Patentees Lady Homesteaders

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LADY HOMESTEADERS OR HINTS FROM PATENTEE LISTS
Women were allowed to homestead land. When my great, great grandparents
moved from Vermont to Kansas in 1872 with a family of grown but still single children,
the parents and each child homesteaded a section of land, that is a square mile, consisting
of 640 acres. Their son who was my mother’s grandfather raised my mother. She recalled
him talking about the regulations concerning how much time you were required to spend
on your claim to finally get title to it. Each child and the parents has a separate claim, but
none wanted to live a mile from the nearest person, all alone. Eventually all the children
married, but until they did, they devised a schedule so that the brothers spent some of the
required time with the sisters on their claims, so they would not be all alone on the vast
prairie. The schedule had to allow each brother to spend enough time on his own claim,
and they were sharing the duties of developing each homestead. A few years ago, a
cousin sent a picture she had just taken of the four mile long rock fence my great
grandfather built around his mile-square claim in the mid-1870‘s.
However, in Christian County, the lady homesteaders were relatively rare. Most
homesteaders were men. When a woman’s name appeared as a patentee, chances are the
record leads to a story. Most often, this is a story of a death, occasionally of marriage or
divorce or independence. Sometimes, the patent record leads to court records or
unexpected evidence. Here are some women homesteaders and what the record verifies
of what we may have already known. Here too are the unknowns whose records may
point us at another time toward research solutions.
WHO WERE ELIZABETH ANDERSON AND SARAH CARTER?
ANDERSON, ELIZABETH N½ 2SW
27N 22W Sec 06
1845 Oct 01 2194
MO5270__.313
CARTER, SARAH W½ 1NW
27N 22W Sec 06
1845 Oct 01 2378
MO5270__.336
Elizabeth Anderson and Sarah Carter patented land in the same section on the
same day, October 1, 1845. In the same section, range and township and registered the
same day as:
MASSEY, EPHRAIM
MO5270__.312
MASSEY, EPHRAIM
MO5270__.312
MASSEY, EPHRAIM
MO5270__.312

E½ 1NW

27N 22W Sec 06

1845 Oct 01

2180

E½ 2NW

27N 22W Sec 06

1845 Oct 01

2180

W½ 2NE

27N 22W Sec 06

1845 Oct 01

2180

Ephraim Massey was probably the son of James H. and Faithful Elizabeth
(Strickland) Massey, born about 1815 to 1817. If so, his younger brother, Nathaniel J.
Massey 5 Apr 1818 - 8 Apr 1869, was a great grandfather of one-time Christian County
Prosecuting Attorney, Gordon J. Massey. This Ephraim Massey’s family married into the

Rountree, Bass and Jarrett families. But, that doesn’t answer the question, “Who were
Elizabeth Anderson and Sarah Carter?’
Greene County records show that Ephraim Massey married Eliza Warren 7 Jul
1836. The 1840 Greene County census shows Ephraim’s household consisting of a white
male and female, each age 20 - 30 and one white male under age 5. I could not locate
Ephraim anywhere on the 1850 census, suggesting the possibility that he had died.
Perhaps, Elizabeth Anderson may be the former Eliza (Warren) Massey? In that case, the
land and certificate should be identical. Though they are adjacent, they are not the same
property.
According to the Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region account of Ephraim’s
brother Harvey Massey, their Irish born father, James Massey, fathered 22 children by
two wives. The 1840 shows, in addition to separate households of his sons Ephraim,
Nathaniel, and James H., that the father’s household consisted of a white male age 5 to
10, a white male age 15 to 20, two white males age 50 to 60, one white female 15 to 20,
one white female 20 to 30, one male slave under age 10, four male slaves age 10 to 24,
one female slave under age 10 and one female slave age 36 to 55. By 1850, the 70 year
old father has a 30-year old wife and children ages 9, 7, and 3 years and 6 months. He
does let his wife catch up a bit by the neat trick of remaining the same age in 1860 as he
was in 1850, while she turned 40 and the household grew by adding four new children
then ages 8, 6, and 2 years and four months. Since known children number only 14,
several either must have died young or the RHOZ information is incorrect. The
Reminiscent History says the father “died during the war” and the estate was probated in
1864. Whether he was in about 84 or only 74, he was definitely older than most parents
of toddlers. Does that leave room for daughters who might be two women neighbors of
Ephraim Massey? Perhaps. However, a totally different Elizabeth is known to be a
daughter, so Elizabeth Anderson is probably not his daughter. Since Sarah isn’t
mentioned by name in published sources, she is also an unlikely candidate.
What became of Ephraim and Eliza (Warren) Massey and their daughter? They
don’t appear in any recognizable form on the 1850 census. Did they die? No legible
tombstone has been read and published for them near this land. Did they move? The
questions remain unanswered. An 1981 account of the James Massey family in Ozar’Kin
does not mention Ephraim Massey. It does say there were additional children from
James’ first marriage whose names are unknown and a query in Ozar’Kin by a lady
writing a history of the family of one of Ephraim‘s brothers, Robert Massey, asked if
anyone knew what became of this family of Ephraim and Eliza (Warren) Massey. It is
intriguing but probably coincidental that the submitter of the family account was named
Massey Carter. Perhaps the estate settlement of James Massey in 1864, where he says
that after his youngest child turns 18 and his wife is provided for, the rest of his estate is
to be divided among all his heirs, might give a lead to what became of Ephraim.
The 1850 Greene County census does not list any Elizabeth Anderson. It is
tempting to speculate that this person many have had a connection to the Martha
Anderson who when she was 18 and James Massey was 58 (according to the Ozar’Kin
family summary) became James Massey’s second wife 10 Jul 1838 in Greene County.
No proof has been found. Another puzzling fact is that no Elizabeth Anderson appears
on the 1843 Greene County, Missouri, Tax Assessors’ List. If that was her name in 1843,

she should have appeared then. If it wasn’t her name at that time, the record should have
been in both her name then and the Elizabeth Anderson name, but it was not.
But, who was Sarah Carter? A Sarah Carter, 52-year-old North Carolina born
widow with a daughter Hannah F., 20 born Illinois, and son James A. 18 and daughters,
Sarah E. 16 and Mary E. 9, all born in Missouri, is in household 784 of Porter Township
of Greene County, Missouri in 1850. The list of her neighbors make clear that she is in
the vicinity of Section 6 , Township 27N, Range 22 W, or about three miles west and a
mile north of the current west Nixa city limits on Highway 14. She probably is the Sarah
Carter in this BLMGLO record. In 1850, she is living next to William Sanders. The 1840
Greene County census show a Sarah Carter living next to a William Sanders. Her
household consists of one white male age 5 to 10; two white females age 5 to 10; two
white females age 10 to 15; and one white female age 40 to 50. It is probably the same
woman, but we STILL don’t know who she is. Circuit County records show that Sarah
Carter sued Littleberry Hendricks in Greene County, Mo in 1842 and received a
judgment to collect a debt and damages of $154.18 - and that he counter sued her in the
next court session. Is this the same Sarah Carter?
According to The History and Directory of Springfield, in 1835, a cholera
epidemic struck Springfield when infected goods arrived in a shipment from St. Louis.
The first victim was Springfield’s first blacksmith, James Carter, who became sick at 9
a.m. and died at 2 p.m. the same day. He had operated his shop near the northeast corner
of what later became the Springfield square. Was this the husband of Sarah Carter? It
sounds likely. The Greene County, Missouri Court Book A in the September term 1835
as transcribed and compiled by Marsha Hoffman Rising “Approves Littleberry
Hendrick’s account of the estate of James Carter, deceased“. In February 1837, in Book
B, page 122, “Sarah Carter, widow of James Carter, by her attorney John S. Waddle,
asked for support of minor heirs of the following names: Nancy, Elizabeth, Francis,
James, Sarah and David. Peter Apperson appointed guardian of David Carter, minor heir
of James Carter.” Finally, in May 1837, a Daniel Coach or Kootch of Lawrence County,
Tennessee files a deposition in his case against the estate of James Carter.
Sarah appears to James Carter’s widow, but we STILL don’t know who SHE
was. Maybe the answer is in another state. Two marriages in and adjacent to the
Lawrence County, Tennessee residence of the man filing a claim against James Carter’s
estate are for men named James Carter marrying women named Sarah. James Carter and
Sarah Ann Kutch married 9 January 1826 in Maury County, Tennessee. James Carter and
Sary Perremore married 10 Feb 1830 in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Similar as the
Kootch/Kutch/Coach names are and as tempting as it is to speculate that this is the
couple, the fact remains that James Carter died in 1835. Nine years between a marriage
and the husband’s death is a short time to accumulate the six children for whom she seeks
support in 1837. Also, the age of 55 on the 1850 census would make this Sarah Carter 31
at the time of an 1826 marriage. That suggests that either this was a second marriage or,
we have the wrong couple. Still, the five children listed with her on the 1840 census
could have all been born after 1826.
In 1850, James and Sarah’s daughter, Nancy Carter who had married James
Mathis 21 Feb 1848, was living directly next door to Sarah and may well be one of the
daughters mentioned in James‘ estate settlement.

