Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

C. C. LALE.  The Lale family was a very numerous one, and the father and
mother were people in humble circumstances, and early in life the boys
had to begin hustling for themselves.  C. C. Lale was one of the younger
boys.  He was born near Mount Zion in Grant County November 6, 1850.  
His father died when he was only 16 years old and that put the young 
chap on his mettle to make a living and assist the family.  He attended 
the common schools of Grant County at Mount Zion, and later spent one 
year in the Harrisburg Academy, under the old scholar and great 
educator, Ed Porter Thompson.  This finished his education.  In that 
day the "Western fever" was very "catching" and young Lale contracted 
the disease.  He "went West" in the fall of 1871, and drifted into 
Indian Territory, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois,
New Mexico, Tennessee and Louisiana.  At this time he did not find a 
permanent lodgment in the West and returned to Kentucky by steamboat on 
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.  In 1872 he went West again and this 
time located in Odessa, Missouri, where he worked four years in a 
grocery store.  At the close of his labors in the store he was taken 
sick and was down for eighteen months.  He gradually regained his 
health, but found that the earnings of his four years of hard labor had
been entirely swept away and he was "broke again".  Nothing daunted this
Kentucky boy, he took a new hold on life and began over again, and to
get a good start he united in marriage to Miss Mollie M. Shaffer, of 
Shelbiana, Missouri, the daughter of Colonel John Shaffer.  The marriage
was in 1874, and from that day the fortunes of C. C. Lale were made.  
He immediately began to prosper, and has been on the upgrade ever since.
He went to Kansas City and for four years was a drummer out of that 
thriving town for G. H. Allhouse & Co., wholesale grocers and produce 
merchants.  His health breaking down again, he gave up his position and 
went to Excelsior Springs, Missouri, and went into the mercantile 
business for himself and was very successful, adding considerable to 
his fortune.  Several years ago he sold out his store and located in 
Gentry City, Arkansas, where he is yet located and is doing well.  He 
has been, and is now, in the real estate business at that place.  He 
buys and sells and exchanges real estate, is a Notary Public, and 
operates an insurance and loan agency that is very profitable.  Mr. 
Lale owns a fine farm of 80 acres of land within one mile of Gentry 
City, on which he has 1,000 peach (Elberta) trees, 2,000 apple trees, 
14,000 raspberries, 20,000 early harvest blackberries, and five acres 
in strawberries, all in bearing a fine market for the entire crop.  Mr. 
Lale is a member of the Baptist Church, an Odd Fellow, and a Knight of
Pythias, and stands very high in the country of his adopted home.  He
has two lovely little boys, one five and the other nine years old.  In 
addition to his property of different kinds he has money in bank, and 
does not owe anybody on earth a cent.  He is as happy with his wife and 
family as a man can well be, but has not forgotten his "Old Kentucky 
Home".

Lale Shaffer Thompson Allhouse
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AR TX KS MO NE IL NM TN LA

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