Madison County - Genealogy Trails
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A Miner Crushed - David Bollinger
Special to the Republic
Fredericktown,Missouri, May 30
An accident happened yesterday a the Mine La Motte Lead Mines which may prove fatal to one of the miners.
The roof of the pikers’ shed, at shaft No. 5, fell in, while a half dozen men were at work.
David Bollinger, one of the mines, is supposed to be injured fatally, while the rest escaped uninjured.
St. Louis Republic – May 31, 1888
Duelling Messrs Drane and Drinkins of Madison County, Missouri, men of high standing, fought a duel lately with double barreled guns, and both were killed. Newport Merury - August 4, 1838
Died From Toadstool Poisoning
Poplar Bluffs, Missouri, July 14. -- Mrs. Edward Coples and daughter, living near Fredericktown, died unexpectedly last night.
At the dinner they ate heartily of mushrooms and it is supposed that toadstools were gathered with the mushrooms by mistake.
Semi-Weekly Capital - July 17, 1900
Four Killed by Falling Wall
Fredericktown, Missouri, February 20. -- Four men, three whit and one Negro, were killed by the collapse of a wall of a burning building here today.
Two buildings were destroyed, with a loss of $50,000.
The dead men were volunteer firemen.
The Times Dispatch - Richmond, Virginia, Monday February 21, 1910
Hearse In The Water, Corpse Submerged
Fredericktown, Missouri, March 17. -- This afternoon, while the hearse containing the body of William Smythe, was crossing the Little Francis River, on its way to the Methodist Church in this city, the flat boat on which he hearse was being towed across the river began to sink, throwing the hearse bottom side up in the river.
The harness had to be cut to get the horses out, the body remaining under water for nearly two hours.
Tucson Daily Citizen - March 17, 1902
Father's Train Hits Son's
Kills Both Engineers, While Twenty Five Are Injured
Fredericktown, Missouri, January 11. -- Two men were killed and twenty five persons were injured today when a passenger and a freight train on the Iron Mountain Railroad collided in Marquand.
Among the dead was the engineer of the passenger train, who was the father of the freight engineer.
Plain Dealer - January 12, 1911
Centenarians Robert Sinclair, aged 102 years, died in Madison County, Missouri, 15th ult.
He took an active part in our revolutionary struggle, and rendered himself very useful as a spy on the frontier settlements of Virginia and North Carolina.
He retained his strength of body and mind to a few week of his demise.
New-Hampshire Patriot - April 20, 1853
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Small Boy Puts Revolver Cartridge on Hot Stove
Fred Brown, a Fredericktown small boy, placed a revolver cartridge on a hot stove to see if it would explode.
It did, but things didn't turn out so seriously -- he lost only a thumb and two fingers.
Rising Sun - December 18, 1903
His Spine Fractured
A Frightful Fall that Will Undoubtedly Cause Death
Edward Bockner of Fredericktown, Missouri, an engineer, 24 years old, fell from a second story window of Hotel Huat, at 8 o'clock this morning, and was fatally hurt.
He was taken to the Dispensary, where it was found his spine was broken. He was sent to the hospital in a hopeless condition.
It was said someone pushed him from the window.
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Jailer Thinks Break Is April Fool Joke Four Prisoners Escape at Fredericktown, Though Warning Was Given Fredericktown, Mo April 3- Warning of a jail break went unheeded here Sunday afternoon when it was taken as an "Apnl Fool Joke," and as a result four prisoners escaped from the Madison County Jail, eluding a Sheriff's posse and blood hounds that trailed them.
While the prisoners were cutting bars off their cell window with a saw that had been smuggled in to them a woman noticed their activity around the window and telephoned to the jail that she suspected an escape was planned.
Sheriff R. D. Matthews was away from the jail and Deputy Reed in charge, remembering it was April 1, decided someone was placing a prank He refused, to "fall for it ". A few minutes later he discovered four prisoners had departed through their open window.
Those who escaped were Jesse Hill, Arc Cheatham and Dempse and Bill Hale brothers. Hill was under two year sentence for arson the others were under similar sentence for burglary. Their paroles having been canceled because of repeated offenses.
The Sheriff's posse and bloodhounds followed the trail of the escped prisioners to a point a mile west of Fredericktown where it is believed the men got into an automobile. The Constitution Tribune - Tuesday, April 3, 1928
Prisoners Escape Fredericktown -- Two prisoners, one a trusty, escaped from the Madison County jail Sunday. Sheriff F. H. Mouser said Henry Stafford 20, of Coldwater, the trusty, and Leo Lawrence, 23, of Fredericktown, "walked away" Saturday night from the jail after Stafford had obtained the keys to Lawrence's cell.
