Wright County, Missouri
1850 Census plus
Annotations
Transcribed/Annotated/Copyrighted
by Gloria Bogart Carter
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CASKEY, Joseph H.
65 m SC bks b 1785
Chester Co SC s/o John CASKEY b 1750 Ireland & Esther (?); J.H. d 15
Apr 1853 bur Mtn Dale Cem Webster Co MO; m 16 Jan 1817 Williamson Co TN
to:
Catharine 53 f TN
“Caty” nee: SCOBY; b 1797 d 16
Nov 1876 bur Mtn Dale Cem near Seymour MO; 1860 Webster Co MO in son John's
household.
Elizabeth 19 f TN sch
m John PEARSON s/o Jeremiah PEARSON & 2nd wife
Mary TAGGART; 1860 Webster Co MO; no children; See #20-20 Wright
Co MO 1850.
Nancy 16 f
TN sch
Elenor 12 f
TN
Manerva 09 f TN
sch
Joseph 06 m
MO
Mary 10
f TN
John S. 25 m TN
bks m 22 Apr 1855 Webster Co
MO to Lucinda PEARSON d/o Jeremiah PEARSON & 2nd wife Mary TAGGART,
see #20-20 Wright Co
MO
1850;
John S. CASKEY Blacksmith and Bellmaker.
He was born 11 March 1822 in Williamson County, TN, s/o Joseph H.
CASKEY and Catherine “Caty” SCOBY who married on
16 Jan 1817 in Williamson Co TN. Joseph
H. was born in 1785 Chester Co, SC, to John CASKEY
born in 1750 in Balleymoney, Ireland, died 5 Dec 1785 in Rocky Creek,
Chester Co SC, married Esther (?) about 1769 in Ballymoney. They
with one child, arrived Port Charleston in 1772. His will recorded
in Kershaw Parish SC names wife Esther, daughters
Ezebell, and Mary and sons John, Robert, Thomas,
and Joseph H., January court 1797. Esther
remarried to a Mr. GRAHAM.
Joseph H. CASKEY died 15 April 1853.
Caty SCOBY CASKEY was born 1797 in TN, died 16 Nov 1876 in Webster
Co MO. She is buried beside Joseph and near John S. and Lucinda,
in Mountain Dale “Lick Skillet” Cemetery, near Seymour.
John S. CASKEY followed the trade of his father and ancestors as a
blacksmith
and bellmaker. They set up their forge at Mountain Dale about
1846. He would make up a wagon load of bells
of all sizes, drawn by oxen, he would haul
them all around the Ozarks area to sell.
In 1886 he made a trip to Eureka Springs, AR and on the old Harrison Road,
was ambushed, killed and robbed. Legend is
that a farmer said he heard his dogs carrying-on
all night, next morning he set out to see what it was that had them
disturbed, and found the wagon, the cash-box was broken open and the cash
gone. The dogs led him to a brush pile where the (yet unknown) culprit
had tried to hide the body.
Family members set out on horseback, some returned with the wagon, bearing
Mr. CASKEY’S remains, traveling in the blowing snow,
back to Lick Skillet; while others rode for
several days in the Arkansas area hoping to catch up to the killer, but
never found him.
John S. CASKEY married on 22 April 1855 in Webster Co MO, newly formed
from Wright and Greene Co., to Lucinda PEARSON, d/o Jeremiah PEARSON and
2nd wife, Mary TAGGART. Lucinda was born in Nov 1833 and died in
1899. They had nine children. Their youngest son, Bill CASKEY,
carried on the blacksmithing trade and had a shop in Seymour. They
say while shoeing a horse he would whistle “Turkey in the Straw” and drive
the nails to the rhythm.
A daughter, Isabelle “Belle” was born 16 June 1860 at Mountain Dale,
married
John Henry CARTER 29 Dec 1878 at Thornfield, Ozark Co MO.
When
the Liberty Bell was cast the third time, the CASKEY brothers from
SC
were called upon to do the job as they were noted for their knowledge of
the acoustics of bells.
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PEARSON, Jeremiah
63 m MD fmr scout
and pioneer; d 1857.
Mary 44
f TN nee:
TAGGART, his 2nd wife.
