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D. married George Alexander, now of Seattle, Washington; Nancy C. mar- ried James Craven and they are living in Union township, west of Picker- ing; James C. is a banker at Hopkins; Martha E. married Jacob Reed and she died when young in years.
William M. Pistole grew to maturity on the farm and remained at home until he married. He received a common school education in Buchanan county and he became a teacher in Nodaway. On December 28, 1854, he married Amanda C. Neal, daughter of Henry and Sally (Maddy) Neal. She was born in Gallia county, Ohio, December 3, 1834, and she came to Mis- souri in 1853. Her father settled about four miles northeast of Maryville, near where his son, John Neal, now lives, and there both parents spent the re- mainder of their lives, Amanda C. remaining with her parents until her mar- riage. She received a good education in her native community and taught school very successfully in Lawrence county, Ohio, at the Furnaces. Upon their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Pistole settled on a farm just north of the present Pistole home, entering land from the government one year later. which has remained the home of the family ever since, William M. having spent his life here. He owned another farm, five and one-half miles north- west, on the east side of the One Hundred and Two river, owning there a good bottom farm. The home farm contained four hundred and fifteen acres. He became one of the well-to-do agriculturists of this township, own- ing over seven hundred acres in all at the time of his death. He engaged extensively in stock raising and feeding, also bought and shipped livestock in large numbers.
The present commodious home of the Pistole family was built in 1872. He also erected a large and substantial barn, having built his first barn here over fifty years ago. His first house was built of brick. Politically, Mr. Pistole was a Democrat. and he took more than a passing interest in party affairs. He served as county judge for a time in a manner that won the hearty commendation of his constituents and all concerned. He was a mem- ber of the Christian church at Pickering. The death of this excellent citizen occurred on June 1. 1892. He had been practically an invalid for a number of years, but bore his afflictions with the patience and fortitude of the Chris- tian gentleman that he was. Mrs. Pistole, a woman admired by a wide cir- cle of friends, is living on the home place. Their family consisted of six children, namely : Henry T. lives on a farm in Union township, on the One Hundred and Two river; Lewis H. died when twenty-four years old, leaving two sons : Mentoria A. married Frank S. Maxon, a farmer living on the old homestead; they have no children: Steven S. is engaged in the grocery busi-
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ness at Kansas City : Sarah J. married William N. Boatright, of Lamar, Col- orado; Charles O. lives in Denver, Colorado, engaged as a carpenter and builder. Each of these children was left a nice farm by their father and are all very comfortably situated.
Mrs. Pistole is a faithful member of the Christian church. Mr. Pis- tole enlisted on September 1. 1863. in the Missouri state militia in Company A, Fourth Regiment of Cavalry, and was discharged on the Sth of July, 1865, at Benton Barracks, Missouri.
CAPT. JOHN GRIGSBY.
This worthy old pioneer is one of the few remaining links in the chain that connects the present age to a period almost buried in the mists of the past. He is numbered among the oldest living settlers of Monroe township, and has been a witness of Nodaway county's development from the virgin forest and prairie to its present prosperous condition as one of Missouri's most advanced and enlightened counties. Homes and villages have sprung up on every hand since he first saw the county : forests have disappeared before the axe wielded by the strong arm of the woodman: farms, with fertile. well-tilled fields, fine orchards, comfortable buildings and all the adjuncts of civilization, have taken the place of the tangled wilderness which sheltered numerous beasts of prey, and, at a more remote period, the painted savage, who had their tepees in the timber on Mr. Grigsby's place after his settlement here. The music of traffic, mingled with the notes of ceaseless industry, make melody where once the solitudes were broken at intervals by the scream of the ferocious wild animal or disturbed by the symphony of the breeze, the dirge of the winter storm, or the blasts of the terrible tornado.