Lawrence was awaiting trail on charges of car theft and Stafford was serving a 6 months sentence for carrying concealed weapons.
Sikeston Herald - November 17, 1938
Two Gunman
Fredericktown -- Two gunmen, sought in an all-night hunt by a possee of 20 Madison county officers and State Highway Patrolmen were apprehended Wednesday morning by Sheriff Sam Mouser and State Trooper Glenn Lampley. The two were heavily armed and admitted orally the robbery of a number of service stations and the theft of an automobile, Capt. A. D. Sheppard of the Patrol said.
The Sikeston Herald - November 17, 1938
Uncle Sam Refused
The Mine LaMotte highwaymen Must Answer to the State
Special to the Republic
Fredericktown, Missouri, June 11 – Two deputy United States Marshals came her yesterday for the purpose of arresting John Watben and W. S. Copass for interfering with the carriers of the United States mail.
Watben and Copass are said to be the two parties who held up and robbed the mail carrier between Mine LaMotte Station and Mine LaMotte last Friday afternoon and secured $4,000 in money.
Formal demand was made by the United States Marshals of Prosecuting Attorney Anthony and Sheriff Tripp for the delivery to them of the bodies of Wathen and Copass, but the officers here refused to give them up for the reason that they were held under the laws of the State of Missouri for highway robbery, and were under arrest on warrants sworn out before Esquire Day.
The prisoners waived a preliminary examination, and their bonds were fixed at $1,500 each in default of which they were committed to jail.
As they have confessed to the robbery there will be no trial, but they will throw themselves on the mercy of the court.
St. Louis Republic – June 12, 1890
A Brace Of Murders Caged Smith, who shot Drown, the engineer of the steamboat Chicago, a short time since, at Peoria, Illinois, is now confined in the jail at Princeton. His trial will take place next week before the Circuit Court of Peoria County, for murder in the first degree.
John Sinclair, who was committed to jail in St. Louis upon a charge of being one of the ringleaders of the mob that hung Abraham Smith, in Madison County, Missouri, on the 5th of August has been taken back for trial. Sun – October 15, 1844
Murder in Missouri
8t. Louis, August 18.—A special to the Herald from Fredericktown, Missouri, gives an account of a brutal murder there yesterday.
The dispatch states Philip Scholl, somewhat intoxicated, while driving some oxen home, burraed for Grant, whereupon Thomas Mathews, a young man, connected with some of the most influential families in the country, shouted for Greeley, and said he could whip Scholl or any other Radical in the country.
Scholl doubted this, and they commenced punching each other, but were separated.
Subsequently Mathews struck Scholl and immediately fired two shots at him from a pistol.
Scholl then knocked Mathews down with his fist and began beating him, but died almost instantly, being shot through the head.
After Mathews was knocked down he stabbed Scholl with A dagger.
Mathews is represented as a quarrelsome man, and had twice before during the day drawn a pistol on other men. He was arrested
Cincinnati Daily Gazette – August 19, 1872
Counterfeit Case
Washington, November 16. The treasury department is informed by the aggent of the secret service division for Missouri of the arrest at Fredericktown, Missouri, of Wiley O. Grisson and his two sons, Joseph and John, for manufacturing and passing counterfeit silver fifty cent and one dollar coins.
Patriot - November 17, 1882
Robbed of $4,000 in Cash
St. Louis, June 7. -- A telegram received here from mine La Motte, Missouri, states that a mail carrier, while en route to a mine near that place with $4,000 in currency, was suddenly brought to a halt by two men who had their faces concealed with flour sacks.
The men held revolvers and placed them to the carrier's head and demanded the money, which was given up and the men made their escape.
It is said the money was consigned to the owners of the mine La Motte, and was to be used Saturday in paying off the miners.
Kalamazoo Gazette - June 8, 1890
Received the Minimum Sentence Special to the Republic Fredericktown, Missouri, June 25. -- At the adjourned term of the Madison County Circuit Court, held here today, J. M. Wathen and Shoridan Capess, the two parties who held up and robbed the Mine LaMotte mail carrier and got $4,000, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. This is the minimum sentence as fixed by the statutes, and the Judge's leniency in this case is indorsed by all citizens.
