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On the 22d of November, 1855, Mr. Anderson married Miss Lydia, daughter of David and Sarah Wilson. She was born May 9, 1838. By this union they have had the following children: Mary A., born May 12, 1857; William H., born November 12, 1858; Francis M., born August 15, 1862; Lincoln L., born June 2, 1864; Lucy A., born January 15, 1867; and Ida M., born September 23, 1868.
A. BECKNER.
Andrew Beckner, deceased, was a farmer in Marion township, and was born March 11, 1819, in Fleming county, Kentucky. His parents moved, when he was young, to Randolph county, Indiana, and in 1841 he moved to Missouri, and in 1845 settled on the farm on which he lived and died. He was united in marriage, Angust 22, 1839, to Miss Nancy Stucker. She was born June 13, 1820. By their union they had five children: Newton, born July 23, 1840; Araminta, born June 9, 1847; Melita, born June 27, 1851; Wayne, born October 22, 1853; and Arnette, born September 26, 1858.
Nancy Beckner, first wife of Andrew Beckner, died March 15, 1863. He was again married, June 26, 1864, to Miss Gincy E. Couch. By this marriage they had six children: Marion, born June 15, 1867; Alta, born November 20, 1868; Iva, born February 17, 1870; Merritt, born November 20, 1871; Lncy, born January 20, 1873; Minerva, born August 31, 1875; and Leroy, born March 25, 1877. Mr. Beckner was one of the early settlers of this county, and endured many of the hardships and privations of a front- ier life. Beginning in life by working as a laborer, he learned the carpen- ter's trade, and worked at that a part of his time. He was a class-leader in the M. E. Church for many years, and also moderator. After living a life commendable to Christians and as a citizen, he departed this life June 26, 1878, leaving a widow and six small children.
THOMAS B. BERRY
Is a native of Coshocton county, Ohio; was born September 29, 1840. His parents, Daniel and Annie Berry, were natives of Ohio. He received an education in the common schools of his native State, and in 1857. with his
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parents, moved to this county. He was united in matrimony January 10, 1869, to Miss Rebecca Eldridge, a native of Pike county, Illinois, born No- vember 3, 1849. By their marriage they have six children, names and births as follows: Josie A., born July 22, 1870; Mary A., born October 20, 1871; Annie C., born June 3, 1874; Albert B., born February 17, 1876; Lulie N., born January 24, 1878; and the baby, born August 11, 1879. Mr. Berry has made farming his business so far in life, and has a farm of two hundred and forty acres. He is also giving attention to growing fine Berkshire hogs and full-blooded Cotswold sheep.
R. N. BELSHE
Was born in Tazewell county, Virginia, December 17, 1837. His parents, Richard and Nancy Belshe, both natives of Virginia, moved to this county when the subject of this sketch was but two years old, and he grew up and received a common school education in this county. During the war he was on the plains, and in Colorado for two years. Farming is his business, and he gives special attention to handling stock. He has eight hundred and fifty acres of land. May 20, 1858, Mr. Belshe married Miss Susan May. This lady was born August 2, 1843, in this county. They have seven chil- dren: Mary P., born April 20, 1860; Jefferson C., born September 10, 1862; Nancy A., born September 15, 1863, died September 24, 1865; Susan A., born January 4, 1866; Peggy T., born February 9, 1869; Julia M., born July 14, 1872, died February 13, 1873; and James O., born March 31, 1873.
JAMES BEVANS
Is a native of Belmont county, Ohio, and was born April 23, 1833. His father and mother were natives of Virginia. The subject of our sketch was married August 16, 1856, to Miss Sarah A. Hill, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Hill, natives of Pennsylvania. They have, by this marriage, six chil- dren: Martha E., born May 11, 1857, died in infancy; Ellen P., born August 26, 1858; Lewis S., born September 9, 1861; Sarah A., born Feb- ruary 2, 1864; Charles W., born May 1, 1868; Martha J., born January 15, 1871.
Mr. B. enlisted in 1862, in Captain Haycraft's company of State militia. and in the spring of 1864 enlisted in company K, Forty-fourth regiment Missouri volunteer infantry, serving until the close of the war, in 1865. He was with the Seventeenth army corps and participated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. Mr. Bevans owns a good farm in Marion township, near Rural Dale, and his two brothers, William H. and J. F., live on ad- joining farms. William H. Bevans wedded Miss Jane Sprout. They have one adopted child, Mary E.
