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Carroll County Biographies
Biography of John Standley and Rebecca (Shinn)
Standley
There is a memorial
brick located at the
Carrollton Public
Library as a
memorial to
one of the
founding
families.
John Standley was born in Virginia in 1764 according
to census
records. The exact date of his
death was not known
but it was near April
of 1852, as
his will was
filed for
probate on
April 5, 1852. His
will was
written
on
November 15,
1851,
apparently his wife Rebecca (Shinn) had died prior
to that date as she is not mentioned in
his
will.
John and
Rebecca arrived
in Carroll
County
on
November
13,
1819 where they settled
at
Wakenda. In
1831
John
built a
home near
the creek
which
bears
his name, Standley
Creek. It
was a
well-finished log building and for
many years was the
hospitable
mansion of
its proprietor
and
was one of the oldest
landmarks
of
Carroll County for
some
time. One of the earliest
deaths in what is now
Carroll
County was one
of
their sons, as well
as the
first
marriage and
the
first
baptism. In
July
of
1833
John
and Rebecca in
open
court
acknowledged
the deed
of eight
acres of land
on which the town of Carrollton is now
located. Later John Standley sold
his log
dwelling
to
David Thomas who in
turn
sold it
to Rev.
Woods.
Rev.
Woods
later sold it to Col David
Walker,
who removed
all the
buildings from the foot of
the hill to the top where they
stood for thirty
three
years. The
old house
had been
used as the court
house,
clerk's
office,
church
and
dwelling. The
house was destroyed
by
fire June 11,
1882. Many
of
John and
Rebecca's children and
grandchildren
raised
their
children
in
Carroll
County.
Picture
complements of
June Standley. |
Carrollton
Township
Carrollton Township
derives its name from
Carrollton, the county seat which was
named in honor
of
Charles
Carroll of
Carrollton,
the
last
signer of
the
Declaration of
Independence...
The
first
settlement was
made
November
13,
1819, by John
Standley and
his
seven sons who
located in
what
is
now
Tummon's Addition
to
the town
of
Carrollton.
One
of
John
Standley's
sons
was
James
Standley
born
November 6, in
Wilkes
County, North
Carolina.
He
was
married
to Mary
(Polly)
Trotter while
his
family
was moving to
Missouri. After
her
death, he went
back to
her
parents home
and asked for
permission
to marry
one
of
their
other
daughters,
Jane
(Jenny)
Trotter.
The
mother
of Jane was afraid
to
send
another daughter to
Missouri
without family, so
Jane's
brother
traveled
to
Missouri with them
after
their
marriage.
Soon
many other
Trotter
family
members
followed to
Carroll
County. It is
noted that in 1818
he
was appointed a
Justice of
the
Peace,
the first in
the
county. (An
early
law
suite
was resolved by
Judge
Standley
who brought the
parties to
settle the
matter
without
litigation, and
at last
was
successful in
making
a
compromise.)
In
reckoning up
the
costs, none of the
parties had
any charge
except
the
constable, a
man
by the
name
of
Woolworth, he
representing
that
he
had
ridden
eighteen or
twenty
miles
through the
woods and
grass in
the heat,
threshing flies and
he ought
to
have
twenty cents
for his
labor; an
inventory of
the
available cash
of
the
whole
party revealed
the
fact
that Larkin Standley,
a son
of
the
Justice,
had a
silver
dollar, the only
money
in the
crowd. James proposed to make the
change by
making four quarters with an
axe. In cutting the
dollar it was
somehow
divided
into five instead of
four
pieces. The
constable took
one
of the
pieces
for his fee,
and Larkin
Standley his money
(four
quarters)
back
again.
It is said that James
law library
consisted
of an
old
Farmer's
Almanac,
which
had a
constitution in
it, but
whether of the
United
States
or
of some
single
state
was
never
known. It
made
no
provision for
appeal...
pp.
115,
116.
|
 William
Standley, son of
James
Standley
and Jane
Trotter.
This is
also
listed in
the obit
section,
but listed
here
as
well
since it
tells
alot
about his
life. |
William Standley, the oldest native born
citized of
Carroll County, breathed his
last Wednesday night at
12:00
o'clock at
his
home one
half mile
southeast
of
the court
house. The
cause
of
death
is given
by
his
physican as that of old
age.Mr. Standley
was born in
a
log
cabin located
where now
stands
Kennedy &
Farnham's
greenhouse.
His
father,
James
Standley,
came to this
county from North
Carolina
on
November
13,
1819.
January 29,
1822
William
Standley
was born
in the
log cabin his
father
had
built, and now
within the corporate
limits of
Carrollton.
Five
days
after
the birth of
William
Standley
his
mother
died, and
his
grandfather
took
the
little
babe and kept him until
he was
15
years
of age.Mr
Standley's
schooling was only
such
as
could be
obtained
in those
early
days.
The
only
school here during his early boyhood
was
the one taught
by Mrs.
Forger
and
Henry B. Roy, in
the old log court
house
on the
north side of the
square.After he grew
into
manhood Mr.
Standley
located a
short
Distance
southeast of
Carrollton and
began
farming.
Except
for a
period of 18
months
spent in
California in
the
early
50's,
Mr. Standley lived
the entire eighty
years
of
his
life
within
two miles of the place of
his
birth.In March
1845, Mr. Standley was
married to
Miss Sarah
Maggard. Of
this union
eleven
children were
born, five of
whom
are
still
living.John
H.
of
Eureka
Springs, Ark., B.Y.,
B.P.,
and R. Lee, of
Carroll
county.
Mrs.
Standley
died in
1866.
William Standley
was as
closely
identified with
the
early
history of
Carroll
County
as
any
man. When
he
was
born
the
county
had
not
been
named, but three
years before
had
been
sectionized.
At
this
time scarcely a
hundred
people
lived within the
bounds
of
what is
now
Carroll
County.
In
1833,
when
the
county was
organized
Mr.
Standley
was a lad
of
eleven years.
Pryor to Mr.
Standley's death
he was
one of
four men
living
who
attended the first
Fourth of
July meeting
ever held
in
Carrollton--the
other
three were,
Dr. L. Tull,
Harvey Graham
of
Texas,
and
John Minnis
of
Oklahoma.
As
Mr.
Standley's
entire life was
spent in
the
vicinity of
Carrollton,
of
course all the
older
settlers
were
familiar
with
his
life. From all
these
came the same
words--he
was a
good
citizen
and a good
man.
During
the
life of all
our
citizens
his
figure was a familiary one
on our
streets,
and
until the
past few
months
seldom was
there a
day
that he
was not seen
in the
city. In
his
younger days
he
had
accumulated a fortune,
and in
his
declining
years he
lived at his
ease. He
was
of a rather
retiring
disposition,
yet he
loved
to
talk of the
early
history of
the county,
and
many were th
interesting
incidents he could
relate of the the
happenings
here
when the
country was a
wilderness. A
few
months ago,
bent with age,
Mr.
Standley
began to
fail
rapidly.