St. Louis Republic -- June 26, 1890
This Is a Great Country
The St. Louis Republican states that in Madison County, Missouri, at the late election, the County Court ordered that the polls should only be kept open for one day, but the mob who had been engaged in hanging Smith appeared on the second day and insisted that the polls should be reopened, which was done.
They are certainly very accommodating in Missouri.
Baltimore Clipper
Daily Atlas – August 27, 1844
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Cadets Appointed
Congressman M. E. Rhodes, of the Thirteenth district, has announced the appointment of F. G. Delano, of Ironton, to the cadetship at West Point, with J. F. Schmidt, of De Soto, and H. C. Davis, of Fredericktown, as altenates.
Alexander Wilson, of Farmington, is appointed to the cadetship at the Annapolis Naval Academy, with H. Harrison, of Ste. Genevieve County, and L. R. Crow, of Madison County, as alternates.
St. Louis Palladium - May 6, 1905
Every Battle Ship
Rock Hill Tribune - Every battle ship made in the United States must draw upon Missouri for part of its material.
Down in Madison County is the famous mine, La Motte, which furnishes nickel and cobalt necessary in the construction of the modern ironclad vessel.
There are no other nickel and cobalt mines in the country in operation. Mine Lamotte is said to be the oldest mine in the United States.
For over a century it has been turning out about the same amount of minerals. When it was first opened what isnow the state of Missouri Was a Spanish possession.
Kansas City Star - April 20, 1898
Only Surviving Member of the G.A.R.
Bonne Terre -- H. C. Benedict of Fredericktown, only surviving member of the G.A.R. in Madison County, celebrated his ninety-third birth anniversary in the hospital here last saturday.
Mr. Benedict recently suffered a fractured hip in a fall t his home. The Sikeston Herald (Sikeston, Missouri) - January 16, 1936
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A New Judge Named in Missouri
Jefferson City, Nov. 14 - Governor Dockery today appointed Robert A. Anthony of Fredericktown a judge of the circuit court of the Twenty-seventh Judical Circuit of Missouri, to succeed J. D. Fox, elected to the Supreme Court.
Judge Foxs resignation as circuit judge has been accepted by the Govenor and Judge Anthony will assume his duties at once.
Judge Fox will not go on the Supreme Bench until January 1.
The Kansas City Star - November 14, 1902
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The oldest mines in America are located in Missouri.
They are the lead and nickle mines in Madison County which were worked by the Indians as early as 1726 and have been mined continuously almost ever since the mines were acquirted by a Frenchman named, LaMotte, who named them after himself.
Kansas City Star - July 31, 1903
Indian Trails Subject For Historical Meeting
Fredericktown, Mo., February 29 -- At the March meeting of the Historical Society in Madison County there are to be two very unusual talks on old roads.
Sanford Russell, a man of 83, who is know for his accuracy and who as a young man worked in the land grant office, together located in Ironton, will have a paper and maps dealing with the Indian trails in this part of the country.
Anyone interested in Indian relics would be using a stroke of wisdom to hear him and know just where to look for their "arrowheads."
C. T. McCormick of the State Highway Department will talk on the "St. Michael Trail."
The meeting will begain at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, March 8, at the court house in Fredericktown.
Mr. James Andrews is president of the Madison County Historical Society.
The Sikeston Herald - Febriaru 29, 1940
Oldest Clock in Missouri
The oldest clock in Missouri will be shown in the state's building at the world's fair.
The time piece was brought to upper Louisiana from North Carolina in 1800 by George Frederick Bollinger, who afterwards was a member of the First Missouri General Assembly.
The old clock is 8 feet 4 inches high, and is now owned by M. V. Pabor, of Fredericktown, Missouri.
Augusta Chronicle - July 27, 1903
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Green Burning Wood The editor of the Fredericktown Bee don't want any more green wood on subscription. He says it is bad enough under any circumstances, but to sit shivering over a green hickory fire, with the mercury away down in the cellar, and hear that wood fizz, and sputter, and roll out great tears of greenness, and then deliberately die out, makes a fellow feel like he didn't care where he goes to when he dies. Daily Democrat - Official Paper of City and County - Sedalia - January 28, 1875
The Madison County Banner The Madison County Banner is the name of a new paper started at Fredericktown in this state, by James Lindsay.
It is remarkably well printed, and will be of interest to the inhabitants of the county, and of value in developing the mineral resources of that section of Missouri.
Daily Missouri Republican - April 4, 1849
The Fredericktown News Republic Specials Fredericktown, Missouri, April 28. -- After this week the Fredericktown News, which has been published as a Republican paper for two years, will be consolidated with the Madison County Democrat. E. L. Furcel, late publisher of the News, will become publisher of the Democrat, with Ward L. Smith as editor. This leaves Madison County without a Republican paper.