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ROBERT BARNETT
Was born January 14, 1838, in Perry county, Ohio. His parents, Solomon and Nancy Barnett, were natives of Maryland. He grew to manhood in his native State, and there received an education in the common schools. Robert Barnett and Miss Charlotte Hoffman were united in marriage on the 13th of May, 1860. She was a native of Fairfield, Ohio. They have seven children; namely, Parry B., born March 11, 1861; William H., born September 28, 1863; Edgar L., born January 13, 1866; Solomon S., born January 29, 1871; Francis S., born November 23, 1873; and Nina P., born May 23, 1880. Mr. B. came to this county in 1865, and has made farming his business since. He enlisted May 2, 1861, in company I, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment, Ohio National Guards, for five years, which time he served out.
R. Il. CABELL, M. D.
Robert H. Cabell was born in Chariton county, Missouri, December 13, 1833. His father, Col. E. B. Cabell, was a native of Virginia, and his mother, whose maiden name was Harriet F. Monroe, was a native of the same State, and a niece of President James Monroe. Robert received an education in the Howard high school, in Fayette, Howard county, Missouri, and after his school days entered the store of N. & A. Johnson, at Bruns- wick, as a salesman, where he remained a number of years. In April, 1857, he formed a partnership with James Winters, and opened a mercantile bus- iness at Lindley, and carried it on for three years, when he returned to Brunswick, Missouri, and again entered the employ of N. & A. Johnson. Here he remained four years, or until 1864, and then went to St. Louis, where he secured employment as clerk in the boot and shoe house of Wmn. E. Storer, retaining the position until 1866. In this latter year he returned to Chariton county, Missouri, and began the study of medicine, under Dr. James White, then attended the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, from which institution he graduated in 1870, and in June of the same year commenced practice at Lindley, Missouri. Remaining there only one year, he removed to Trenton and became an active practitioner for three years, when he returned to Lindley, and has successfully practiced his pro- fession in that village and vicinity since.
Dr. Cabell has been married three times. His first wife was Miss Ellen Ballentine, of Zanesville, Ohio; they were married December 6, 1854, and she died in May, 1855. Dr. Cabell and Miss Alice Oliver were united in marriage on the 22d of August, 1857. She was a native of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and died August 15, 1869. The issue of this union was three children; named, respectively, James O., born July 24, 1858; Poca- hontas, born October 29, 1865; and Robert H., born December 1, 1868. In 1871 Dr. Cabell married Miss Sallie E. Wright, a native of Linn county,
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Missouri. By this union they have four children, whose names are: Ila, born July 21, 1872; Mary R., born October 20, 1875; Edward C., born September 27, 1879; and Emma A., born July 11, 1881.
G. W. CLARK
Was born December 27, 1844, in Montgomery county, Kentucky. His parents, James M. and Elizabeth Clark, were both natives of Kentucky. Mr. C. had five sisters and two brothers, and in the burial-ground known as the Holloway Cemetery we find, by the tombstones that mark their respect- ive resting places, six of this once robust and healthy family. The father of this family, James Clark, born April 15, 1804, died September 22, 1870; and the mother, Elizabeth Clark, born May 9, 1816, died October 26, 1872. The remainder of this family were: James, born October 20, 1857, died October 16, 1872; Harriet, wife of L. D. Bowman, born December 2, 1842, died December 26, 1872; Mary E., wife of S. G. Crossen, born Sep- tember 22, 1847, died April 14, 1877; Susan, wife of Joseph Crossen, born December 11, 1853, died June 14, 1880; John, born October 22, 1849; and Anna A., wife of Joseph N. Crossen. This family came to this county in the fall of 1866. Mr. C. was married October 8, 1874, to Miss Helen White, born October 11, 1854, in Morris county, Ohio. They have two children: Roscoe, born September 27, 1877, and Nettie B., born October 16,1880. Mr. C. makes farming his business.
JOSEPH COBLE,
A native of Perry county, Ohio, was born April 1, 1818. His parents, Henry and Martalanna Coble, were both natives of Somerset county, Penn- sylvania. He was educated in the common schools of his native State. Joseph Coble was united in matrimony, January 28, 1841, to Miss Amelia Barnett, a native of Perry county, Ohio, born April 2, 1822. They have six children: Martha A., born December 1, 1842; George L., born Novem- ber 1, 1844-enlisted in the United States army in September, 1861, for the term of six months; at the expiration of that time, again enlisted in com- pany H, Sixth regiment Missouri State militia for three years; after serving two years, the company veteranized in company B, Thirteenth bat- talion, Missouri volunteer cavalry, and after serving his country for nearly four years, was just ready to return home when he was killed by the Indians on the Little Arkansas River, in western Kansas, June 30, 1865 ;- Sarah E., born May 14, 1847; William B., born August 27, 1849; Robert J., born October 24, 1856, died January 28, 1863; and Annie M., born June 16, 1859. In 1843, Mr. Coble left his native State, Ohio, and settled in White county, Indiana, and in 1856, came to this county and located where he now lives. He has made farming his business through life.
