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Our subject was one of seven children, namely: Sarah, Whs. J. Hill; Mary K .. Mrs. L. B. Wright; Robert. our subject: John 11., who married Emma Spurlock; James M., who died at the age of three years; William R .. and Fannie, who married Cyrus Wright. Our subjeet received a common-schoof education and remained with his parents until
their death. When twenty-seven years of age he married Susan J., daughter of Franklin T. and Louisa M. (Mitchel) Yates. all natives of Kentucky. although Mrs. Renick was reared in Missouri. One son has blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Renick and they have given him the name of James F. Gur subject grew to manhood upon the farm and has always followed the occupation of a farmer. He is now the owner of two hundred acres which be purchased in 188t and on which he resides. He also has an interest in the old home- stead. Like his father before him, he is a member of the Democratic party, in the doctrines of which he is a firm believer.
C HAARLES C. HAMMOND, one of the most promising young men of Chariton County. Mo., and a successful practicing attorney of the place, is the subject of this sketch. The ancestors of the Hammond family were English. and the grandfather, Talbott, was born in Virginia, where he became a farmer. Later he moved into West Virginia, and there carried on agriculture, and there he died. The father of Mr. Hammond of this no- tice, Hon. Charles Hammond, is one of the promi- nent men of the state of Missouri. He was born in Brooke County. W. Va., and was there reared until prepared for college. Ilis collegiate course was taken at La Fayette College, located in Easton. Pa., and from this celebrated institution of learn- ing he graduated with the degrees of 1. B. and .1. 11.
In 1858. Mr. Hammond came into the State of Missouri. and began teaching school in this cour ty. Later he studied law under Thomas Price. of Bruns- wick, was admitted to the Bar, and began practice. lle has been in practice in this county for over thirty years. In 1875. he was made a member of the Constitutional Convention of Missouri, and the next term was admitted to the State Legislature. For many years he has been a prominent and ac- tive attorney and politician. His age is only fifty- six years, and long years of usefulness and prefer-
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ment may be before hin yet. In his polities he is a Democrat, and takes an active interest in all pub- lie measures. A "blue-stocking" Presbyterian in his religious belief, he is a man respected in his church connection, in which he is an Elder.
The mother of our subjeet was Pocahontas Ca- bell, a native of Keytesville, this county. and a daughter of Charles J. Cabell, a native of Virginia, who became an early settler of Chariton County. He located in Brunswick, and there engaged in ex- tensive farming. In early life. he was a sur- veyor in Louisiana, also practiced law, but was principally engaged in farming. He died at Bruns- wick, in 1882, at the age of seventy-nine years, bay- ing been a member of the Christian Church. Mrs. Hammond's family trace their descent from the Rolfes, who became connected with the beautiful young Indian maiden, Pocahontas.
Mr. and Mrs. Hammond had five children. but only two are living, our subject and his sister, Mrs. C. W. Bowman, of Brunswick. Charles Hammond was reared in Brunswick, and enjoyed the advan- tages of the public schools until he reached the age of eighteen, when he engaged in teaching, in which he eontinned for three years in his home locality. During 1881-82, he attended Westmin- ster College, and then took up the study of law under the wise guidance of his father. Our sub- jeet was an apt pupil. and the knotty points of Blackstone and Coke soon became plain to his brill- iant and eager mind. and in 1886 he was admitted to the Bar by Judge Burgess. A partnership was immediately formed with his father. and has continued ever since, the two making a strong firm.
Mr. Ilamrond is interested in several business interests. a. I was one of the organizers and Di- rectors of the First National Bank, and one of the originators of the Brunswick Building and Loan Association. In November. 1891. our subject moved into Salisbury. and started in regular prac- tice with an office on Main Street, in the L. Hommedieu Building, where his success has been of such a nature that his friends prediet much for "is future. Mr. Hammond holds a membership in the Presbyterian Church at Fulton, and in his political opinions he is a Democrat.
November 10, 1892, our subject married Mi-s Kate Ward, daughter of Dr. William and Maria T. ( Davis) Ward, the ceremony taking place at Mexico. this State. Mrs. Hammond's father was born in Penn- sylvania, and was educated in Washington Col- lege. of that State, whence he graduated with high honors. He is now engaged both as a physician and farmer. llis wife, a native of Virginia. is connected with some of the best Virginia familie -. such as the Floyds, Johnstons and Carringtons. Mrs. Hammond. like her husband, has been a sue- cessful teacher; she is highly educated and aecom- lished, her education having been conducted at home under the guidance of a tutor. She is one of a family of eleven children. only six now liv- ing, five daughters and one son.
