James Shank
Contributed by: Sara Hemp <cryssara@merr.com>

James Shank was a blacksmith and farmer.  He lived in Illinois until 1899 and moved to to Granby Mo. Prior to moving to Mo. He lived in Mound Station (Timewell, Il.)   James first left his family in Illinois and went to Missouri.  He took a threshing machine with him,.  Also the lure of the lead ore mines for work was the pulling factor to settling in Missouri. Granby is known as the "Oldest Mining Town in the Southwest" 1850. James wrote a letter to his wife and family, anxious for them to join him in Missouri.  He told his dear Maria, it is beautiful place and Shoal Creek is as clear as crystal!  He and son William Carson threshed wheat right off the ground at Dueneweg, Missouri, around the mine shafts. Another son Alvin operated a drilling rig.   When it quit operating, he went to Montana, where he and his wife Mathilda "Tillie",along with a son Fred who died when he was around five or six years old.
   Alvin also died in Montanta and it is believed tha Tillie remarried and moved to Oklahoma. William Carson wasn't as happy with Missouri and so he went back to Illinois.   He spent the rest of his life in and around Clayton where he and Anna raised their family. James along with his son Ora spent the rest of their lives in Missouri.
   Note: James Shank was born March 21, 1850 Brown County, Illinois, the son of William and Julia Emaline McCord Shank, died February 28, 1923 Diamond, Missouri, buried Diamond, Missouri, married August 14, 1871 Mound Station-Timewell, Brown County, Illinois to Maria Brandon, born October 13, 1853 Preble County, Ohio, the daughter of Aaron C. and Sarah Neal Brandon, died December 11, 1918 Diamond, Missouri, buried Diamond, Missouri.


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Richmond Conservator
Richmond, Ray County, Missouri
July 21, 1892

Ex-Congressman W.J. Stone, Democratic candidate for governor of  Missouri, was born May 7, 1848, in Madison county, Ky., and was the
youngest of four children by his father's first marriage. He worked on  his father's farm and attended school until 1863, when he went to live
with his sister at Columbia, Boone county, Mo. He attended the State  university three terms to which was added a thorough commercial
education at St. Louis. On his return to Columbia he entered the law office of his brother-in-law, Squire Turner, and two years later was
admitted to the bar. A partnership was then established with Judge A. H. Carleton, of Bedford, Lawrence county, Ind. In 1869 he moved to Nevada,
Mo., and engaged in the practice of his profession.

In 1884 Mr. Stone was nominated and elected as representative to the Forty-ninth congress from the Twelfth district of Missouri. He served
three terms in succession in congress. In 1890 he declined to be renominated to congress. Though not a candidate for any office that
year, he made over thirty speeches in Missouri and several other states. His record in congress was excellent. He took a prominent part in the
passage of the law by which the railroad land grants made twenty five years ago were forfeited and the land restored to the people.

 

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Oliver U. Hawkins
From "History of North Washington" Published 1904
Contributed by: Sara Hemp <cryssara@merr.com>
Transcribed by: Nancy Grubb <nancyg@theofficenet.com>

   Oliver U. Hawkins, editor and proprietor of the Springdale Record, Stevens County, has been an active and enterprising citizen of the town  since 1900. He was born in Schuyler County, Illinois, September 16,1868, the son of James and Martha (Kenny) Hawkins. The father was a native of  Illinois, the mother of Ohio. They located in Illinois at an early day. The father of James Hawkins served in the Black Hawk war, and James, himself, was a veteran of the Civil War, having passed three years in the service, during which time he endured many hardships. He was mustered out at Mobile August 12,1865. He died July 9,1903. The mother of our subject died April 22, 1876. Three children were born to them; Emmaletta, residing with her brother; John, living in Stevens County; and Oliver U., our subject.
    Having secured an excellent education in Cass and Morgan Counties,  Illinois, at the age of seventeen he began working with his father in the broom manufacturing business, which employment he continued eight or ten years. He then went to Missouri and published a newspaper, the only Republican organ in Shelby county. It is now called the Farmers' Favorite. This property he disposed of in 1889, and opened a broom factory, conducting the same but a short period.  Returning to Illinois he engaged in farming for two years, He then went to Macomb Illinois, where he was employed in different newspaper offices, and then moved to Brooklyn, Illinois, where for the following four years he drove stage.
    In 1900 Mr. Hawkins came to Stevens County, and in 1902 he put forth  the first issue of the Spingdale Record, a meritorious publication, now having a large circulation and other evidences of prosperity. On May 5, 1889, he was united in marriage to Miss Lieuvenia Hopper, daughter of Shelby and Emily (Simms) Hopper, natives of Illinois. They settled in Shelby County, where the father died in 1899. The mother is still a resident of that county. To them were born nine children, seven of whom are still living: Elisha and Matthew, at Kallispel, Montana; Minnie, in Omaha, Nebraska; Alice, wife of Levi E. West, in Sandusky, Montana; Amos, at Augusta, Illinois; Alfred, in Colorado; Jesse, in Shelby County, Missouri.
   Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have four children, Monia, Harold, Hazel, and Chester.
   He is a stanch Republican, and as an influential editor, manifests a lively interest in the welfare of that party. He is a member of the M.
W. A., at present being V. C. of his camp; and of the I. O. O. F.  Mrs. Hawkins is a member of the R. N. A., of which she is Receiver, and of  the Congregation church.
  
 
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