Several ladies named Elizabeth live near Sarah Carter on the 1850 census. All of
them would have minors in 1845. An obvious question is “Could Elizabeth Anderson be
James and Sarah Carter’s daughter Elizabeth?” There were two early Greene County
marriages of women named Elizabeth Carter: James Banfield to Elizabeth Carter 20 May
1844 and Robert E. Cimmins to Elizabeth Carter 18 Nov 1847. Neither couple is on the
1850 Greene County census.
A lot of Christian County land patents were filed on 1 October 1845. One was
this:
HENDRICK, LITTLEBERRY E½ 1NW 27N 23W Sec 01
1845 Oct 01 2347
MO5270__.331
HENDRICK, LITTLEBERRY E½ SW
27N 23W Sec 01
1845 Oct 01 2347
MO5270__.331
Remember the person settling James Carter’s estate and the 1842 lawsuits? Well,
27N 23W Sec 01 is immediately west of 27N 22W Sec 06. Hendrick’s place is three
quarters of a mile west of Carter’s homestead. This is likely the same Littleberry
Hendrick who served as the Judge of the 14th Missouri Judicial Circuit in Springfield. His
will was probated in December 1864 in Greene County.
The Ephraim Massey with whom we began this enquiry appears, to our current
knowledge, to have no kinship with either woman, not even a documented common
former residence. Coincidence, it seems, may be yet alive and well - maybe.
As is often the case with genealogy, we end with more questions than began.
BATY, ELIZA J.
BATY, ELIZA J.
SESW 26N 19W Sec 07
1894 Nov 30 9606
MO6000__.068
BATY, ELIZA J.
SWNE 26N 19W Sec 07
1894 Nov 30 9606
MO6000__.068
BATY, ELIZA J.
W½ SE
26N 19W Sec 07
1894 Nov 30 9606
MO6000__.068
BATY, GEORGE SESW
26N 19W Sec 07
1894 Nov 30 9606
MO6000__.068
BATY, GEORGE SWNE
26N 19W Sec 07
1894 Nov 30 9606
MO6000__.068
BATY, GEORGE W½ SE 26N 19W Sec 07 1894 Nov 30 9606 MO6000__.068
George M. Baty - Liza A. Perkins 24 Jul 1885 03/223 Cummins W B j p
Eliza Batey - William Baty 13 Feb 1894 05/222 Dray Isaac j p
1880 Mo Christian Linn Twp, Household #246
A. G. BATY Self M Male W 50 AL Farmer NC NC
Martha BATY Wife M Female W 45 AL Keeping House SC GA
George BATY Son S Male W 16 IL Farm Hand AL AL
Thomas BATY Son S Male W 13 IL Farm Hand AL AL
Wiley BATY Son S Male W 11 IL Farm Hand AL AL
Alexander BATY Son S Male W 7 MO
AL AL

1880 MO Jasper Co. Sarcoxie
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's
Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Isaac PERKINS Self M Male W 56 TN Dead Beat --- --Nancy PERKINS Wife M Female W 39 TN Keeps House TN TN
Tressey PERKINS Dau S Female W 17 MO At Home TN TN
Eliza PERKINS Dau S Female W 11 MO At Home TN TN
Etta PERKINS Dau S Female W 8 MO
TN TN
PERKINS Son S Male W 1M MO
TN TN
Thomas PERKINS Son D Male W 23 MO Doing Nothing TN TN
I don’t if this is the right one, but whoever it is, the person giving the occupations
of the adult men in the household was in a mood to speak their mind. I wonder if they
could have imagined that we would be reading the response a century and a quarter later.

BOLIN, PARILEE (RUYLE) HARPOOL
BOLYN, PARILEE SESE 27N 21W Sec 19
1873 Feb 01 761
MO5820__.259
HARPOOL, PARILEE
SESE 27N 21W Sec 19
1873 Feb 01
MO5820__.259

761

Martin Harpool/Harpole was born in Cannon County, Tennessee about 1833 to
1835 to Daniel Harpool and his first wife. At least, he was born in the territory which in
1836 became Cannon County. He married 27 Feb 1858 in Greene County, Missouri
Parilee Ruyle, born about 1835 in Illinois to Tennessee natives John W. & Sarah C.
(Pruitt) Ruyle. Family researchers believe Parilee is part of the Ruyle/Rule family who
had been friends, neighbors and intermarried with Harpool/Harpole families earlier in
Virginia and Tennessee and later in Missouri. Daniel’s parents are believed to be a
Martin and Elizabeth (Ruyle) Harpool. In Missouri, Martin’s father, Daniel Harpool and
his brother Henry Harpool married two sisters who, like the Harpools, were from Cannon
County, Tennessee. The daughters of Jacob and Lucy (Matthews) Melton, Mary the older
daughter married Daniel and Tolitha, the younger daughter married Henry Harpool.
On the 1860 Christian County Census, Martin and Parilee (Ruyle) Harpool are
listed with their daughter Sarah age 1 and Charles Ruyle age 4. Next door is Granville
Bolin, son of William and Millie (Cates) Bolin., who is married to Parilee’s sister,
Cassinda (Ruyle) Bolin. Martin Harpool died July 13, 1864 .
The widow married second on 16 January 1868 her brother-in-law’s brother,
Elisha Bolin. In 1870, Elisha and Parilee are listed in household 411 of Galloway
Township, Christian County, Missouri with Charles Ruyle age 15, Sarah Harpool age 11,
Martha Harpool age 7 and Thomas Bolin age 2. As happened sometimes, it appears
neither the census taker nor the person giving the information saw to it that the three

older children’s surnames were recorded as their birth names. All four children appear to
be Bolins. Two Bolin sons, Robert and W. Bedford, were born after this census, and
only the three Bolin sons appear with Parilee on the 1876 agricultural census of Christian
County. Elisha was living in a different household, so apparently they had separated
before 1876. The parentage of Charles Ruyle is uncertain. He might have either been
Parilee’s son born before her marriage or a relative she was raising after his parents were
unable to do so. At any rate, he disappeared from the area between 1870 and 1876.
Parilee and her youngest son are buried in Collin County, Texas.
The fact that the patent was issued in both of Parilee’s married names indicated
that the process had begun while her name was still Harpool and completed it when her
name as Bolin. Because Martin Harpool’s name is not on the document, she apparently
first applied for the land between Martin’s death in 1864 and before her marriage to
Elisha in 1868. The fact that Elisha’s name was not on the document may mean nothing,
but it could indicate that the couple had separated by February 1, 1873. At any rate,
Parilee apparently considered the land her own property.
BROTHERS, LAURA BELLE (GARRISON) HARLESS and maybe FEEHAN,
WILLIE HAZEL (HARLESS)
GARRISON, GEORGE W. NWNE 25N 19W Sec 23
1894 Sep 07 33517
MO5790__.378
BROTHERS, LAURA
SWSW
25N 19W Sec 13
1904 Dec 01 14703
MO6250__.396
HARLESS, LAURA SWSW
25N 19W Sec 13
1904 Dec 01 14703
MO6250__.396
HARLESS, WILLIE H.
SWSW
25N 19W Sec 13
1904 Dec 01 14703
MO6250__.396
BROTHERS, JOHN W.
NENE 25N 19W Sec 23
1911 Jun 05 1109 203239
George W. Garrison - Sarah A. Mills 29 Sep 1874 01/242 Martin J J p g
Laura B. Garrison - William H. Harless 24 Dec 1896 06/019 Peace E M rev
Jasper N. Brothers - Sarah A. (Mills) Garrison 3 Sep 1898 06/164 Dorland Geo W j p
John W. Brothers - Laura B. (Garrison) Harless ? Jul 1899 06/254 Mills Charles j p
Note: Laura & John were married by Sarah’s brother, Charles Mills
Laura Belle Garrison was born 15 Oct 1877 in Garrison, Missouri, the second
child and oldest daughter of George Washington and Sarah Ann (Mills) Garrison. Her
grandparents were James S. & Nancy (Halbert) Garrison and Melburn Martin and
Samantha M. (Bradburn) Mills. As Melburn had died during the Civil War, Laura would
have grown up knowing as a grandparent her mother’s step-father, Charles Henry
“Hank” Burk, a veteran of Sherman’s March. George and Sarah ran a general store in the
little town. Most researchers believe the town was named for George.
George Washington Garrison died 6 May 1896. Months later, Laura married
William H. Harless 24 Dec 1896. A daughter, Willie Hazel Harless was born to them the
following December. As sometimes happens, the 1900 census calls Willie H. male, but
the 1910 census calls her Hazel W. Harless, female, same age, same household, though

the 1910 calls Laura‘s daughter a “servant”. It is unclear whether William died or there
was a divorce, but the fact that the land record was in his wife and daughter’s name make
it likely that he died. It is unusual for six year old girl to be listed on a land patent, but it
appears to have happened here. Or, with the daughter sharing the same first and last
name and middle initial as her father, this may be William H. Harless and his widow.
Sarah Ann (Mills) Garrison married second 3 Sep 1898 Jasper Newton Brothers.
Jasper’s first wife, whose maiden name was Pinkey Anderson, had died 7 April 1890.
Between then and 1898, he was briefly married to Laura Alice (Bilyeu) Keithley
Tittsworth.
Ten months later, Laura Belle (Garrison) Harless married her step-brother, John
W. Brothers. The 1910 and 1920 censuses show they were the parents of Ernest born
1910 and Carl born 1914 and a daughter Fern born 1912.
Jasper Newton and Sarah Ann (Mills) Brothers moved to Peoria, Ottawa County,
Oklahoma. Both died in Oklahoma but were returned to Garrison for burial. A typo in
Jasper’s obituary made him appear, for the first record in his life, as James Newton
Brothers.
John W. and Laura Ann (Garrison) Brothers were living in Bruner on the 1930
census and in Sparta at the time of Jasper’s death in 1935. Between then and 1948, they
moved to Sacramento County, California, near their son, Ernest Brothers and Laura’s
daughter. Laura Ann (Garrison) Brothers died in Sacramento, California 17 Jan 1948, age
70. Her husband and son were still there decades later at their own deaths. John W.
Brothers died 27 Sep 1963 in Sacramento, California, age 91. Ernest Gifford Brothers
died in Sacramento, California 22 December 1994, age 93 years 11 months and 4 days.
As for Willie Hazel Harless, she is almost certainly the Willa Harles Feehan,
born 16 Dec 1897 in Missouri to a father named Harles (sic) and mother with the maiden
name Garrison who died 30 Jan 1985 in Sacramento, California.
BURKHART, NANCY J. (ROBERTS)
BURKHART, NANCY J.
MO6030__.234
BURKHART, NANCY J.
MO6030__.234

N½ SW

25N 19W Sec 23

SESW 25N 19W Sec 23

1898 Feb 09

1898 Feb 09

11172

11172

Who is Nancy J. Burkhart? From the 1870 and 1880 Christian County censuses,
we know she was the mother of Oliver Burkhart. The 1912 Plat Book of Christian County
shows that the 120 acres in this grant is owned by Oliver B. Burkhart.
1870 MO Christian County Marion Twp. Household 800
Burkhart, Nancy
40 TN
, Oliver 8 MO
These two are not found on the 1876 agricultural census of Christian County.
1880 MO Christian County Marion Twp, Household 242
Burkhart, Nancy
50 f head TN

, Oliver 18 m son MO
The personal property tax index shows that Nancy J. Burkhart had livestock or
other personal property of her own for several years between 1879 and 1900.
Burkhart, N. A.
Burkhart, N. J.
Burkhart, Nancy
1880
Burkhart, Nancy
Burkhart, Nancy J.