His
familiar
face was seen on
our
streets
less
frequently;
then
he became too
feeble to
come
at
all, yet
few
thought
he was
so
near
death's
door. This
week
for the
first
time did it
become
known
that his
end was
so near. But the
body
was worn out and
at midnight,
Wednesday,
September 18, 1901
he
breathed
his last. The body
was
taken from his
home
to
that of his son, P.B.
Standley, 1 1/2 miles
southeast of Carrollton,
where, on Friday morning at 10
o'clock the
funeral
services
will be
held. He was buried in Oak Hill
Cemetery.
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Deliliah (Ashby) Standley Gentry was born August 19, 1808
in Hopkins
County, Kentucky to Jesse
Ashby and Sarah Sally
Lucas. Her
family
migrated to Missouri
before
1826. She
married Hugh
Standley, son of
John
Standley
and
Rebecca
Shinn, on January
24, 1826 in
Chariton
County,
Missouri.
They
had several
children.
Larkin
Standley
was born
on
November 4, 1827 in
Carroll
County;
Sarah Standley
was born September
1,
1828;
Elvira Standley was born
on
December 20, 1830,
Bartlett
Standley
(my gg
grandfather)
was
born
April 8, 1833;
Elizabeth
Standley
was
born in
1835; and
George
Standley
was
born May
20,
1840. After the
death of
Hugh
Standley she
married
James
Gentry on
January
14,
1844
in Carroll
County.
Two
children were
born
to them:
Margaret born
1845
and
Hannah
born
1848.
Delilah died
on
November 2, 1880 near
Bosworth,
Carroll
County, Missouri
and
was
buried in the
Wharton
Cemetery where many
of
her
children are
also
buried.
submitted by :
Linda (Dyer)
Craig |
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Lina P. Helm was born March 3, 1854 in Fauquier County,
Virginia to
Richard Pope Helm and
Eleanor Smith. He spent
his early
childhood
years in
Virginia. Around
1858
Richard and
Eleanor
moved
their
family from
Virginia to Carroll
County,
Missouri
arriving in
1859.
Lina married
Julia
Standley,
the
daughter of
Bartlett
Standley
and Nancy
Mahaney, on
March
22,
1876. We
know
from
family records that
the
first six of their
eight
children were born
in
Carroll
County. In
the year
of
1893 they
moved their
family
by
covered wagon
to the
Indian
Nation settling
near
the towns of
Earlsboro
and
Seminole. By census
records we know that
Lina
was
a farmer, but
he was
extremely
interested
in
the education
of
children, as
he
served on
the
school board at one
point. My Aunt Bessie
(Littleton) Hardy told
me stories that her
mother
Edna
Blanche
Helm
(Littleton)
Dyer told
her
about
their
journey
in the
covered
wagon. She
said
at one
point they
ran
out of
money and
that Lina
stopped in
a town somewhere near
what is
now
Bartlesville,
Oklahoma and
borrowed $100 to
complete
their
journey. Upon
settling
his
family in their
new home
he soon
made a
trip back
to
that banker to
repay him
the
loan. Lina Helm
departed
this
live on
November
15, 1933
and
was buried in
the
Maple
Grove
Cemetery
at
Seminole,
Oklahoma. At
the time of
his death
he
was
survived by
his wife
Julia and
children: Edna
Dyer,
Violet
Gibson,
Douglass
Helm,
Charlie Helm, Myrtle
Vanlandingham,
Forrest
Helm,
Stanley
Helm
and
Lottie
Thomas.
Lina
was
one
of
the best known men
of
his
community, public
spirited, and an active
worker
in the
cause
of
temperance,
education
and
the
church. Mr.
Helm
votes with
the
Democratic party.
Lina
was listed in
"AHistory
of the
State of
Oklahoma" 1908
on
pages
518-519
submitted by
Linda
(Dyer)
Craig |
FRANK
D.
JOHNSON,
M.D.
FRANK D. JOHNSON, M.D., is one of the latest comers of his
professional
brethren to Hale, Carroll County,
but has already made
many friends and is
developing a
fine
practice. His
father, William
Johnson, was also a
doctor and
surgeon
and
was born in
Baltimore, Md. In that city he married the
lady who
afterward became the mother of
our subject, who
before her
marriage was known
as
Susan Evans,
daughter of Job
Evans,
one of the respected residents of
Baltimore.
After
their
marriage the
Doctor and his wife
removed to Dubuque, Iowa, in which
city our subject
was born
August 13,
1846. He was one of
six
children, who
received
their
education in the
Dubuque
common and High
Schools.
When
fifteen
years of age our
subject
entered the Upper Iowa
University, located at Fayette,
where he continued
his studies
for two years,
after which
he
took
one
year’s
course in Cornell
College, at Mt.
Vernon,
Iowa.
Upon
the completion of
his
collegiate
course
Dr. Johnson
concluded to
adopt the profession to
which his
father
had
devoted
his best years,
and in pursuance of
that
decision
commenced
studying
under Dr.
Maxwell, a
prominent
physician of Davenport, Iowa.
He
then
became a
student
at Rush
Medical
College
of Chicago, which he
attended for
two
years.
He
completed
the required
years of study in the
Ainsworth
Medical
College
in St. Joseph,
Mo.,
graduating
there from in 1878.
Desiring
practical
experience, the
Doctor
for
two years
was
City
Physician in the Atchison
(Kan.)
City
Hospital.
In the
spring
of
1881, going to
Cunningham,
Chariton
County,
in
this State, he conducted
a
general
practice in that
vicinity for
the
succeeding
eight years.
In 1890
he finally
located in Hale,
where
he
is doing very well and
is
rapidly
enlarging his
practice.
In the
year 1867,
the
marriage ceremony of
Dr.
Johnson and
Miss Kate E.
Sawyer was
solemnized. Mrs. Johnson
is a
daughter
of
Calvin Sawyer,
of Mt.
Vernon,
Iowa, and
by her marriage
has become
the mother
of one
daughter,
Bertha
E., a young
lady of
good
education
and
social
attributes.
The
Doctor and his wife are
devoted members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church North,
in
which
they are active workers.
Politically, he is an
ardent Republican and
one who has the welfare
of his
country and
fellow-citizens
at
heart. He is a
member of
Hale
Lodge
No.
361,
I.O.O.F., and
of
the
Knights
of
Pythias in
Hale.
Pages 121 - 122
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD of Clay, Ray,
Carroll, Chariton
and
Linn
Counties,
Missouri
CONTAINING
Biographical
Sketches of
Prominent
and Representative
Citizens,
Chicago:
CHAPMAN
Bros.
1893
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George F.
Owen.
To the records of
successful
citizenship in
Denton
County
the
career of George F.
Owen, of the Ponder
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presents
an interesting
chapter. He has
lived there about a
quarter of a century, and all of
the
accumulations
that mark
him as
one of the successful men have been gained
since he came
here, practically without resources,
earning his first
dollar in
Texas as
a
threshing machine
hand.
Mr. Owen was born in
Carroll
County, Missouri, August
30, 1867. His father,
William F. Owen,
was
born in
Schuyler County,
Illinois, in February, 1839.
