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engerdt was married to Miss Caroline Strack, a daughter of Charles Strack, formerly of Germany. They have four children : Maggie, Ernst, George and Lizzie.
JAMES E. SHARP (Farmer, Post-office, High Hill) .
. The branch of the Sharp family of Montgomery county, of which the subject of the present sketch is a representative, came originally from Bedford county, Va., in the year 1838. Mr. Sharp was born in that county July 28, 1823, and when he was quite young was brought to Missouri by his parents, Capt. John Sharp and wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Cruse. They settled in Mont- gomery county. Capt. Sharp was twice married. His second wife's maiden name was Margaret Jeter, and she was also from Bedford county, Va. Capt. Sharp was captain of a company in old muster days, and was a man of some local consideration and prominence. He was a successful farmer and well-to-do citizen, and died in this county in 1866, and at the time of his death was in the mercantile business at High Hill. James E. Sharp was reared a farmer by his father, and when he was 27 years of age, in 1850, was married to Miss Margaret A. Sharp, a daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Sharp, also originally of Virginia. James E. Sharp and wife have been blessed with eleven children. Seven are living : Edward W., Frances, Minnie, Julia, Jane, Kate and Dock. Albert, Henry, Florence and Douglass are deceased. Mr. Sharp has a neat farm of 120 acres.
WILLIAM J. SKINNER
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Jonesburg).
Mr. Skinner's father, Francis Skinner, was one of the pioneer set- tlers of Montgomery county. He was from Fauquier county, Va., born May 22, 1794, and was married there October 22, 1818, to Miss Lucy A. Jasper. Two years later he came with his family to Missouri and settled in Montgomery county when the country was yet a terri- tory. Here he died April 26, 1876, and at the age of 82. He was one of the sterling old pioneers of the county, a citizen widely known and profoundly respected by all. He and his good wife reared a family of seven children : Robert, John J., William J., Elizabeth, Sarah and Lucy A., all of whom became heads of families themselves. William J. Skinner was born on his father's homestead in this county
May 31, 1824, and was reared to the occupation of a farmer. He was brought up to know about and not to fear hard work ; but better than this, he was taught by the precepts and examples of his honored old father that only by unremitting industry, united with economy and good management, can one hope to prosper honestly in the affairs of life. He has succeeded in becoming one of the well-to-do farmers of the county, and all he has is the fruit of hard work. He has always handled stock more or less, and has had good success in this line of
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industry. Mr. Skinner bas an excellent farm of 320 acress, all well improved. He also has some town property at Jonesburg. On the 26th of March, 1846, Mr. Skinner was married to Miss Melvina J. Pennington, a daughter of Joseph and Letitia B. Pennington. Eight children have followed this union, of whom six are living : Margaret J., Joseph F., James L., Timothy W., William J. and Laura L. Mr. and Mrs. S. are members of the Christian Church.
WILLIAM W. SMITH
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Post-office, Jonesburg).
The subject of the present sketch, Mr. Smith, now among the sub- · stantial citizens of this township, had but little or no means to start on when he began as a young man for himself. But possessed of the qualities which make successful men and valued citizens, his career has been productive of the results that usually attend the exertions of this class of men. Over four years of valuable time were spent, when he was a young man, in the Confederate army, fighting for what he believed to be right. Certainly a cause like the one which had so many followers was worth fighting for, aye, dying for, as many and many a brave Southerner did before the banner of the South went down. Mr. Smith was in a number of the hardest fought battles of the war, and did not return until its close. After the restoration of peace he located in Montgomery county, and he has been a resident of this county ever since. On the 20th of September, 1865, he was married to Miss Sarah Tannehill, a daughter of Carlton and Elizabeth Tannehill. Previous to his marriage he had engaged in farming in Montgomery county, and in handling leaf tobacco. He kept up both of these interests for some years, but latterly has been engaged in farming and handling stock almost exclusively. He has a valuable farm of nearly 400 acres, one of the well improved and choice places of the township. Mr. and Mrs. S. have but one child living, Mary Birdie Smith. He and wife are members of the Baptist Church. Their other child, Wyett Newton Smith, a promising son, died Nov- ember 11, 1881. His loss was a sore bereavement to his parents, for he was a youth whose character and disposition were such as to make him especially beloved by father and mother, and, indeed, by all who knew him. But we know that all is for the best, for thus it has been spoken by Him from whom all truth and wisdom cometh. Mr. Smith was originally from Virginia, born in Franklin county September 28, 1835. His parents, Stephen and Mary (McCall) Smith, removed to Missouri when he was only three years of age and settled in Warren county, where he was reared.
