Page 704:
"JUDGE HARVEY HARRISON,
was born March 7, 1806, in Blount County, east Tennessee. His
parents, Joseph and Nancy Harrison, removed to Huntsville, Alabama,
when Harvey was six months old, where they remained until he was
about nineteen years of age. He married Zilpha, daughter of Hugh
and Margaret Bell, of Tennessee. They have had twelve children,
ten sons and two daughters. His son, Alfred B., was killed by the
falling of a brick store on Holden street, June 19, 1877. His
father lived to see his fifth generation, and was eighty-nine years
old at the time of his death. Mr. Harrison is one of the old and
prominent settlers of this county. He has been county judge,
justice of the peace, and in other ways stood before the people.
Both himself and wife are members of the C. P. [probably Cumberland
Presbyterian] church, having united with the organization
fifty-five years ago.
Page 704-705:
JNO. W. HARRISON,
son of Judge Harrison, is a native of this county, and was born
February 28, 1838. He spent his youth on his father's farm,
receiving a liberal education. When about twenty years of age he
spent four or five years traveling over Colorado, Montana and many
other western states and territories in search of the shining
metal. In 1860 he returned to his old home and engaged in farming,
which he followed for four years, after which he conducted a livery
stable until May 1880, when he sold out. Mr. H. married in 1860
Miss Eliza C. Ovens, of this county, and native of Tennessee. They
have had four children, two of whom are dead. Mr. Harrison is a
plain, unassuming gentleman.
Page 658:
"The Huntsman Favorite apple originated here on the old Huntsman
farm about one mile west of Fayetteville in 1835. The following
incident is related in regard to getting the scions: "At that time
the old settlers often went to Lexington to the mill, and would
stop at nurseries and orchards in Lafayette county and dig up
seedling sprouts to plant. The following old settlers went to the
Sni country, on Sni creek, to get young apple trees: Richard
Huntsman, Joseph Hobson, Wm. Trapp, Robt. Graham, James Borthick,
George McMahan, and Wm. McMahan. The distance was about forty-five
miles away. They returned with a large lot of scions and from the
bunch of sprouts put out by Richard Huntsman came the huntsman
Favorite apple, so highly prized in our orchards of today. Uncle
Joe Harrison, as he was called, said he was too old to plant trees,
when invited to go to John Ingram's nursery, in the Sni Hills, for
trees. Many of these men lived to enjoy the "fruit" of their
labors, and Uncle Joe Harrison outlived the grater part of them and
to eat apples from Judge Wm. McMahan's orchard, which grew from the
scions of the "old famous Hunstman tree" in Richard Huntsman's
orchard."
Page 214:
"HAZEL HILL settlement was made about 1830. Judge Harvey Harrison
came here March 21, 1831, and settled on the head of Walnut creek.
The place is now owned by Mr. Powers; the old brick building is
still standing and was the second in the county. N. Houx, of
Columbus settlement put up first. Judge Harrison was one of the
leading men of his neighborhood. He was born March 7, 1806 in
Tennessee, of Dutch-Irish ancestry. He emigrated to Alabama, near
Huntsville, before the town was laid out. There he married Zilpha
Bell, of Irish-Scotch extraction, November 28, 1824, and came to
Missouri. He was justice of the peace in his settlement twelve
years, and served four years as county judge. Among the old
settlers worthy of notice are, Wm. McMahan, George McMahan, Richard
Huntsman, Joshua Adams, James M. Smith, Joel Walker, Greenell
Brown, James Borthick, George Hoffman, Thomas Bradford, Wm. Trapp,
Joseph Harrison, Robert Graham and William Stockton.
Page 657-58:
"The cemeteries of the township will be briefly noticed here. The
pioneers often buried their relatives on their own farms and this
accounts for the scattering of graveyards.
Liberty cemetery is in section 24, on the Warrensburg and
Fayetteville road and has been a burying place for many years. The
Liberty school house stands close by on the south.
Harrison cemetery is in section 21. Thos. B. Harrison was the
first one buried here. It was about 1844. The land is owned by J.
W. Stayer of Kansas City.
Hobson cemetery is the southeast corner of section 15. Mrs.
Elizabeth Brooks was the first person interred. Now there are
upwards of one hundred graves......"