The grandfather
of
William F.
Owen
came from Wales and settled in Pennsylvania, where he
reared a family of ten sons. Some of
these went into
Tennessee, two to
Iowa, while
the
father of William
F. settled in Illinois
and
died when his
son William
was
about three years of age. William F.
Owen grew up on an
Illinois farm, and
during the Civil war was a member
of Company B of the
7th
Missouri
Cavalry, made up
chiefly of Illinois
men.
This regiment
served in
Missouri, and most
of Company B was captured near
Independence,
that
state. After being paroled
William F.
Owen
returned home and did not
again rejoin the army. He
married in
Illinois Miss Bettie Spriggs,
daughter
of
a widow, Betsey
(McKee) Spriggs. She died in 1876, the
mother
of
seven
children, of whom only two survive,
Florence,
wife of
Billy
Lewton, living at Wood
River, Nebraska, and George F. The
second wife of
William F. Owen was
Mrs.
Harriet Vaneble. William F.
Owen spent his last
years in Colorado and died at
Salida. He served
several years as city
marshal
there and was police
judge when he
died.
When George F. Owen
was five years
of age his
parents left Missouri and returned
to
Schuyler County,
Illinois,
where
his mother died
when he was about nine
years
of age. His
father then
took
the family to Colorado, where George
grew to manhood.
Most of his education
was acquired in country
schools in
Illinois. As a
youth he became
associated
with
his father in farming in Chaffee County,
Colorado, and for three
years farmed in Delta
County. The rest of the
nine years he spent in that
western state he
worked on the range for
stockmen.
In the summer of
1893 Mr. Owen removed to Iowa, but left
there
during
the
memorable panic of that year, almost
giving
away
his stock
to get rid of it. Near
Hawardeen, Iowa, he operated a threshing
machine
and
worked
for wages husking
corn and then, just
before Christmas, left
for the
South, reaching Denison, Texas, between
Christmas
and New
Year,
and remained at Paris,
Texas, until June 10, 1894, when he
arrived in
Denton County. He came
here
with only a few dollars
in cash. He had had
much experience, and while in
the west had been
rather successful
financially. He
lost his
capital during the silver panic in
1892-93.
His first work as a
threshing
machine hand was done for O.
W. Myers three miles
west of Denton.
Soon
afterwards he
began
operating
threshing machines of his own, and
has
been in that business on a rather
extensive
scale
ever since. For six
years he also
operated a
well drilling
outfit, drilling deep wells
over the
north and west
portions of Denton County and in
Montague County.
As
a result of his efforts perhaps a 150
wells are
now
serving their
owners. Mr. Owen still has in
commission two threshing outfits. His
operations in
this
field have
extended far beyond the
limits of
Denton
County. For three years he threshed
grain in
Oklahoma
and five
years on the
Texas plains in
Armstrong County, where he still
owns an
interest
in
an outfit.
A
duly conservative estimate of the number of
bushels of grain
his machines have threshed would be
almost three quarters
of a
million.
In connection with his
threshing
Mr. Owen began practical
farming in 1900, and all
his work in
that line
has been
performed at his
present location. He first rented a
large tract,
and
grain has
been his
chief crop, together with much cotton. He has had
the experience of a wide range of
prices, selling
wheat at sixty cents a
bushel
and corn at
forty
cents, while in 1920 his wheat
went to market for
two dollars
and sixty-five cents a bushel. For some
years Mr.
Owen was
making progress as a hog raiser,
and was gradually getting his herd bred
up to high
class
Duroc
Jerseys. Then, in 1915, the
cholera hit his pen and
when it passed
there was not a single pig left, and
he
retired probably
permanently from
the business.
For several years he has
owned a small
flock of
sheep, chiefly to
keep down the weeds on his premises.
Sheep,
says Mr.
Owen, in two years will convert a weedy
tract into a
fine
grassy
pasture, and are valuable
for this reason if for none other.
However, he
has
sold the fleece at
thirty-five cents a pound, affording a
good profit
on the
care and keep of the animals. On his farms
270 acres are under
cultivation, the
greater part
being
handled by
tenants.
In Denton County
September 17,
1900, Mr. Owen married
Miss Nannie Donald Wakefield,
daughter of H. Frank
Wakefield, of
Mineral
Wells,
of the prominent
Wakefield
family
of Denton County.
Mrs. Owen's mother was
a
daughter of
Robert H.
Donald,
another well known family of the
Lewisville community of
Denton County.
Mrs. Owen was born at Waketon, Texas,
in February, 1871,
and was
reared
there, finishing
her education in Pilot
Point.
Mr. Owen has given his
party
loyalty to the Democratic ticket
and has always
voted at elections. For
one
term he was a
member of
the Ponder School Board and
though without
children
of his
own to educate he supports schools as
liberally as those
who have. While on
the Ponder board he and his
collegues
succeeded in
enlarging the
district
boundaries and
establishing a ward school on
Denton
Creek, whereby that
country community is supplied with
better
school
facilities. Mr. Owen is affiliated with
the Masonic Lodge at
Justin
and he is a
trustee of
the Ponder Methodist Church,
of which Mrs.
Owen
is a
member. Mr.
Owen is a director of the Ponder State
Bank. During
the
recent war he bore his share of
duties
and
burdens and had the
satisfaction of seeing his
locality go over
the top in every campaign for
funds. Source: History of Texas,
Fort Worth
and the Texas Northwest
Edition, Edited by Capt. B.
B. Paddock,
Volume I,
The
Lewis Publishing Company,
Chicago and New York,
1922, page 202-203
submitted
by Candi
Horton |
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Senator James
Shield
born: May 10,
1819 Almore, Ireland died June 1, 1879 at
Ottumka, Iowa
buried: St. Mary's
Cemetery in
Carrollton, Carroll
County,
Missouri
United States
Senator. Only
individual to
represent three
different states in
Senate.
Nephew
of Congressman James
Shields
of Ohio.
Attended
hedge
school and
private
schools
in
Ireland and
pursued
classical studies.
Fluent in
four
languages.
Immigrated to
US,
1826.
Taught
school in Illinois.
Studied
law,
admitted to
bar,
commenced
practice
in
Kaskaskia,
Randolph
County,
Illinois,
1832.
Militia member,
Black Hawk
War, 1836.
Member,
Illinois House, 1836.
State
Auditor,
1839.
Nearly
fought
duel with
Abraham
Lincoln,
1842.
Anonymously
written
attacks
on
Democrat
Shields
appeared
in Illinois papers
and he believed Whig
Lincoln the
author, though
actual author
was
likely
Lincoln's
future wife
Mary Todd. Shields
demanded
satisfaction of
a
duel. Seconds
convinced
parties
not to fight after
Lincoln
denied authorship and
Shields
accepted
explanation.
Shields and
Lincoln
became friendly
after
settling
dispute.
Judge,
Illinois
Supreme
Court,
1843.
Commissioner, US
General Land
Office
1845-47.
Served
during
Mexican War,
commissioned
Brigadier
General
of
Volunteers, 1846.