John Grigsby, who for the long period of over half a century has been one of the honored and respected residents of Monroe township, residing four miles west and a half mile north of Skidmore, is a native son of the old Blue Grass State, having been born in Hardin county, Kentucky, on December 18, 1826, and he is a son of Redman and Nancy ( Keeling) Grigs- by. The father, who was a native of Virginia, was born in 1800 and died on June 7, 1876, while the mother, a native of Kentucky, died in 1828. They were married in 1820 and after that event settled in Hardin county, Kentucky, where they remained until 1830, when they moved to McDonough
MRS. JOHN GRIGSBY
CAPT. JOHN GRIGSBY
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county, Illinois, and settled on a farm, being numbered among the pioneers of that county. There John Grigsby spent his boyhood years, receiving his education in the schools of the neighborhood. On September 7, 1847, he married Clarissa P. Hays, a native of Washington county, Kentucky, the daughter of Thomas R. and Mary (McDonald) Hays, and a sister of John G. Hays, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Grigs- by remained in McDonough county and in 1853 Mr. Grigsby engaged in mer- cantile business at Blandinsville, Illinois, continuing in that line until 1859, when he came to Nodaway county, Missouri, and settled where he still resides, in section 2, Monroe township. During the subsequent years he devoted him- self closely to the cultivation of his farm and the raising of livestock, in both of which lines his efforts were rewarded with a gratifying measure of success.
In 1862 Mr. Grigsby received a commission as captain in the Missouri Enrolled Militia, and in 1864 he enlisted in Company F, Forty-eighth Regi- ment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, of which company he was commissioned captain. In 1865 he was sent to Camp Douglas, Chicago, being assigned to guard duty, and was afterwards ordered to St. Louis. He was mustered out on July 3, 1865, and then returned to his family in Nodaway county.
Mrs. Clarissa Grigsby died on July 11, 1905, at the age of seventy-seven years, her death being counted a distinct loss to the community where she had so long resided 'and where her many excellent qualities of head and heart had endeared her to all who knew her. Mr. and Mrs. Grigsby became the parents of three children, namely: Laura B., who was born on August 28, 1863, became the wife of Frederick C. Barber, whose sketch appears else- where in this work; Elizabeth M., born January 1, 1849, died September I. 1849; Lillie C., born November 21, 1863, died on September 4, 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Grigsby, out of the kindness of their hearts, adopted a boy, William, who was born November 6, 1863.
Religiously, Mr. Grigsby is a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the success of which he has always been deeply interested, while fraternally, he is an appreciative member of the time-honored order of An- cient Free and Accepted Masons. Though now eighty-four years old, Mr. Grigsby retains, to a remarkable degree, his physical and mental faculties and his recital of reminiscences of the early days in this county is interesting in the extreme, coming as they do from one who himself was an active factor in the wonderful growth and development which characterized this sec- tion of the state. He is a man of splendid personal qualities and enjoys the unbounded respect of all who know him.
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D. T. GARRETT.
The office of biography is not to give voice to a man's modest estimate of himself and his accomplishments, but rather to leave upon the record the verdict establishing his character by the consensus of opinion on the part of his neighbors and fellow citizens. In touching upon the life history of the subject of this sketch, the writer aims to avoid fulsome encomium and ex- travagant praise : yet it is desired to hold up for consideration those facts which have shown the distinction of a true and useful life-a life character- ized by perseverance, energy and well defined purpose. To do this will be but to reiterate the dictum pronounced upon the man by the people who have known him long and well.
D. T. Garrett was born in Buda, Bureau county, Illinois. on May 31, 1860, and is a son of Andrew R. and Minerva H. (Nichols) Garrett, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Illinois. Andrew Garrett came to Illinois with his parents in boyhood and was reared to the life of a farmer. which he subsequently followed, together with stock raising, with some suc- cess. The subject's paternal grandfather was A. H. Garrett, a native of northern Ohio, who was a pioneer settler of Illinois, where he acquired con- siderable reputation as a surveyor, his death occurring in that state. The maternal grandfather was D. T. Nichols, a native of Illinois, his death oc- curring there many years ago. In the spring of 1882 Andrew Garrett brought his family to Nodaway county, buying a farm two and a half miles north- east of Clearmont. Atchison township, where he resided until 1897. when he bought a lumber yard at Clearmont, which he turned over to the manage- ment of his son, A. H., who is now in business there. In 1903 he and has son, the subject of this sketch, bought the Northwestern Bank of Missouri, at Burlington Junction. He attained a high reputation as a breeder of thoroughbred Hereford cattle and in all his business enterprises he met with marked success, being a man of keen sagacity and sound business judgment. In politics he was a strong Democrat, though never a seeker after public office. Andrew and Minerva Garrett became the parents of eight children. of which number seven are now living.