RESLEY POUND, an honored citizen and pioneer resident of Linn County, came from Illinois to this locality nearly two- score years ago, and settling upon section 18, township 59. range 20, has since 1854 been closely identified with the rapid advancement of this part of the State. Ile is a large property- owner, and in the evening of his days enjoys a comfortable competence gained by the industrious thrift of early years. Long associated with the development and promotion of the best interests of Linn County. he is widely known and highly respeeted by his acquaintances. Since 1882 he ha- made his home in Linneus, and is practically re- tired from the active duties of agricultural life: in former years, however, he was numbered among the leading farmers and stock-raisers of Missouri.
Although Mr. Pound still retains the manage- ment of his extensive and valuable home farm. his time is mostly occupied in looking after his varied real-estate interests and in placing loans and mortgages. Our subject was born in Ken- tueky, October 22, 1812, and is the son of John Pound, a native of Maryland, who early emigrated to Kentucky with his parents, and there became a farmer and merchant of Jefferson County. He ac-
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quired the ownership of one thousand acres of land and twenty-four slaves. A man of more than ordinary business ability, he occupied a lead- ing position in his native State. He was the father of six children. of whom our subject was the third in order of birth. The paternal grand- father, Benjamin Pound, served bravely in the Revolutionary War, and was a long-time resident of Maryland.
Our subject was reared in .Jefferson County, Ky., and was educated in a little log schoolhouse. working in the summer time upon the farm. At the age of twenty-one he engaged in distilling whisky, but preferring other employment, soon hired out to a gardener. In the spring of 1833 there came a severe frost which killed the tender plants of his employer, who could not then pay off his hands, and our subject, having looked about for other business. became the overseer of a plan- tation. After a time he returned to his former oc- cupation, that of a distiller of whisky. In 1835, in company with Richard Slater, he went to Illinois. where he owned four hundred acres of excellent land near Camp Point, but in 1851, when the railroads beeame too near neighbors, our subject removed to Missouri. After locating upon his tirst Missouri homestead. he also bought land upon section 7, and farmed there until a little more than ten years ago, when, in 1882, he made his home in the town of Linneus,
In 1836 our subject married Miss Nancy Thomas, who was born in Shelby County, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Pound are the parents of three sons and four daughters, of whom six children are yet living, and all occupy positions of usefulness and milu- Mr. Pound formerly owned about one th asand acres of farming property, but has now 1. outside estate tive hundred and eighty aeres of land, besides which he owns four houses in Lin- nens, a two-fifths interest in the hotel, and a one- half interest in the Opera House Block. He is a member of the Christian Church, and materially aids in the good works and enterprises of that or- ganization. He is a strong Democrat, and frater- nally is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Thoroughly understanding each detail of agricultural work, he is authority on gen-
eral farming and stock-raising and in his many years' residence in Linn County has made a wide acquaintance and gained many sincere friends,
AJ. THOMAS HENRY WALTON, Presi- dent of the Bank of Salisbury, a stock- holder in the Farmers' Bank at Keytes- ville. Vice-president of the Salisbury Build- ing and Loan Association, and stockholder in the Salisbury Opera House Company, is one of the most influential and prominent citizens of salis- bury. The events of his life will possess more than ordinary interest for our readers, but before presenting these, some mention of his ancestors is advisable. Ilis grandfather was of Enghsh birth. but came to America before the Revolutionary War, and settled in Buckingham County, Va., where he became an extensive planter. He was one of the patriots in the war that followed the unjust taxation by the Mother Country.
The father, Thomas C., was born in Virginia, where he married and was extensively engaged as a planter. He joined the State militia in the War of 1812. In 1832 he removed to Mis-ouri, mak- ing the trip with a two-horse wagon and team, and consuming six weeks on the way. He located in Chariton County, three miles from Salisbury. where he entered a tract of one hundred and sixty acres and became a pioneer. Farming pursuits engaged his attention, and he added land to his original tract and at the time of his demise owned three hundred and twenty aeres. His death occurred in 1842, when he was but forty-one years of age.