Brevetted
Major General,
1847.
Commanded brigade
at
battles of
Vera Cruz and
Cerro
Gordo, where he
was
wounded.
Returned to
service and
fought
at
Contreras and
Churubusco.
Wounded
again at
Chapultepec. Appointed
Governor,
Oregon
Territory,
serving 1848-49.
Elected by
Illinois
legislature to
US
Senate for
term
commencing
March
4,
1849.
Declared ineligible
to
hold
seat on grounds
that since
his
naturalization
documents
had
been
filed eight
and a
half
years
previously
he
did not
meet
nine-year
citizenship
requirement
specified by
Constitution.
Elected
again by
special
session of
state legislature
for same
term
and took seat
six
months
later,
serving
October 27,
1849 to
March 3,
1855. Chairman,
Committee on
District of
Columbia,
Committee on
Military
Affairs.
Editor
"A
History of
Illinois,
from its
Commencement as a
State in
1818 to
1847," 1854.
Moved to
Minnesota,
1855. Upon
Minnesota's
admission to
Union
elected to
US
Senate,
serving May 11, 1858 to
March 3, 1859.
Chairman,
Committee on
Revolutionary
Claims.
Moved to
California,
employed as
superintendent of
a
mine.
Married
Mary Ann
Carr.
Five
children,
three of whom
survived
to
adulthood. Served
in Union
Army as
Brigadier
General,
1861-63.
Defeated
forces
under
command
of
Thomas
"Stonewall"
Jackson at
Battle
of
Kernstown,
where he was
again
wounded,
1862. Resigned
from
service
after
military
abilities were questioned
during consideration of his
promotion to Major
General. Returned to
California. Later moved to
Carrollton, Missouri.
Missouri
House, 1874.
Missouri
Adjutant
General, 1874-77.
Missouri
House,
1879.
Missouri
Railroad
Commissioner. Elected
to
US
Senate to fill
vacancy
caused by
death
of
Lewis V. Bogy,
serving
January
27, 1879 to
March
3,
1879.
Declined
renomination
because
of
failing health.
Died
while
delivering
speech
on lecture tour.
Represents
Illinois in US
Capitol's
National
Statuary Hall.
(bio
by:
Bill
McKern) |
J.E.M. TRIPLETT
J.E.M. TRIPLETT
This family, which is so well and favorably
known
throughout Chariton County, Mo., is of
Irish descent, and
it was during the
Colonial history
of this
country that
the family tree
first took
root on
American
soil.
The
paternal
grandfather of the
subject
of this sketch,
Hedgeman
Triplett, attained the
rank
of
Major in
the Revolutionary
War,
being a member of
Thomas'
regiment
of Virginia
volunteers.
He emigrated
from
Culpeper
County,
Va.,
to
Franklin
County, Ky., with his
wife,
whose maiden name
was Nancy Popham, and
there purchased a
tract
of land, on
which he made his
home
until
1833,
when he
paid the last
debt
of
nature, at the
advanced age of
ninety-nine years
and eight
months. His
family
consisted of five sons and
five
daughters, the
following of
whom are especially
worthy of
mention,
owing to
the
extreme old
age to which
they
attained:
Elizabeth died
in
Kentucky at the
age
of one
hundred
and four
years; Mildred
passed
from life
in Morgan
Country, Ill.,
at one hundred
and two
years of age;
William
died in Platte
County,
Mo.,
when one
hundred and
one
years
old;
and George W.
was
called from
life
in Davis County,
Ky.,
at the
age of
ninety-one years.
The
latter served as
Quartermaster
and
was a
Representative
from
Kentucky to the
Confederate
Congress. He
was
also a
member
of the Kentucky
Legislature,
and
at one
time
held
the
rank
of
Adjutant-General. One of
his
brothers
was
Hedgeman
Triplett,
Jr., the father
of
J.E.M.
Triplett.
Hedgeman
Triplett
was
born in
Culpeper
County,
Va.,
but when a boy
removed
to
Kentucky
with his
parents, and
located
at
Briant Station
with
Boone
and others.
He
was
brought up
in
Franklin
County,
which
was
then almost wholly
in a
state of
nature,
and upon
reaching man's
estate he
married
Margaret
Eddins, a
daughter
of
Joseph
Eddins, a
Virginian. He
eventually
became a
wealthy farmer
and was
highly
respected
by
all
who
knew him.
He and his
wife
became
the
parents of
five sons
and
two
daughters, the latter
dying
in
infancy. The
sons were:
Harrison,
who
died in
Kentucky;
John
E.M.,
whose name heads this
sketch;
George, who died in
Kentucky; Alexander, who
died
in San Francisco,
Cal.; and
Thomas, who
died in
July,
1892, at
Austin,
Nev., where
he
founded
the town,
and there
operated
a
quartz
mill, being
also
interested in mining. The father of these
children
attained the age of
fifty-six years, dying in
Kentucky in
1845, his wife's death
occurring in Missouri about one
year
later. They were a
worthy
couple and had
many warm
friends.
J.E.M. Triplett is a native
of Franklin
County, Ky., where
he was born
December 2,
1818. He
received a
practical
education in
the schools
of that
county, becoming
sufficiently well qualified to
become a teacher, an
occupation which received
considerable of his
attention
during
his early
manhood.
After the death
of the
head of
the family he, with
his
widowed mother
and brothers,
came
to
Carroll County, Mo.,
but
owing to
the death
of his mother
the same year (1846), his
brothers returned to Kentucky.
Thomas and Alexander
did not
remain
there long, however,
but
soon
returned to Missouri,
and
from
there
went West
to
California.
J.E.M. Triplett
purchased land in
Carroll County,
Mo.,
which he
continued
to tell until
1847,
when
he sold
his
property and
once
more returned to
the
State of
his
birth, where the death of
his
wife
occurred
March 19,
1847. After a
very short
time he went to Chicago,
Ill., but in 1849
once
more took
up
his
residence in
the State of Missouri
and has since
been
a
resident of Chariton
County
and one
of her active,
industrious and
leading
citizens.
In
1852 our
subject
purchased a
tract
of land,
to which
he
subsequently
added
by purchase
adjoining lands,
upon
which, at a later
date,
was
laid out the village of
Triplett. Here for many
years he carried
on
farming
and
stock-raising, or
until
about eight years
ago,
when
advancing years and
infirmities
warned
him
to
cease
from
his
labors,
and he has since been
a
resident of
the
village of
Triplett, where he
has a
comfortable
home and enjoys
a
competency
which his early
efforts
won for him. He
still
continues to manage
seventy-five
acres of
land
adjoining
the
village on
the
east, and
he
and
his son
William own
one
hundred
and sixty acres in
Idaho, and in the village of Tiplett
a
brick store building,
five houses
and forty vacant lots.
Although he at one
time
owned
about
two thousand
acres
of
land, he has
sold some and
divided a
large portion among
his
children.
The township of Triplett
was
named
in his
honor, and
in
1868, when the
present village of
Triplett
was laid off
on a
portion of his
land, being
surveyed
by
himself and L.A. Cunningham, it
also
received his
name.