Marion #0211 1883 $74
Marion p013 1881 $89
1.07
Marion p015 1879 $83

0.90
Paid
1.15

Marion #0214 1882 $90
Marion #0224 1884 $154 1.85

1.08

Paid in full Mar 18

The Chaffin Funeral Home record shows that her son’s mother’s maiden name
was Nancy Roberts:
Name: OLIVER B.BURKHART
Lifespan: 19 Feb 1861 - 5 Dec 1927
Parents:
Son of ? & Nancy (Roberts) Burkhart
Birthplace: MO
Marital Status: Widower
Spouse: Jones, Mary E.
Send bill to: Workman, John
Occupation: Farmer
Mortuary book & page: Chaffin 23-28 p268
Cemetery: Garrison
Cause of death: Cancer
Place of death: Home, near Garrison
Physician: Farthing, Dr.
Minister: Applegate, Rev.
Her tombstone in the Old Boston Cemetery shows that she had died more than a
year before this patent was issued., yet the patent is in her name alone.
(ROBERTS) NANCY J.
BURKHART 1833 - 13 Feb 1897 Old Boston
Dau of
? Mar Burkhart, M gw
Age 64 years old. As a wife, devoted; As a mother,
affectionate; As a friend, ever kind and true" - Tombstone does show her three years
younger than 1870 and 1880 censuses do.
Family records call Ann (Roberts) Burkhart 15 Mar 1815 - 9 Aug 1902, daughter
of Jacob and Elizabeth (Groves) Roberts and wife of Harvey “Henry” Burkhart 15 Jun
1823 - 5 Jan 1907, Nancy Ann. Nan, Nancy and Ann were often were used
interchangeably. However, if this Harvey’s wife Ann actually was Nancy Ann (Roberts)
Burkhart, Jacob and Elizabeth (Groves) Roberts probably could not also be parents of
Nancy (Roberts) Burkhart who was a neighbor of Harvey and Ann (Roberts) Burkhart,
was nearly a generation younger than Ann, and still remains the wife of an unknown
man. None of Jacob and Elizabeth’s sons were old enough to father a daughter in 1833,
so she could not be a granddaughter of Jacob and Elizabeth.

Several on-line sources confuse Oliver B. Burkhart born in 1861 to Nancy
(Roberts) Burkhart born in 1833 with a son of Harvey and Annie (Roberts) Burkhart of
same name and age. Harvey and Annie are always listed together in one household as
husband and wife, without any son named Oliver or Oliver B. Nancy and Oliver are
always listed together in a different household as mother and son. So, calling Oliver B. a
son of the older neighbor couple, Harvey and Annie (Roberts) Burkhart clearly is
contrary to original records.
A thorough check of 1850 and 1860 censuses failed to show anyone anywhere
who could be this Nancy Roberts.
COOK, CAROLINE
COOK, CAROLINE SESW 25N 19W Sec 27
MO3240__.371

1866 Oct 10

39207.5

JAMES A. COOK 8 Aug 1856 - 25 Jan 1919 Prospect m Farmer, Lucinda Caroline
(FARMER) LUCINDA CAROLINE COOK 30 Aug 1855 - 7 Jan 1943
Prospect
Dau of Farmer, William & Margaret (Preston)
mar Cook, James A.
gw
Who was Caroline Cook? I don’t know.
James A. Cook married Lucinda Caroline Farmer. But, in 1866, James and
Caroline were children, and she was a Farmer. This is not that Caroline Cook. No other
Caroline Cook has been found with a legible tombstone in Christian County. There is no
other Christian County marriage record which produced a lady with this name.
Caroline Skaggs, daughter of Thomas and Martha “Patsy” (Cook) Skaggs,
married Alfred Hammond in 1865. But, it was her mother who was the Cook and by
1866, she was a Hammond.
Ten years after this Land Patent was issued this land was listed in the Land Tax
records as being owned by F. M. Stephen. A Francis M. Stevens, likely the same person,
claimed adjoining property in 1901.
Going back to who else had property in the area before 1866, one name seems a
clue:
COOK, JAMES
W½ SW
25N 19W Sec 27
1848 Nov 01 8855
MO5320__.339
COOK, JAMES
NWSW
25N 19W Sec 22
1854 Sep 15 14225
MO5430__.178
COOK, JAMES
NESE
25N 19W Sec 21
1859 Jun 01 25159
MO5630__.160
Is there a connection with THIS James Cook? The two main candidates for this
man are James Cook 1772 - 1864 who is buried in White Cemetery and his son, James
Cook 1805 - 1888. I find no daughters or daughter-in-laws or either man named Caroline.

COOK, LURANA E. SENW 25N 21W Sec 25
1893 May 16 9172
MO5990__.147
FRIEND, LURANA E.
SENW 25N 21W Sec 25
1893 May 16 9172
MO5990__.147
COOK, LURANA E. SENE 25N 21W Sec 35
1893 May 16 9172
MO5990__.147
COOK, LURANA E. W½ NE
25N 21W Sec 35
1893 May 16 9172
MO5990__.147
FRIEND, LURANA E.
SENE 25N 21W Sec 35
1893 May 16 9172
MO5990__.147
FRIEND, LURANA E.
W½ NE
25N 21W Sec 35
1893 May 16 9172
MO5990__.147
DEWITT, REBECCA (WILKERSON)
DEWITT, REBECCA E½ NW
MO6310__.004
DEWITT, REBECCA N½ SW
MO6310__.004

25N 20W Sec 20

1907 May 01 15707

25N 20W Sec 20

1907 May 01 15707

Who was this Rebecca DeWitt? There’s a candidate buried in Christian County.
REBECCA MORRIS (MCGUIRE) DEWITT 6 Mar 1862 - 19 Jan 1931 Rose Hill Dau of
McGuire, Josiah & Elizabeth (Ball) married Dewitt, Charles Anthony
This lady is buried in Rose Hill in Billings. The land is totally surrounded by
national forest. It off H Highway, then down Tabor Hollow to DeWitt Cave. The nearest
settlement is Pine Ridge. In short, these are nearly as far apart as you can be within
Christian County, easily 45 miles by road. While it is certainly possible that a family
could move from one place to the other, it seems far more like that the lady who is living
in that township.
1900 MO Christian Linn 078
Rebea DEWITT W F Head May 1845
55
Jack DEWITT W M Son Mar 1873
27
Rebecca
DEWITT W F Dau Sep 1881
Georgia
DEWITT W F Dau Mar 1884
School
May DEWITT W F Dau Oct 1887
12

W 11-10
MO TN VA Farmer
S
MO MO MO Farmer
18
S
MO MO MO
16
S
MO MO MO At
S

MO MO MO At School

Since the county line is as rarely considered in burial as it is in postal delivery
district or school attendance, I checked the cemetery near this land.
Sure enough, Rebecca DeWitt 1845 - 1908 is buried in Meadows Cemetery near
this land, but actually in Taney County. She married about 1864, as his second wife, John
Perry DeWitt 1832 -1898. According to a summary of this family in the White River

Valley Historical Quarterly , Rebecca Morris (McQuire) DeWitt and Rebecca
(Wilkerson) DeWitt would have been married to half-brothers, though they were many
years apart in age. John Perry DeWitt was the firstborn of the George Washington
DeWitt’s wife. Charles Anthony was from George’s second marriage.
DRAPER, MARY C.
DRAPER, MARY C. S½ 1SW
MO6010__.369
DRAPER, MARY C. N½ 1NW
MO6010__.369
DRAPER, MARY C. N½ NE
MO6010__.369

25N 21W Sec 07

1896 Apr 03 10418

25N 21W Sec 18

1896 Apr 03 10418

25N 21W Sec 18

1896 Apr 03 10418

FISH, LUCINDA S.
FISH, LUCINDA S. NESW 28N 22W Sec 35
MO5380__.033

1852 Nov 01 11501

FRAZER, VICTORIA (DEAL)
FRAZER, SAMUEL T.
MO6140__.462
FRAZER, VICTORIA
MO6140__.462
FRAZER, SAMUEL T.
MO6140__.462
FRAZER, VICTORIA
MO6140__.462

W½ SE

25N 20W Sec 23

1902 Dec 30 13465

W½ SE

25N 20W Sec 23

1902 Dec 30 13465

N½ NE

25N 20W Sec 26

1902 Dec 30 13465

N½ NE

25N 20W Sec 26

1902 Dec 30 13465

1900 MO Christian Linn 059
Samuel F. FRAZIER W M Head
Nov 1844
Victory
FRAZIER W F Wife Apr 1847
Clystie FRAZIER W F Dau Dec 1882
17
Norman
FRAZIER W M Son Aug 1888
Labor
Barbary
FRAZIER W F Dau Apr 1891

55
53
S
11

M 32 WV VA VA Farmer
M 32 13-9 WV WV WV
WV WV WV At School
S
NB WV WV Farm

9

S

NB WV WV

S. T. Frazier is buried in Swan/Baker Cemetery in Taney County, Missouri, with no dates
or other information on the stone. He dies a year before the patent was issued. I found no
stone for Victoria Frazer who died in 1904.
According to a World Connect file by Don Miller, Samuel Thomas “Blackeyed Sam”
Frazier 19 Nov 1844 - 21 Sep 1901 married 31 Mar 1868 Victoria Deal. The family
apparently moved to Nebraska before 1888.

Although the family would have had to live on the land to complete the patent, they do
not appear on the Personal Property Tax list for 1879 - 1900 in Christian County.
Date: 19 Jul 2004
Name: Samuel Thomas FRAZIER
NICK: Blackeyed Sam
Sex: M
Birth: 19 Nov 1844 in Fraziers Bottom, Putnam, West Virginia
Death: 21 Sep 1901 in Sto, Christian, Missouri
Marriage 1 Victoria DEAL b: 23 Apr 1847 in Fraziers Bottom, Putnam, West Virginia
Married: 31 Mar 1868 in Fraziers Bottom, Putnam, West Virginia
Death: 19 Jun 1904
Children
Gertrude “Gertie” FRAZIER
b: 7 Nov 1868 in Fraziers Bottom, Putnam, WV: 3 Mar 1949 Napa County, CA
Robert FRAZIER
b: 14 Mar 1873 in Fraziers Bottom, Putnam, WV: 14 Sep 1942 Hominy, Osage County,
OK
Fountain FRAZIER
b: 14 Feb 1875 in Fraziers Bottom, Putnam, WV d: 17 Oct 1964 Oroville, Okanagon
County, WA
Samuel Ambrose FRAZIER
b: 17 Mar 1877 in Fraziers Bottom, Putnam, WV d: 30 Jun 1911 Fort Benton, Chouteau
County, MT
Silas FRAZIER
b: 31 Jan 1879 in Fraziers Bottom, Putnam, WV; d: 13 Jan 1964 Springfield, Greene
County, MO
Bernard FRAZIER
b: 28 Feb 1881 in Fraziers Bottom, Putnam, WV; d: 4 Sep 1950 Callaway, Custer
County, NE
Clista FRAZIER
b: 20 Dec 1883 in Fraziers Bottom, Putnam, WV; d: 4 May 1908 Neck City, Jasper
County, MO
Norman FRAZIER
b: 14 Aug 1888 in Callaway, Custer, NE; d: 29 Dec 1962 Everett, Snohomish County,
WA
Barbara Victoria FRAZIER
b: 16 Apr 1891 Callaway, Custer, NE; d: 12 Dec 1971 Larned, Pawnee County, KS
County, KS
GREEN, AMANDA MELVINA (EDENS) AND MATHEWS, RACHEL E.
(CLAYTON)