Joel (M.) 22 m MO fmr
Joel Hughes PIERSON m 27 Jun 1852 Greene
Co MO to Mary Jane GOOD d/o David GOOD and Martha Ann BROYLES; 1860
Wright Co MO #5; He d 6 Nov 1864, at Lebanon,
Laclede Co MO; Probate Wright Co MO 12 Feb 1866 d intestate, Admr.
James KELLEY. Sec. David YOUNG and Archable YOUNG.
John (T.) 20 m MO fmr
m Elizabeth CASKEY d/o Joseph CASKEY and Catharine
SCOBY; They had no children.
Lucinda 17 f MO
sch Lucinda Jane b 3 Nov 1833 d 1900
bur Mountain Dale Cem north of Seymour, MO on Hwy C, on west side of road
out in a field, near the jct of Hwy C and V; m 22 Apr 1855
Webster Co MO to John S. CASKEY, see #19-19 Wright Co MO 1850; 1860
Webster Co MO.
Mary (Ann) 15 f MO sch
b 30 Jan 1835 d 27 Oct 1908 bur Taylor Cem Webster Co MO; m
on 11 Mar 1858 Webster Co MO to John GOOD s/o David GOOD and Martha
Ann BROYLES; Mary Ann was a mid-wife and was called on all hours
of the day and night, she rode horseback and had a very good race type
stallion, one time a panther chased her and was leaping toward her in the
saddle when she took the homespun wool shawl from around her shoulders
and flung it over the panther, next morning
they returned to the area and over in the bushes the panther had
ripped the shawl to shreads. A near escape for Mary.
John T. GOOD served with CO B 8 MO CAV, see #1759 Greene Co MO 1850 for
GOOD.
Rachel 13 f
MO sch b 23 Apr 1836 d 26 Aug
1881; She 1st m as 2nd w/o John DURHAM, d in the Civil War; 8 MO CAV Webster
Co MO; John 1st m Mary (?), they had a son Thomas b 1859; 2nd
m on 20 Nov 1864 Webster Co MO to Allen GRAVES
b 25 Dec 1837 d 9 Mar 1915, both bur Taylor
Cem
Webster Co MO.
Isaac 09 m
MO sch lived in Webster Co
MO for many years. He was in the 49th Infantry of the MO Volunteers
in the Civil War. His discharge papers state that he was 5’6”, had
black hair, and a dark complexion. He was 23 at the time of his discharge.
In 1870 Webster Co MO Isaac is 27 and his wife is Rosella 28
MO, with dau Lucy 07 MO and sons Robert 04 MO and Dobson
B. 01 MO: Isaac Pierson then married to Narcissus (3/4
Cherokee). They had a son, Carlos Edward, born in Missouri in 1877.
He married a Susan Chandler (born in Arkansas in 1877) and they had a son,
Herbert, born in 1901 in Arkansas. Herbert married Effie Ervin (born in
Arkansas in 1902) and they had a son, Thomas.
Elizabeth 07 f MO
b 1843; m 23 Jul 1865 Webster Co MO to James L. LANGDON
1860 Webster Co MO
Elenor 05 f
MO b
1845; m Sam YOUNG.
James (F.) 03 m MO
b 7 Dec 1847 d 24 Dec 1935; he ran a mill in Hartville,
following the trade of his family; he m ca 1868 to Lavina Jane YOUNG
b 17 May 1844 d 11 Feb 1924, both bur Pleasant Hill Cem west of Hartville
on Hwy 38; Lavina was d/o James YOUNG and Rhoda CORNETT, see #79 Wright
Co MO 1850.
JEREMIAH PEARSON
His
name is among those who were early emigrants into the Missouri area.
Their
names are mentioned in Schoolcrafts’ Journal of a Tour in Missouri
and
Arkansas, 1818-1819. Jeremiah was a scout, he had backbone
and the
spirit
for survival. Schoolcraft and his group camped about one half
mile northeast of the confluence of Pearson
Creek and the James River. A
historical
marker designates this place as one of the oldest recorded events in Greene
County, MO. Perhaps at this time, Jeremiah decided this was his “Promised
Land”. About 1822 he had obtained permission from the
Delaware
Indians to build his mill, one of the very first mills in all of
Southwest Missouri. He settled on 161 acres
in Section 5 of Township 29 in Range 20, near
a large spring. The waters from this spring forms the creek
that bears his name, the sign reads “PIERSON CREEK”.
