Genealogical and Biographical Record of Northeastern Kansas. Published 
by Lewis Publishing Co, Chicago, IL, 1900. pp. 156-157. [Monroe county].

HENRY W. HONNELL.  One of the early settlers of the Mission township was 
Henry W. Honnell, who located in Brown County in 1856, four years before 
the admission of the state into the Union.  The entire region was almost 
in its primitive condition, the settlements were few and much of the 
land was still unclaimed and undeveloped.  Mr. Honnell is a native of 
Greene County Pennsylvania, his birth having accounted there on April 
12, 1833, his father being William Honnell, a farmer, who married Miss 
Ellen Wilson, a lady of German lineage, who died May 30, 1869.  Removing 
westward the family located near Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio, where the 
father died at the age of fifty-six years.  Both parents were members of 
the United Brethren church and were people of the highest 
respectability.  In their family were twelve children, namely:  
Archibald, who died at the age of sixty years, his death resulting from 
an accident; Morris; Eli; William, who served as a captain during the 
Civil war and died at Everest, Kansas; Jesse, a physician and surgeon 
who died at Beaver Dam, Allen county, Ohio; Henry; Thomas, a captain in 
the Union army during the Civil war; Francis, a soldier who died in 
Andersonville prison during the war of the Rebellion; Maria; Catherine; 
Cynthia; and Martha.
	Henry W. Honnell was the seventh son of the family and was reared 
on the old home farm.  He attended the public schools and, with his 
brother, William, came to the west, locating in Mission township, where 
the town of Horton now stands. He has lived in this locality for forty-
five years and is one of the honered pioneers of the state.  He was 
married at the Indian mission by his brother, the Rev. William Honnell, 
to Miss Miranda J. Moore, a native of Monroe county, Kentucky, a 
daughter of Jeremiah Moore, one of the early settlers of Brown County.  
Her mother bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Spencer, was a native of 
North Carolina and a daughter of John and Mary Spencer, who died at the 
advanced age of one hundred years. Mr. Moore came to Brown county in 
1856 and resided here for many years, but died in Kentucky, while 
visiting in the state.  He was then seventy-seven years of age, and his 
wife passed away when seventy-two years of age.  Both were consistent 
members of the Christian church, and in his political views he was a 
Republican. In their family were six children, namely:  Joel; John; 
Jonathan; Polly A.; Elizabeth and Mrs. Honnell.
	Unto Mr. and Mrs. Honnell has been born six children, four of whom 
are yet living, namely:  Mary Ella, wife of E. H. Keller, and the first 
child born in Mission township, the date of her birth being 1858; 
William R., an Indian commissioner and president of the Horton Bank; U. 
G., proprietor of the Telephone Exchange, at Horton, Kansas, and Lizzie, 
wife of S. R. Farmer, of Mission township.
	Throughout his entire business career, Mr. Honnell has engaged in 
agricultural pursuits and is today the owner of a valuable property of 
three hundred and twenty acres of good land, all of which is carefully 
cultivated and kept in good condition.  All modern accessories and 
improvements are found upon his place and its neat and thrifty 
appearance indicates the careful and practical supervision of the owner.  
Mr. Honnell has been active in every good cause which tends toward the 
improvement of the country along material, social, intellectual and 
moral lines, and lends his encouragement to all enterprises which are 
calculated to promote the general prosperity.  In politics, he is a 
member of the Republican party but has never sought office, preferring 
that his time and engergies shall be given to his business affairs, in 
which he has met with creditable success. He and his wife are members of 
the Presbyterian church and Mr. Honnell is serving as one of its elders.  
During his long residence in the county he has witnessed many changes 
and improvements and at all times has borne his part in the work of 
progress and advancement.  He well deserves mention among the honorable 
business men, loyal citizens and leading pioneers of this section of the 
state and with pleasure we present the record of his life to our readers.

Honnell Wilson Moore Spencer Keller Farmer
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Horton-Brown-KS Greene-PA Sidney-Shelby-OH Beaver_Dam-Allen-OH NC

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