GREEN, CHARLES 2NE 26N 19W Sec 05
1889 Apr 23 5694
MO5920__.159
GREEN, CHARLES E½ 2NW 26N 19W Sec 05 1889 Apr 23 5694
MO5920__.159
GREEN, MANDY M.
2NE 26N 19W Sec 05
1889 Apr 23 5694
MO5920__.159
GREEN, MANDY M.
E½ 2NW 26N 19W Sec 05 1889 Apr 23 5694
MO5920__.159
MATHEWS, JOHN A.
N½ SW
26N 19W Sec 28
1891 Feb 20 6787
MO5940__.169
MATHEWS, JOHN A.
W½ NW 26N 19W Sec 28 1891 Feb 20
6787
MO5940__.169
MATHEWS, RACHEL E. N½ SW
26N 19W Sec 28
1891 Feb 20 6787
MO5940__.169
MATHEWS, RACHEL E. W½ NW 26N 19W Sec 28 1891 Feb 20
6787
MO5940__.169
These couples lived a couple of miles apart. The land patents were issued nearly
two years apart. They weren’t kin. So why discuss them together? Students of Christian
County history will readily see why.
These two records are two sides of a single story. One woman lost a husband and
a brother. The other lost a husband, nearly lost a nephew and had a son jailed and a
brother-in-law sent to prison.
Rachel Elizabeth Clayton was born 20 Feb. 1850, probably in Webster County,
Missouri to John and Sarah (Collins) Clayton . On 13 Jul 1867 in Christian County,
Rachel married John Andrew Mathews, Jr., youngest son of John Andrew and Sarah
(Weatherman) Mathews who had come to Taney County from Illinois and later spent
time in Arkansas.
In March 1887 Rachel was expecting the couple’s ninth (some say the tenth) and
youngest child. John was an active member of the Baptist Church, and many records refer
to him as Deacon John A. Mathews. After his death, Rachel moved her family a few
miles north to near the corner of Webster, Douglas and Christian Counties. She never
remarried and raised her large family alone except for the help of the older children and
other relatives. She died 12 Aug 1933 and is buried in McHaffie Cemetery.
Amanda Melvina Edens was the daughter of James and Elizabeth Edens. One
account says she was born in Wisconsin and a book on the Baldknobbers says she was
born in Kentucky about 1870 or 1871. All efforts for locate the family on the 1880
census have been unsuccessful. So have efforts to locate her in 1900. We can only guess
her age and birthplace from other evidence. If her reported age in 1887 is correct,
Melvina could have been no more then 13, perhaps as young as 12, when she married
Charles Green, son of George W. Green. About 1883, the young couple and both sets of
parents settled near Oldfield in Christian County, Missouri.
Melvina had a brother, William Edens. On 25 Mar 1885, William married Emma
Bridges. Born about 1869, Emma’s parentage is uncertain, but she appears most likely to
be a daughter of Joshua and Nancy G. (Reed) Bridges, even though she also appears to be
listed in her grandparents‘ household on a census and listed as a Reed.

Melvina had a three-year old child and was herself 16 when she gave birth to her
second child in January 1887. As she was very ill, Melvina and her family were staying
with her parents on the night of Thursday, Mar 10, 1887 - the four of them sleeping in a
bed in one corner of the one-room cabin. Her parents normally slept in a second bed in
another corner of the room but her father, James, had stayed awake to give her her
medicine and was the only person in the room awake when the Baldkobbers arrived.
The Edens' son, William Edens and his 17-year old pregnant wife, Emma (Bridges)
Edens were sleeping on a pallet in the floor between the beds. The Baldknobber visit made first to the empty adjacent home of William & Emma (Bridges) Edens - was in
response to a derogatory remark William Edens who,
with the Green father and son were all members of the opposing "Slicker" group, had
made about the Baldknobbers. Several of the Baldknobbers were armed. Both William
Edens and Charles Greene slept with their loaded guns beside them, and James Eden's
loaded gun lay beside his sleeping wife. When it was all over - a matter of a very few
minutes, both young husbands in the cabin were dead; James Eden was badly injured,
Melvina (Edens) Green had had the tip of one finger shot off; at least two Baldknobbers
had suffered less life-threatening gunshot wounds; and George Green was already in the
Edens cabin with his dead son and the other injured and dying.
Many Baldknobbers were arrested. Several were sent to prison. Four - Christian
County Baldknobbers leader, David “Bull Creek Dave” Walker, Dave’s son, William
“Billie” Walker, John Andrew Mathews and John’s nephew, Wiley Mathews - were
sentenced to hang. Wiley escaped and was not recaptured. On May 10, 1889, the other
three men were executed on the Ozark square.
Amanda Melvina (Edens) Greene married second 31 Aug 1889 G. M. Sawyers.
Emma (Bridges) Edens married James G. Scott twice 19 Sep 1889 and 13 Aug 1892.
William and Emma (Bridges) Edens’ son, William “Willie” Edens, born June 1887, is
listed three times on the 1900 census, with his mother and
twice in the Marion and Nancy Jones family. His name is spelled Eaton in all three
places. Melvina (Edens).
Other land patents in this story, though most did not involve women would
include:
SIMMONS, CHARLES O. N½ NE
26N 19W Sec 33
1891 Nov 23 6141
MO5950__.231
SIMMONS, CHARLES O. NWNW
26N 19W Sec 34
1891 Nov 23 6141
MO5950__.231
Rev. Charles O. Simmons was the Baptist Minister who led his congregation in
some of the raids on saloons, gambling dens and similar establishments. He had just
preached the funerals for William Edens and Charles Green when he was arrested for
attending the final meeting of the Christian County Bald Knobbers and possibly having
been present in the cabin that night. He admitted being in the cabin, but said he was
unarmed. He was sent to prison on the charge.
PRICE, PETER H. S½ NW
26N 22W Sec 26
1891 Nov 23 7433
MO5950__.354
Rev. Simmon’s brother-in-law, as indicated in the following story of his marriage.

"W. L Franklin" wrote: While doing some research on something else, I ran across this
article in the "Springfield Express" for Friday January 20, 1888. I thought some of you
would be interested.
A Bald-Knob Marriage
Ozark, Mo. January 16- A most novel wedding occurred at the Bald-Knobber camp,
near the jail, in Ozark, this morning. The contracting parties were Pete Davis, one of the
Bald-Knobbers, indicted for the murder of Edens and Green, now out on bail, and Miss
Elizabeth Simmons, sister of the famous regulator, Parson C.O.Simmons. That nothing
should be wanting to make this the most unique hymeneal affair that ever occurred in
Christian County, Parson Simmons was taken out of the jail to solemnize the ceremony.
In the presence of the sheriff, Mrs. C.O. Simmons, wife of the officiating minister, the
bride's aged mother, and a number of eager witnesses, the Knobber preacher, tied the
first matrimonial knot he had the pleasure of manipulating since his clerical work was
suspended last spring by his arrest, which followed the Edens-Green massacre.
Since last August, when the Bald Knobbers were brought from Springfield and
confined in the new Ozark Jail, the bride, in company with her mother, has been
occupying an old storehouse near the jail, ministering to the wants of the prisoners. It
was while confined in jail here last summer that Peter became infatuated with Elizabeth,
and when prison bars no longer separated him from the object of his devotion, he
tendered the buxom lass his hand and fortune. The wedded pair took the train
immediately for Chadwick, the home of the groom's parents.
MATHEWS, JAMES A.
NENW26N 19W Sec 29
1901 Mar 03 12774
MO6100__.022
James A. Mathews, the oldest son of John Andrew and Rachel E. (Clayton)
Mathews, was the youngest person arrested in the Green-Edens case. The press gave him
the nickname “The Baby Baldknobber”.
MATHEWS, LEFFORD F. W½ NW 25N 19W Sec 05 1889 Jul 01
5431
MO5920__.222
MATHEWS, LEFFORD F. NENE 25N 19W Sec 06
1889 Jul 01
5431
MO5920__.222
The older brother of John Andrew Mathews, Lefford was the father of Wiley
Mathews, the other Bald Knobber who was convicted and condemned but who escaped
custody and the sentence was never carried out.
ANDERSON, HIRAM
SESE 25N 20W Sec 28
1892 Apr 09 33213
MO5790__.108
The Grand Jury handed down two indictments for Hiram Anderson , for the 21
Aug 1886 beating accused pologamist Greene Walker of Linden and for the 9 Nov 1886
raid on the tavern of John Rhodes & Russell McCauley
GANN, JAMES M. SESW 26N 20W Sec 04
MO5860__.361

1876 Aug 23 2956

The Grand Jury handed down one indictment for James Gann , for the 21 Aug
1886 beating accused pologamist Greene Walker of Linden.
HYDE, JOSEPH J. N½ SE 27N 18W Sec 05
1894 Nov 30 9682
MO6000__.126
HYDE, JOSEPH J. NESW 27N 18W Sec 05
1894 Nov 30 9682
MO6000__.126
HYDE, JOSEPH J. SWSE 27N 18W Sec 05
1894 Nov 30 9682
MO6000__.126
Joseph Hyde was indicted by grand jury for the William Edens & Charles Green
murders.
NASH, JOHN W.
S½ NE 26N 19W Sec 32
1891 Nov 23 7377
MO5950__.305
NASH, JOHN W.
SENW 26N 19W Sec 32
1891 Nov 23 7377
MO5950__.305
John Nash was indicted by grand jury for 9 Nov 1886 raid on tavern of John
Rhodes & Russell McCauley
WALKER, DAVID E½ NE 26N 20W Sec 11
1871 Dec 30 410
MO5810__.399
WALKER, DAVID W½ NW 26N 20W Sec 12 1871 Dec 30
410
MO5810__.399
“Bull Creek Dave” (to distinguish him from all the other Dave Walkers) Walker
and his son William “Billy” Walker were the other two men executed on 10 May 1889.
Bull Creek Dave Walker’s father-in-law, Abraham Shipman was married to John Andrew
Mathews’ older sister, Phoebe. Some say she once lived in Barry County and had married
first a man named Nance. All I have been able to prove was that her married name was
definitely Sloan at the time she married Abraham Shipman. Abraham and Phoebe were
the only couple I know about who were closely related to all four condemned men.
STANDLEY, HANNAH
W½ 2NE
27N 19W Sec 04
1896 Jul 27 10438
MO6010__.504
This is probably Hannah (Clayton) Stanley, wife of William H. Standley and
sister of Rachel Elizabeth (Clayton) Mathews.
William Stanley was indicted by the grand jury for murder of William Edens &
Charles Green. He agreed that he was in the cabin but said he was unarmed. He was
sentenced to several years in prison.
Many, many more names were associated with the Baldknobber and AntiBaldknobber groups which existed from 1883 to 1887. Unlike the popularly assumed
notion, these were not groups that existed during or shortly after the Civil War.
Generally, Baldknobbers were vigilantees protesting the lawlessness, unpunished
murders and general upheaval of the late 1860’s through the early 1880’s and deciding to
protect the citizens and punish evil-doers as the law had been unable or unwilling to do.
Generally, the Anti-Baldknobbers were protesting the idea of individuals taking the law

into their own hands. On both sides, there were those who came to enjoy and abuse the
power of enforcing their ideas on others and there were situations which got far out of
control.
GOBLE, MARY G.
GOBLE, MARY G. SWSE 26N 21W Sec 24
MO6010__.433
HALL, ELIZABETH T.
MO5230__.462