The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools. graduating from the high school in his native town. and he also attended a business college at Des Moines. Iowa, where he graduated in 1883 with an excellent mental equipment for practical business affairs. He retained his residence under the parental roof until the family removed to Missouri.
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Learning the practice of telegraphy, he worked at this business at different points, most of the time for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, until the spring of 1892. In that year he engaged in the hard- ware business at Loomis, Nebraska, in which he met with a fair measure of success, remaining there until 1899, when he came to Maryville. Nodaway county, and bought the Maryville Hardware Company. He operated this business until the spring of 1903, when he and his father bought the bank at Burlington Junction, previously referred to, of which he became president, his father. Andrew R. Garrett, becoming vice-president. Mr. Garrett still re- tains the presidency, with Enos Fast as vice-president and R. N. Barber, cashier. The directors are P. Cummins. T. A. Corken, S. W. Ripley, Enos Fast, D. T. Garrett and R. N. Barber. Mr. Garrett devotes practically his entire attention to the bank, which is numbered among the solid and in- fluential monetary institutions of this part of the county, much of the success of the bank being due to his business ability and sound judgment.
On September 16. 1885, Mr. Garrett was united in marriage with Flor- ence Wilson, of Clearmont. this county, and to them have been born three children, Mary R., Wilsa T. and Renisa Leon, the last named having died in infancy.
Politically, Mr. Garrett is a stanch Republican and takes an intelligent interest in public affairs, though he is not in any sense a seeker after public office. His fraternal relations are with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. He is a man of genial disposition and pleasing address and is well liked by all who know him. He gives a support to every movement looking to the advancement of the best interests of the community and is numbered among its leading citizens.
SAMUEL B. HAYZLETT.
Examine into the life records of the self-made men and it will always be found that indefatigable industry forms the basis of their success. True. there are other elements that enter in-perseverance of purpose and keen discrimination-which enable one to recognize business opportunities, but the foundation of all achievement is earnest. persistent labor. This fact being recognized at the outset of his career by the subject of this sketch. he worked earnestly and diligently in the advancement of his own interests. at
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the same time doing what he could for the welfare of the community at large, and as a result of his habits of industry, public spirit, courteous demeanor and honorable career he enjoys the esteem and admiration of a host of friends in Nodaway county, where he has long maintained his home, being numbered among the representative citizens of Hughes township.
Mr. Hayzlett is a native son of the old Hoosier state, having been born in Hancock county. Indiana, on August 6, 1842. He is the son of James and Angeline ( Taylor) Hayzlett, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Ohio. The subject's father died in Hancock county, where he had followed farming for many years, and in 1866 the widowed mother brought her family to Nodaway county, Missouri, where her death occurred at the age of seventy-two years. The parents had seven children, the subject of this sketch being the third in the order of birth. . The latter was reared on the paternal farmstead in Indiana and he is indebted to the common schools of Hancock county for his educational training. He remained with his par- ents until 1866, when, after the death of his father, he came with his mother to Nodaway county, Missouri, the trip from Indiana being made in a wagon. They arrived in Nodaway county in October, 1866, and the subject at once located on the land in Hughes township near where he now resides, a period of nearly forty-five years, having been a witness and active participant in the wonderful transformation and development which has characterized this county. He is the owner of a large landed estate, comprising several hun- dred acres, including some of the best farming land in the county, and here he has consistently applied himself to a general line of farming, in which he has met with a very gratifying measure of prosperity. being numbered today among the leading farmers of his section of the county. Stock raising has always demanded a due share of his time and attention and in this line also he has met with eminent success. On the farm are splendid buildings, which are maintained in the best of repair, and the general appearance of the place is pleasing to the eye and indicative of the progressive spirit and practical ideas of the owner.
On August II. 1875, Mr. Hayzlett was united in marriage to Samantha Elizabeth Cole, a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, where she was born on September 14. 1851. a daughter of Aaron and Mary (Hennon) Cole. Her parents were both natives of Pennsylvania, from which state they moved to Ohio. then to Illinois, and. in 1859, to Nodaway county, Missouri, where they lived for several years, moving then to Andrew county, this state, where their deaths occurred. They were the parents of nine children. To Mr. and Mrs. Hayzlett have been born nine children, namely: Stoughton F ..
