WILLIAM HARRISON FAMILY
Shone
Whitt Harrison
William Harrison, Tazewell,
Va. (1802-1871), buried at Mt. Pleasant No. I, Brimson. Mo., was married
to Shone Whitt, a one-half Cherokee. 9.11-1827. Their children were
Alexander, (Griff). Austin, Thomas, Jem, James Crockett, and Martha. They
came to Missouri and lived in a small log cabin half-quarter mile north of
Willis Chapel and Cemetery, north of Brimson. Mo.
James Crockett Harrison
(1849-1924), buried at Mt.Pleasant No. 1. married Nancy Ellen Elder
(1859-1950), buried at Willis Chapel. Her family had come to Missouri from
Cumberland County. Illinois in 1865. They were divorced and she later
married Jake Haun. The Harrison children were Carson, buried Springer
Chapel, Jerry and Alexander, buried Christian Union. Dee buried near
Seneca. Mo, Arvilla (Usher), buried Willis Chapel, Emily (Hoaglan)
buried near Paola, Kansas. Golda (Cummings), lives in Gilman City, Mo.,
and John (1891-1955). buried Miriam Cemetery, Bethany, Mo„ m Tressie Opal
McLey.
Children of John and
Tressie Harrison are Carmaleta, b. 1922 m James H. Medlin
(1919-1970) buried Pherigo Cemetery. Unionville, Mo.. Mary
Leah. b. 1927 m. Lyle C McKinny, children, Charles b. 1952, John
b. 1953. James b. 1955. Steven b. 1957 and Warren b. 1961,
Loree b. 1930 m. Carl W. Slaughter, one child Carl W. II.
m. Theresa Provin. Children Carl William Jason III.
Joanell. b 1935. m. Bill Daniels, one child. Steven, divorced and
m Edward Mullins, children. Charles and David
source: Harrison
County Bicentennial History, 1976
transcribed by: Melody
Beery
COL. DAVID J. HEASTON
died at his home in Bethany July 21, 1902. He was born in Champaign County, Ohio, May 22, 1835. In 1858 he was admitted to the bar and licensed to practice law in the Circuit Court at Winchester, Indiana. He came to Bethany, Harrison County, in 1859. He was elected judge of the Probate Court of Harrison County in 1861. He was a clear, terse, and energetic writer and at different times contributed to the newpapers of the county. In 1862 when the enrolled militia of the county was organized, in response to the call of the Government, he was elected captain of the first company organized and when the enrolled militia of the was formed in the Fifty-seventh Regiment, Eastern Missouri Militia, he was commissioned colonel of the same. He was always an earnest and zealous supporter of the democratic party. In 1878 Colonel Heaston was elected to the state senate by a large majority in the Fourth District. He was well known throughout the state as a Mason. He was a member of the Christian Church.
Transcribed From:
HISTORY OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI
EDITED BY: WALTER WILLIAMS
ASSISTED BY: ADVISORY AND CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
COPYRIGHT: 1915
submitted by: Melody Beery
E.L. HUBBARD
E.L. Hubbard led adventurous life before settling near Bethany
Bethany, Mo, Aug. 21- A house which holds a place of eminenee in the Civil War and the contemporary period in northwest Missouri stands six miles southeast of here and helps to keep alive the name of Little Hubbard, who was an interesting figure.
Edgar Leander Hubbard, Yankee Adventurer and trader, began in 1852 the construction of the residence which from 1861 to 1865 was home for war widows or women in the community who remained guests of the Hubbards while their husbands were serving with the Union army. It also became a stop in the old Bethany-Chillicothe stage line on what was known as the state road, was a stopping place for everland travelers seeking their fortunes in the farther West and for those wayfarers who, disillusioned were returning eastward shattered in spirit and perhaps broken in purse after challenging the West and being beaten.
USED CUT IRON NAILS
It is 50 by 20 feet in ground dimensions and is said to be entirely of walnut. The roof, of course, has been replaced, but the hand-hewed ambers of the heavy framework, the wall boards, floors, stairs, doors, windows and even the weatherboarding are of walnut.
Little Hubbard was about three years in building the largest and most pretentious residence in the community where he was a merchant farmer and postmaster. The walnut trees were felled near the old town of Pattonsburg which then stood upon the hills. The trunks are sawed there at one of the few hills of the section and the rough lumber was hauled to the residence, about twenty miles away. J.H. Patton, later to become a widely known Bethany contractor and builder, and William Peugh, who resided at Jameson, worked for a year at planning the weatherboarding to smooth it. The house was plastered and this means that the stone crushed for that purpose had to lie in a "lime hole" for twelve months before being taken out to be used. Cut iron nails manufactured at Wheeling, W.VA. then the iron products capital of the nation, fatened the parts together. Wire nails were as yet unknown.