W½ NW

1896 May 22 10496

27N 22W Sec 20

1845 Jun 01

6085

S½ 2SW

26N 20W Sec 19

1904 Oct 27

14523

S½ 2SW

26N 20W Sec 19

1904 Oct 27

14523

N½ 2NW

26N 20W Sec 30

1904 Oct 27

14523

N½ 2NW

26N 20W Sec 30

1904 Oct 27

14523

HANCOCK, LILLIE F. (JOHNSON)
HANCOCK, JOHN C.
MO6250__.123
HANCOCK, LILLIE F.
MO6250__.123
HANCOCK, JOHN C.
MO6250__.123
HANCOCK, LILLIE F.
MO6250__.123

For some lady homesteaders, anyone familiar with Christian County history
need not guess why both names are on the land patent. This is another of those cases.
James Carroll Hancock was born in June 1866 to Martin and Margaret (Jackson)
Hancock.
The same month, James N. McCoy was born. I believe, but have not been able to
prove, that this James McCoy was the son of William and Missouri (Applegate) McCoy.
It was a common name. Early censuses of William and Missouri’s son give birth dates a
couple of years off from his 1900 census.
In 1886, James N. McCoy married James Carroll Hancock’s sister who was just a
year older.
Eight years later, James married Lillie Johnson.
The stories don’t say exactly when or how these two brothers-in-law came to
dislike each other so much.
J. C. Hancock - Lillie F. Johnson
21 Nov 1894 05/282 Melton G B m g
Amanda J. Hancock - James N. McCoy 23 Dec 1886
04/052 Some j p
JOHN CARROLL HANCOCK 4 Jun 1866 - 11 Aug 1903 Prospect Son of Hancock,
Martin & Margaret (Jackson) mar Johnson, Lillie F. M gw m 21 Nov 1894; murdered
by , James N. McCoy h/o his sis, Amanda J. (Hancock) McCoy
1900

MO Christian Linn 066

John
Lillie
Carrie
Nora
Ethel

HANCOCK
HANCOCK
HANCOCK
HANCOCK
HANCOCK

W M Head
W F Wife
W F Dau
W F Dau
W F Dau

Jun 1866
Nov 1876
Jun 1895
Aug 1896
April 1900

33
23
5
3
7 mo

1900 MO Christian Finley/1 053
James MCCOY
W M Head
Jun 1866
33
Manda MCCOY
W F Wife
Jun 1865
35
Leota MCCOY
W F Dau
Feb 1888
12
School
Della MCCOY
W F Dau
Oct 1896
3
Claud MCCOY
W M Son
Oct 1889
10
School
Charley
MCCOY
W M Son
Oct 1891
At School
Ros MCCOY
W M Son
Oct 1894
5
Walter MCCOY
W M Son
Oct 1893
6

M 5 MO TN TN Farmer
M 5 3-3
TN TN TN
S
MO MO TN
S
MO MO TN
S
MO MO TN
M 13 MO TN TN Farmer
M 13 7-7
MO TN TN
S MO MO MO
At
S MO MO MO
S MO MO MO
8

At

S MO MO MO

S MO MO MO
S MO MO MO

John Carroll Hancock 13 - He married Lillie F. Johnson 21 Nov 1894 CCM In
1900, he is in Linn Twp Household 66 with wife and three daughters - Carrie born June
1895; Nora born Aug 1896; and Ethel born Apr 1900. Nora married Everett U. Holley 27
Nov 1916CCM; Ethel married John Holly 20 Dec 1916 CCM.

HEAGERTY FAMILY
HEAGERTY, CHRISTIAN
MO5410__.098
HEAGERTY, JAMES
MO5410__.098
HEAGERTY, MARY SESE
MO5410__.098
HEAGERTY, RICHARD
MO5410__.098
HEAGERTY, WILLIAM
MO5410__.098
REESE, CATHERINE
MO5410__.098

SESE 27N 24W Sec 28

1853 Dec 01 13067

SESE 27N 24W Sec 28

1853 Dec 01 13067

27N 24W Sec 28

1853 Dec 01 13067

SESE 27N 24W Sec 28

1853 Dec 01 13067

SESE 27N 24W Sec 28

1853 Dec 01 13067

SESE 27N 24W Sec 28

1853 Dec 01 13067

This is clearly an estate. On 4 March 1850, on page 125 of Greene County
Guardian Bond Book 1833 - 1864, Neal McNeal was named principal and John McCall,
Thomas Jones and W. J. Hood securities for $3,000 for William Heagerty, Catherine
Heagerty, James Heagerty, Mary Hearerty and Christian Heagerty, minor heirs of John

Heagerty, deceased. On page 26 of Greene County, Missouri Probate Court Minute Book
B, in the March 1850 term, Joseph Rinker is appointed guardian for the estate of Richard
Heggerty, minor heir of John Heagerty, deceased and Neal McNeal was appointed
guardian for William Heagerty, Catherine Heagerty, James Heagerty, Mary Hearerty and
Christian Heagerty, minor heirs of John Heagerty, deceased. Also the court ordered the
hiring out of Negro boy Isaac and Negro girl Hannah. According to a footnote in the
transcription of these records by Marsha Hoffman Rising, Catherine Heagerty, widow of
John Heagerty, married Elijah Reese before 1854 and moved to Lawrence County,
Missouri. She cites Greene County, Missouri Deed Book G page 11.
1850 MO Greene County Polk Twp Household 754-754
Hagerty, William 60 m IN
, Mary 50 f IN
1850 MO Greene County Polk Twp Household 755-755
Hagerty, William 20 m NC
, Catherine 18 f NC
, James 17 m NC
, Richard 14 m NC
, Mary 12 f MO
, Christian 11 m MO
HORN, RACHEL ADELINE or CHAPMAN, RACHEL ADELINE (HORN)??
HORN, RACHEL A. SWSE 28N 21W Sec 33
1845 May 01 6238
MO5240__.094
Who was Rachel A. Horn? Rachel A. Horn certainly in what would one day be
Christian County about this time. In fact, several people with this name lived there over
the years. But who was the Rachel A. Horn who patented this land?
Rachel Adeline Horn 1 January 1827 - 24 October 1870 was the oldest child of
Thomas and Elizabeth (Knox) Horn to live to adulthood. In addition to some who died
young, she had two younger sisters, Drucilla Ann (Horn) Chapman 2 October 1828 - 30
October 1913; Elizabeth Caroline (Horn) Cox 6 October 1830 - 7 April 1918; and a
younger brother James Rud Horn 22 November 1834 - 1 January 1865.
Rachel Adeline Horn married Matthew Chapman 15 August 1844. Rachel and Drucilla
married brothers. Elizabeth Carolina married a widower with children. Rachel’s widower
married James Rud’s widow, Mary Ann (Wilks) Horn. This can be a confusing family to
research. So, of course, can many families.
However, as a candidate for someone who would have patented land in 1845,
Rachel Adeline (Horn) Chapman had real problems. She had just turned 18 when the
patent was finalized, certainly not time for her to have normally satisfied the
requirements. She also had been married for a year, and her last name at the time was
Chapman.
In 1875, this land patented by Rachel A. Horn is owned by N. A. H. Murphy, a
son-in-law of Elizabeth Caroline (Horn) Cox. Immediately next door in the SE ¼ of SE ¼

as well as part of the NE ¼ of the SE ¼ is M. Chapmen, most likely Rachel’s widower,
Matthew Chapman.
Going back to the land patents, in 1844 and 1845, Thomas Horn patented six
parcels near this land, William Horn patented two parcels and Caleb, Joshua and James
Horn each patented one parcel. Who were Caleb, William, James and Joshua Horn?.
Rachel’s brother, James Rud Horn, was only 9 when the patent for James Horn was
recorded. Thomas Horn’s father, James Horn 12 January 1771 - 22 February 1860 was
living there at the time as were two young men named James Horn, one of them from
Illinois. In Finley Township of Greene County, Missouri on the 1850 census - three heads
of household in four consecutive residences were named James Horn. William R. Horn,
age 40 was there - with a 5-year old daughter, Rachel A. Horn. Caleb Horn, age 34 was
there. Caleb’s daughter Rachel A. Horn was age 8. Joshua Horn, age 36, also was in
Finley Township although, (gasp!) he had no Rachel A. Horn among his eight children.
Archibald Horn, age 65, was listed among the three household headed by men named
James Horn.
According to an on-line file by Alan Whitney Thrailkill, Jr, James Horn and his
brother Joshua Horn married sisters Ann and Susanna Couch in Orange Co., North
Carolina. They were in Tennessee by 1820, possibly earlier. James and Ann Couch Horn
left Giles Co., Tennessee in 1837 and moved to what is now Christian Co., Missouri,
taking with them their children Rachel, William R., and Caleb. Their oldest son Thomas
was in Greene County, Missouri by 1832-1835 and served as sheriff. Their son James
stayed in Tennessee, either in Giles or Shelby County. James Horn served in the War of
1812. Joshua and Susanna Couch Horn stayed in Shelby Co., Tennessee.
If this is all correct, I wonder who were the parents of the two young men named
James Horn living by the 86-year old James Horn in 1850.
Although I can find neither a legible tombstone nor a marriage for her and do not
know when she died, it appears that this patent was proven by a single lady, Rachel
Adeline Horn born in 1807 to James and Ann (Couch) Horn. I had the right family, the
wrong generation.
Incidentally, another daughter of James and Ann (Couch) Horn was in Christian
County, too. Margarette (Horn) Keltner’s husband, Absolem Keltner was not patenting
land beside the other Horns. George Keltner, George M. Keltner, and James A. Keltner
were right beside them.
KELTNER, GEORGE M.
MO5240__.168
KELTNER, GEORGE M.
MO5240__.201
KELTNER, GEORGE M.
MO5340__.411
KELTNER, GEORGE
MO5450__.456
KELTNER, GEORGE
MO5450__.456
KELTNER, JAMES A.
MO5490__.396