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Logan C., Elmer R., Jay G., Lillie M. (the wife of Ralph Miller, of Gra- ham, this county), Daisy D. (the wife of Robert Noblett, of Hughes town- ship), Rose, Myrtle and Grace.
Mrs. Hayzlett is a faithful and consistent member of the Methodist Epis- copal church, to which she renders an earnest support and the girls are mem- bers of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Hayzlett is a public-spirited and enter- prising citizen, his influence in the community always being given to the things which promise to benefit his fellow citizens in any way. Before clos- ing this brief sketch, mention should consistently be made of the fact that during the Civil war Mr. Hayzlett rendered effective service to his country as a member of the Fifty-first Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He is a man of genial disposition, makes friends readily and enjoys a large cir- cle of warm personal friends.
HENRY A. C. HASTY.
By a life of persistent and well-applied industry, led along the most hon- orable lines, the gentleman whose name appears above has justly earned the right to be represented in a work of the character of the one at hand, along `with the other men of Nodaway county who have made their influence felt in their respective communities and who have at all times stood for the high- est and best interests of the people generally.
Henry A. C. Hasty is a native son of the old Blue Grass state, having been born at Woodstock, Pulaski county, Kentucky, on January 18. 1859, and he is a son of Henry C. and Mary (Brown) Hasty. These parents also were natives of Kentucky. the father born in Pulaski county and the mother in Rockcastle county. The father was a successful farmer and he and his wife both died in Rockcastle county. They had three children, Clementine. Henry A. C. and James M.
The subject of this sketch was reared mainly near Level Green. Rock- castle county, Kentucky, receiving his education in the common schools of that locality. There he continued to reside, giving his efforts to agricultural pursuits, until the fall of 1886, when he came to Nodaway county, Missouri. and during the following five years devoted himself to mercantile business at Skidmore. During four years under the administration of President Cleve- land he served as postmaster of Skidmore, giving general satisfaction. In the fall of 1899 Mr. Hasty came to Hughes township and engaged in farm-
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ing. to which he has since applied himself with notable success. He owns one hundred and seventy acres of fine land and he easily ranks with the enterprising and successful men of his calling in the county, being progressive in his methods and using the latest modern implements and machinery and by judicious rotation of crops he seldom fails to realize abundant returns from the time and labor devoted to his fields. He also pays considerable attention to the raising of livestock, which he finds quite profitable. He keeps in close touch with the advancements in agricultural science and is fully abreast the times in reducing the same to practical tests. being progressive in all the term implies, and believes in the latest and most approved methods of modern farming. The farm, which is known as "Elm Mound" farm, is numbered among the best of the township in which it is situated and it has a widespread reputation because of the fine Poland-China hogs and Shorthorn cattle pro- duced here and which command a ready sale at all times.
Mr. Hasty was married in Hughes township, this county, on March 14, 1894, to Sarah Frances Kyle, a daughter of James Madison and Elizabeth (Anderson) Kyle, her birth having occurred in Hughes township on June 27. 1863. They are the parents of one living child, Ernest Kyle. Mr. Hasty has always taken a deep interest in public affairs and while living at Skid- more he held the office of justice of the peace two years, giving eminent satis- faction in the discharge of his official duties. Politically, he is a Democrat and takes an active part in advancing the interests of his party. He is well known throughout this section of the county and his friends are legion. His life has not been without its quota of crosses and trials. He has been able to surmount all obstacles, however, and to arrive in the autumn time of life in prosperous circumstances. This, he has been able to do through his inher- ent energy and industriousness.
ENOCH P. KNABB.