When the family settled in this wild place, they had the land farthest to the north and the coun- try was full of Indians, black bears, wolves and deer. In his boyhood our subject became an ex- pert marksman, and with his unerring rifle brought down the game with which the woods were tilled. The mother of our subject, Nancy Truit Walton. was born in Buckingham County, Va., May 17. 1795. Her father, Thomas Walton. was born in France and emigrated to this country prior to the Revolutionary War. He located in Virginia, where
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he engaged in farming. During the progress of the Revolution he served as captain of a bat- tery under Gen. Washington, and received a wound in the hand which made him a cripple for life. He lived to an advanced age. The mother of Maj. Walton died here in March, 1860. She was a de- vout member of the Baptist Church. Of her fam- ily of nine children, eight grew to maturity, but only two are now living, our subject and a twin sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Mills, of Salisbury.
Our subject was reared in Virginia, where his birth took place in Buckingham County, near Ap- pomattox Court House, December 13, 1826. At the age of six years he accompanied his father to St. Louis, and thenee to St. Charles. Reared on the farm, he had no school advantages until he was about sixteen years of age, when he was sent to a private school for several months during the winter seasons. It was necessary to walk three miles to a log schoolhouse. where the appurte- nances were of the most primitive description. All the shipments from the farm were then made from Lexington, Mo.
In 1849, our subjeet with a party of two hun- dred started with teams and wagons for Cali- fornia. They erossed the Missouri, and struck the Platte and several large streams which they fol- lowed to South Pass and Devil's Gap, where they drove through the water past Independence Rock. From there they proceeded down the Green River, then up the Humboldt River about one hundred miles beyond the Hot Springs, and from there across the desert for forty miles. Proceeding up the Truekee River for two days, they struck the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Our subjeet drove a wagen up the mountains with twenty-two yoke of eatt! , a feat never attempted by any modern knig it of the sawdust. It was ditlieult to get up the mountains, but it was worse getting down on the other side, when the descent had to be made with ropes at Steep Hollow. On this creek he struck some deer, stopped to mine a little. and then proceeded on down the Sacramento Valley.
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Maj. Walton drove six yoke of oxen aeross the "lains, and the time consumed was six months. this mining operations on the American River were successful, and he returned in 1852 via the
Isthmus of Panama and New Orleans. Encount- ering severe storms, the vessel was ninety days at sea, and doubtless the voyage proved very mon- otonous to all the passengers. It may be that our subject spent some of the time in practicing the Spanish which he had learned to speak in Cal- ifornia. His knowledge was not superficial. for while he-was in Panama a week he acted as inter- preter and was urged to remain. but would not consent.
After his return, our subject. in partnership with his brother, purchased the home farm and land adjoining and entered into farming on a large scale. They owned four hundred and eighty acres of well-improved land, and also other property adjoining, which they operated. Ilere they raised hemp and tobaeeo. When the war broke out our subject joined his fortunes with the Confederate cause, enlisting as a volunteer in April. 1861. Hle raised Company B. of Gen. J. B. Clark's regiment. Price's brigade, and entered as a captain. He took part in the battles of Dry Wood and Lex- ington, and then fell back to Springfield. where the regiment went into winter quarters. The first important battle of the opening spring was that of Pea Ridge. Here he went with sixty-tive men to cross a field where five thousand lowa soldiers lay behind the fence. lle lost fourteen men and was himself hit three times and knocked down. first by a spent hall in the forehead. After this the State guard was taken across the Mississippi to Mem- phis and disbanded.
Our subject returned home with the idea of re- erniting, but decided to return to his old com- mand, and was re-elected Captain in Shelby's brigade, Elliott's battalion. He took part in the battles of Helena ( where three thousand men were tost); Cape Girardeau. Jenkins' Ferry and Mark's Mill and then proceeded to Springfield to work on the fortifications. Later, he participated in the battles of Hartwell. Independence and Lone Jack. Twelve officers were detailed to go into Missouri to recruit, and while so doing they had several skirmishes. They engaged in the fight at Inde- pendence while they were with Quantrell. whom. however, they left. Our subject was in the battle of Lone Jack, which was very severely contested.