E1/2 2NE

27N 22W Sec 02

1844 May 01 6317

W1/2 2NE

27N 22W Sec 02

1845 May 01 6352

NWSW

28N 22W Sec 35

1850 Dec 10 9941

NWNE27N 21W Sec 07

1856 Mar 10 15396

W½ SE

27N 21W Sec 07

1856 Mar 10 15396

W½ 1NE

27N 21W Sec 05

1857 May 15 18814

KELTNER, JAMES A.
MO5490__.396
KELTNER, JAMES A.
MO5620__.318
KELTNER, JAMES A.
MO5620__.318

W½ 2NE

27N 21W Sec 05

1857 May 15 18814

E½ 1NW

27N 21W Sec 05

1859 Jun 01

24696

E½ 2NW

27N 21W Sec 05

1859 Jun 01

24696

JACKSON, MARTHA (CARTER)
CARTER, MARTHA
NW 25N 21W Sec 28
MO6030__.369
JACKSON, MARTHA J.
NW 25N 21W Sec 28
MO6030__.369

1898 May 10 10989
1898 May 10 10989

Everything indicates that Martha (Carter) Jackson was simply one of those young
ladies, somewhat rare in Christian County, who homesteaded land on her own while she
was single, but who married before the process was finalized. The closest that anything
come to unusual or remarkable here is the slight discrepancy in age between censuses,
mortuary record and tombstone.
1880 MO Christian Lynn Twp Household 155
Carter, C. T. w m 31 mar Farmer TN
, Lucy A.
w f 26 wife mar Keeping House TX
, Martha J.
w f 11 dau single Helper MO
, William M. w m 8 son MO
, Mary E.
w f 6 dau MO
Martha Carter - Isaac Jackson 9 Mar 1893
1900 MO Christian Galloway 283
Isaac JACKSON
W M Head
Martha JACKSON W F Wife
Claud JACKSON
W M Son
Pearl JACKSON W F Dau
EugeneJACKSON
W M Son

05/143 Cook Jas A m g

Jan 1870
Mar 1870
May 1894
Jul 1896
Apr 1898

30
30
6
2

M 7 MO MO KY Farmer
M 7 3-3
MO MO MO
S
3
S
S

(CARTER) MARTHA J. JACKSON 20 Mar 1867 - 19 Dec 1937 Spokane Dau of
Carter, Charles & Lucy (Stewart) mar 9 Mar 1893 CCM Jackson, Isaac G. M gw wf
C35-41 p 139
Name: (CARTER) MARTHA J. JACKSON
Lifespan: 20 Mar 1867 - 19 Dec 1937
Parents:
Dau of Charles & Lucy (Stewart) Carter
Birthplace of parents: TN, TX
Spouse:
Jackson, Isaac G.
Person ordering funeral: Jackson, Isac
Person to bill for funeral: Jackson, Isac

Occupation: Housekeeper
Religion: Baptist
Book & page of mortuary record: Chaffin 35-41 p139
Cemetery: Spokane
Cause of death: Complications
Place of death: Home, Logan Ridge, MO
Physician: Farthing, R. R., Dr.
Minister: Caughron, Worth, Rev.
LEE, SARAH H.
LEE, SARAH H.
NESW 27N 18W Sec 09
MO6000__.367
LEE, SARAH H.
NWSE 27N 18W Sec 09
MO6000__.367

1895 Mar 13 9926
1895 Mar 13 9926

This 80 acres owned on 1912 platbook by C. F. Reekes.
Nothing REALLY fits on identifying this Sarah H. Lee. The best candidate I see
in Christian County records, from an age standpoint is:
1900 MO Christian Galloway 228
William S. LEE W M Head Jan 1852 48 M 17 TN TN TN
Sarah LEE W F Wife Mar 1855 45 M 17 4-3 MO TN TN
Annie LEE W F Dau Dec 1884 15 S MO TN MO At School
Roy LEE W M Son Aug 1886 13 S MO TN MO At School
Phoebe LEE W F Dau May 1892 8 S MO TN MO At School
(MCGINNIS) SARAH LEE 28 Dec 1854 - 29 Sep 1915 Ponce de Leon Dau of
McGinnis, James & Sarah (Dalton) mar Lee, William S.
There are several reasons to suspect this is not a viable candidate. First, in 1895,
Sarah and William had been married 12 years, That would mean the initial settlement on
this claim likely would have been after their marriage, making the claim likely to be in
William’s name, not Sarah’s. Second, I find nothing giving a middle initial H. for this
Sarah. Third, William was living when the claim was completed, again making it very
likely the patent would have been issued to William, not Sarah. Finally, although the
1900 census shows this family in Galloway Township and their and her parents’ burial in
Ponce de Leon right on the Stone County line, this land was about twenty miles northeast
of there, almost on the Douglas County line.
LOBLEY, MARGARET
LOBLEY, MARGARET
MO6070__.289

W½ NE

26N 21W Sec 33

1900 Feb 20

11954

LOBLEY, WILLIAM W½ NE
MO6070__.289

26N 21W Sec 33

1900 Feb 20

11954

This land is owned on 1912 plat map by G. G. Haworth.
I don’t find any Margaret or William Lobley on personal property tax records
1879-1900, as I would have expected to had they been living on the land here. A J. A.
Lobley is listed a couple of years:
Lobbley, J. A. Finley #1678 1891 $125 1.08
Lobley, J. A. Finley #1482 1890 $125 1.01
No Lobley is listed on Christian County census records. The closest candidate,
though she would be a bit old to be patenting land was this lady in the Kansas City area
on the 1900 census:
1900 MO Jackson County. Fort Osage Twp
Cole, Andrew M. w m May 1857 43 mar 19 yrs railroad worker KY KY VA
, Ada w f wife Mar 1862 38 mar 19 yrs. 10-4 Eng Eng Scotland Immigrated 1870. In this
country 30 yrs
, Dora E. May 1880 14 MO KY Eng
, Cora E. Aug 1891 9 MO KY Eng
, Maggie J. Mar 1892 8 MO KY Eng
, Jesse L. Feb 1895 5 MO KY Eng
Lobley, Margaret mother-in-law ary (?) 1827 73 widow Scotland Scotland Scotland
Immigrated 1870. In this country 30 years.
The only Christian County marriage record with this surname is:
M. J.(f)Lobley - Joseph Dennis
24 Jun 1891 05/027 Smallin J W m g
This is probably this family in Van Buren Township of Newton County, Missouri on
1880 census
William LOBLEY Self M Male W 48 ENG Farmer ENG ENG
Margrett LOBLEY Wife M Female W 52 SCOT Keeping House SCOT
SCOT
Ada LOBLEY Dau S Female W 15 ENG At Home ENG SCOT
James LOBLEY Son S Male W 12 ENG
ENG SCOT
This nearby household in Newton County, Missouri in 1880 may be that of a son:
Joseph LOBLEY Self M Male W 23 ENG Farmer ENG SCOT
Mary LOBLEY Wife M Female W 19 TN Keeping House --- --I am a descendant of James Lobley who married Dorthea Booth in Yorkshire England,
They had a daughter Mary Elizabeth born 1863 in Eccup, England. They had a son

named John W. also born in England. By 1880 they had moved to the City of Blue
Rapids in Marshall county, Kansas where they appear on the 1880 Census. Any
information on this line would be appreciated.
I am looking for information on the Lobleys who moved to the city of Blue Rapids in
Marshall county Kansas between 1865-1880 from England. They appeared on the 1880
census for Marshall county as follows: James Lobley age 49 worked in woolen mill, wife
Dorthea age 51 worked in home, daughter Mary E. age 17 worked in woolen mill, and
son John W. age 15 in school. Any information will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Ilene Wight
Thank you
Ilene Wight
Re: James Lobley England/Kansas
Posted by: Phil Lobley Date: February 24, 2002 at 12:16:55
In Reply to: James Lobley England/Kansas by Ilene Wight of 55
Ilene
I can't be sure of the following suggested family information, but it might fit in with other
facts that you may have. Please let me know how you get on.
In my large Lobley database, I have the following family:
WILLIAM LOBLEY, clothier, born c. 1789 in Horsforth Yorkshire (not far from Eccup)
On 20 Aug 1823, in Guiseley, he married ELIZABETH DOCKRAY and had 5 children:
SARAH LOBLEY (28 Mar 1824) m.to FRANCIS MONK
JOHN LOBLEY (25 Aug 1826)
WILLIAM LOBLEY(c. 1832) m.to MARGARET ?
JAMES LOBLEY(c. 1834)
JOSEPH LOBLEY (Q1 1841)
Although I have information on the family in the 1851 and 1861 Censuses (although my
information is not complete), I have been unable to find them in the 1880 Census.
Of the 5 children:
I know little more about Sarah or John
William: In 1880, I'm pretty sure that he is to be found in the US census at Van Buren,
Newton, Missouri USA aged 48 occupation farmer born in ENG (could he have
emigrated with his brother? Nearby is his eldest son: Joseph Asquith Lobley and his
American wife.
James: In the 1851 census at Troy, Horsforth, aged 17, he was a woollen cloth weaver.
By the 1861 census, he was still at Troy, Horsforth, aged 26, occupation bleacher. I
cannot locate him in the 1881 Census. This suggests, but is not conclusive proof, that he
emigrated.
Joseph: an errand boy in 1851, he was shown as a silk spinner in 1861.

