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and has since resided here. Mr. Hess was married to Miss Sarah Atkins, in October, 1866. They became the parents of five children, three of whom are now living: William, George and Charles. Mrs. Hess died May 31, 1875, and our subject was again married March 12, 1876, to Miss Mary Sharp, daughter of Aaron and Martha Sharp. She was born in the year 1856. The issue of this union has been four children, only two of whom, Martha and Cora, are now living. Mr. Hess is an industrious man of good, steady habits, and a good citizen.

THOMAS CROWLEY.

Thomas Crowley was born in the month of September, 1830, in Clay county, Missouri, and was reared there on a farm. In 1853, he went with a drove of cattle to the state of California, and remained there about two years, returning March 31, 1855. He came to this county and settled on the farm he now owns and occupies, in 1857. He owns a fine farm of five hundred and forty-two acres, five hundred acres of which are under good fence, and the greater part in cultivation. He has a comfortable, well arranged dwelling house, and a fine bearing orchard. Mr. Crowley was married in this county, in the month of October, 1857, to Miss Susan Nelson, by Rev. Hardy Holman. She is the daughter of Joshua and Henrietta Nelson, natives of Alabama, and was born in this county, December 20, 1839. Mr. and Mrs. Crowley became the parents of the following named children: Fanny, born November 14, 1858; John, born May 7, 1862; Robert, January —, 1864; Kate, born January, 1866; Mollie, born January, 1868; Thomas P., born January 12, 1873; Susan M., born February, 1875; Cappy, born June 25, 1877; James H., born November 9, 1880; John died October 13, 1864, and one in infancy. Mr. Crowley is a member of the M. E. Church South, and an active supporter of religion. He is a very prosperous farmer and stock-raiser, and a public spirited and influential citizen.

JOHN CLEAVENGER.

John Cleavenger was born in the state of Virginia, July 2, 1798. He is the son of Richard and Sarah (Wood) Cleavenger. His father was a native of New Jersey, and his mother of Shenandoah county, Virginia. His parents removed to Cocke county, Tennessee, when he was a small boy, and there he grew up, working on his father's farm until 1819, when he left Tennessee and came to Missouri. Mr. Cleavenger was one of a party who made the trip by river, in a keel-boat which they constructed themselves in Tennessee before leaving. When they reached the mouth of Fishing river, while ascending the Missouri, they steered their boat into the smaller river, and after ascending it about six miles landed, and settling there, made their homes thenceforth in this county. All kinds of

game was abundant, and their chief occupation at first was hunting, but in a few years they cleared land, improved farms, and settled down to a quiet life of farming. Mr. Cleavenger was first married in 1817, to Elizabeth Hensley, of Virginia. The issue of this marriage was one child: Mary, born September 8, 1819. Mrs. Cleavenger soon after died, and he was again married in 1823, to Miss Margaret Wills, daughter of James Wills, an early settler of Ray county. She was born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, January 1, 1801. They became the parents of eleven children, four of whom are now living: Lily A., born; February, 1828; Sarah, born March 5, 1831; Margaret, born June 21, 1833; Richard, born October 28, 1836. From 1830 to 1832, Mr. Cleavenger was sheriff of Ray county, and in 1856, was elected to represent the county in the general assembly. The duties of his office he discharged with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the people. He has been a member of the Old School Baptist Church for more than sixty years. His wife is a Presbyterian. He is one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Ray county.

JOHN R. STARKEY.

1832.

John R. Starkey was born in Mason county, Kentucky, August 26, At the age of six years he came with his parents to Ray county, and has lived here ever since, engaged, after he grew up, in farming. He was married in this county, to Miss Margaret Cleavenger, daughter of Mr. John Cleavenger. They have one child, Jeremiah R., born April 26, 1871. Levi Starkey, father of our subject, was born in the state of Pennsylvania, in 1804, died in 1863. Mary D., the mother of John R. Starkey, was born in Virginia in 1805, and is yet living in Carroll county, Missouri. Both Mr. Starkey and his estimable lady are members of the Baptist Church, and he is also a member of the Masonic lodge at Richmond. He is an industrious, enterprising farmer, a highly respected man and valuable citizen.

