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From: Donna Van Zandt [mailto:donavan@netins.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 11:17 AM
To: clatwood(a)aol.com; Don & Melissa Alexander
Cc: Larry A. Robbins
Subject: Re: Daviess & Gentry County, Missouri- Elizabeth Cecil
Posted by Crystal Atwood on September 18, 1998 at 03:56:50:
Looking for parents and information on Elizabeth Cecil born 1829 died 1863
believed to be in HARDIN CO.,KY. She was married to Albien KERFOOT abt 1848.
One known son-Ezra Cornelius KERFOOT born 18 Mar 1856 Hardin Co., KY. (I
have the following information on this which I had mistakenly filed under
Davis Co. Ky.-oops. -Donna)
The History of Daviess and Gentry Counties Missouri by John C. Leopard
and Buel Leopard-1922
pg. 558
William H. Kerfoot, well known in Bogle Township, Gentry County, is the
owner of 240 acres of land, which he bought in 1885 and which has been his
home since Nov. 26 of that same year. Mr. Kerfoot was born in Hardin
County, Kentucky, May 25, 1858, the son of Albien and Elizabeth (Cecil)
Kerfoot.
Albien Kerfoot was the son of George W. Kerfoot, a Kentucky pioneer of the
earlt days of that state. Albien Kerfoot was a well known farmer of Hardin
County, Kentucky. His first wife, Elizabeth (Cecil) Kerfoot died in 1863.
To her union with Albien Kerfoot, the following children were born:
Charlie, died at Hobart, Oklahoma; John, for many years a resident of
Gentry County, where he owned a farm near Mount Pleasant, now living at
Garden City, Kan.; Ezra, living in Oklahoma; Mollie, the widow of W.H.
Cecil of Davis County, Kentucky; and William H., the subject of this sketch.
By a second marriage of Albien Kerfoot he had the following children: Luke,
deceased; Lizzie, was Mrs. Keene, now dead; Owen, on the home farm in
Kentucky; Eva, the wife of Silas Nall of Hardin County, Kentucky; Andrew
J., Kentucky;
Allie, Kentucky; Noah, a resident of Grayson County, Texas; and Birdie,
now Mrs. Bruner of Hardin County, Kentucky. Albien Kerfoot died on March 9,
1880, and is buried in the Kerfoot Cemetery, Hardin County, Kentucky.
William H. Kerfoot attended the rural schools of Kentucky and was a farmer
there prior to his coming to Missouri in 1884. The next year he bought his
present farm upon which he has put all of the improvements. He built the
residence in 1893, and has added excellent farm buildings. The place lies
five miles northwest of Gentry, and is well adapted to the raising of stock.
Mr. Kerfoot raises Angus cattle and Spotted Poland China and Duroc Jersey
hogs. He raised sheep for more than 20 years but no longer engages in that
line of work.
Mr. Kerfoot was married on Oct. 8, 1885 to Texa M. Hash, born Nov. 13, 1866,
in Tazewell County, Virginia, the daughter of C.B. and Nickettie (Claypool)
Hash. C.B. Hash, Sr., was born in Grayson County, Virginia, and died at
Gentry, Mo., Jan. 1, 1920. Mrs. Hash was born in Tazewell County, Virginia,
Aug. 4, 1841, and died at the home of Mrs. Kerfoot Sept. 29, 1918. The
remains of both are buried in the Greenridge Cemetery. They were married in
Virginia, Dec. 30, 1864, and came to Missouri in 1867. They located in
Calloway County, where they remained for a year, and then moved to Audrain
County. In 1868 they came to Gentry County, and the next year located near
Gentry. Mr. Hash was one of the leading farmers and stockmen of his day in
Gentry County. His herd of shorthorn cattle was among the best in this part
of the state. He also raised hogs, and bred English Shire horses, importing
the stallions. He served his township and county in official capacities;
he was the assessor during the years 1874-1876; was elected county
treasurer in 1882; and was the census enumerator for Bogle Township in 1880.
He was a man who was ambitious, not only for personal success, but for the
development of the community where he lived. C.B. Hash served in the 45th
Infantry and later Company H, 8th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate Army, from
beginning until the close of the war.
To the union of C.B. and Nickettie (Claypool) Hash the following children
were born: Tera M., now Mrs. Kerfoo; Sallie, the wife of R. E. Bentley of
Ft. Cobb, Okla.; Frank Lee of Baxter Springs, Kan.;
James M., died in 1871; George, died in Texas County, Missouri, Oct. 11,
1912; Jessie V., the wife of George M.Etter of Gentry; Clinton B., Jr.,
living at Gentry; Rebecca Alice, died in infancy; Nannie, died in
childhood; and Grover C., a farmer in Harrison County.
To the union of William H. and Texa M. (Hash) Kerfoot, two children were
born; Lily Virginia, born May 21, 1890, was married on Sept. 30, 1908, to
Emmet E. Nicholson of Albany, and died, Oct. 24, 1912, leaving a daughter,
Jennie Belle; and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, born Aug. 30, 1894, now
farming near Garden City, Kansas. He was educated in the district schools
of Gentry County, and attended Gem City Business College at Quincy, Ill. On
April 26, 1918, he enlisted for service in the World War, and was sent to
Waco, Texas, for training. He was placed with Company L, 34th Infantry, 7th
Division and was sent overseas in August, 1918, where he remained until May
15, 1919. He was at the front when the armistice was signed. He was
mustered out of service at Camp Taylor, Kentuky, on june 26, 1919, and then
bought his present farm of 160 acres of land in Finney County, Kansas. He
is a member of the American Legion at Albany.
William H. Kerfoot is esteemed throughout his community as a substantial and
reliable man.