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one-half on either side being killed. A cannon was taken and retaken three times. Then our subject made his way north of the Missouri River, but soon went back to Arkansas and joined his company. He was commissioned Major of El- liott's regiment and took command of the men on Price's raid, participating in the battles of West- port, Little Blue, Newtonia and the skirmishes, After Lee's surrender Gen. Shelby went to Mexico and left the command in the care of our subject, who surrendered the brigade in Shreveport, Jime 13, 1865, and then went to Texas. After remain- ing there for about two months, he returned to his farm. This had been left in charge of his brother, who, being driven out, made his home in St. Louis until the close of the war.
The brothers had been bereft of everything but their land, but they went to work again and con- tinned with great success until the death of our subject's brother. November 23, 1879. This was a great blow to Maj. Walton. The two had been the closest of friends and partners in aimost every venture from childhood. At that time the estate consisted of thirteen hundred acres, and the Major now owns the following tracts: The home farm, located three miles from the city, contains eight hundred acres, and upon this there is a nice residence with buildings and improve- ments, and the land is watered by Puzzle Creek. This he stocks and rents. One farm contains one hundred and seventy-five aeres: another, one hun- dred and sixty; a third. one hundred and sixty; and forty acres are located in Chariton Bottom.
While on the farm. Maj. Walton engaged in raising Southdown and Cotswold sheep and stand- ard horses, and was a dealer and shipper of stock. Since coming to the city in 1883, he built the fine large residence on West Fourth Street. where his charming wife and daughters assist him in dis- pensing hospitality. He has laid out a six-aere addition to the city, called Walton's Addition. lle was one of the organizers of the Bank of Salis- bury in 1876. and has since been President of this institution. Through his instrumentality the aend- emy at Salisbury was founded, and he served as its Treasurer until his resignation in 1890. Al- ways taking an active interest in educational mat-
ters, for yent, he was Clerk and Treasurer. and for a long time served as Director, now being Vice- president of the Board of Directors. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic order. In politics, he is a prominent Democrat, and has frequently been a delegate to county and State conventions. For ten years be served on the Democratic Committee from this township, being its Chairman for four yearz. He has frequently served on the Grand Jury.
Mr. Walton was married in Dalton. Chariton County, Mo .. March 25, 1868, to Miss Laura Price. who was born near Dalton, and is the daughter of John W. Price, a native of Prince Edward County. Va. He married in that State, and in 1833 came to Missouri, where he located in Chariton County. near Dalton, on five hundred acres of land. He was the owner of forty-five slaves and was well-to-do. In public affairs he gained great influence and served as County Judge. In his religions con- neetions he was a consistent member of the Pres- byterian Church. His death occurred in Mareh. 1890.
The grandfather of Mrs. Walton, James Price. was a farmer of Virginia, of English deseent. and died in his native State. The mother of Mrs. Walton. Phoebe Price, was born in Prince Edward County, and was the daughter of Benjamin Price. a native of the same county. His wife was a mem- ber of the Williamson family and a sister of Gen. Price's mother. Benjamin Price was a farmer in Virginia. and there the mother died when Mrs. Walton was two years old. She was the young- est of her mother's six children. Eight children have been born to Maj. and Mrs. Walton, namely: John T .. who received his literary education at William Jewell College, and his commercial edu- cation in the business college here, and who is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; Aimee E., educated at Hardin College and the Presbyterian College of Nashville. Tenn .: Mary II .. who gained a good education in the same in- stitution of learning; Merriwether L. and Louisa Price, who are students in the Northern Missouri Institute; Thomas H., Jr., Nancy T. and Isbeim Price, who attend the public school.
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in Alabama, in an association called The New De- catur Land and Town Site Company. He is one of the representative men of Salisbury. well known and highly regarded. He and his accomplished wife are valued members of the Baptist Church. in which she takes a very active interest. Their home is one of luxury and refinement. presided over by Mrs. Walton, a lady of great charms of mind and person.
* NDREW ELLIOTT. A native of Ray County, and born when it was a sparsely settled and wholly unimproved tract of land. our subjeet has witnessed the vari- ous mutations incident to the change of a great forest and uninhabited prairie country into a region of cultivated fields and thriving cities. What a wealth of adventure, incident and experience he must have gathered in all these years! He was born September 8, 1822, upon the farm where he now lives, in township 51, range 28.