Our subject
has
contributed more to the
upbuilding
of the
town and
surroundings than
anyone
else.
Before coming
to
Missouri
Mr.
Triplett
held the
office of County
Judge
of
Franklin
County, Ky., and for
thirty-two years he
discharged
the
duties of
Justice of the Peace
in
the
locality where
he is
now
living. Having a taste for law,
he
was admitted
to the
Bar, after some
preparation,
in
1865, and has since
practiced in the
Court of
Common
Pleas
and the
justice courts
of the
vicinity ever
since. Until 1862 he
was
a Whig in
politics, but later
became a
Democrat, and
was an active
worker
in
that
party's conventions
until
1876, when
he joined the Weaver
party, since
which time
he
has not
taken a very
active part in
politics. In
1846
he was
initiated
into
the
mysteries of
Masonry
in
Kentucky,
joining
Owen
Lodge No.
328,
of Owen County, Ky.,
but
he is
now a member of
Dagon Lodge
No. 374, of
Mendon,
Mo.
He
was first married
in
Kentucky, in 1843, to Miss Selina
Eddins, who
died March,
1847, and
his second
wife was Miss
Frances
Littrell,
daughter
of
John W.D.
Littrell, of
Chariton
County, Mo.,
whom he married in May, 1849. She
died in
1852,
leaving one
child,
Georgia A.,
wife of D.L.
Wood, of
Triplett. He
married his
present
wife June 26,
1853, in
Carroll
County,
Mo., her
maiden
name
being Nancy
Cawthron.
She is a
daughter of Asa
Cawthron, and is a Kentuckian by
birth.
The
children of this
last
marriage
are:
George W., of
Texas;
William, of
Idaho,
married; Martha,
wife of
S.F.
Powell, of Texas;
Emma;
Benjamin F.,
married; and John
A., married.
The
last
two mentioned live on the old home
farm
near
Triplett. The
Cawthron
family
were from
Virginia and of Scotch-Irish
descent,
the
grandfather of
Mrs.
Triplett being Charles
Cawthron,
who
died in
Kentucky.
Her father, Asa W.
Cawthron, was
born in the Old Dominion,
January 1,
1796,
but spent his
boyhood days in
Clark
County, near Lexington, Ky. He was a
soldier in the
War
of 1812,
and at
the time
of Dudley's
defeat
was
captured in
Ohio
by the
British, and
sent
as a
prisoner to
Canada,
where he was
kept in
captivity for
over a
year.
He was
exchanged
at
Quebec and sent
home.
He was soon
afterward
married
to Miss Eliza
Canote, of
Kentucky, a
German by
descent,
and in
1825 moved with his
family to
Howard
County, Mo.,
where he engaged in tilling
the
soil.
Three of the ten children
born
to
him
are now living.
Alexander R.
resides in
Triplett;
Harriet,
wife
of James
Smart, resides
in
Carroll
County,
Mo.; and Nancy,
Mrs.
Triplett. Tyre
died in
Livingston
County, in
1891,
aged
seventy-three
years; the
others
were
Martha,
Elizabeth,
Matilda,
Eliza Ann,
Emily and
Araminta,
all
of whom were
married. Mr.
Cawthron
was a Whig, but
later
became a Democrat, and was a
member
of the Baptist
Church, in
which
faith
he
died in 1881, his
wife
having
passed
from life in
1864.
Our
subject has
held
office for
fifty-four years of
his
life, and has never
been
under
arrest nor has
ever paid one
cent of
costs in a
law suit.
Pages 119 - 120
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD of Clay, Ray, Carroll, Chariton
and Linn
Counties,
Missouri
CONTAINING
Biographical Sketches
of Prominent and
Representative
Citizens,
Chicago:
CHAPMAN
Bros.
1893
William Hardy Key, age 96
(seated) William (l to
r) John, James,
and George |
This article appeared in a Carroll County, Missouri
newspaper. It
is an interview
given when he was 93
years
old.
Mr Key
was
born March 15,
1836 in Shelby
county, Tennessee
and
died on
Feburary 3, 1936
in
Carroll County, Missouri.
Mr. Key
is buried
at the
Coloma
Cemetery.
Wm. H.
Key, Age 93,
is one of
the oldest residents in
Carroll County;
Born in
Tennessee.
Wm. H.
Key, one of
the
oldest
Carroll
county
residents, was
a visitor in
Carroll
county
residents,
was a
visitor in
the city
Wednesday.
He is at
present
making
his
home
at
Bogard. With a mind
that works like a person many
years his
junior and
with a readiness in
recalling
dates,
Mr.
Key
spoke
with
precision and
interest as
he reviewed
his
life's
history
for
a
representative
of this
paper.
In fact
his appearance
was
of a
man
at
least ten years
younger
and he is
yet
reasonably active
regardless of the
93
years he
has had the pleasure
of living
a
useful life.
Born
in Shelby
county, Tenn.,
March
15, 1836, he
spent
eight
years
of
his life there.
At
that age he
accompanied
his
father and mother to
Carroll county,
Missouri, and has
since
resided
here. The family
located on
a
farm near
Mandeville. The
trip was
made
up the
Mississippi
River
and down
the Missouri
in a
steamboat;
the family
landing
at DeWitt.
After spending
a week
at
that
place they started
overland
through the
beautiful
wooded
valleys and rolling
prairies
of the
county in
a
wagon
drawn by a
team
of oxen.
They
had
no roads in
those
days,
Mr.
Key
explained,
and
our
trip
to Mandeville
was
made
over the
ridges.
He
recalled that the
neighbors of
the family
were at
that
time
were: Chas. Isom,
William
Brown,
Elihu
Standley. "These
were all good
people."
he
remarked. "and they
aided
us
in
making our
start in
the
wooded sections
of the
hills in
Mandeville."
Mr.
Key
remembers a way
back
when:
Andrew Jackson
was
President
of the
United
States. Timber
and
rattlesnakes
were
thick
and one's
live was
endangered
unless close vigilance
was kept
for their
presence. Indians
roamed the
country. Deer,
wild
turkey,
and animals
of
many
description
populated
the
county. Wagons
were
equipped with
only two
wheels. Oxen
were
used in
farming and
drawing
the
wagons. Wild
Moss
Mill was in
full
operation. Carrollton
was merely a
trading post and
the old log
cabin was
the
court house. Such
things as
wire
fences had
never been heard
of. In face,
William Key
remembers a way back
when
other people
now
living in
the
county
cannot
recall. He
was
married to
Julia Ann
Street in
June
1888.
This
family
consisted
of five
children,
but two
daughters
with
their
Mother, have
been
called to
their eternal
reward. The sons are
John of
Bogard,
and
George W.
and
James both of
Tina.
Mr. Key
was the
oldest
member
of a
family
of
thirteen children,
eleven
boys
and two girls. Of
this
number only
he and his
sister, Pheobe Ann
Briley
of
Iowa are
living.