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THOMAS DOBBINS.
Thomas, son of Thomas and Sarah Dobbins, was born in Wayne county, Illinois, March 20, 1815. His parents died when he was about six years old, and he went to live with Mr. John Kirkpatrick, in Sangamon county, Illinois, and there remained until he reached the age of sixteen, having up to that time received just twenty days' schooling, and, as he langhingly re- marked, " had to ride a blind horse six miles daily to obtain that." At six- teen he began work as a farm hand at $10 per month, and continued that employment three years, when, in July, 1835, at the age of nineteen, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Kirkpatrick, daughter of his foster father. She was born in Bond county, Illinois, January 20, 1820. The same year of his marriage he removed to Livingston county, Missouri, and at that time there wasn't a white settler between Chillicothe and the Iowa line. He resided in Livingston county for five years and then removed to Grundy county (at that time still a portion of Livingston), participated in the Mormon war in 1838, which agitated all this section of the State, and was one of the early and vigorous pioneers who pushed forward into the wilderness to make a home. He entered the land where the town of Lind- ley now stands, and gave to John Austin an acre of ground, upon the pres- ent town site, for the purpose of erecting a store, which he built in 1842, and thus began the town of Lindley. In 1850 Mr. Dobbins crossed the plains to California, and remained there and in Oregon about fifteen months, and returned home via steamship to New York, where he arrived in the summer of 1852. Mr. Dobbins built the M. E. church at Lindley, and do- nated $1,400 of its cost out of $2,400, on condition that its doors should remain open to all denominations, and it was so expressed in the deed and has proven entirely satisfactory. He also erected the first school-house in this part of the country, near where Lindley now is. He owns about six- teen hundred acres of land; cultivates a fine farm, and has a large, comfort- able residence, a half a mile from Lindley. He is one of the generous and public spirited men of the county.
Mr. and Mrs. Dobbins have had thirteen children, eight daughters and five sons. Their names and dates of birth are as follows: Mary A., born August 9, 1836; Martha J., born May 20, 1838; Nancy E., born April 4, 1840; Margaret F., born October 3, 1843; Josephine, born March 13, 1846; Charles H., born December 19, 1849; John A., born November 18, 1852; Sarah C., born June 27, 1855; George G., born June 4, 1857; William, born February 10, 1859; Melinda A., born January 5, 1862; Hattie, born March 10, 1864; and Timothy, born July 22, 1867.
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WILLIAM B. DILLON
Was born May 25, 1816, in Adams county, Ohio. His parents, Isaac and Mattina Dillon, were both of Ohio birth. They moved to Indiana, where he lived until 1854, when he came to this county. He was educated in the early common schools of Indiana, and began business for himself working on the farm as a laborer. He was united in marriage February 25, 1836, to Miss Eleanor, daughter of Joseph and Mary Ketchem-her father of South Carolina birth, and her mother of Virginia. She was born April 25, 1814. They have had nine children, six sons and three daughters; viz., Joseph A. K., born January 25, 1837, died August 22, 1862, at Macon, Georgia-was a member of company B, Twenty-third regiment Missouri volunteer in- fantry, taken prisoner at the battle of Shiloh, and held by the Confederate army until death-left a widow and two children; Isaac, born January 11, 1840, died October 8, 1843; Solomon K., born July 24, 1842, died Septem- ber 27, 1843; Jacob F., born May 21, 1844, died October 8, 1867, from the effects of disease contracted while in the army; William J., born February 11, 1846, died February 12, 1880, leaving a widow and four children; Mattina J., born January 7, 1848, wife of R. D. Barker, of Sullivan county; Mary, born October 30, 1850, wife of N. Borders, of this county; John M., born September 8, 1853, married and living at home; Elizabeth E., born November 14, 1855, wife of S. H. Love, of this county; and Samuel H., born June 27, 1860, died June 11, 1878. Mr. Dillon is an old settler, a successful farmer, and widely known throughout this county. Was, for sev- eral years, assessor of this county, and judge of the County Court for three years, which office he filled with credit to himself and to his county. Be- ing a strong advocate of the cause of temperance he refused to grant dram- shop license during his term of office. Was a Union man during the late war, and ever ready to give a helping hand in time of need; belonged to the ยท Missouri State militia and served altogether one year.