St. Louis Republic - April 29, 1898
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Egg Production in 1920's Fredericktown -- Egg production in Madison County, Mo., during 1926 was 380,910 dozen, as compared to 291,110 dozen in 1925. Daily Constitution - Chillicothe, Mo. - Saturday, June 18, 1927
Electric Light and Power System Fredericktown -- More than $6000 is to be spent for a complete rebuilding program of the electric light and power system here. Daily Constitution - Chillicothe, Mo. - Monday, December 19, 1927
County Central Committee Meets
Republic Special
Fredericktown, Missouri, January 13. -- The County Central Committee met Saturday and elected G. W. Laupher chairman, inplace of Dan St. Claire, removd to Colorado, and fixed upon April 11 as the date for the county primaries. The meeting was well attended and harmonious.
The St. Louis Republic - St. Louis, Missouri - January 14, 1902
Excursion to Fredericktown
Excursion to Fredericktown, Missouri, Sunday, September 23, 1900.
Round trip, $1.25.
Special train leaves Union Station, 8:30 a.m.
St Louis Republic - September 19, 1900
For 158 Acre Farm, $24,000
Russell Brothers Sell Tract Near Oak Grove to Mrs. E. H. Elliott
John and James Russell, brothers, living near Lone Jack, have sold a farm of 158 acres, four miles northwest of Oak Grove, to Mrs. Eliza
H. Eillott of Cass County, Missoouri, for $24,000.
Kansas City Star - October 24, 1918
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The Fredericktown Schools
Special to the Republic
Fredericktown, Missouri, September 1. -- The public schools opened here today with about 800 pupils in attendance.
The board of education and many citizens attended the opening exercises and addresses were made by Hon. James G. Donnell, County Commissiner Edwards, W. D. Crow, Hon. B. B. Cahoon and others.
At the close of the address Mr. Cahoon deposited $20 in gold with the principal, A. S. Coker, $5 to be given to a boy or girl in each of the four departments who shall make the fastest progress before the Christmas holidays.
St. Louis Republic - September 2, 1890
Fredericktown Teachers
Special to the Republic
Fredericktown, Missouri, August 14. -- The County Teachers' Association losed its first session here today under the new institute laws, and twenty-two teachers received license.
Resolutions were adopted indorsing the institute and text book law, and favoring the enactment of a law for county supervision. The course lectures before the institute were given by Dr's. Brumfeld and HaPey on physiology, Rev. Dr. Dixon and Prof. Greenwood on psychology, and Hon. James G. Donnell and J. E. T. Edwards on educational subjects.
St. Louis Republic - August 15, 1891
Fredericktown Graduation
Fredericktown -- The graduating exercises of the Fredericktown High School were held in the Lyric Theater.
The graduates were:
Lydia May Henson Harry Theodore Underriner Jo Erman Hebenor Edward Emery Jackson
Rabbi Leon Harrison of St. Louis delivered the annual Address to the graduating class.
St. Louis Palladium - June 1, 1907
W. R. Shaw - Coach at Marvin College
W. R. Shaw is in the city today in the interest of Marvin College at Fredericktown, Missouri.
Shaw is the coach at that school and is a splendid gentleman. Jonsboro Daily Tribune - June 27, 1911
Martha Schwabe To Teach at Marvin College
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Schwabe to Go to Marvin College
Miss Martha Schwabe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Schwabe, 400 Christian College Avenue, has accepted a position as teacher of expression at Marvin College, Fredericktown, Missoouri.
She will leave for Fredericktown next Sunday.
Miss Schwabe is a post graduate in expression at Christian College. She has taken an active part in Columbia dramatics, playing one of the leading roles in "The College Widow," which was given this summer and is being repeated Tuesaday and Wednesday this week.
The Evening Missourian (Columbia, Missouri - November 26, 1917
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A Hen Adopts Some Kittens
Hens have queer ways down in Madison County, Mlssouri.
A young White Leghorn hen owned by Mrs. Estell Broaddus of Madison, Missouri, has kidnapped a family of young kittens from the farm cat, and they sleep each night under her snowy wings.
At first the mother cat objected, and hissed all sorts of threats at the hen. But when she found Biddy only wanted to act as nurse maid, she accepted with rather ill grace, and now, when they all pile in the empty breakfast cereal box, Biddy spreads her friendly wings and hovers cat and kittens.
