ORGANIZATIONS

 

Cedar Lodge No 103 Knights of Pythias, Stockton, Cedar County, Missouri

 

1900 Officers

T. N. WOODRUFF, PAST CHANCELLOR
C. A. RAGLAND, CHANCELLOR COMMANDER
J. B. HILLERS, VICE-CHANCELLOR
A. B. NEVINS, PRELATE
G. L. WALKER, KEEPER OF RECORDS AND SEAL
G. M. PETTY, MASTER OF EXCHEQUER
S. J. BOLTON, MASTER OF FINANCE
J. W. ENEX, MASTER AT ARMS
S. C. LOWRY, MASTER OF WORK
W. T. EDGE, INNER GUARD
J. F. KEIL, OUTER GUARD

 

Members

BABBS. F. H.
BACON, J. S.
BANDON, H. M.
BARR, JAS. F.
BARROW. W. T.
BOLTON, S. J.
BROWN, W. R.
BURT, MARTIN A.
BUTLER, W. J.
CALFEE, THOS. P.
CARENDER, W. A.
CHURCH, CHARLES R.
CHURCH, W. P.
CHURCH. F. L.
COOPER, G. W.
COOPER, JACKSON A.
CORBIN, C. D.
CORBIN, H. H.
CORBIN, J. W.
CREASON, S. P.
DICKINSON, J. W.
EDGE, LEVI K.
EDGE, W. T.
ELLISTON, G. W.
ENIX, J. W.
FLEMMING, GEORGE
FOUST, C. B.
FOUST, HARRY
FOUST, W. A.
FRENCH, T. S.
GEISER, JOHN
HACKLEMAN, F. W.
HASTIN, W. C.
HEADLEE, FRY
HEADLEE, J. A.
HEADLEE, L. J.
HEMBREE, JOEL T.
HENDERSHOT, J. T.
HILLERS, J. B.
HOERNING. F. W.
HOFF, E. G.
HUDSON, WILLIAM
HUMPHRYS, W. B.
HURT, W. B.
JOHNSON, R. L.
KEIL, J. F.
KENDRICK, L. R.
KIRKSEY, J. L.
LOWRY, C. L.
MALCOLM, A. S.
MARSHALL, WILLIAM
McACHRAN, S. G.
McACHRAN, T. L.
McKENRY, CHARLES
MILLER, GEORGE
MORGAN, R. B.
NELSON, T. L.
NEVINS. A. B.
NOFFSINGER, MATT.
OWEN, F. B.
OWEN, JESSE F.
PETTY, G. M.
PHIPPS, W. E.
POWERS, CHARLES A.
POWERS, ROBERT R.
PRESTON, ROBERT L.
RAGLAND, C. A.
RILEY, W. H.
ROSS, WALTER
RUTLEDGE, E. T.
SNYDER, W. R.
STRATTON, W. H.
STREET, J. S.
SUMMERS, O. J.
SWAGER, G. B.
SWINGLE, JOHN
TAYLOR, JOHN R.
WALKER, G. L.
WALKER, V. L
WASSON, JOHN W.
WASSON, OMER
WEBB, N. H.
WEGER, L. E.
WEST, E. G.
WILLIAMS, W. E.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM
WOODRUFF, T. N.
WYRICK, LEWIS W.
YOUNG. ED. H.
YOUNGER, W. W.
 

Deceased

BOLTON, CHARLES A.

DUDLEY, JOHN

FERGUSON, CHARLES E.

HACKLEMAN, A. L.

HARTLEY, WALTER M.

HAYER, JAMES

MAYFIELD, FRANK

WEBB, JOHN M.

WILLIAMS, CHARLES H.

 

“If Fraternal Love held All Men Bound, How Beautiful This World Would Be” 
                                                    Justus H. Rathbone
 

Information from "Revised By-Laws of Cedar Lodge, No 103.  Knights of Pythias, Stockton, Cedar County, Missouri. Approved by G.K.R.S., 1900"

 

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 1879 Cedar County Farmers

(The following were listed as farmers and/or stock raisers under the heading of “Business References” on the 1879 Map of Cedar County, Missouri, by Babbs and Stoddard, Surveyors and Draughtsmen. They were probably subscribers/advertisers for the printing of the map, and this is not a full list of 1879 Cedar County farmers, etc. Some had additional occupations which are shown in parentheses.)