THOMAS S. THOMPSON
(Farmer and Manufacturer of Tobacco, Post-office, Pendleton).
When Mr. Thompson was a lad about five years of age his parents removed from Henry county, Va., to Missouri, locating in St. Charles
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county in 1830. Born in Henry county, Va., April 10, 1825, he was therefore principally reared in St. Charles county, Mo. While yet a youth he learned the business of manufacturing tobacco, and followed that exclusively up to 1860. He then also engaged in farming, but continued to carry on the tobacco business at Wentzville, his establish- ment being well known in this part of the State and at St. Louis, as well as other points, by the brands of tobacco he put up ; and the 'house of T. S. Thompson in the tobacco trade secured an enviable standing. Mr. Thompson came to his present farm in 1861. He has one of the best farms throughout this entire vicinity, his place being well improved. His tract contains 960 acres, and is an exceptionally fine body of land, one of the best in the township. In 1867 Mr. Thompson was married in Warren county to Miss Anna, a daughter of Benjamin Hutchinson, of that county. They have had seven children, of whom six are living: Waddy, Benjamin, Mary, Leah, Cornelia and Cora. Mr. Thompson's father, Waddy Thompson, Sr., died in St. Charles county in 1876. He had been a gallant old soldier in the War of 1812, and was for 12 years justice of the peace of that county. Mr. T.'s mother was a Miss Mary M. Abbington before her marriage. She is now deceased. Both parents were members of the M. E. Church South.
PHILIP H. TUCKER, M. D. (Physician and Surgeon, Price's Branch).
Dr. Tucker was born in Pike county, Mo., February 6, 1838, and was the youngest of two children of Henry and Margaret J. Tucker, early settlers of Pike county from Kentucky. The father died, how- ever, when the Doctor was yet unborn, but the mother is still living, a resident of Montgomery county, and the wife of W. B. Summers. Young Tucker, besides taking a course in the district schools, attended Watson's Seminary, at Ashley, during the years 1853-54-55. He sub- sequently engaged in teaching school, and while teaching read medicine under Dr. Waldon, of Ashley. In 1857-58 he entered the St. Louis Medical College, graduating in the class of 1860. Following his graduation Dr. Tucker located at Frankfort, for the practice of his profession, where he continued until 1863, when he removed to Ashley. Meanwhile, on March 6, 1862, he was married to Miss Ellen, a daughter of William and Martha Pitt, of Pike county. In consequence of war troubles, in 1866, Dr. Tucker removed to Louisville, in Lincoln county, where he practiced medicine for some five years. He came to Price's Branch in 1876, having practiced for several years pre- viously at High Hill. He has built up a good practice at this place, and is looked upon as a thoroughly qualified and successful physician. On June 15, 1879, Dr. Tucker was married to Miss Ida, a daughter of Francis H. and Frances A. Duncan, formerly of Virginia. The Doc- tor has a family of four sons by his first marriage : John E., James W., Edwin and Walker. In 1864 Dr. Tucker was surgeon at Ashley,
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under Gen. Scofield. He is a member of the A. F. and A. M. and of the Christian Church, at Price's Branch.
JAMES D. WELLS
(Retired Farmer, Post-office, Price's Branch) .
After a life of honest industry rewarded with the substantial com- petence for old age, Mr. Wells is now living in retirement on his farm, enjoying the fruits of his early years of toil. He has been a hard working farmer all his life up to within a few years ago, and now has a fine farm of about 1,000 acres, stretching out in every direction from his comfortable home into broad pastures and fertile fields, all being improved save 120 acres. He was born in Tyler county W. Va., March 20, 1815, and was the youngest of a family of eight children of Charles P. and Rachel (McMechon) Wells, his father formerly of Pennsylvania, but his mother of the Old Dominion. Reared in Tyler county, Mr. Wells was married in Brook county, W. Va., on the 8th of May, 1838, to Miss Jane, a daughter of John and Mary ( Blair ) Prather, of Virginia, and related to the well known professional poli- ician of St. Louis, Griff. Prather. After his marriage he removed to Jackson county, W. Va., where he was engaged in farming until 1852, when he came to Missouri and located on a part of his present farm. He entered a part of his present tract and from time to time bought other pieces. He has two fine ponds on his place, one of which is stocked with fine German carp and the other with native cat, buffalo, bass, etc. Mr. and Mrs. W. have reared three children, who are still living : Nancy, the wife of George Usry, in the service of the C. R. I. & P. R. R., in Iowa ; Adeline, the wife of Robert Alexander, living in Fayetteville, Ark., and Rachel, who is the wife of Stoddard K. Tippitt. Mr. Tippitt has charge of the farm and is conducting it with marked energy and success. Mrs. Wells is an invalid from a second stroke of paralysis. She has been a member of the M. E. Church for many years, and Mr. Wells is a worthy member of the A. F. & A. M.