So unusual is the affinity, that neighbors come purposely to see Blddy scratch and call when she finds a worm or a bit of meat, chasing away and pecking at small feathered nieces and nephews and saving the morsel till the adopted kittens appear.
Kansas City Star – May 25, 1919
Eight Living Grandparents In One State Fredericktown, Missouri, May 15. -- This child is the champion, long distance grandchild.
He is the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robertson of St. Louis, who recently visited here.
The little fellow has three great grand-fathers, two grandfathers, one great grandmother and two grandmothers, all of them alive, hale and hearty, and everyone lives in Missouri.
Eight living grandparents in one state is believed to be a record.
Aberdeen Daily News - May 16, 1926
The Missouri Mule
The freeks of the Missouri mule rival those of the cyclone.
A youth at Madison got in a mix up with a mule's heels and two pieces of cornstalk were driven through his cheek like arrows.
St. Louis Palladium - May 12, 1906
Where Saloon Men Had Bad Luck
About the time Governor Folk started his campaign for governor a crusade started in the counties along the Mississippi Rivers out of St. Louis.
Most of those that voted on the proposition voted to stop the sale of liquor.
In Madison County the vote was close, but the day before election a branch of Black River overflowed its banks and carried off even the boats that were used for crossing the stream. It happened that the stream ran through the strongest anti-prohibition precinct in the county, and the voting place happened to be on one side of the river while most of the voters were on the other and couldn't get across in time to vote.
The story has been told often as an evidence of divine approbation of the anti-saloon movement, for if it had not been for the freshet the county would almost surely have "gone wet."
Kansas City Star - October 23, 1905
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L. H. Dancy, Ph. G.
Has accepted a situation with H. D. Christoph, of Fredericktown, Missouri.
Mr. Dancy graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy with the class of '96.
His grades were high and his standing good.
He was known as "The Southern Gentleman,' coming from Holly Springs, Mississippi.
He served his apprenticeship in St. Louis and clerked in this city for some five years.
The best wishes of his many friens go with him to his new position.
Meyers Brothers Druggist, - Volume XIX - 1898
Miss Lucy Geer
Miss Lucy Greer of Fredericktown, sister of Mrs. Walker Coleman, is now employed at Elders Drug Store.
The Hayti Herald, - Hayti, Missouri - July 22, 1920
Mrs. Lutie Pl Leslie
Mrs. Lutie P. Leslie spent last week in Fredericktown as a guest of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Leslie. The Sikeston Herald - November 17, 1938
William D. Husted
William D. Husted, chairman of Madison County's Board of Commissioners, is a visitor to Butte, having just returned from the old home in Missouri, where he had been called by the illness and death of his mother. Mr. Husted left for Virginia City this morning.
Anaconda Standard - February 29, 1908
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William Pahl and Family Narrowly Escape Suffocation William Pahl and family narrowly escaped death by suffocation early yesterday by the burning of their home at Miller's Station, south of Madison. The house was destroyed.
The fire was discovered by the crew of a switch engine in Madison. They ran to the house and after much difficulty aroused the sleeping inmates.
So rapidly did the flames spread that Pahl was unable to save any of his belongings. The loss is estimated at $3,000, with no insurance.
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Tornado Strikes Missouri
Fredericktown, Missouri, April 21. -- A tornado accompanied by hail and rain passed over this section, nearly destroying White Springs, a summer resort, five miles south of here.
Seventeen of the thirty houses were wrecked, of one of which not traces were found. The large Hotel of Stubbleford & Matthews is a wreck. No fatalities.
Muskegon Chronicle - 1903-04-21
Earthquake In Missouri
St. Louis, February 18. -- A dispatch from Fredericktown, Missouri, says:
"A heavy shock of earthquake occurred in this region last night.
The tremor was severe enough to overturn furniture and displace plastering on the walls."
New York Herald Tribune - February 19, 1887
Thermometer in Fredericktown
The therometer sttod at Fredericktown, Missouri, on the 20th instant, between nine and ten a. m., at 22 degrees below zero, as reported ot us by a gentleman capable of making correct observations.
Daily Missouri Republican - January 25, 1852
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Census Decrease Two Missouri Counties
By United Press Washington, June 5. -- The census bureau announced Mt. Olive, Illinois, 3,503, an increase of two or one tenth per cent; Madison County, Missouri, 10,721, a decrease of 552 or 4.9 per cent; Morgan County, Missouri, 12,015, a decrease of 40 of 6.6 per cent.
Jonesboro Daily Tribune - May 6, 1920
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