His sister who was
born in
1854, was
the
youngest
member of
the
family. During
the
Civil
War Mr. Key
was a
member
of the
Carroll
county
militia. He
was taken
prisoner
and
served
three
months and three days,
when he
was released
to
return to his
family and
loved
ones.
"Those
were
trying
days" Mr.
Key
said,
"we left our
families
to shift
for
themselves and
took our
guns to
meet the
enemy. It
might
have
been death,
crippled for
life
or
endangered health.
It was
all
considered
but we
took our
positions at the side
of
those who
made like
sacrifices." Mr. Key
is
now drawing a
pension. In
his
reminiscent mood
this
venerable citizen
recalled the
period when
he frequently
battled with tattle
snakes.
"We
had two kinds to
deal
with,"
he said,
"timber and
the
prairie
rattlers.
The
largest
one I
ever killed
measured
about
five
feet in length and in
circumference was
about as big
around as
an average
stove
pipe." "About
my
education, well it
is
like
this, you see. We had
subscription schools in those
days and I
attended
one of
them. I was never a
scholar
and
I studied the
customary reading and
writing
with an
occasional
spelling lesson.
I
was a good
speller. I
only
attended school
about three months
our of the
year and
that was
where I
obtained my meager
education. "Indians?
why I should say,
plenty
of
them; but you
know
they
never
harmed us.
They
would
ride through
the
woods,
especially in the
winter time,
camp near
our
home,
but we
never had any
troublewith
them. During
my
life I have
worked over 100
teams of
oxen. Some
of them
were
mighty contrary
and
detested
their work in their
rude way,
but we
handled them
without much trouble.
They
traveled slow
and the
trips to
the
mill required
a
great amount of
time.
You
know about how fast
an
old cow
can walk?
Well that
is
about how
fast we
traveled
on these
long
trips.
Mr. Key has
always
been
a
republican.
His first
vote was
cast for
Stephen A.
Douglas, who was
then
candidate for
President.
Since
that
date
until
the present
time
he
has never failed
to
cast his
vote but one time.
That
was a
day when
rain
poured
down in
torrents and
I
was unable to
reach
the
voting precinct. In
religion,
he
early
in
life
united with the
Church
of
Christ
and has
since been
faithful
to
this conviction.
He has
never
held a church nor
public
office but
has
taken a
reasonable
active
part in both. "I
remember one
time
when they
prevailed on me to run for
Judge of
the
Western
District.
I never
even
considered such a
thing.
Neighbors
and
friends came to
me but I
waived
them away with
the
expression that I
was
not
a
scholar. Thus,
in a
limited way,
did
an
aged
citizen
recall his
life,
Wednesday.
In crowning
the
facts of a
long and
useful
life into a
small
apace
is
an impossibility.
William Key
is
enjoying the
fruits of an
active career and
his conversations
today are along such
lines
that lend to
improve the
position
of the
honored
pioneer, as they
are
looked
upon by
citizens.
He has
always taken
much
interest in
the busy
world and
has kept
well
informed.
His creditable
career has
given
him a name
which his
children
and
friends delight to
honor.
|
| Atwood, Frank
Ely (b.
1878) — of Carrollton, Carroll County, Mo. was born in
Carrollton, Carroll County,
Mo.
on
October 5, 1878. Son of Jacob Smith
Atwood and
Nancy (Goodson) Atwood;
married, October 22, 1908, to Agnes Rea
Luscombe. He
was
a
Republican,
a Lawyer; served as the Carroll County Prosecuting Attorney from
1915-19; served as a delegate to the Missouri state constitutional
convention, 1922; served as a
supreme justice of Missouri state
court,
1925-35.
he was
a member of
the
Baptist
Church,
he was
a member
of
the American Bar Association, the American Judicature Society; the Order of the Coif; the Freemasons;
the Phi Delta Phi; and the Phi Gamma Delta. Frank died at
the Atwood
Hospital of coronary
thrombosis on March 5,
1943.
Services were
handled by the
Standley
Funeral Home. His
body
was intered in the
Oak
Hill
Cemetery. |
|
The name is Henry, Henry
Humphries to
be exact. I was born on
Christmas Day in the year
1815. I was a
Christmas
present to my
family so
to
speak. My father was
William
my mother
was
Cinthia.
Her
birth
name was
Cinthia
Manning. I was born on the
family farm
in
good ole
Kentucky. When I was
twenty-one
years
old I
married
a fine
lady form
Kentucky
on
August
13,1837
in Chariton
County,
Missouri, her
name
was
Elizabeth
Ashby, she
was
the
daughter of Jesse
Ashby
and Sally
(Lucas)
Ashby.
We had our first child
William, in
May
24,1838 in
Missouri.
After that we had
a total of ten children including
William. They were
as
follows:
Of course
there was
William in
1838, then
there
was
Syntha in
1840,
Adaline in
1841, Benjamin in
1843, Mary
in
1846,
Larkin in
1848,
James in
1851,
Arminda
in 1852,
Elizabeth in
1855,
and
last
but
certainly not least
Josephine
in
1857. All
of
these
children
were born in
Missouri
some in Carroll
County of that state
and some in the Town of
Bosworth of that
County. In
1850 me
and my
nephew
Benjamin
Ashby went to El
Dorado
County,
California
in
search of gold
if you wanna
know if
we had any luck
well
what do you think?
Well
all
you need to know is
that
we came
home to
Missouri. Well
when the
war
broke
out we
hadn't the
slightest
clue
as what
to do.
Neither my
sons
nor me liked
the Yankee
Invader
coming
South
telling
us
what to
do. So with
Dixie we stood. I
figured I
was too
old
to
fight. Or
so I
thought.
I
was
45 years old.
My
son William had married a
women
named
Louisey Winfrey in
1858
and already had one
child. My
grandson. His
name
was
Harrison. My daughter
Syntha
had
married a
man
named Clark
McClary. He
was
good
man. Well my
son Benjamin
came
to me on
day when
I
was
working in
the
barn. He told
me his intentions of
joining a
Regiment. So I went along with
him. He went into
town and
enlisted
in CSA
army,
11th
Co.
Col. F.L.
Robertson's Reg't, Missouri State
Guard. F.L.
Robertson
was the
colonel
commanding a
regiment
raised for service in
the
Missouri
State
Guard,
which
had
not
been permanently
organized when we was
captured, Dec. 19, 1861,
near Milford, Mo., while
enroute from Grand Pass,
Saline County, Mo., to join
Gen. Sterling Price's army. My
son and I were
sent
to
Jefferson Barrack,
Federal prison, St. Louis,
Missouri. I
decided to take the oath of
allegiance on
January
18,1862
I
was 47. There were
other
ways I could help Dixie
with
out
fighting. It
was
better than being in a
Prison
Camp doing
nothing,
taking
orders from
Yankees. Mo
son
saw differently,
so he
stayed, but then
decided
the
same. He signed the
oath
on February
18,1862. We
went
home.
After that
we did
just about
anything to
support
Dixie. He cheered on
General Turner
Ashby who
was
actually a
distant
cousin of my Wife
Elizabeth,
until he was
killed.
When the
war was over.