WILLIAM DUNLAP',
Son of William and Margaret Dunlap (both of Pennsylvania birth), was born October 19, 1813, in Harrison county, Ohio. His parents moved, when he was six years old, to Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1849, then moved to Morgan county, Ohio. While living in Pennsylvania he was mar- ried to Miss Nancy Wells, on the 7th of January, 1836, in Fayette county. She died September 19, 1837. They had one child, Margaret M., born March 3, 1837, and died August 11, 1837. September 12, 1839, he mar- ried Miss Nancy Ramage. This lady was born December 30, 1821. By this union they had six children born to them; viz., Letitia, born January 6, 1841, died April 2, 1879, the wife of Edwin Rider, of this county; William, born November 13, 1843, died when eleven months old; Mary
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E., born June 13, 1846, died November 7, 1878, at Elko, Nevada, the wife of Corwin Borders, of this county; Cyrus W., born December 14, 1848, now in mercantile business in Lindley; Maria, born July 11, 1851, wife of Winfield Bonta, of Trenton. Mrs. Dunlap died July 26, 1851. Mr. Dunlap was again united in marriage Mareh 6, 1852, to Miss Eliza- beth Fonts. She was born in Morgan county, Ohio, March 6, 1832. They had seven children; viz., James T., born December 1, 1854, now living in California; Joseph, born December 3, 1855, died in infancy; William W., born October 19, 1857; Frank E., born November 2, 1860; Bettie, born January 23, 1862; Edward, born March 1, 1865; Alice, born April 6, 1869. Mrs. Dunlap died May 20, 1879. Mr. Dunlap again married July 24, 1880, to Mrs. Mary E. Sherman, widow of William P. Sherman. She married Mr. Alfred Brown, her first husband, December 27, 1857, and by him had three children, Joseph H., born January 7, 1859; Medora E., born November 11, 1860; Araminta J., born May 12, 1862. Mr. Brown died November 15, 1862, and she married William P. Sherman, Septem- ber 18, 1864. They had two children, Melissa A., born March 15, 1866, and Augustus A., born April 26, 1868. Mr. Sherman died August 1, 1873. She then married as above mentioned, Mr. Dunlap, and, notwith- standing both of their misfortunes, they are enjoying health and all the bless- ings allotted to this life. Mr. Dunlap eame to this county in 1858, and settled near where he now lives. He has made farming his business through life, but has given more attention to sheep husbandry than any other branch, and has a stock of full blooded Spanish Merinos now on his farm.
L. C. DICKINSON.
The subject of this sketeh was born August 18, 1809, in Albemarle county, Virginia, and his parents were both natives of the same State. He was educated in the best schools of Virginia of that time, and entered the wholesale and retail house of Kiles, of Richmond, Virginia, when quite young, as a elerk, and when seventeen years old changed to the wholesale and retail house of Kiles & Edgar, at St. Louis, Missouri, and remained with them until 1835. He was then engaged until 1841 as elerk on differ- ent steamboats on the Mississippi and Missonri rivers. In that year he started on a trip of two years through the Indian country of western Iowa. Returning to St. Louis he engaged in the anetion and real estate business until 1869, when he came to Grundy county, having purchased land in this. county in 1847, also in 1851 and 1860, and now has eight hundred and forty acres of fine land. He has made farming his business since he came to this county, and has his farm well improved, with good house and orehard. He was united in marriage July 3, 1837, to Miss Hilda G. Walton. She was born February 1, 1819. By this union they have five sons and one daugh- ter: John J., was born Jannary 10, 1839, died when two years old. George
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A., was born February 18, 1842, and killed at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862, while commanding battery E, of the fourth artillery, Ninth army corps, under Gen. Sumner, Army of the Potomac; he enlisted as a private in Capt. Burk's company, First regiment Missouri volunteer infantry, commanded by Gen. Frank P. Blair, and was with his company at the battle of Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, Missouri, where he distinguished himself. From that began his promotion, and he was rap- idly ascending the ladder of fame, when cut down, while lighting one of his guns and killed instantly. His commission as captain of the battery was dated the day before his death. He participated in seventeen engage- ments, and was considered by his commanding officers as one of the best artillery-men in the service, showing great skill as an officer at the battles of Antietam, Malvern Hill and others.
"Rest on you weary ones, The heroes of our land, Until all war and strife is o'er; And we shall meet beyond."
Orlivious L., born June 3, 1844, and died when two years old; Annie, born June 29, 1849; Samuel, born February 24, 1854, died when two years of age; and William W., born November 21, 1856, died when twenty-two months old.