I have no record of the marriage of James to Dorthea Booth. Do you know where that
happened? I can confirm that I have two stray children (i.e. those that I have not yet
incorporated into any family, both registered in Otley, who fit the bill for children of that
union: Mary Elizabeth, born 1863 and John William born 1865.
Happy to answer any additional queries, pleased to receive any information.
Best wishes
Phil Lobley

LOVELAND, NANCY S. (NEWBERRY) JOHNSON RIST
LOVELAND, DANIEL O.
285120
LOVELUND, NANCY S.
1198 285120

SWSW

26N 19W Sec 32
SWSW

1912 Jul 18

26N 19W Sec 32

1198

1912 Jul 18

D. O. LOVELAND 23 Jan 1881 - 22 Dec 1902 Old Boston Son of Loveland, Sidney &
Matilda (Harvill)
Daniel O. Loveland - Nancy Newberry 15 Jan 1903 07/107 Burkhart Jacob m g
Nancy Loveland - David Rist 18 Feb 1913 09/124 Holbert W T m g
1920 MO Christian County Garrison Twp #46-46
Rist, David S. 35 MO NY MO
, Nancy S. wife 34 MO AR MO
, Kennel R. son 5 MO MO MO
Loveland, Mary
Stepdaughter 16 MO MO MO
Loveland, Mammie Stepdaughter 14 MO MO MO
Loveland, Myrtle M Stepdaughter 12 MO MO MO
Loveland, Susan M. Stepdaughter 11 MO MO MO
Johnson, Alice L. Step- daughter 9 MO MO MO
1910 MO Christian S Marion 214
Hosey M.
NEWBERRY M W Head 56 M/1 35 AR US US
Farmer
Phoebe S.
NEWBERRY F W Wife 56 M/1 35 11-5 MO US US
Farm Labor
Nancy S. JOHNSON F W Dau
25 M/2 1 4-4 MO AR MO Laborer - Odd Jobs
Alfred NEWBERRY M W Son
17
S
MO AR MO Farm Labor
Arthur NEWBERRY M W Son
15
S
MO AR MO Farm Labor
Ella NASH F W Granddau 14
S
MO US AR Farm Labor
Bessie NASH F W Granddau 7
S
AR US AR
Mary S.
NASH F W Granddau 4
S
AR US AR

Mary A.
LOVELAND F W Granddau 6
Mamie M. LOVELAND
F W Granddau 5
Myrtie LOVELAND F W Granddau 3
S
Melvina
LOVELAND F W Granddau 2

S
MO US MO
S
MO US MO
MO US MO
S
MO US MO

This record is a classic “Something is VERY not right here” example. According
to the marriage record and the tombstone, Daniel O. Loveland married Nancy Newberry
two weeks after his death. Over the course of five years, Daniel and Nancy had four
children, the last daughter born in 1908. In 1909, Nancy apparently remarried a Johnson
with whom she had a daughter after the 1910 census. On the 1910 census,, Nancy
(Newberry) Loveland Johnson is living with her parents, listed as having married twice,
the second time a year before this census. Her Johnson husband is not listed with the
family, but Alice L. Johnson was born after the census was taken. Nancy’s third
marriage, to David Rist, took place in 1913. My guess is that Daniel’s stone is either
difficult to read or the death date on it is wrong. According to research published on-line
by Gerald Hankins Johnston Daniel O. Loveland actually died 22 Dec 1909. That date
does fit with the other information, except that the 1910 census says Nancy had remarried
a year earlier, when it could have been no more than a few months.
1930 OK Tulsa 1795 E. Latimer Court
David RIST 46 MO NY MO
, Nancy
45 MO AR MO
, Kenneth L. 15 MO MO MO
MCBRIDE, MARY NWSE 27N 23W Sec 11
MO5370__.111

1852 Jul 01

11135

MCLAIN FAMILY
MCLAIN, ADDISON NWSE 27N 22W Sec 20
1845 Oct 01 1827
MO5270__.291
MCLAIN, ADDISON SESE 27N 22W Sec 20
1845 Oct 01 1827
MO5270__.291
MCLAIN, ELIZABETH
NWSE 27N 22W Sec 20
1845 Oct 01 1827
MO5270__.291
MCLAIN, ELIZABETH
SESE 27N 22W Sec 20
1845 Oct 01 1827
MO5270__.291
MCLAIN, ISABEL NWSE 27N 22W Sec 20
1845 Oct 01 1827
MO5270__.291
MCLAIN, ISABEL SESE 27N 22W Sec 20
1845 Oct 01 1827
MO5270__.291
MCLAIN, JOSEPH NWSE 27N 22W Sec 20
1845 Oct 01 1827
MO5270__.291
MCLAIN, JOSEPH SESE 27N 22W Sec 20
1845 Oct 01 1827
MO5270__.291

MCLAIN, MARY
NWSE 27N 22W Sec 20
MO5270__.291
MCLAIN, MARY
SESE 27N 22W Sec 20
MO5270__.291

1845 Oct 01

1827

1845 Oct 01

1827

Who were these three McLain women and two McLain men? They don’t appear
on 1850 censuses in Missouri. An Addison McLain 5 Oct 1811 - 25 Aug 1873, born in
North Carolina, died in Montgomery County, Illinois, is listed in a World Ancestry Tree
has having daughters named Elizabeth, Isabel and Mary, but no son named Joseph. There
is no indication he had any connection to Missouri, and his 1850 census shows that he
had several children born in Illinois in the 1840’s.
The nearest guess who these might be relates to an 1834 Greene County estate of
an Abner McLean. In 1837, Joseph Porter reported that the widow, name not mentioned,
has renouned administration of the estate and recommended that Robert Phaubus be
named as administrator. In November 1836, Robert Forbus was noted as not having
made the required report as administrator of the estate of Abner McLain.
By 1875, both parcels of land in this patent belonged to A. A. Young.
MCLEAN, MARGARET (SIMENTON)
MCLEAN, MARGARET
SENW 26N 21W Sec 11
1848 Apr 03 7948
MO5300__.185
John McLean was born in Scotland. He married Margaret Simenton in Rowan
County, North Carolina in 1820. In 1833, the family moved to Maury County, Tennessee,
when John McLean died.
In North Carolina and in Tennessee, the McLean Family had a Duncan family as
neighbors. John and Margaret (Simenton) McLean’s oldest son, born 22 September 1821,
was named Alexander McLean. In 1844, Alexander McLean and a neighbor man, Terrell
Duncan, rode their horses to what would later become Christian County, Missouri.
Alexander and Terrell built log houses near the McCoy Spring, 5 miles south of Ozark,
Missouri. The two boys then returned to Tennessee and brought their widowed mothers
and younger brothers and sisters to their new homes in Missouri. The McLean house was
just north of the spring and the Duncan house was to the south. Both families carried
water from this spring. The mother, Margaret, died in this home and was buried in the
Prospect Cemetery near the home.
John and Margaret (Simenton) McLean are known to be the parents of these
children:
1) Theophalus Erwin McLean - perhaps from an earlier marriage of John McLean. His
census record in Household 1062 of Finley Twp Greene County, MO 1850 census gave
his age as 32, making him age two at John and Margaret’s wedding. He married
Mascamolia [Macamella on 1850 census] Turner on 13 Apr 1840 in Marshall County,
Tennessee. According to the research of Karen (McLean) Wolfe Caswell, Theophalus
Erwin McLean moved to Australia where he was a building contractor.

2) Alexander McLean 22 Sep 1821 - 12 Mar 1867, a teacher who married a former
student Emily Franklin Young and moved in January 1854 five miles west of Ozark to a
farm on the Finley River.
3) Christopher Columbus McLean Born about 1825. Listed as age 24 with wife M. J. age
19 in household 404 of Cass Twp of Taney County, Missouri 1850 census Said to have
died in Berryville, Carroll County, Arkansas. No legible tombstone on published lists,
and not on Carroll County census. May have died before 1860?
4) Will McLean - According to family records by Ethel McLean, he left Missouri in May
1850, on “The Old Beef Trail” to the California mines and died in 1852 either in
California on along that trail.
5) Margaret J. McLean married Aaron Ring 16 Oct 1851 Maury County, TN. He died. I
don’t find her on any census and do not know when she was born or died. According to a
family summary by Ethel McLean, when her brother Christopher Columbus McLean was
very ill, she visited him in Berryville, Arkansas. She too became ill. Both died and are
buried in Berryville. Unclear why she stayed in Tennessee after the rest of the family
went to Missouri
6) Rachel Malinda McLean 5 Jul 1828 - 18 Apr 1864 married James Duncan 7 Jan 1849,
listed in household 438 of Jasper Twp, Taney County, Missouri on 1850 census. James
Duncan was in the Confederate Army. Their daughter, Margaret Simonton (Duncan)
Greene wrote about all the vandalism, assaults, raids and robberies southern sympathizers
were subjected to in this part of Missouri, those involved stealing all their belongings and
forcing the families - often composed entirely of children - further and further south to try
to survive.
MILLS, SARAH MARY “MOLLIE” (HART) ELKINS
ELKINS, EUCLID S.
½NE 22N 16W Sec 32
1895 Mar 13 9958
MO6000__.397
ELKINS, EUCLID S
½NW 22-N 16-W Sec 33 1895 Mar 13 9958
MO6000__.397
ELKINS, MOLLIE
½NE 22N 16W Sec 32
1895 Mar 13 9958
MO6000__.397
ELKINS, MOLLIE W½NW 22N 16-W Sec 33 1895 Mar 13 9958
MO6000__.397
MILLS, MOLLIS
½NE 22N 16W Sec 32
1895 Mar 13 9958
MO6000__.397
MILLS, MOLLIE
½NW 22N 16W Sec 33 1895 Mar 13 9958 MO6000__.397
All right, so I will admit the obvious. This record is a ringer. No land in 22 North,
16 West was ever in Christian County, Missouri. It’s actually in Ozark County, Missouri.
But, I decided to include it anyway. The couple mentioned here married in Christian
County. All of their children were born in Christian County. They are buried in Linden
Cemetery. They are both relatives of mine. But, mostly, I couldn’t leave out this record
because it was the first one in which I realized that deaths and remarriages can be seen in
the Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records.