I felt
a
senses of
relief but
sadness
still. I died at the
age of 58 on December 6,1873
in
Bosworth, Carroll
County,
Missouri.
I was
buried
in
Winfrey Cemetery. I
was
only
a
few days short
on
my
59th
birthday.
(This
is a Speech I
wrote to
use when
I portray Henry in
my
Reenactment
Group
submitted
by
Christopher
Bribiesca) |
Gen.
Daniel
Ashby |
Daniel Ashby was born in 1791 in Virginia, but lived his
childhood in
Mercer County, Kentucky. He
was a major in the War
of 1812. In 1815,
he
married
Cassandra Leeper and
became
the acting
sheriff in
Hopkins
County,
Kentucky. In
1818, he
moved to
Chariton
County,
Missouri,
where
he
farmed
and became
a member
of
the
first county
court. In
1828,
he was elected
a
member
of
the House
of
Representatives
and in
1834,
1836,
1838 he served
in
the
Missouri
Senate. After the death
of his wife
Cassandra he
married
Frances
Walton.
He
then
married
Henrietta Bull, after
her
death in
1868 he married
Idress
Craig. General
Daniel
Ashby
served
the state
of
Missouri during
the
Mormon
Wars. He has
letters that he
wrote to
the
governor and
senate about
certain battles
that he
personally
was
in. One
of these
letters
in
transcribed on
the
section of
letters
of interest
on this
County
site. He died
October 11,
1879,
and
was buried
on the
old
Hiram Craig
farm
near
Forest
Green in Chariton
County, in the
private
cemetery of his
fourth
wife,
Idress. |
Cassandra
Leeper
Ashby |
| Max Aaron Lane was born on Feb. 22, 1971 in Norborne, Mo.
... selected
all-state,
all-conference
and
all-district as
a
tight end in
his senior
year
at Norborne
(Mo.)
High
... earned
all-state
recognition at
offensive
tackle
as a junior
... added
all-conference and
all-district honors in
basketball ... lettered as an
offensive tackle at
the
Naval
Academy Prep
School ...
majored
in general
science at the U.S.
Naval
Academy. Max
Lane
was
drafted by the
Patriots with their second of two
picks in the
sixth
round
(168th
player selected)
of the 1994 NFL
draft
... the
selection was acquired
from
Seattle
as
compensation
for the trade of RB
Jon Vaughn
(8/26/93) ...
signed by the Patriots June 1, 1994 ...
became a
restricted free agent
Feb. 14,
1997 and re-signed
with the
Patriots.
Since
retiring, Max has
remained an
active
member of
the
NFLPA Retired
Players,
and
works in
sales for Crown
Mortguage. He
works
closely
with the
Genesis
Fund,
raising
money
to
aid
research for
tubular myopathy, and also
enjoys
coaching
young
linemen
at camps
around
New
England.
...
His
hobbies
include snow
skiing and
golf,
but he's
also
learning
to
play
hockey.
... Max has
two
children,
Hunter and Alexis.
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William Samuel Craig was born on
January 8, 1832
in Nicholas County,
Kentucky. His parents were
Robert Craig and Mary
Conaway Craig. At the age
of
fifteen, his
family
moved to
McLean County,
Illinois. His
father died
there
in 1852. On
July
11,
1858, in
Carroll County,
Missouri, he
married
Levica
Payne, the
daughter of
James
Payne and Harriet
Ridgell
Payne. She
was 23
years
old; he was 26
years
old.
He tendered
his
military
services
to
President
Lincoln,
and served
as a
private in
Company
F,
116th
Regiment of
Illinois
Infantry
on August
11, 1862
and was
honorably
discharged June 7,
1965.
After
the war he
returned to
his family
to
the farmland
that
he
purchased
in
1863 near
Norborne. Throughout
his
life, Mr.
Craig
stood for
honesty,
integrity and
was
a
pillar
of
his community. He
died at the
age
of 81 on March
13,
1913
and
was
buried beside
his
beloved
wife,
Levica,
who died
December
17, 1893
at
the age
of
58.
In the
Norborne,
Missouri
Centennial
(1868 -
1968)
book, on
page 37 it
states
that the
Methodist
Church
was
organized
in 1869 and that
two of the
original
members were
William and
Lovie
Craig. I have found
that
several
letters
from his
civil
war
era can be
read by
all at http://goinside.com/98/5/wsc1.html
Partial
information
was
obtained
thru
his
families
website,
which
was very
interesting and
informational.
William
Samuel Craig and Levica
Payne
Craig had
four
children.
Three
of them
lived
to be
married. |
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John F. Crane was born January 19,
1838 in
Jackson County,
Indiana. After he became of
age he began
teaching school. He
continued in this vocation
until the breaking out of the
civil war.
He
enlisted
in Company G of
the 67th Indian Volenteers, which
was mustered
into
service on
August
20.
1962. In 1868 he
moved
to
Carroll County,
and
purchased a farm four
miles
south of
Boswoth upon
which he
lived the
remainder of
his
live.
He was
married in
1871
to Miss Olive
Cline
and
five
children were
born to
them. He died
at
his
home
on Saturday
afternoon, April
11,
1896 at
2:30
o'clock.
Mr.
Crane
was sick
only a
few
days. Pneumonia was
the immediate cause
of
his
death. He
was
buried in
the Dewitt
Cemetery Sunday at
2 o'clock p.m.
The
services
were held at 10
a.m. the same
day by Rev.
H. B.
Collins
delivering
the funeral
oration.
He
was a member
of the M.E.
church
holding his
membership
at
Olive
Chapel. His
wife and
four
children
survive
him.
His
love of
home,
to be
with
the
happy circle
at
his
cheerful
fireside, with
his
loving wife
and children
by his
side,
was
the
haven of
his joy. Those
who knew
him most
initimately
were they
to whom he
was most
endeared. His
freedom of
thought, his
wealth
of
integriry, his
sense
of
appreciation
and
admiration
of the good,
the
pure,
the beautiful and the
true are
the
surviving
characteristics of
his
life. He was fully
conscious of the approaching
end of his
life.
He
knew
that the
light of this receding world was fast
fading
from
his sight, that
soon, quite
soon,
his spirit
would
leave
its earthly
home and
reappear
immortal
upon
another
shore. He has
reached
his
journeys
end.
In
his
windowless
home of rest
he
sleeps in
peace, the
tearless
sleep of
a
loving
husband, father, brother,
soldier and
friend. |
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HALE, John Blackwell, a
Representative from Missouri; born in
Brooks (now
Hancock) County, Va.
(now West
Virginia),
February
27,
1831;
attended the
common
schools;
studied
law;
was
admitted to the bar
in
1849
and commenced
practice
in
Brunswick, Mo.; member
of the
State house
of
representatives 1856-1858;
presidential elector on
the
Democratic
ticket of
Douglas
and Johnson
in
1860;
colonel
of
the
Sixty-fifth
Regiment, Missouri
Militia,
and
of the
Fourth
Provisional
Regiment,
Missouri
Militia, in the
United
States
service
during
the Civil
War;
delegate
to
the
Democratic National
Convention in
1864
and 1868;
member of the Missouri
constitutional
convention in
1875;
elected as a
Democrat to
the
Forty-ninth Congress
(March 4,
1885-March
3,
1887);
unsuccessful candidate for
renomination
on
the
Democratic ticket
and
defeated
for reelection as
an
Independent;
resumed the
practice
of law;
died in
Carrollton,
Mo.,
on
February 1, 1905;
interment in
Oak
Hill
Cemetery.