Our subjeet is a son of Jolin and Susan ( Wells) Elliott, natives of Rowan and Orange Counties. N. C., respectively, the father having been reared upon a farm, where his father died when he was a boy. He was one of eight children, namely: John, Thomas. David, Isaac. Abraham, Willis, Jacob, and Millie, wife of Mr. Misenhammer. The father re- mained upon the farm until 1818, when he came to Missouri and settled first in Carroll County. and then removed in the following year to Ray County, where he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land, and borrowed money at fifty per cent. interest to pay for the same. Adding to this purchase from time to time, he finally accu- mulated five hundred acres, not, however. with- out undergoing many hardships and privations,
In order to protect themselves from the Indi- ans these carly settlers had to build a block-house. Wild game abounded in those days, the woods being literally full of deer, bears, elk. wild turkeys. ete. In Ray County John Elliott married Susan,
daughter of Joseph and Susan Wells, natives of Orange County, N. C., the wedding occur- ring in 1819. They became the parents of the following children: Millie, wife of Daniel Tucker; our subject and Anderson, twins; and Pernetie and Pernecie, twins, the latter, now deceased, having been the wife of Ambrose Tucker. The mother of these children died when our subjeet was but ten years of age. The father married again, his see- ond wife being Eliza (Culbertson) Elliott. by whom he had six children. namely: Mary, wife of Joseph Ballew; Martha; Julia; Thomas, who served in the Union army under Lieut. Rig S. Rakes, and died in defense of his country; Jane, Mrs. W. M. Haskell, deceased; and Sarah, Mrs. Robert P. Ballew, deceased.
John Elliott was the first Assessor of the county of Ray, and was well known as an old-line Whig and an uncompromising Union man. His devo- tion to the l'nion cost him his life. he having been murdered by a troop of the notorious "Bill" Ander- son's men. He was an old man at the time and nearly blind; yet this did not touch the hearts of the brutal men, for they shot him down while standing in his own doorway. Our subject re- mained at home with his father until the sad and terrible death of that honored parent. His edu- cation was obtained in the old log schoolhouse of a kind referred to frequently in this book-with split logs for seats, dirt floors, a stick chimney and greased paper for window glass. In 1862 he raised the first company of Union soldiers organ- ized in Ray County, under Col. King, our subject being chosen Captain. He took part in a number of. battles and skirmishes until in 1863. when, on account of injuries received by falling from his- horse, he was compelled to resign.
Some time after his return from the army. Capt Elliott married Martha A. Ballew, daughter of .Joseph and Catharine ( Wilson) Ballew, all natives of Vir- ginia. Capt. and Mrs. Elliott have one child. Susan. wife of lames W. Self, who is the mother of three children: Martha V .. Andrew E. and Anderson 1. l'pon the return of our subject from the army he took charge of his father's farm, which he afterward bought, and subsequently added to until he has now seven hundred acres. lle is a most intel-
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ligent and progressive agriculturist. and carries on a business of general farming and stock-raising. Politically he is a Republican, firm in his convic- tions and unswerving in his party fealty.
LEXANDER W. WALKER. a retired farmer and Notary Public of Bogard. Carroll County, has ever been a loyal and thoroughly respected citizen, both in times of peace and war. His ancestors emigrated from England and Scotland to the United States during the seventeenth century. Ilis maternal grand- father, Warfield Shirley, who was born in Vir- ginia, attained the rank of Captain in the War with England in 1812, in a Kentucky regiment. where he displayed the qualities of a true and valiant soldier. The paternal grandfather, Alex- ander Walker. was also a native of the Old Domin- ion. . Our subjeet is a son of Edmon and Mary (Shirley) Walker, and was born in Adair Coanty, Ky., September 28, 1838.
Mr. Walker, of this sketch, was the eldest son in a family of eight children, and from early years was of great assistance to his father in the work of attending to his farm. When eleven years of age he removed to Jefferson County. Iowa, with his parents. in which State they remained for two years. In 1851 our subject located in Macon County, Mo., where he lived for five years. His education was that of the common schools, which he supplemented by judiciously selected read . ing and study. In the spring of 1857 he settled upon a farm in Carroll County. In 1860 he crossed the plains to the gold fields of the Rocky Mountains, and returned in time to take a part on the side of the I'nion in the War of the Rebellion. From 1867 to 1882 he was a citizen of Fairview Township, Livingston County, Mo .. and was elected Assessor, Collector and Justice of the Peace; he was also Postmaster at Cavendish. Mo .. for three years, and Census Enumerator in 1880 and 1890. Hle has resided in Carroll County since 1882, and in Bogard since 1892.
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