Virginia. About the time of his marriage Mr. Moore settled down to farming in this county and has been engaged in that occupation ever since. For many years past he has united stock raising with farming, and by energy and good management has accumulated a competence. He has an excellent farm of 360 acres in Hickory Grove township, not far from Foristell, across in St. Charles county. Mr. Moore was born in Henry county, Va., No- vember 9, 1816. His father was Alexander Moore, formerly of North Carolina, and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Pace, born and reared in Virginia. They were married in Virginia and came to Warren county in 1839, John A. coming with them. The father, who was a farmer by occupation, died here October 5, 1845. The mother died in 1865. They had a family of 13 children, of whom John A. was the eighth. He was reared in Virginia, as stated above, and was married shortly after coming to Missouri. His wife, Mrs. Moore, was born in Virginia, January 11, 1823. Her parents early settled in St. Charles county. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have had nine
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children, six of whom are living, Mary J., the wife of H. W. Thur- man, resides in this county ; Margaret A., who died in girlhood ; George J., who died in early boyhood ; Laura E., who is the wife of R. P. Young, of Alton, Oregon county ; Virginia T. is the wife of Henry Perkins, a farmer and stock dealer of California ; Fannie E. is the wife of Thomas Hughes, a farmer of Warren county ; Nannie A., who is the wife of Daniel Bishop, and resides on the farm with her. father-in-law ; Ella G. is the wife of Eugene Lucas, a farmer of Mont- gomery county ; William Thomas was born November 9, 1856, and died at the State University at Columbia, in 1876, aged 19 years and 11 months. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are members of the Primitive Baptist Church.
CAMP BRANCH TOWNSHIP.
Camp Branch was one of the original townships, established in 1833, when the county was organized. It is bounded on the north and east by Lincoln county ; south, by Elkhorn township, and on the west by Montgomery county. Within its limits are many of the most desirable farms in Warren county, the land having been largely cleared of the timber which formerly covered two-thirds of the town- ship.
The principal stream is Camp Branch creek, although many small creeks and branches afford plenty of good clear water.
EARLY SETTLERS.
The early settlers of Camp Branch township included many of the foremost men of the county. Among the first to locate was Conrad Yater, a German, who married in Virginia and came to Warren county in 1818. He erected several mills on Camp Branch creek, and in his day was considered a driving, energetic man. His widow still lives in the township. William Gibson, a Scotchman, was one of the early settlers. His sons, John and William, are now well known merchants in St. Louis. Among other residents of the town- ship in the early days were William Hankins, who is now living in the south-western part of the State at an advanced age ; Robert Gar- rett, Carter Crouch, Josiah Camp, Alfred McClure, Rev. Willis Jones, a famous Ironside Baptist preacher ; Thomas Garrett, Jesse Garrett, Joseph Camp, whose widow is yet alive, aged 92 years ; Dr. W. W. Farrow, Dr. Thomas Farrow, Peter Harmon, a prominent stock dealer, who was president of the first county agricultural society ; Hudson S. Cravens, Walter Carrico, a descendant of an old Spanish family who came into the State when Missouri was part of Louisiana territory.
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BIOGRAPHICAL.
PHELIX CARRICO
(Farmer, and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Pendleton).
The Carrico family was one of the first to settle in Missouri. Mr. Carrico's grandfather came to St. Louis, then a French trading post, in 1781, over 20 years before the territory of Louisiana, which in- cluded Missouri and all the country from New Orleans up and west- ward to the Pacific Ocean not owned by Spain, was ceded to the United States. He settled permanently at that place, where he became successfully interested in business, and reared a family of children. Among these was Walter Carrico, the father of the subject of the present sketch .. He was born in St. Louis City and after he grew up was married there to Miss Elizabeth Martin, formerly of Tennessee. By this union there were nine children, who lived to reach mature years, namely : Susan, Margaret (deceased), John (deceased ), Louisa, Lydia, Parmelia, Elizabeth, David (deceased ) and Nancy, besides Phelix, the subject of this sketch. The mother died August 6, 1856, in Warren county, the family having removed to this county some four years before. Here Walter Carrico became an extensive farmer, considering the times, and a large land owner. He was mar- ried twice after his first wife's death. His second wife, who was previously Mrs. Elizabeth Browning, a widow lady, left him one child at her death. His third wife, nee Lucy E. Musick, bore him three children : Amanda, Isabel and Walter. In 1864 the father returned to St. Louis county with his family, principally . on account of the unsettled condition of affairs here, but some years after the war he came back to Warren county, where he resided until his death, in the fall of 1875. Phelix Carrico, the second in his father's first family of children, was born in St. Louis county, September 15, 1827, and was there reared and educated, having the advantage of a common-school course. On the 4th of April, 1852, he was married to Mrs. Lydia Adams, widow of James Adams, de- ceased, and a daughter of Phelix and Matilda (Jenkins) Carrico. After his marriage Mr. Carrico continued farming, to which he had been brought up, and handling stock in St. Louis county until 1853, when he removed to Caldwell county, Mo., where he resided for about three years. Returning then to St. Louis county, he remained there but a year and came thence to Warren county. He, too, returned to St. Louis county in 1864, but came to Warren as soon as the war was over, or early in 1866. Mr. Carrico has been successfully engaged in farming and stock-raising ever since he was a young man. He has a large stock farm in this county, which is well improved and con- veniently arranged for handling stock. His landed estate amounts to
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about 1,300 acres, and he is recognized as one of the substantial and prominent agriculturists of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Carrico have five children : Walter P., Lydia J., Sterling P., William N. and David A. Walter P. married Miss Ellen Stone and is a farmer of this county; Lydia J. is the wife of Rupert Gerdermann ; Sterling P. married Miss Sarah Hunchberger, and is a farmer of this county. Mr. Carrico is a member of the Catholic Church and his wife of the M. E. Church South.
FREDERICK HUKRIEDE
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Truxton).
Among the successful men of Warren county and substantial, highly respected citizens, is the subject of the present sketch, who com- menced for himself without a dollar, and has made all he is worth by his own industry and intelligence and by steady, honest methods. He landed at Baltimore from Germany in 1856, alone and a stranger and without as much as a dollar in money, being then 16 years of age. Shortly he came on to Warren county, stopping first to work for means to defray his expenses. Here he went to work with that in- dustry and resolution which could not fail of success. The result is that he now has a fine place of 400 acres in section 34 of township 48 and range 3. In a word, he is in comparatively easy circum- stances. Mr. Hukriede was born in Lienen, Prussia, April 9, 1840, and remained at home until he was 16 years of age. His parents, Ernst and Elizabeth (Lehme) Hukriede, spent their whole lives in Prussia, the father dying there in 1865 and the mother in 1870. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church. September 24, 1863, Mr. Hukriede was married to Miss Caroline Brunert, a daughter of H. F. and Wilhelmina ( Diedert) Brunert, formerly of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. H. have had seven children, namely : Paulina, Louis C., Ulysses (deceased), Laura, Caroline W., Orlanda F. and Theodore W. Mr. and Mrs. H. and their daughter Paulina are members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Hukriede was in the Union service during the war, and was lieutenant of Co. D, Third M. S. M.
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