Euclid S. Elkins was the first child of Higdon Richard Jarrett Elkins, one of three
born in Cannon County, Tennessee to first “Dick’s” wife, Ruth E. Neely who died very
young. Euclid’s sister, Melissa Caroline Elkins was the first wife of my great
grandfather’s younger brother, William Lincoln “Bill” Phillips. Euclid’s only full brother,
Dr. Cullen Bryant Elkins, was the doctor who had to declare the three men hung on the
Ozark Square May 10, 1889 dead; a member of Missouri’s first medical board; and , after
serving at one time or another as the head of every hospital in Springfield, the oldest
practicing physician in southwest Missouri at the time of his death. Dick Elkins, Euclid’s
father was the youngest brother of my great, great grandmother, Martha Virginia
(Elkins) Fowler. Many members of the family came to Christian County, including
Dick’s aunt, Ann (Elkins) Brown Pendleton, his uncle, Jacob Melton and his sister,
Melissa Caroline (Elkins) Melton.
Dick’s second marriage to Eliza Ann Higgins, a daughter of a cousin, ended in
divorce when lingering serious problems from Civil War murders made combining a
Higgins and Neely household impossible. Ironically, the vast majority of Dick’s
descendants are from the daughter he had with Eliza who he left behind when he came to
Missouri.
Dick’s third marriage, to Arminda or Amanda Petty produced two sons. James
Thomas Elkins was a pharmacist in Kirksville, Mo. The younger son, William Byron
Elkins, married the daughter of the Springfield mayor and, among many
accomplishments, is probably best known as the founder of the Elkins-Swyers Company.
At his third wife’s death, Dick was still in his early 30’s. But, apparently, he thought
three tries was enough. He spent the last 60 years of his life as a bachelor.
Higdon Richard Jarrett Elkins was named for a man who was sheriff of Cannon
County, Tennessee when H. R. J. Elkins was born. Mr. Jarrett was in office at the same
time Thomas Elkins was a judge in Cannon County, so both had offices in Woodbury at
the time. This Mr. Jarrett later settled in Springfield, Missouri. A grade school there is
named for him. A number of other Elkins descendants, including Higdon Richard Jarrett
Stone and Higdon Richard Jarrett “Joe” Phillips also were named for him, but I’ve never
found any kinship between the families.
Euclid S. Elkin’s wife is closer kin than he is. Laura Ann Fowler was my great
grandmother’s oldest sister. Of the dozens of grandchildren of Thomas & Mary (Melton)
Elkins, she was the only one mentioned in Thomas’s 1864 will. That was shortly before
Laura’s first marriage, to William Hart. Sarah Mary Hart, called Mollie, was the only
living child from that marriage when Laura was listed as a widow on the 1870 Cannon
County census. Shortly thereafter, she married an older widower, John Parton, and
moved to Parchcorn Holler (a name brought with the many people who came there from
Parched Corn Holler along Stone’s River in Cannon County) Christian County, Missouri
with her daughter, his children and the two daughters they had. But again in 1880, Laura
was a widow, serving as a housekeeper for Dr. Isaac Rogers for whom Rogersville was
named. Only her youngest child was with her. The other girls were in other nearby
homes,. Mollie was with a Stone cousin whose mother was a daughter of Ann (Elkins)
Brown Pendleton. In 1880, Laura Ann married Isaac J. Wimmer, a widower whose first
wife was named Frances Farmer. They had at least one son, Newton Wimmer. In 1894,
they moved to Newton County, Arkansas. On the 1900 census, they were living beside
her daughter, Martha Elizabeth “Bettie” (Parton) Curtis. They have never been found

after that time, but descendants of Isaac’s first marriage who remained in Christian
County say they believe Issac and Laura Ann went to Oklahoma shortly before it became
a state and died there.
In 1885, Euclid and Mollie were married. As was common at the time, they were
related. Euclid’s mother-in-law was his first cousin since her mother and Euclid’s father
were brother and sister.
Euclid and Mollie’s daughter, Ruth E., died as an infant. Their daughter, Georgia
Mae Elkins, was a teacher in the Ozark schools. At the time of her death during the flu
epidemic in 1918, the Christian County Republican stated that every student then
attending Ozark Schools had at one time been a student of Miss Elkins. On her death bed,
Georgia willed all she owned to her younger brother, Richard R. Elkins. Although word
had reached Missouri from his home in Iowa, those caring for Georgia though she was
too weak to tell that her brother had died from the same epidemic days before.
Euclid and Mollie moved to Ozark County, Missouri about 1889. He died there,
and before the land patent was finished, Mollie had remarried.
EUCLID S. ELKINS 31 Mar 1860 - 6 Apr 1891 Linden Son of Elkins, Higdon Richard
Jarrett & Ruth Elizabeth (Neely) ; married Hart, Sarah Mary "Mollie"
(HART) SARAH MARY "MOLLIE" MILLS 1867- 1941 Linden Dau of Hart, William
& Laura Ann (Fowler); m/1 26 Nov 1885 Elkins, Euclid S. ; m/2 9 Jan 1894 Mills,
William Burrell
WILLIAM BURRELL MILLS 9 Jun 1851 - 22 May 1917 Sparta IOOF Son of Mills,
James Matthew & Comfort J. (Cloud); m/1 28 May 1871 CCM McCroskey, Mary
Virginia; ; m/2 9 Jan 1894 CCM Hart, Sarah Mary "Mollie" m/1 Elkins; children with
Mary Virginia: Nancy J, John Madison, Joseph E., George E. - children with Mollie Jessie, Essie, Jeff, Effie
Mollie’s second husband was a widower, William Burrell Mills with four young
children. His first wife was Mary Virginia McCroskey, daughter of John D. & Martha
McCroskey, whom he married in 1872.
In 1900, William Burrell and Sarah Mary “Mollie” (Hart) Mills were in Wright
County, Missouri. Some of their four children were born there.
Sarah Mary "Mollie" (Hart) Elkins Mills moved to Springfield, MO. She served
as the cook for Burge Protestant Hospital there for many years. Her youngest child, Effie
Mills, received her nurse's training in that hospital, and her brother-in-law, Dr. C. Bryant
Elkins, served as an administrator there for a time.
OBRYANT, SARAH (JONES)
OBRYANT, SARAH SENE 28N 23W Sec 33
1850 Jan 01 9609
MO5340__.268
OBRYANT, SARAH NWSW
28N 23W Sec 34
1852 Jul 01
MO5370__.192

11219

Sarah Obryant, age 52, is listed in Household 725 of Polk Twp, Greene County,
Missouri on the 1850 census with sons John H. 21, William F. 19, and Thomas A. 17.
Adjacent households are George W. Obryant age 27 in #726, Elias Obryant age 22 in
#727 and Mary (Obryant) Short age 24 and her husband Samuel Short in #728. A
Jackson Obryant age 23 in #737 is probably a repeat of Elias Obryant in #727 as both are
married to Louisa and Elias Jackson Obryant had just married Louisa Phillips in 1850.
According to research by Debryah Short-Carden, Sarah Jones born 1797 in
Henry County, Virginia married 21 Dec 1813 Roane County, Tennessee Elias O’Bryant
born 1788 Chester District, South Carolina. She lists 14 children born to Elias and Sarah
(Jones) Obryant: James Edward born18 Sept 1814 Tennessee; Almira born 31 Jan 1816
Tennessee; Tempe (F) born 19 Oct 1817 Tennessee; Nancy born 19 Apr 1819
Tennessee; Sarah born 12 Jan 1821 Tennessee; George Washington born 18 Mar 1823
Tennessee; Eliza Jane born 14 Feb 1825 Tennessee; Mary Ann born 30 Nov 1826
Tennessee; Elias Jackson born 06 Aug 1828 Tennessee; John Harvey born 10 Jun 1830
Tennessee; William Franklin born 23 Mar 1832 Tennessee; Aaron Thomas born 12 Jan
1834 Tennessee; Andrew Calvin born 26 Feb 1836 Tennessee; and Even Riley born 13
Jun 1838 Cedar County., Missouri. Most of the children were born in Blount County,
Tennessee.
According to Debryah Short-Carden’s research, Sarah (Jones) Obryant was a
sister of Delilah JONES born 1792, Virginia died 1877, Missouri who married 28 Jan
1813, Roane Co., Tennessee Lindsey ROBERTSON, born 13 Oct 1792, Amherst
County., Virginia died 29 July 1861, Greene County, Missouri. Although this was a
Greene County family, many Robertson descendants came to Christian County.
On 4 September 1849, on page 105 of Greene County, Missouri, Guardian Bond
Book 1833 - 1864, G. W. Obriant was named principal and Thomas E. and Lindsey
Robertson securities in the amount of $1,200 for John H. Bryant, William F. Bryant and
Thomas A. Bryant, minor heirs of Elias Bryant, deceased, late of the county of Cedar.
This obviously is a record proving that Elias Obryant, husband of Sarah (Jones) Obryant
had died before September 1849.
I find no record of what became of Sarah (Jones) Obryant. Unless she remarried,
her name was recorded in an unrecognizable form or she left the area, it’s likely she died
before the 1860 census.
PETTYJOHN, MARY
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S1/2 1SW

27N 21W Sec 30

1848 Nov 01 8819

PHARISS, ANDREW L.
MO5280__.046
PHARISS, ANDREW L.
MO5280__.046
PHARISS, MALVINA C.
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W1/2 1NE

26N 21W Sec 03

1845 Oct 01

4156

W1/2 1NE

26N 21W Sec 03

1845 Oct 01

4156

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1845 Oct 01

4156

PHARISS, MALVINA C.
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W1/2 1NE

RASSIEUR, ESTELLE E.
MO1150__.362
RASSIEUR, ESTELLE E.
MO1150__.362
RASSIEUR, ESTELLE E.
MO1150__.362
RASSIEUR, ESTELLE E.
MO1150__.362
RASSIEUR, MARY C.
MO1150__.482
RASSIEUR, MARY C.
MO1150__.482
RASSIEUR, MARY C.
MO2120__.413
RASSIEUR, MARY C.
MO2120__.413

NESW 25N 19W Sec 13

1898 Sep 28 33892

NWNE25N 19W Sec 13

1898 Sep 28 33892

S1/2SE

26N 21W Sec 03

25N 19W Sec 13

1845 Oct 01

4156

1898 Sep 28 33892

SENW 25N 19W Sec 13

1898 Sep 28 33892

NESE 25N 18W Sec 17

1900 Feb 08

33903

SWSE 25N 18W Sec 17

1900 Feb 08

33903

SESE 27N 18W Sec 29

1900 Jun 25

33910

SWSE 27N 18W Sec 30

1900 Jun 25

33910

ROBB, MARY E.
ROBB, MARY E.
SW
MO6000__.089

25N 21W Sec 28

1894 Nov 30 9631

SMITH, LOUISA
SMITH, LOUISA
N1/2NE
MO5990__.188
SMITH, LOUISA
N1/2NW
MO5990__.188

25N 21W Sec 11

1893 Jul 14

9218

25N 21W Sec 11

1893 Jul 14

9218

TERRELL, ELIZABETH
W1/2SE
27N 23W Sec 01
1848 Sep 01 463
MO5310__.208
WADDLE, JOHN S. W1/2SE
27N 23W Sec 01
1848 Sep 01 463
MO5310__.208
TILLMAN, MARGARET (DUNCAN)
TILMAN, MARGARET
SWSE 27N 21W Sec 20
MO5290__.100
Margaret Duncan
See Index of Duncan Records at
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dobson/index.htm

1848 Aug 03 7343

THERYPSON, LILLY A
THERYPSON, LILLY A.
MO5990__.135
WILLARD, ELANOR M.
MO5990__.135

SW

25N 20W Sec 25

1893 May 16 8996

SW

25N 20W Sec 25

1893 May 16 8996

WHISENNAND, FLORENCE E.
MO5990__.015

W1/2SW 25N 22W Sec 36 1893 Mar 13

9053