The land patent number was 4035. He
sold this land, in 1834, to Josiah F. DANFORTH.
He
was always on the move and scouting new areas, he was enumerated on
the
1830 Madison County MO census; 1833 Greene County MO Tax List
and
Court Minutes; 1840 finds him on both Madison Co and Pulaski Co MO;
1850
he appears on the Wright Co MO census, this part later became Webster
Co MO in 1855.
Jeremiah
first married on 2 January 1811, in Ross Co Ohio, to Susannah
LANTZ
born 13 Sep 1786 in NJ, where her parents, George LANTZ and Ann
(?)
resided before moving to Hocking Valley in Ohio in 1809, where they
resided
in Athens Co.
Jeremiah
and Susannah had one son and two daughters.
After
Susannah’s death, legend is that Jeremiah took a Delaware bride in a
ceremony held at the Natural Well (now Springfield,
Greene Co MO).
The
Delawares were removed from this area in 1829.
Between
1823 and 1825 a man named TAGGART settled just south of the
mouth
of Pearson Creek. Tradition is that Jeremiah took as his wife, Mary
TAGGART, nearly 20 years younger than he. They had
four sons and six
daughters.
Jeremiah was left a widower in 1850. In 1854 he married again
to another Mary (her surname is yet unknown).
The divorce papers state they separated about April 1855, and the divorce
granted in October 1856.
Jeremiah
died in Nov 1857. The inventory of his estate is quite lengthy, on
file in Webster County MO Courthouse. It is believed Jeremiah and
Mary (TAGGART) PEARSON are buried on his Webster
County land, his patent
#8085
dated 3 Apr 1848, was signed by James K. Polk, President of the
United
States, contains 160 acres in the E1/2 of the SE1/4 of Section 23 and the
W1/2 of the SW1/4 of Section 24 in Township 29 Range 17.
Levi
PEARSON, a brother to Jeremiah, married Nancy LANTZ, a sister to
Susannah,
another sister, Elizabeth LANTZ, married Jesse H. SANDERS.
In
1818 these three young couples, along with the George LANTZ family,
removed
to Madison and Marion County Arkansas and Ozark County
Missouri
area.
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SLATE, John A.
63 m VA fmr 1860
Webster Co MO; 1st wife yet unknown, had 2 sons & 1 dau Harriet b 1837
came to MO with her father; John A. was in Henry Co TN by 1830 and 2nd
m there on 10 Sep 1838 to:
Fanny 38 f
TN nee:
Frances HAMBLIN; d/o Henry HAMBLIN & Louisa (?); no known burial place
for John A. & Fanny.
Harriett 18 f TN
1860 Ozark Co MO #230 w/Harrison SMITH household.
Chesterfield 10 m TN
Henry C. b 1 Mar 1840 Henry Co TN d 8 Jan 1917
Mansfield, Wright Co MO bur Crane Cem near Mansfield; he m 24 Dec 1865
Webster Co MO to Sarah Elizabeth RHODES b 1 Feb 1841 Pulaski Co MO d 2
Feb 1929 Douglas Co MO bur Crane Cem., d/o Wm. RHODES & Elizabeth (?)
SEE # 42 Wright Co MO 1850.
Elizabeth 07 f MO
Franklin 05 m MO
Joseph F. b 20 May 1845 Wright Co MO d 6 Jan 1932
Jasper Co MO; m 9 Sep 1866 Webster Co MO to Adaline STAFFORD.
Hester (Ann) 01 f MO
m 22 Mar 1874 Webster Co MO to A.H. HURST.
22-22
500
DILLARD, Samuel
39 m KY fmr
Elizabeth 43 f TN
d/o Stephen JULIAN & Sarah BIRAM, see #14 Wright
Co MO 1850.
Analiza 16 f TN
m 4 Mar 1851 to James C REED see 1850 Wright Co #29;
went to Oregon in 1853.
