Hallsville Area Surnames |
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Acton
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Anthony
Austene (Austin)
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Elkin |
Flynt
Richard Marion Flynt (1837-1926)I was named for an uncle of mine who was called "Dare Devil Dick" Flynt. Our home is 15 miles northeast of Columbia on the edge of what was then known as the Grand Prairie. The house was built of hewed logs, the floors were sawed with a whip saw, and the shingles were homemade. There was a fireplace at both the north and south ends of the house. What is now my shop, was the company room of my father's house. There is still a wooden peg just inside the south door which father put there to hang his Sunday hat on.
At the age of six I went to a subscription school, which was one-half mile southeast of home. There were no public schools at that time so we did not have school every year. I never went to but six schools in my life. When a boy I had hounds, and when Mr. Baker, one of our neighbors, would blow his hunter's horn the dogs and I would go over. And what sport we all would have hunting for foxes and coons. In 1850, my oldest brother, James W. went to California. My father made a trip to Mississippi on horseback. He was gone eight weeks. One of the darkeys and I planted and cultivated the corn while he was gone. From that time on I was foreman of our farm. Father died in 1858. I liked to break horses. Some of the neighbors would get me to brealk 3 or 4 every spring. I began plastering when I was about seventeen years old. I worked at plastering till I was about thrity-five years old. On June 7, 1860, Mary Turner and I were married. We lived on the homeplace with my mother till fall when we moved to Mr. Turner's and stayed all winter. We then moved to the James Carter place, now known as the Brockenbrough place, and lived there till September 1861. Then I volunteered and joined the Confederate Army at Lexington, Missouri. I was in General Harris' Division, Colonel Harve McKinney's Regimenty. I was in the battle of Lexington. It lasted three days. Our men were between the breast works and the river. After the battle I was granted permission to join General Clark's Division, Colonel Singleton's Regiment. Harris and Clark's Divisions were each a part of General Sterling Price's Army. Later I took camp diarrhea and was left on the road in south Missouri to die. John Will Asbury stayed with me. The people of the community fed us, and we stayed in the wood for about six weeks. By that time I was brought home. John Will brought me home. Molly had stayed at her father's during my absence so I went there too. In the spring of 1862, we moved to what is now known as the Millard Turner place. In the fall of 1864, we went to Illinois and stayed there till December. That same fall the bush wackers took one of the best saddle maress I ever owned. I did not find her for eighteen months. But I finally got her back. At the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, Martin, my youngest brother, was wounded and imprisoned at Nashville, Tennessee. General Thomas was in command. No one could come into his lines without a pass from the Provo Marshall. I got a pass from another man and went in under an assumed name. I went to the prision where Martin was, but was advised by a Federal Mason to not enter it but to come home. I came back to St. Louis and went to Colonel Switzler for advice. He drew up a petition for me. It was signed by a number of men, among whom was Dr. Sneed. He was personally acquainted with our congressman, James Rollins. Rollins went in person to the Secretary of War who sent the petition to Nashville and Martin was sent home. In March 1865, we moved to a log cabin in the south pasture of my father's old place. The war was over and we again settled down to live our own happy, busy farm life. In 1866, my mother died and I bought my brothers and sisters' interest in the homeplace. That same year we moved into the old home and have lived here continuously ever since. In the fall of 1883, we built a new house on the same ground over which the old house stood. I plastered this house; it was the plastering I ever did. My father was a Methodist. As there was no chuch of that denomination near, father gave an acre of ground on which a church was built. He named it Mt. Zion. This church was built in 1849. There was no Baptist church so the Methodists permitted the Baptists to hold their meetings in their church. Molly and I joined the Baptist church in 1867 under the preaching of G.D. Toole. After the Baptist church was built at Grand View, a Sunday School was orgainized. I was moderator of the church and superintendent of the Sunday School each for 15 years. I was chosen to teach the Bible Class and re-chosen for a number of years. There are always burdens in every church to be borne and I always wanted to , and did help bear them in Grand View until I got so I could not hear well. Then left them for younger people to bear. In 1860 I became a Mason at Sturgeon, Missouri. Was a charter member of Hickory Grove Lodge, No. 81. Was master of Lodge for 18 years. The older members of the Hickory Grove Lodge died, and the younger ones move away till those who were left had to become members at Hallsville. My name is still there, but as I can't hear well, and the meetings are always at night, so I neve attend any more. For 16 years I was Notary Public of Boone County. When the Bank of Hallsville was organized I was chosed vice-president, and continued to be for 25 years. The on account of frail health resigned. Eight children were born to us, six of them are still living. All are married and have homes of their own save one. She still lives at home and cares for her mother and me, making the rough places smooth and comforting us in every way possible. Source Thomas Flynt (1792-1858)Thomas left Stokes County, North Carolina, about 1834 and went via the Cumberland Gap to Missouri where he settled. In 1835 he was issued a patent for 153 acres of land by Andrew Jackson. He built a log cabin where he lived with his family. Thomas owned eleven slaves. He raised corn, wheat, oats, timothy, and flax. He had a yoke of white oxen, named Mike and Jake, with which he broke the ground. He used a wooden mold-board plow. All grain was planted by hand. His only vehicle was a four horse wagon driven with one line. The horses turned by the words "Gee" and "Haw".
Thomas was a Methodist and gave an acre of land to build a church on the southwest corner of his farm. The church he named Mt. Zion and was built in 1849. Thomas left Stokes County, North Carolina, about 1834 and went via the Cumberland Gap to Missouri where he settled. In 1835 he was issued a patent for 153 acres of land by Andrew Jackson. He built a log cabin where he lived with his family. Thomas owned eleven slaves. He raised corn, wheat, oats, timothy, and flax. He had a yoke of white oxen, named Mike and Jake, with which he broke the ground. He used a wooden mold-board plow. All grain was planted by hand. His only vehicle was a four horse wagon driven with one line. The horses turned by the words "Gee" and "Haw". Thomas was a Methodist and gave an acre of land to build a church on the southwest corner of his farm. The church he named Mt. Zion and was built in 1849. Source |
Morgenthaler
William MorgenthalerThe Morgenthaler family came to Hallsville
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