W. A. HUNTSMAN.

W. A. Huntsman was born in Chickasaw county, Mississippi, September 12, 1842. He received his education and grew up there. Early in life he learned the trade of a painter, and has since pursued that avocation. He came to this county, first, in 1870, and remained here about five years, when he went to Linn county, Missouri, and worked at his trade there, until April 1880, when he returned to Ray county, and located at the town of Lawson, where he is now engaged at his trade. Mr. Huntsman enlisted, June, 1861, in company F, seventh Mississippi cavalry and served throughout the war in the C. S. A. He was with General Lee at Appomattox, and laid down his gun there, April 9, 1865. During the

war he was in the battles of Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Petersburg and Chancellorsville, besides many others. Mr. Huntsman was married in Clinton county, Missouri, in May, 1875, to Miss Mollie J. Easton, by Rev. Mr. Searcy. Mrs. Huntsman was born in Clay county, Missouri, April 17, 1854. Mr. Huntsman is a worthy member of the order of Good Templars. He is an excellent workman in all the different branches of his trade, and has a large and lucrative patronage. He is a generous, charitable, fair minded, honorable gentleman, and enjoys the confidence and respect of the community in which he lives.

CHAS. B. BACON, M. D.

Charles B. Bacon was born in the town of Spencer, Tioga county, New York, March 24, 1829. Began his medical studies in 1849, in the office of Doctor G. H. Preston, where he continued until 1853, and left off to teach school awhile in order to supply himself with the necessary funds for the further prosecution of his studies. In 1855 he went with Doctor Preston to Brantford, Canada, and practiced medicine there until 1859, when he attended, at Rochester, New York, a branch of the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College. Then, in consequence of the failure of his health, he went to the mountain regions of Colorado and to Denver and Golden City. He came to Ray county in the fall of the same year, and has lived here ever since, engaged in the practice of medicine, farming and dealing in live stock. Doctor Bacon owns a fine well improved farm of two hundred acres, in section twenty-eight, township fifty-four, range twenty-nine. He is in a very prosperous condition and is highly esteemed by the good people among whom he lives and practices. Doctor Bacon has never been married.

J. M. STOCKWELL.

James M. Stockwell was born in Chenango county, New York, May 13, 1834, and at the age of six years, left there with his parents, George W. and Elsie I. Stockwell, and removed to Ohio. His father was born in Massachusetts in 1788, and died August 14, 1863. His mother was born in Massachusetts, in 1798, and died in 1865. The family remained in Ohio during three years and then removed to Ray county, Missouri, and settled upon a farm near where our subject now resides. Mr. Stockwell lived in this county until the year 1849, and then taking the tide of immigration at its flood, went to seek his fortunes in the gold fields of California. After a journey of great hardship, privation and suffering, he reached the land of gold, and remained there for two years, and then returned to Ray county. He made a subsequent trip to California, and was absent from here about the same length of time as upon the former trip. Mr. Stockwell was married May 3, 1856, in Ray county, to Miss

May E. Bisbee, who was born May 27, 1834, in Ohio, and came to Missouri in 1838. They became the parents of five children: Rosina A., born February 5th, 1857, now the wife of John Buchanan; Arza, born November 3, 1859; Iola E., born November 14, 1865, now the wife of E. Boyd; David P., born 1867, died when a child; Harry W., born June 3, 1872. Mrs. Stockwell's father, Arza Bisbee, was born in the state of New York, December 25, 1807, and died in 1867. Her mother, Harriet M. Bisbee, was born April 21, 1816, and died May 18, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Stockwell are both members of the Christian Church. He owns a farm of five hundred and fifteen acres of excellent farming lands in a fine state of cultivation and well improved. He is a practical successful farmer, and a respected member of the community.

JESSE T. ROBERTS.