WAS BOOK AGENT
As a boy of sixteen Hubbard became dissatisfied with the lack of opportunity in the rocky section of Connecticut where he was born and there and ancestor, George Hubbard, was one of the nine founders of Middletown in 1630, and left for Washington, D.C. This was in 1832, a short time afterward he was found in the South a book agent selling "The Footprints of Time" He spent several years without great financial profit in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. There, with his savings he bought horses and wild hay and began an overland journey back to his home state with the gerd. In Connecticut he traded the horses for clocks, and with these returned to Missouri, peddling them to the scattered settlers. With the capital thus regained, he entered the mercantile business at old Pattonsburg in 1847, but he was caught by the gold fever and went to California in 1849. he returned in 1850 by way of the Isthmus and in Panama invested his money in hats which he sold upon his arrival at New Orleans, Dec. 31, 1850, he married Miss Elizabeth J. Brown, daughter of Maj. John Bridges Brown of Davies County, formerly of Logan County, Va and traded the career of a Yankee peddler and adventurer for that of a Missouri land owner.
HAVEN FOR HOMELESS
He was forty-five when the Civil War opened and was almost too small for a soldier. His maximum weight was 120 pounds and for a number of years before his death in 1910 he weighed less than 100 pounds. His nickname of Little Hubbard was given to distinguish him from Elijah Hubbard, a second cousin, who lived in the same vicinity and who was more than six feet tall and weighed about 250 pounds.
The Edgar Leander Hubbard home gradually became the haven of women who were having difficulty getting along while their husbands were in army service. They and their children made the Hubbard home their own home until the men fold returned from war. Some remained for weeks, some for months and the stays of a few lengthened to more than a year. At one time, the Hubbard home sheltered six war "widows."
HAD SYMPATHY AND PATRIOTISM
This benevolence had its beginning because wives of soldiers would come to the postoffice looking for mail from their husbands according to Edward S. Hubbard of Bethany, son of Edgar Leander Hubbard.
"Father was always a very sympathetic man" said Edgar S. Hubbard, "I don't reckon there ever was a tramp who came along that went away hungry. I have heard Father say that he would rather feed a dozen not deserving than fail to feed one who was deserving."
"It was a comination of sympathy and patriotism to the Union that led him to open his home in that way." Whenever one of them would complain, "I have not food" or "I have not house," or "I am having a hard time getting along." Father would say, "Come on over and stay with us." Hubbard was asked whether during that period, reference ever was made to the Hubbard residence as a "War widows" home."
SOME CAME FIFTEEN MILES
"No" he said, "Father felt that any reference to it as a home might humiliate them. he just told them to come over and stay as long as they wanted. It was always understood in the community that, "If you can't get along, come on over," Mother was the same way. That was their dispostion. They were never asked to contribute and never were asked to leave. Some came from as far away as Salem, now Coffey, which was about fifteen miles.
Edward S. Hubbard can recall only one of the husbands of the "war widows".. Little Hubbard also contributed to the aid of other wives whose husbands were away, and virtually supported some of them..
OLD WELL REOPENED
The Hubbard place became as widely known and popular as a stopping place on the old state road that its owner set aside an enclosure of two acres about that was called "the big well" for a camping spot. The "bit well" was a walled spring twelve or fourteen feet in diameter and about as deep. It was opened again in recent drouth years and again furnished water.
Incidentally, Edward S. Hubbard does not know why the overland route was called the state road. It was one of few roads in common use then, but he does not believe that the state ever helped provide for its maintenance.
TRADED BACON FOR SCALES
It is of interest regarding Edgar Leander Hubbard that he bought the first pair of stock scales in Harrison County from the Rev. J.H. Burrows of Cainsville Baptist Church and the congressman who appointed Gen. John J. Pershing to West Point. Rather the deal was a trade, after a Connecticut Yankee manner. Mr. Burrows took a quantity of bacon in return for the scales. Little Hubbard also bought the first two-horse cultivators ever used in Harrison County, which at that time were not called cultivators, but "shang highs" Presumably this was after the tall breed of chickens named Shanghai. The cultivators had high wheels.
Little Hubbard quit his large farm in 1867 and moved into Bethany, where he died July 21, 1910, at the age of ninety-three years, the oldest resident of the town.
Source: St. Joseph Newspress, Sunday August 22, 1937
transcribed by: Melody Beery
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