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Bernard Hanavan was born around 1817
in Ireland
and immigrated with
his wife and children to
America, passing thru New
York City and
eventually made
his way to
Carroll
County
Missouri.
He
married
Catherine Short,
also
born in
Ireland.
They
had many
children
together,
and most of
them
remained in
Carroll
County
their entire
life. Bernard served in
the Civil War, according to
his enlistment
records
he was
49 years old
which
would make him born earlier than
1817.
He and
his wife
are buried in the
Hanavan
Cemetery
on land
that he
donated for a
Catholic Church and
cemetery. So far most of
the burials in
this
cemetery
were of
children.
Some were
their
children and
grandchildren
and
others
were
children of
friends. |
Robert Ingalls
Simpson
abt
1924
Pictured below
abt 1917
Pictures submitted by Robert Simpson
(grandson) |
Robert Ingalls Simpson was born on
May 25, 1892
at Tina in Carroll
County. He was a 1913
graduate of Bosworth
High school. He
won his
first
honors, among
them a
state record in
running broad jump that
stood
for
forty-one
years.
After graduation
he
attended the
University
of
Missouri where
he attended
36 track
meets, entered
103
events, winning 83 firsts, 13
seconds, and 4 thirds.
He was on the
All-American Track and
Field
Team for the
years
1915-1916-1917, and on
the
All-American A.A. U.
Track and
Fields team
for years
1916,
17, and
19.
He served as
president of his junior
class
and won
distinction
of being the graduating
senior
who had the highest
grades of
all those who
participated
in
sports.
He entered into
the
military in
World War I
and
was First
Leiutenant
having served
in an infantry
divison in
France.
Two of the
world's best hurdlers during World
War I
were Robert
Simpson of
the U.S.
and his
brother-in-law
Earl
Thomson of
Canada. In 1916,
Simpson broke
Thomson's
word
record in the
120-yard
hurdles
by two-tenths of a second
when he ran 14.6.
That mark stood for four years
before Thomson
reclaimed
the
record with a
14.4
in
1920. One of the
University of
Missouri's finest
athletes,
Simpson won
the
National AAU
high hurdles
title in
1916
while in
school,
then
claimed
another
title in
1919 representing the
Illinois A.C.
At the
Inter-Allied Games in
1919,
Simpson
recorded a
double victory in
the 110m
hurdles and 200m
hurdles. As Missouri's
head track
coach from
1920 to
1926, he tutored
future Hall of
Famers Brutus
Hamilton and Jackson
Scholz. Simpson later
coached
at Iowa
State
University. In 1942 he
re-enlisted into the
army
at the rank
of Captain
serving in North
Africa,
Sicily, Italy,
France, and
Germany. In 1944
he
was
promoted to major and
in 1945 was awarded the Bronze
Star for
meritorious
service. In 1969 he was
named to
the
Missouri
Sports
hall of of Fame.
Robert
passed away
on November
10, 1974 in Los
Angeles,
California and
was buried
at Big
Creek
Cemetery in
Carroll
County,
Missouri. He was
honored by the
Bosworth
Bicentennial
Committee with
the dedication of Simpson Park
where
a bronze
plaque
was
set
into a block of native
stone
which had been transported from his
grandfather's
farm.
Track
records include: Official
world's records in
120 yard high hurdles;
220
yard low
hurdles,
American
indoor: 50 yard high
and
low hurdles,70 yard
high
low
hurdles and
60
yard
low
hurdles,
European 110
meter
high hurdles and
other
indoor and
outdoor meet
records. |
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Col. James M. Stovall was one of a type of men who are fast
disappearing. He was born in Carroll
County,
Missouri around 1837, of
southern ancestry and was
with
the South in
the Civil
War. He moved to the
old
Indian
Territory several years
before the
opening of
Oklahoma and had
engaged
in
farming and stock
raising.
On the
day of
the
opening
he
came
across the
South
Canadian and
almost
opposite
his
ranch located
one
of
the
very
best
valley
quarter
sections
in
the whole
Oklahoma
County.
He
was
a big
hearted,
generous
man, "given
to
hospitality."
He was
a
natural
born
colonel and
looked the
part.
He was a real western
man who
had
all
the virtues
and perhaps
some
of the vices
of
western
men.
He had
no
patience
with
hypocrites,
demagogues,
weaklings,
or
cowards.
There
was
none of the "Holy
Willie"
about him;
he might
"drink and
swear
and
play at
cards"
but
no
one
would do
more or go
further
to
help those in
need or in
distress.
His honesty was
proverbial and his
word was as
good as his bond.
He
had many
friends and but
few enemies among honest people. The
first
territorial
Governor of
Oklahoma was
George
Steele. He set up
the
first
election
on
July
8th,
1890 and
they met the
first
time on
August 12,
1890.
The three
members
of the
House in
Cleveland
County were W.
C.
Adair,
James
M.
Stovall
and
Thomas R. Wagoner. On the
evening of Sept.
3rd,
the
citizens of Guthrie
gave the
territorial
officials
and the
members of
the
legislature a
splendid
reception. All
the
territorial
officials
and members of
both
houses
were there. The
reception
and
ball
was held in the
House
of
Representatives and the
banquet was served
in the
Council
Chamber. A
co-temporary writer
described
the
event as a
joyous
one
and
"citizens and
strangers
were
alike happy."
He tells
of the hall being
handsomely
decorated and
brilliantly
lighted with
incandescent
lamps and
an
elegant
banquet
in
the
spacious halls
of the
council
chamber to over
five
hundred
guests. He gave a
glowing
description of the
ball and tells
of the
grand
march led by
Governor and Mrs. George
Steele,
to the
music
of
the "Guthrie
Silver
Cornet
Band" and also a
string
band.
Soon
after taking
office
there was a
motion
prepared to move the
territorial capital from
Guthrie to Oklahoma
City. Daniels moved to
refer it to the
committee
on
location of the capital.
Motion carried
by
a vote
of
fourteen
to
twelve. Those voting in the
affirmative were Adair, Clark,
Jones, Long,
Mathews,
Neal,
Pack, Peery,
Stovall,
Talbot;
Terrill;
Proctor,
Wagoner and Speaker
Daniels—fourteen. He
served
three or
four terms in
the Legislature and died
a few
years ago at
the ripe
old age
of ninety
years.
Col.
James
Stovall's
favorite
song
was
that one
about
Young Saint
Simmons being Old
Saint
Simmons, since Old
Saint
Simmons is
dead."
Source:
Oklahoma Chronicles
This
was
portions of
several
entires submitted by a
fellow
Represenative Mr.
Peery. |
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County,
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