The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-05-28
OLD TIMERS.
They Again Come to the Front
and Furnish Interesting
Biographies.

zoo readers this morning with some
pleasant "reminiscences. Among them
is Mr.. James Powell of Cooper coun-
ty, who says:
Overton, Cooper county. May 81.
As am ore of the old timers ] will
write you little of my past life, as
you requested. | was born in War
rem county, Tenn, in 1925. Came
to Missouri, Cooper county, with my
parents in 1928. stopped on Governor
John Miller's farm nine miles SOUTH
east of b ,onville, the same farm known
as the John K. RagIand farm" In
1884, Jolley's bottoms were overfiowed
and l worked nineteen days helping
the people to get their stock and
plumber out of the water. In Septem-
Der, 1S49, | started from the neigh.
borhood of Lsrkin G. Petiis, Early
Tucker and Syney Gray, in Pettis
county, with four hundred head of
cattle belonging to Thomas Stephens,
of Lancaster, Ohio, which was con-
trolled 10y Ed and Lindsey Carbleys.
We drove them 10 Coles
county, Illinois. In March l
started with $50 head of fat hogs for
Baltimore on foot. | was ON the road
with them three months and reached
there with 149 head, only losing one
Oh the way. The boss sent me back
to Edgar county, H., to get 80 head
of the same cattle and drive them on
foot to Philadelphia. | got them
there the 9th day of October. ! was
with ;hat stock thirteen months and
only lost two and-a-half d VS. in that
time. | worked every Sunday except
i une and furnished my own nurse.
| received fifty cents a day for myself
aud horse AMI made money enough
to buy eighty acres of land on Muddy
creek in johnson county, Mo. In
November 81 | bough. fifty heal Of
calves. When doue buying they cost
me SIPS per head. In November
1851 1 was married to Lucy +.
Hawkins, in Cooper county, Mo, and
real Ell three children, two girls and a
boy. My wife nied May, 1873, and |
married the second time September IL,
1879, to Miss Mamie l.. Davenport,
of Cooper County. No children have
resulted from this marriage. | went
through the war with Gen. Joe Shelby.
The re are two more "Old timers" in
this neighborhood, William E. Clayton
and James Owens. JAS. POWELL.
| GEORGE CULVER HARTT II. ID.
Pleasant Green Cooper county. Mo.
May %. George G. Hartt Nj. D. of
this county was born in the year of
1926 in the village of Boonville where
he lived through his boyhood days
enjoying until bis SEVENTEEN year.
the benefits of its common schools
which at that day taught not only the
usual English branches but also
mathematics and the Latin, Greek
and French languages.
He pursued the same studies at the
st. Louis University and at the age
of twenty entered upon the study o
medicine, in his fathers office. He
attended medical lectures at the
Transylvania University KY. and
Missouri medical college and gradua.
ted from the ST. Louis Medical & J.
lege, having In the meantime awaited
himself of bis brothers tickets (who
was an invalid at Louisville) to attend
lectures of the eminent professors of
that city. In 1850 he married Miss
Mary G. Stuart and in the same
spring began a journey across the
plains to California. Tn this trip be
did his first practlcing and continued
it during his stay of two years Oh the
Pacific coast, but also engaged
in mining speculstions. Upon his
return to Missouri he entered upon
the practice of his profession in Coop
er county and continued it after bis
removal to Little Rock, Ark, in the
winter of 1862. A few weeks after
reaching this city he lost his wife of
consumption the dread OF which event
and hope of benefit 10 her health had
Induced him to undertake such q
long journey by land in the winter
season.
During II years that be remained
at Little Rock, DIR. Hsrtt enjoyed a
long practice, was at different times a
member of the Board of Health. vas
appointed when the Board was estab-
lished and served until he left the
state, as state examiner of applicants
for certificates of qualification to prac-
tice medicine and when yellow fever
was rife in the neighborhOod and
.hrea tanad the CITY Uas anrnintod