GEORGE W. WILSON
(Farmer and Stock-raiser, of Montgomery county, Mo.).
George W. Wilson was born on the 5th day of February, 1824, in Madison county, Va. His parents, who were both born and raised in Virginia, were John Wilson and Frances Graves. They came to Boone county, Ky., in 1828. John Wilson died that fall near Peters- burgh, Boone county. The mother, Frances Wilson, with her seven little children, then moved to East Bend, Boone county, the spring after the father's death, and died at the age of 49 years, in 1848. The children remained there for about three years, and then scattered. John L. Wilson married Sarah Foster, of Gallatin county, Ky., and lived and died in Boone county. James A. Wilson married Jane K. Stephens, of Boone county, and both are still living there. Elizabeth
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M. Wilson married James Carlton, of Boone county, where she is now living ; her husband is dead. Charlotte M. Wilson married Philip G. Holmes, of Boone county, Ky., and she is dead, but he resides there. William H. Wilson married Emeline Vanness, of Boone City, and moved to Montgomery county, Mo., in 1851, their present home. Philip A. Wilson married Mary E. Ball, of Montgomery county, Mo., and both are still living here. George W. Wilson moved from Boone county, Ky., in the spring of 1851, and bought and entered 320 acres of new land, which he has up to this time made a fine grain and stock farm. Mr. Wilson married Mrs. Sarah Hoss, daughter of Francis Skin- ner, of Montgomery county, Mo., in 1856, and had six children, five of whom are still living, as follows : James C., born July 15, 1857 ; John H., born March 18, 1859; Sue Laura, born September 26, 1860; George L., born July 19, 1863 ; Thomas A., born April 17, 1865, and Sarah E., born July 30, 1867. George W. Wilson and Mollie A. Miller, wife of Samuel Miller, were married April 15, 1869, and she died September 11, 1883, leaving two children : Pearl Wilson, 13 years old, and Anna F. Wilson, 9 years old. Mr. W. is again a widower; he lives the best he can by the help of God, trusting in him alone for future prosperity .
CHAPTER XIV.
LOUTRE TOWNSHIP.
Position and Description -The Bluffs and Streams - "Pinnacle Rock " - Early Settlements and Pioneers - The Settlements on Loutre Island - Fort Clemson - Snethen's Settlement on Dry Fork -The "Big Spring " Settlement - Early His- ¡torical Items - Villages of Loutre Township - Rhineland - Americus -- Bluffton - Big Spring - Country Churches.
This township comprises the southern portion of Montgomery county and embraces all those portions of congressional township 46 lying in the county, the sections and fractional sections of township 45, and the lower two ranges of sections in township 47, ranges 5 and 6.
For the most part Loutre township is hilly and broken. Some of the hills or knobs are, in fact, miniature mountain peaks, and stand out well defined and prominent. In the warm months of the year, or when Indian summer comes, the scenery is as beautiful as that of Switzerland.
Along the Loutre the scenery is equally fine. Except where the hard-working Germans live, the progress made in the cultivation of the soil is but unimportant and insignificant, and this portion of Montgomery county is almost as primitive and virgin as it was in 1824.
Bowlin's Knob, in the lower portion of the township, took its name from Laney Bowlin, who first discovered it and lived near it. He moved to Clay county, according to the statements of W. B. Snethen and others.
In 1829 Matthew L. White entered the land embracing the famous " Pinnacle Rock," which is in the southern part of this township, on South Bear creek. The following description of this singular stone formation was written by Mr. Rose in 1876 : --
It stands alone, in the midst of a small valley, and rises perpendic- ularly on all sides, except one, to the height of 75 feet. It covers an area of about one acre, and the top is flat and covered with trees, grass, etc. A shelving path on one side affords a safe ascent. During the last few summers the Pinnacle has been used as a preaching place.
A mile and a half from Bluffton there is another singular peak, apparently of volcanic formation, which has excited the interest and speculations of many in times past.
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On the Missouri bottom, in the extreme southern part of this town - ship, the land is exceedingly rich, and is cultivated almost up to the Missouri river bank, and especially is this true of the lands in the vicinity of Kallmeyer's landing, or the Best Bottom.