Stephen
R. 15 m TN fmr
Rufus 10 m MO
William 07 m TN
Sarah 04 f MO
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SIVILS, Spyvey
24 m KY Spyvey
P.; 1860 Webster Co MO.
Margaret 24 f KY
Margaret A. b 21 Mar 1821 d 10 Apr 1866 bur Seymour
Cem.
Martha (F.) 04 f MO b
12 May 1846 d 9 May 1909; m 7 Apr 1867 Webster Co MO to Joseph S. CARRICK
b 21 Jan 1848 d 30 Oct 1918 both bur Seymour Cem.; 1870 Webster Co
MO they have four of Margaret’s siblings with them.
John W. 01 m MO
24-24
500
ALEXANDER, James
64 m VA fmr m 1808
Maury Co TN to Matilda KILPATRICK, d/o J.(Joseph or Joshua) KILPATRICK
a Rev. Soldier.
Erisaney
25 f TN d/o
James ALEXANDER & Matilda KILPATRICK.
25-25 700
ALEXANDER, George
(W.) 23 m TN fmr 1860
Howell Co MO; b ca 1824 Maury Co TN, s/o James ALEXANDER & Matilda
KILPATRICK; Geo. W. 2nd m Hazelwood in Wright Co MO to
Mary Ann BRIGGS. Geo. W. served with MO VOLS; he d 8 Jan 1874 in
the Boston Mtns, AR; family returned to Howell Co MO.
Eliza
(Ann) 23 f
TN nee:
BAKER; 1st w/o George;
d
1854 at birth of son James Andrew ALEXANDER.
Elizabeth
03 f MO
Nancy
02 f MO
R.M.
6/12 m MO
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BARNARD, Zedakiah
27 m TN clk m 28
Jan 1847 Greene Co MO.
Sarah
27 m TN Sarah
Narcissus nee: CLIFTON.
Frances
02 f MO
Mary 10/12 f MO
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McCLURG, Joseph W.
33 m MO mer 1860
Camden Co MO; m 18 Oct 1841 Washington Co MO
Mary
C. 30 f VA
nee: JOHNSTON, d/o of John JOHNSTON;
William
07 m MO died
young.
Mary
(E.) 05 f MO
m in Jan 1863 to M.W. JOHNSON, moved to Laclede Co
MO in 1877.
Frances
04 f MO Fanny
m C.C. DRAPER of Lebanon, Laclede Co MO.
Joseph
(E.) 02 m MO
resided in the Dakota’s.
MASEY, N.A.
40 m KY stk
JOSEPH
W. McCLURG was b 22 Feb 1818 near Lebanon, MO, s/o Joseph McCLURG and Mary
BROTHERTON. He was orphaned at an early age and reared by relatives
in Pittsburg. He attended schools in Ohio, studied
a
short time for the ministry, taught school in Louisiana and Mississippi,
moved to Texas, studied law and was admitted to the bar in Columbus, Texas.
He served as clerk of the Circuit Court there. In 1840 McCLURG returned
to Missouri where he opened a general store in Linn Creek. He was
Deputy Sheriff of St Louis County, which stretched half-way across the
state then, went to California in the gold rush and returned in 1852 to
open both a wholesale and retail business at Linn Creek. His “Big
Store on the Osage” became the chief trading point for southwest
Missouri because the business extended into Kansas, Arkansas and the Indian
Territory. He joined the Union Army when the War Between the States
started, organized, equipped and commanded the Osage Regt MO VOL and the
Hickory Co Battalion. He supplied camp utensils, lead and powder
from his store valued at $6,000 and wrote off $4,000 as a loss. Mrs.
McCLURG had inherited several slaves upon their marriage and when the war
started McCLURG moved to liberate them.
In
1862 he was elected to Congress from a ten-county district that included
Jefferson City, Sedalia, Harrisonville, Butler, Nevada
and Osceola. In his first term he voted for the abolition of slavery.
He was re-elected twice and resigned in his third term to seek the governorship,
which he won by defeating John S. PHELPS by a vote of 82,107 to 62,780,
PHELPS was elected governor in 1876. During McCLURG’S administration
the 15th amendment was ratified, the School of Mines established at Rolla,
the College of Agriculture established at the University of Missouri, and
the State Colleges added at Kirksville and Warrensburg. He also reduced
the public debt during his term, which was described as “plain, careful,
conscientious, unostentations and business-like-radical in name only”.
