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EARLY SETTLERS OF
MONITEAU TOWNSHIP
JAMES DYSART
JOHN DYSART
DR WM WALKER
REV JESSE TERRILL
MONTGOMERY
WHITMORE
J HIGBEE
GEORGE YATES
NICHOLAS DYSART
CHRISTOPHER
DYSART
M M BURTON
MAJ J B TYMONY
JOSEPH BURTON
EDWARD OWENS
GEORGE QUINN
EDWARD OWENS WAS
THE OLDEST MAN
IN THE TOWNSHIP AT
THE TIME OF
HIS DEATH.
NICHOLAS DYSART
AGE 75 (1884) IS
THE OLDEST SETTLER
HON M M BURTON
AGE 62 (1884) IS
THE OLDEST NATIVE
BORN CITIZEN OF
MONITEAU
MRS NICHOLAS
DYSART IS THE OLDEST LADY
AMONG OTHER
SETTLERS WERE
JOHN TURNER
WM B TOMPKINS
LYNCH TURNER
JOSEPH WILCOX
JACOB MAGGARD
CHARLES MCLEAN
THOMAS DAWKIS
JOHN TURNER
ERECTED THE FIRST MILL
IN THE TOWNSHIP,IT
WAS AN OLD
FASHIONED HORSE
MILL.IT WAS LOCATED
IN THE NORTHERN
PORTION OF THE TOWNSHIP
AND WAS RUNNING
AS EARLY AS 1828
THOMAS DAWKINS
TAUGHT THE FIRST SCHOOL
ABOUT THE YEAR
1830.THE SCHOOL HOUSE A
SMALL CABIN STOOD
NEAR A SMALL STREAM
ONE OF THE FORKS
OF SILVER CREEK.
DAWKINS WAS FROM
KY AND WAS MUCH THOUGHT OF AS
A TEACHER.
CATTLE DEALERS
WERE
WM JAMES
JAMES E RUCKER
ISHAM POWELL
A AND G MILLER
SUBSTANTIAL
FARMERS AND STOCK RAISERS
O P BAKER
NICHOLAS DYSART
OWEN BAGBY
Z HALE
JOEL H YATES
W L RENNOLDS
JOHN HARLOW
G QUINN
DR W P DYSART
W YAGER
WM JAMES
J COLLINS
MOSS DAWKINS
H PATRICK
W SMITH
R HINDS
ISHAM POWELL
JAMES E RUCKER
G MILLER
THE CITY OF HIGBEE
WAS NAMED
AFTER JAMES HIGBEE.
JOSEPH BURTON ONE
OF THE FOUNDERS OF
THE TOWN IS IN THE
68TH YEAR OF
HIS AGE.HE HAS A
FAMILY OF 15 CHILDREN
10 SONS AND 5
DAUGHTERS.18 GRAND CHILDREN.
EDWARD OWENS
ANOTHER OF THE FOUNDERS
IS DEAD,HE LEFT A
FAMILY OF 9 CHILDREN,
44 GRAND
CHILDREN,AND 6 GREAT GRAND CHILDREN. |