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wood. Among these were two marriages of persons of the same familyname but in each case the relationship was too distant to be calculated.I am curious to know where you picked up the name of Richard H. Hill, as I did not think there werethree persons now in Lincoln county that ever heard of him. I remember him very well, though I was only five years old when he went to Texas. His family consisted of his wife, of whose personal appearance I have no recollection, one son, a tall, hand-somo young fellow named Clement, and three pretty daughters, of whose names I remember only one—Angelina. They lived in a little log cabin near the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 11, township 50, range 2 west. Hill taught at what is now known as ScboolNo. 1, same township and range, for some years prior to 1847, and was probably the first to teach there. My oldestbrother, who died in this county in1865, attended this school, and I went a day or two “just for fun.” I thought Hill the greatest talker in the world. Years afterward when I was old enough to know what such things meant, I learned that he wasFletcher, with three others, under the leadership of Iverson Drumheller— five in all—were trying to mae their way to the Confederate army, butcamped awhile in the woods near the edge of Lopg Arm prairie in the hope of picking up other recruits. Their presence became known to the Federal militia, and a company went up from Troy to capture them. By oneof these inexplicable circumstances that sometimes happen to the best of soldiers, this company lost its reason at the first fire and became utterlydemoralized. The five men pursuedit under the lash for nearly ten miles, wounding two, without any loss to themselves. Ben was afterward captured and banished to Canada. Re-maining in Canada only a few weeks, he ventured to Washington; was employed in his uncle’s store at the corner of Fourth and I streets, Northwest, and died after a short illness, Jan., 1864. David D.Porter was a captain in the Confederate army, and his brother George W. was a captain in the Federal army. The Lewises were the sons of Shed Lewis, who lived on the farm bought by the late Henry Corley. Allen, the oldest son, went over to Illinois for a year or twoJohn Best last week presented to the Standard an egg from a Plymouth Rock ben, which is about as large as any we ever saw. It meausred %% inches in circumference lengthwise, and 6^ inches around the middle. It was what, in vulgar paralafice, might be designed as a peach, and made avery good meal itself.—Montgomery Standard.Any cough itT serious enough to warrant prompt attention. It is what it may result in that makes a cough dangerous. For all slight and stubborn coughs, for1 la grippe, lung fever, bronchitis, asthma and other throat and lung affections, you can find do other remedy so agreeable and harmless, or so promptly effective as Mor-ley’s Honey Pectoral. ^Price 25 centsAsk your druggist.The Howard County Advertiser tells us that Mrs. J. R. Cropp, of Glasgow, marketed during the year 1900. $154.80 worth of butter, eggs and poultry. From January 1, 1898,* she has marketed $567.62 worth.Jos. Cobb, living near Middletown, has been farming eighteen years and during that time haa~lost eighte ei work horses. 2
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Troy Free Press
Troy, Missouri, US
Fri, Jan 25, 1901
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