S. W. Horn, M.D. (Physician); Wm. Smiley; J. H. Bovell; J. M. Akard;

D. H. Connaway; Sol. Hartley; A. C. Montgomery; J. N. Bacon; Jno. Guiser (sic);

B. G. Nance; J. L. Warner; W. T. Kennedy; A. C. McCants; T. B. Graham; A. Sallee;

J. M. Potter; Riley Sherrill; W. F. Dunaway; Phoebe J. Edsell; M. M. Cates;

J. T. Potter; A. Heorning (sic); H. N. Hartley; James Steward; M. A. Jones;

R. A. Younger; M. A. Mayberry; J. J. Freize (sic); M. McMillen; Abner Womack;

Edwin Hermance; T. G. Walker; B. L. Cornwell; R. M. Hayter; F. Owen;

M. Firestone; J. R. Holland (House Painter and Grainer); B. Troyer;

Elizabeth Hubbell (Fruit Farm and Entainment); Ferdinand Huff (Public Administrator);

L. L. and W. C. Williams; I. N. Graham; E. Liston (Nurseryman);

Jos. Benskin (Fine Coach-Partridge Chickens and Eggs for sale); D. W. Snider;

P. McKeown; E. Begley; L. N. Wright; George Lozar; J. N. Price; J. Popplewell;

J. C. & W. C. Simrell; W. R. McBride; Alex. Simrell; A. C. Walker; H. N. Molder;

Richard Hartley; W. C. York; D. S. Gwin; J. M. Potter; T. K. Crawford; W. J. Lyon;

Jacob Cowan; A. Rickman; T. C. Harris; W. H. Harris (Physician and Surgeon);

Cooper Blore; H. Phillips; J. H. Brown; J. S. Brown; John Butner; J. W. D. Kirkpatrick (School Teacher);

Isaac Rains; J. B. Harris; T. H. Simrell; T. B. Hopkins; William Cook; Jacob Keller; R. C. Hancock;

E. C. Peters (Ex. Co. Clerk); J. W. Osborn; J. Baker; T. M. & W. C. Montgomery; L. B. Prouty;

D. J. Thompson (Ex. Judge); J. W. Roby; A. Vandenbergh (sic) (Notary Public); J. W. Prowell;

J. M. Guthridge; J. & F. Vandenberg (sic); M. Mosier; W. A. Dale (General Merchant); Jno. Wasson;

J. F. Johnson (Miller); Mrs. M. S. Morehead; J. J. Fortney; Mrs. E. Sherman; S. L. Smith (Stock Dealer);

S. D. Light; I. F. Beck; S. W. Beck; J. B. Warren; T. A. Johnston; S. P. Collins; J. S. Six; J. A. Cogle;

I. S. Brasher; F. A. Brasher; B. L. Brasher; G. W. Rodebush; R. C. Ball; S. S. Brown; Alex. Porter; and W. M. Butler.

 

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Early Settlers

 

Andrew Jackson was president of the United States and John Miller was the governor of Missouri when the first settlers arrived here in 1832. They were (as far as can be determined) Robert Graham, Thomas English, John Crisp, and a Mr. Crump.

Among those who had entered land by 1839 in the territory surrounding Stockton were: Thomas English, Reddin Crisp, John W. Sheppard, James Miller, Jacob Miller, Erwin Wilson, Solomon G. Crank, Matthias Williams, Leonard Wintermole, Lindsey Bowman, Abraham Berger, Hezekiah Harryman, Henry L. Davis, David Welch,William Welch, James Hornbeck, Mason Crabtree, Nathan Parker, William Ainsworth, Obadiah Smith, Anderson Morton, William L. Gordon, Mitchell E. Gash, Daniel Dale, James Gordon, Robert Williams, John G. Williams, James MacDowell, Andrew MacDowell, Ezra Hamor, William G. Powell, Campbell English, Christopher J. Lamberton, Oliver P. Gash, Reuben J. Gash, Alexander McWilliams, William Denson, John P. Campbell, Charles A. Haden, John Bullard, Eli Roberts, Andrew J. Snodgrass, Stephen May, Thomas Eslinger, and Stephen Hodgin. (This is not a complete list of inhabitants but of those who had entered land.)

 

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