LEWIS S. FLESIIMAN.
The subject of this sketch was born February 2, 1834, in Greenbrier county, West Virginia. His father, Michael Fleshman, was a native of Germany, and his mother, Elizabeth, was born in West Virginia. When a young man, he learned the blacksmith trade and worked at it for a number of years. While living in West Virginia he married Miss Ada L., dangh- ter of John C. and Margaret Ewing, both natives of Virginia. She belonged to one of the first families of Virginia. By her union with Mr. F. they had four sons and six daughters; named, respectively, P. E., born August 15, 1856; Mary M., born April 30, 1858, died September 13, 1858; Henry M., born March 19, 1860; John W., born April 12, 1862; Samuel L., born June 12, 1864; Ada G., born February 12, 1867; Annie M., born August 15, 1870; Nora G., born October 3, 1873; and Andrew E., born September 21, 1876. Mr. F. came to this county in 1856, and settled on the farm where he now lives, and made farming his business until eight years ago, since which time he has been engaged in blacksmithing. He is a member of the Separate Baptist Church.
JOHN DOTY
Is a native of Darke county, Ohio, born September 10, 1824. His father was a native of New York, his mother, of Ohio. Mr. Doty learned the
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carpenter trade and worked at it, together with farming. When a yourg man he moved to Indiana, in 1845, and resided there eight years. During that time he owned and worked a small farm, and ran a saw-mill a part of the time. He came to this county October 14, 1865, and settled near Lind- ley, lived on his farm for eight years, then owing to bad health removed to Lindley and began selling farming implements, and now carries a full line of hardware also. He was united in matrimony April 24, 1845, in Darke county, Ohio, to Miss Mary Snider. She was born August 5, 1825, in Lan- caster county, Pennsylvania. They have seven children: Elizabeth J., born March 19, 1846, died September 20, 1849; Martha H., born August 30, 1848; Mary M., born September, 18, 1850; George V., born May 11, 1853; Lydia M., born June 20, 1855; Hiram F., born April 11, 1858, and Daniel M., born August 25, 1861.
W. C. FENNER.
W. C. Fenner was born February 10, 1836, in Highland county, Ohio. His father was of Pennsylvania birth and his mother was a native of North Carolina. Mr. Fenner was educated in the common schools of his native State. He enlisted July 2, 1863, in company A, Second regiment of heavy artillery, and served until September, 1865. He came to this county shortly after the war and has made farming his business since. He was united in marriage January 27, 1857, to Miss Annie E. Martin. She was born July 2, 1836, in Highland county, Ohio. The issue of this union was six chil- dren, named, respectively, Florence, born January 23, 1858; F. E., born July 13, 1862; Mary C., born December 21, 1866; Alice, born August 31, 1878. His son, F. E., was educated at the high schools of Trenton and the Gem City College, located at Quincy, Illinois.
JUDGE MARSIIALL IUMPIIRYS.
The subject of our sketch was born in Gibson county, Indiana, August 31, 1825, and was the son of Uriah and Rachel Humphrys, the former a native of Kentucky, and the latter of South Carolina. The family removed to Sullivan county, near the Grundy county line, in 1839, and there Marshall grew up, re- ceiving an education in the common schools, which he afterwards supple- mented by two terms at the Grand River College, Edinburg, and one at the McGee College, in Randolph county, Missouri. He chose the profession of teaching and taught the first school in the neighborhood of the present site of Lindley, which was built upon the county line between Grundy and Sul- livan. After teaching school some ten years, he began the study of medi- cine, but after eighteen months application, gave it up and entered the mercantile business at Lindley, in 1863, and has been engaged in business there ever since. In 1863 he was elected justice of the peace and served ten years, and also officiated as notary public for the period of thirteen years. On the 6th
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of May, 1873, he was elected judge of the County Court from the Fourth dis- triet, and in April, 1876, became his own successor, and served the second term, as he did the first, with greatest eredit to the people who honored him with their trust. Judge Humphrys has been uniformly successful through life, and is now well-to-do in the world's goods, owning one thousand acres of fine farming lands, beside his flourishing business in Lindley.
Marshall Humphrys and Miss Eliza A. Haley were united in marriage on the 21st of April, 1864. She was a native of north Carolina, born April 12, 1828, and the daughter of Charles Haley of Sullivan county, Missouri. They have had four children; named, respectively, Charles H., born May 12, 1865, died August 14, 1865; Uriah G., born August 30, 1866; Wade H., born December 2, 1868; and Rachel E., born February 6, 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Humphrys have been members of the Christian Church for twenty years.
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