Jesse T. Roberts was born in Madison county, Kentucky, December 9, 1839. He is the son of A. J. and Eliza Roberts. His father was born in Madison county, Kentucky, January 10, 1814, and is now living in Clay county, Missouri. His mother was born in Boone county, Missouri, in the year 1820. Our subject remained in his native county until 1863, and then removed to Hendricks county, Indiana, and was there engaged in farming until October 1, 1868, when he came to Ray county, this state, and bought the farm he now lives upon. Mr. Roberts was married in Garrard county, Kentucky, in the year 1863, to Miss Mary C. Wiley, daughter of Harvey and Ruth A. Wiley, natives of Kentucky. She was born in Garrard county, Kentucky, September 1, 1842. They have five children: William L., born July 2, 1865; Martha E., born March 21, 1867; Nora A., born July 12, 1869; James A., born February 15, 1874; Charles H., October 24, 1877. Mrs. Roberts' father, Harvey Wiley, was born in Garrard county, Kentucky, February 12, 1809, and is yet living in the same county. Her mother was born in Madison county, Kentucky, May 1, 1812, and is also yet living. Mr. Roberts and wife are leading members of the Christian Church, and he is also a member of Bee-Hive Lodge No. 393, A. F. & A. M., at Lawson.

JOHN E. LINVILL.

Is the son of Thomas and Martha Linvill, and was born in Ray county, Missouri, February 10, 1845. He was educated in the schools of this county, and remained at home with his father, working on the farm, and dealing in stock, until he was twenty-five years of age. Mr. Linvill was married on the 24th of March, 1870, to Miss Kate Grimes, the daughter of Major John and Nancy Grimes. She was born in the state of Tennessee, June 21, 1847. The issue of this marriage has been one child: Thomas G., born June 29, 1872, in this county. Soon after his

marriage, Mr. Linvill settled on a farm near Knoxville, and after remaining there for some time, removed to another place in the same vicinity, where he lived until 1879, when he purchased and located upon his present farm (section thirty-three, township fifty-four, range twenty-eight). He owns about one thousand acres of land, all of which is enclosed by good fence, except about one hundred and fifty acres. The farm is handsomely and finely improved, well watered and stocked with the best varieties of live stock. Mr. Linvill is a leading, successful and prosperous farmer and stock-raiser, and a highly respected citizen.

LEVI MORRIS.

In 1859 Mr. Morris went to

Levi Morris was born in Kanawha county, Virginia, August 3, 1835. He came with his parents to Missouri, and settled in this county, in 1839. His father died when he was sixteen years of age, and, being the oldest son, it devolved upon him to assist his mother in managing the farm and providing for the rest of the family. In 1877, the youngest heir having attained his majority, the estate was divided, and his mother and our subject have continued to live upon the homestead, their combined shares of the estate. January 9, 1873, Mr. Morris married Miss Nancy C. Grimes, daughter of Joseph C. and Julia Grimes. She was born in Ray county, Missouri, January 11, 1853. They became the parents of four children, all of whom are now living: Lulu G., born November 9, 1873; Minnie C., born September 29, 1875; Gracie E., born September 11, 1877; Joseph B. F., born May 1, 1880. California, where he was engaged, with very fair success, in mining for about four years, after which he went to Idaho, and spent some time in mining there. While out west, he went into British America, and remained during one summer. He returned home to Ray county in 1872, and has lived here ever since. Mrs. Amanda J. Morris, the mother of our subject, was born in Clark county, Ohio, October 5, 1812. Her parents, John and Sarah Hamilton, both died when she was very young, and she was taken to Virginia and reared by her grandparents, who lived in that state. September 29, 1829, she was marrried to Mr. Benjamin Morris. The issue of this union was eight children, seven of whom are yet living: Octavia N., born September 11, 1830; Sarah M., born January 3, 1838; Mary J., born October 13, 1840; Benjamin F., born April 21, 1843; James W., born April 1, 1848; John B., born October 1, 1851, and Levi, our subject. Mrs. Morris is living now on the old homestead, section 26, township 54, range 28.

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