In the south-west corner of the township, at Bluffton, the bottom is narrow, and is gradually becoming narrower, owing to the encroach- ments of the river upon the alluvial lands. Now there is no road up the river beyond a few miles above Rhineland.
THE LOUTRE.
Loutre creek (or river ) is a beautiful stream, and rises in Callaway or Audrain county, but is an insignificant body until it enters this county. There is only one dam on the main stream - at the point opposite Big Spring.
Usually its banks are narrow, and in time of heavy rains and freshets it becomes very deep and flooded. It has reached its highest stages in the years 1826, 1831, 1855, 1858 and in 1882. On February 20, 1882, it attained the highest point at Mineola, or Loutre Lick, ever known.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
It was within the limits of Loutre township that the first settlements were made in Montgomery county. These were on Loutre island perhaps as early as 1798, while the country still belonged to Spain. The island was first discovered by the French trappers and voyaguers, and by them called Loutre - meaning Otter,1 doubtless from the number of these valuable fur-bearing animals found in the slough which surrounds it. Some of the first settlers on the upper portion of Loutre island were Lewis Groshong, James Thorp, Josiah Thorp, John Thorp, Peter Popineau, Grey Bynum, Lindsay Carson ( father of Kit Carson), Amos Ashcraft, Otto Ashcraft, Jesse Ashcraft, Tem- ple Cole, Stephen Cole, James Patton, Thomas Patton, Jacob Patton, Christopher Talbott, (" Kit " Talbot), Hail Talbot, Benj. Cooper, Sarshall Cooper, - - Clark, - Lewis and Laney Bowlin. A few of these may have lived for a time in the western border of what is now Warren county. These came from about 1798 to 1809, and nearly all were from Kentucky ; the Coopers and Thorps from Madi-
1 Loutre, in French, means Otter in English; "L'outre" means "the other;" but the word denoting the name of the island and stream here has always been written without the apostrophe. (See Beck's Gazetteer (1824), p. 308; Wetmore's Gazetteer (1837), p. 249).
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son county, and the Ashcrafts from Estill county ; Gray Bynum was a South Carolinian ; Popineau was a Frenchman, from St. Genevieve ; the Pattons were Kentuckians.
The first white child born in Montgomery county was Jacob Gro- shong, son of Lewis Groshong, born on or near Loutre island, in 1800. A few years since Mr. Groshong was living near Troy, Lincoln county, hale and hearty.
Jacob Patton, his nephew, Thomas Patton and Hail Talbott came to the island in 1809. Christopher Talbott, Hail's oldest son, came before them with two negro slaves and put in a crop. Jacob Patton located on section 30, township 46, range 4, just across the line in what is now Warren county.
Benjamin Cooper, Sarshall Cooper and their families went to' Boone's Lick, Howard county, in the spring of 1808, but subsequently returned to Loutre island in June 1808.
In 1807 occurred the ill-fated expedition of William T. Cole ( "Tem- ple " Cole ), his brother Stephen Cole, James Murdock, John Gooch and James Patton (?) up to Grand Prairie or Skull Lick, which is mentioned elsewhere.
In 1808, Captain James ( ?) Clemson 1 left Loutre island with a com- pany of mounted U. S. troops to build Ft. Osage, on the Missouri, in Jackson county. In the same year John Snethen, a native of New Jersey, came to the southern part of this township and settled four miles above Loutre island, on the Missouri river, where he remained one year, but later removed seven miles northward, and settled on Dry Fork of Loutre. In 1812 he removed to Howard county. Mr. Snethen afterwards removed his family to Hempstead's Fort, and then to Cooper's Fort. On the night of the 14th of April of that year, Capt. Sarshall Cooper was killed by some unknown person, and Mr. Snethen was seated by his side at the time, but was not hurt. In 1818, he returned to his old place on Dry Fork of Loutre, where he remained until his death.
Jacob Quick, his son Alexander, and Jacob Groom and their families settled in Best's Bottom about 1809.2 Alexander lived near the present site of Bethsaida Church.
Isaac Best and his wife came to Missouri in 1808, from Garrard
1 Capt. Clemson was one of the seconds of Chas. Lucas in his tragic duel with Thos. H. Benton, in 1817.
2 Rose says Jacob Quick settled on Loutre island, but his grand-daughter, Mrs. W. B. Snethen, assures the writer that he first settled as above.
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county, Ky., and settled on the bottom in Montgomery county, which has since borne their name.