Mary
C., his wife, died in Dec 1861, leaving him with 8 small children.
When
McCLURG came up for re-election, he was defeated by B. Gratz
BROWN.
He returned to Linn Creek and resumed his mercantile business,
engaged
in some steamboating and lead mining and was appointed register of the
Springfield Land Office in 1889 which he held until 1893.
He
died 2 Dec 1900 at the home of a daughter. While Govenor, he signed
the pardon for Charles Mathias PRIESTER.
Mary C.’s mother, Frances Ann (?) JOHNSTON 2nd married Wm. D. “Pop” MURPHY.
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FREEMAN, B.D.
45 m TN fmr (Bazzle
Davis) 1860 Webster Co MO. b 4 Dec 1804 Roane Co TN s/o John FREEMAN &
Susan Ann “Sucky” DAVIS; B.D. d 26 May 1885 bur in FREEMAN
Cem north of Seymour on Hwy C about 1 mile and right on AB about
¾ mile, left at first road go about 1&1/2 mile, at curve the
graves are to the southeast in a chicken yard. M 26 Jul 1827 Roane Co TN
to
Elizabeth
44 f VA 1st
w/o B.D., nee: FORTSON, d/o Stephen FORTSON & Elizabeth (?); Bazzle
Davis FREEMAN 2nd m Sarah E. (?) BURKS. In 1880 he is 75 and she
is 49.
William
22 m TN fmr
Emely
19 f TN
John
17 m TN fmr m 24
Dec 1865 Webster Co MO to Elizabeth C. d/o Lorenzo AMICK & Cyntha BURROW
and wid/o Abraham McMAHAN.
James
15 m TN m
31 Jul 1866 Webster Co MO to Martha Matilda GALLAHER; they moved to Cook
Co Texas; James d at Marietta, Indian Territory.
Mary
13 f TN m
17 May 1860 to Jesse M. COX; d 18 Nov 1914 at Springfield, MO.
Susannah
11 f TN b
16 Dec 1839 d 6 Aug 1896; m Alex J. YOUNG.
Elizabeth
09 f TN b
5 May 1842 d Feb 1920; m Wesley D. DAVIS.
Stephen
07 m TN
Adaline
05 f TN m
Charles GALLAHER s/o Jas. GALLAHER & Isabel (?).
Dobson
B. 5/12 m MO d
1850.
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FOSTER, Jessee (F.)
36 m NC fmr
b 30 Oct 1812 d 14 May 1887
bur
Trimble Cem Webster Co MO; 1860 Webster Co MO;
Huldah
(E.) 37 f SC
nee: ENGLAND or RHOME.
John
08 m TN sch
Thomas
01 m MO
READ, (REED) James
C. 22 m TN fmr b
1828 Knox Co TN; m 4 Mar
1851
Wright Co MO to Eliza DILLARD d/o Samuel DILLARD & Elizabeth JULIAN
see #22 Wright Co MO 1850; arrived Lane Co Oregon in 1853.
30-30 (blank)
BIRDSONG, Henry
81 m NC
Sarah
75 f VA
nee: ROUNTREE.
ERBY, Louisa
11 f KY
31-31
500
COMMINS (CUMMINS),
John 43 m MO fmr 1840
Pulaski Co MO; 1860
Webster
Co MO; a Methodist preacher; m 19 Nov 1831 to
Rabeca
38 f TN nee:
ROPER, d/o John ROPER
&
Nancy (LORD?), see # 32-32 Wright Co MO 1850; d 19 Nov 1851; John CUMMINS
2nd m 21 Feb 1865 Webster Co MO to Catherine BLANKENSHIP, 1860 Webster
Co MO d/o Robert BLANKENSHIP.
Drucilla
14 f MO sch m
13 Mar 1856 Webster Co MO to Robert B. PURYER.
William
10 m MO sch
Nancy
07 f MO m
A. H. LONG.
Mary
05 f MO m
James H. MARTIN
Margaret
(R.) 02 f MO
m Wm. L. SELVIDGE.
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