Family Lines From New Madrid County
Goodspeed's History of
SouthEast
Missouri-1887
Section 3:1799 +
(Settlements, Counties & People)
Transcribed by Tara R Barrett,
1999
Section 3:1799 + (Settlements, Counties &
People)
Page #3
In 1812 Newman Beckwith came from Viginia, and located between
Norfolk and Wolf Island, and the next year William Rush settled
on Rush's Ridge.
Lucas' Bend was settled by James Lucas, about 1802.
About 1800 John, Andrew and James Ramsey came from Cape
Girardeau District, and located in the vicinity of Norfolk.
John and Drakeford Gray and Thomas Phillips were pioneers of
Wolf Island Township, and William B. Bush, of Long
Prairie.
The settlement did not extend much beyond Little River until
between 1820 and 1830. The first settlement in what is now
Stoddard County
was not made far from the year 1825. At that time Benjamin
Taylor and a married son, Jacob Taylor, came from North
Carolina, and located
about three miles east of Bloomfield. There were two other
sons, Abraham and Issac, who, after marriage, made
settlements-Issac, two miles
northwest, and Anraham, four miles north of Bloomfield. Peter
and Jacob Crites, about the same time, came from Bollinger
County, and located a short distance
southwest of Bloomfield; John and Jonas Eaker, from North
Carolina. Absalom B. Bailey, William Wray, Ephraim Snider,
Thomas Neale and Jacob Miller
were also among the pioneers of the county.
In 1829 the territory afterward organized as Stoddard County was
attached to Cape Girardeau County, and by the court of that
county it was divided into
two townships. The part east of Castor River was called Pike
Township, and the part to the north, Castor Township. Joseph
Chapman and Thomas Wylie were appointed
justices of the peace, and Joel Ramsey constable in the first,
and Thomas Neale and John Eaker justices of the peace, and
William Hardin, constable in Castor Township.
The first election in Pike Township was ordered to be held at
the house of Jacob Miller, and in Castor at the house of John
Wray. The settlement went on very rapidly between
1830 and 1840, and at the latter date the population numbered
over 3,000.
Dunklin County formed a part of Stoddard prior to its
organization. It was difficult of access, and its settlement
was longer deferred than that of any other county in Southeast
Missouri.
One of the first persons to locate within its borders was Howard
Moore, who, in 1829, built a small house four miles south of the
present town of Malden. He was orginally from Virginia, but had
lived in Tennessee.
In 1831 Moses Norman, a native of Alabama, located on West
Prairie. He had previously lived near Marble Hill, however. At
about the same time Jacob Taylor removed from his first
location, near Bloomfield,
to West Prairie. Within the next three or four years the
following locations were made: Henry Meyers and N.W. Seitz on
West Prairie; Hugh Shiply, four miles north of Kennett; Evan
Evans, four miles south of Kennett;
Adam Barnhart and Holcomb, on Grand Prairie; Pleasant Cockrum,
James Baker and Hollis, in the vicinity of Cockrum postoffice;
Russell and William H. Horner, at Hornersville; John Cude, at
Cotton Plant, and George Sheppard
and Thomas Varner, in the vicinity of Kennett.
Butler County was long the favorite hunting ground of Indians as
well as whites, and it was not until about 1820 that any
perminent locations were made. The first of which any exact
information could be obtained was that of
Solomon Kittrel. He came from Kentucky, reaching his location
on Cane Creek in November, 1819. There were then some 200-300
Indians camped on the creek, and they remained there for about
three years. He took up a large body
of land, and subsequently opened a general frontier store,
bringing his goods from Cape Girardeau with ox teams. He also
built a distillery, and sunk a tanyard in which he did an
extensive business. He died, at an advanced age, in 1872.
Among the other pioneers were Daniel Epps, Sr., who lived on
what was known as the "Military Road," on Ten Mile Creek, where
he had a mill; Thomas Scott, who lived on Cane Creek; Malachi
Hudspeth, also, on Cane Creek; Martin Sandlin,
who lived on Little Black River; Samuel Hillis, Willia m and
Frank Whitington, Samuel Polk, James Brannam, and Applebys and
Vandovers.
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