A man who has been conspicuously identified with the material growth of the section of Nodaway county where he resides is Enoch P. Knabb : since coming to the West his life has been very closely interwoven with the history of the county where he has lived for a period of forty-two years. during which time immense and far-reaching changes have taken place here and Mr. Knabb has not only done his full part in the work of progress, but he has received his full share of the benefit accruing to all. He was born in Cler-
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mont county, Ohio, August 12, 1827, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Par- vin) Knabb, the former dying in Illinois and the latter in Indiana. Jacob Knabb was born and reared in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and his wife, Elizabeth, was born in New Jersey. Enoch P. Knabb was the fourth child of a family of six. When he was eight years old his parents moved to Jackson county, Indiana, where he was reared and where he lived until the spring of 1868 when he came to Nodaway county, Missouri. He began farm- ing when but a small boy and received such education as the schools of those early days afforded. Upon coming here he settled in Polk township, of which he has since been a resident. He has always been engaged in farming and stock raising and has met with a fair measure of success all along the line. and is now the owner of a valuable and well-kept farm of two hundred and forty acres in one of the best sections of the county. Besides greatly improv- ing his land in a general way, he has built new and substantial buildings, having a very cozy home.
Mr. Knabb was first married in Jackson county, Indiana, to Mary Ann Kelly, who died in Polk township, Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1884. Eight children were born of this union, named as follows: Samuel F., of Mary- ville; Elizabeth J. was the wife of A. D. Taylor, but is now deceased ; Luella is the second wife of A. D. Taylor; Sarah C. is the wife of Edward Walker; John and William, the two youngest children, died in infancy.
Mr. Knabb was again married on October 8, 1886, to Mrs. Jurilda Hick- cox, widow of J. W. Hickcox and daughter of George L. and Maria (Fletcher) Stevens. Her father was a native of Indiana and her mother of Kentucky. Mr. Stevens died in Harrison county, Indiana, and Mrs. Stevens died in Appanoose county, Iowa. Mrs. Knabb became the mother of three children by her first marriage, namely: Florence M. is the wife of L. Henry ; S. Larkin ; one son died in infancy ..
SAMUEL RODMAN.
From one of the best of pioneer families, and he himself a man of un- blemished reputation, comes Samuel Rodman, one of the representative and highly-respected citizens of Green township, Nodaway county, who was born in Henderson county. Illinois, March 31, 1864. He is the son of Cor- nelius and Mary (Curry) Rodman, the father having been born near Louis- ville, Kentucky, March 24, 1826, and there he grew to maturity. When
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a young man he came to Henderson county, Illinois, with his parents, William and Sarah ( Brewer) Rodman. While living in Illinois he married Mary Curry. She was born at Taunton. Somersetshire, England, Septem- ber 21, 1832, daughter of Samuel and Emma ( Whiting) Curry. Samuel Curry was born at Taunton, Somersetshire, England, about the beginning of the nineteenth century. He grew to maturity and entered business there, but was bankrupted by going securities. In March, 1848, the family came to America and located at Hendersonville, now Shanghai, Warren county, Illinois. Mr. Curry was a brickmaker. After locating in his new home he lived in a little log cabin, which contained but one window, and he experi- enced much hardship and privation, but finally, by working hard, he gained a good living and a comfortable home, and several members of his family are now wealthy citizens of that locality. Emma (Whiting) Curry was born and reared at Mark, England. When Mary Curry was nineteen years old her parents came to Olena, Illinois, she remaining in England one year after their departure for the New World, then came to join her parents, and soon afterwards in Illinois met Cornelius Rodman. After Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Rodman came to Nodaway county, Missouri, they spent the rest of their days on the place they first settled, the father dying on March 2, 1888, after which event the mother lived around among her children, dying while on a visit to her daughter in Illinois, October 24, 1907.
Samuel Rodman grew to maturity on the home farm in Illinois. He was nineteen years old when his parents moved to Nodaway county, Mis- souri, and bought the farm where Samuel now lives. He lived with his parents until he was twenty-four years old. On March 17, 1887, he mar- ried Minnie M. Pifer, daughter of Theodore and Martha E. (Brown) Pifer. She was born April 29, 1868, at Quitman and grew to maturity near that place. After their marriage they lived on a farm near Quitman for about thirteen years. About 1895 he bought a farm of ninety acres about a mile north of the county farm, but did not live on it. About three years later he bought two farms across the road from each other, in 1899; they lie four miles east of Quitman, and on one of them he and his wife lived two years. Selling that place, he bought the Gahart place, four miles west of Mary- ville, and lived there one year, then sold out and went to Cass county, Missouri, twenty-five miles south of Kansas City, near Belton, and lived there about five years, then sold there and moved back to Nodaway county. buying the old home farm on which the family had settled when they first came to this county. He now owns a very valuable and well-improved place
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