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AHALFmm t wr[cKinley is deliveringReminiscences of Lincolntv’s Earlier Citizens.X*. WD., March 4, 1901.Press: At thisJT'1:_nn'r.7r»l address as pres-° ,be United Slates, to theI*, that ever assembled (JJbI capital. The morning JZt but now the clouds are»nd darkeningsed a good education, brilliant conversational powers and the strongest impulses. The work of weeks ordish who had lived a mile south of Millwood bought Dr. Yale’s farm and died there about 1858. The othermonths was as nothing to him when a friend was to be served or an enemy circumvented. He with John K. Salmons and Dr. Marcus H. McFarlandWhethervuidentlaan augury of a aenti-l^rae after the fascination ofv loccess, I leave for the cu-Mv family and Dr. Tully O.! of Kampsville, Illinois, son i’friend, Eld. B. F. Hardesty, ring me, much to my enjoy-have fre to witne8S the Pa‘ Ey to be the most magnificent^noeived. This gives me an Bity to resume work on some Hry sketches of the LongLincoln county, broken off by ^isment into service as editorEger of a daily fair paper,tches will consist of this and iore letters.conceived and executed more practical jokes upon their neighbors andfriends than any three men that ever lived in Lincoln county. Davis was willing at any time to put in a solid week of horseback riding, day and night, without sleep and if necessary without food, to start a good joke. A few nights after the Long A»-m Prairie incident which I mentioned in a previous letter, he was taken from his home near Louisville by a detachment of Federal soldiers under, or acting under the orders of a Major Johnson and shot to death. He demanded, butth^iunsuccessfully, of his captors reason of bis execution, assuring them that if they suspected his complicity with Drumbeller, he could abundantly satisfy them of his innocence. On September 27, of the following year, 1884, Johnson met his Nemesis at Centralia. When I firsttwo more pupils of theichool. A young man from or vicinity, named Cochran.oncing his name he softened-«d“C’ and sounded a vowelthe “b” and the “r” but theknew Davis he was a widower, bav-been married twice. His firstingwife left a daughter who married Alonzo Edelin. His second wife wasadened the first into a “w”ftbened the last syllable into Several years afterwards he extensively in Europe ande some interesting lettersin Scotland andidlordismmd other kindred topics. Ihis first name. ThejottenDan Gannon.The rudea sister of Edelin’s. She left a son,James A. Davis, who about the middle of the war, enlisted in the Federal army and his subsequent fate is unknown. Thomas I. Fletcher wasan early settler of the Millwood vicinity, having gone there from Maryland in 1835. He was the father ofBen E. Fletcher, mentioned in a former letter. Thomas Hammonds wasliving near where the road from Troynames on the book as running postage accounts are: Jonathan Duval, Job Flemming, G. W. Hughes, Thomas Reeds, V. G. Sanders, JamesShaw, Robert Shaw and A. D. Wiggs.I know nothing of any of them. Perhaps some of the older residents do. I forgot to state that John Hudson, in a conversation had with him twenty-five years ago, told me that he was then one of the few persons' in Lincoln county who had voted on the constitution under which the statewas admitted into the Union. In this he was mistaken as the constitution was not submitted to the people. Probably, he got the vote May 1, 2 and 3, 1820, for the delegate to the constitutional convention, confounded for the vote on the instrument.Very likely he voted for his neighbor, Col. Meredith Cox, who livedwhere Louisville now stands, who received 81 votes being second on thelist of four,Malcolm'Henry, who lived on Big Creek, being elected by 38Joseph A. Mudd.plurality.Plows with an Elephant.James Cahill, of Roney’s Point, West Virginia, is probably the only man in the United States who has inregular use upon his farm an elephant which is used for farm work. Withthe swaying beast hitched up to aplow he can turn more ground than any of his neighbors with a team ofhorses, and when it comes to hauling logfc the elephant will walk away withease with logs which the best teamsof bis neighbors cannot move. Theelephant eats little more than a horseA BEAU1The QuarteBurpeeWithin theseen many ha out by enter the United SIwithin ourproached the of Bnrpee’s now before osniflcent specii but it is so intthe buyer is t making up hi seeds, which the motto ofhouse—“Burp The good ju the Farm Ammirably showgeneral desigin detail are ireaders’ attersuperiority of the house is nthe hands of tof the countr the mission lt;producer: only new, bul line and thencellencies as ithe public tc trial. To ful£difficult in thlt;pee Co., bei a well eetablispecial respelt;ommended tohas been givlt; has proven il satisfactiongrowers.
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Troy Free Press
Troy, Missouri, US
Fri, Mar 15, 1901
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