In December, 1810, Thomas Patton, from Kentucky, arrived in the colony. He purchased the claim and improvement of one of the Thorps, on the upper part of the island. Meantime, from 1806 to 1810, a dozen or more families had pushed up Loutre seven or eight miles, and John Snethen and others were at Dry Fork, while three or four families were on South Bear creek.
February 20, 1810, Col. Benjamin Cooper left Loutre island at the head of a number of people (including his five sons), who had been resident of Loutre island and the bottoms in St. Charles county, for the Boone's Lick country.
When the War of 1812 came on and the fierce Northern Indians, the Sacs, Foxes, Iowas and Pottawatomies, animated by a natural hatred against the Americans and stimulated by British gold, began to make war upon the settlers of Missouri, the pioneers of Montgomery county removed their families to one of the numerous forts on the Missouri bottom and remained together until the danger was over. The fort resorted to by the Montgomery county settlers was Fort Clemson, which stood on the upper part of Loutre island, near the north bank of the river. The site is in what is now Warren county. The exact loca- tion was on the south half of the south-east quarter of section 30, township 46, range 4, although near the center of said section 30.
Fort Clemson was built in February, 1812, by a company of mounted U. S. soldiers, presumably dragoons, commanded by Capt. Clemson, previously mentioned as the builder of Fort Osage. The interior of the fort comprised an area of half an acre or more. The fort itself was in the form of a parallelogram. By order of Gen. Clark the fort was named Fort Clemson, in honor of Capt. Clemson, its builder and commander.
In 1811 there was considerable sickness among the settlers in Mont- gomery county. On Loutre island Thomas Patton and a child of his died, and a Mr. Clark and others followed soon after. All were buried back on the bluff. On the Loutre some children died, and the body of a woman who had died was brought in to the Loutre grave- yard on the bluff.
It was from Fort Clemson that Capt. Callaway started March 7, 1815, on the expedition that cost him and some of his company their lives. Massey's family had previously been run in from Loutre Lick and the year before Daniel Dougherty was killed, and Jacob Groom and Jack Stewart had their adventure with the Indians at the Big Spring.
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Jacob Groom came to the Big Spring ( where he had previously pur- chased Laney Bowlin's claim) in about 1816. Other settlers were scattered up and down the Loutre valley, wherever there was a desir- able location.
THE BIG SPRING SETTLEMENT.
After the settlement on Loutre island, the most importantin Loutre township was that known as the Big Spring settlement. Laney Bowlin made the first claim and built the first cabin here about 1808. Jacob Groom removed thereto about 1810. The first children born in the neighborhood were Groom's, at the Big Springs. His son William was born February 22, 1811; then his daughter, Lurinda (now Mrs. W. B. Snethen ), was born July 21, 1814. Later in the same year Groom removed his family to Fort Clemson.
Jacob Groom was a native of Kentucky. He was a man of con- siderable education, and taught school on Loutre island, in Fort Clemson, and elsewhere : represented the county two or three times in the Legislature, was a magistrate and a very prominent citizen. He died February 19, 1842 ; his wife, who was Sallie Quick, a daugh- ter of Jacob Quick, died January 7, 1865.
A man named Ryan, a Tennessean, started a tannery just below the Big Spring in 1820, but he was killed some time after and the enter- prise was abandoned.
EARLY HISTORICAL ITEMS.
The first regular physician remembered on the upper end of Loutre island was Dr. James Talbott, afterward a member of the first con- stitutional convention of Missouri, and a member of the Legislature. He died in about 1844. Dr. Wm. Newland was about the earliest practitioner in the interior of the township.
In the Big Spring settlement the first religious services were held at the house of John Snethen, in the year 1819. This was by the Baptists, of whom the first preachers in this section were Wm. Coates, Jabez Ham, Stephen Ham and Alia B. Suethen.
The first church built in Loutre township stood near a spring on the north-west quarter of section 25, township 47, range 6. This church building was put up by the Baptists in 1825. It has long since disappeared, the logs having been hauled away in about 1840.
In about 1815 and 1816 there was a school taught in the block- house at Fort Clemson, on Loutre island, which was attended by the children of the Montgomery county settlers. Hon. Jacob Groom
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taught this school in 1816. The first school in the Big Spring neigh- borhood was taught in about 1824, and Isaac Darneal was the teacher. In about 1825 or in 1826 a regular log school-house was built by the contributed labor of the settlers, on Dry fork, above John Snethen's and near the present site of Trinity Church, two miles or less below Americus. I. D. Lewis and - French were the first teachers.
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