The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-04-16

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Mrs. Taylor enjoys the proud dis
tiuction of having ten living children,
forty living grand children, and three
great grand children. Her children
are Mrs. Mary Jane Logan, Sedalia !;
John L. Taylor. Sedalia; Mrs. Aman-
da johnson, Saline county; Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Hayden, Windsor; Geo. M.
Taylor, Warrensburg James I. Tay-
lor, Lees Summit; @. P, Taylor, La
monte; FL. M. Taylor, Warrensburg
Mrs. Siddie A. Ingram. Georgetown.
Colorado, and w. E. Taylor, La.
monte.
IF any of the "old timers" can beat
the above record, the BAzoo is snx.
ieus to receive and publish the returns.
DAVID ANDREWS.
In addition to the above contribu-
ton to the BAzoo, the sold Timer"
editor is pleased to republish the fol-
lowing from the last issue of the Boon
vile Advertiser, from the pen of one
who is doubtless known to many of
our readers:
see by your paper they are trying
to get up an "OId Mems Meeting"
If you think it suitable to put in your
Paper, you can do so; if you pat it in
the waste-basket, [ will not complain
uf it,
have to 60 goodIways from home
to commence, but you know all can't
be born in Missouri. l was born In
the city of Pittsburg, Pa, May 2,
1910; so you see if live one month
longer 1 will be in my eightieth year.
L left my old home and came to st.
Louis, Mo-, in 1920. Travelled on
keel-boats; We came dawn the Ohio
in good style, as they tioated nearly
all the way to the mouth: but the voy-
age up the Mississippi was hard one,
as the current was strong and the
banks almost impossible. The boats
were owned by Il. and j. Lindle, Of
st. Louis. We were about six weeks
making The trip. Some nights we
would 60 back 10 where We stayed the
night before to get fire, as there were
no matches 10 those DAYS. Our boat
was manned by fifteen or seventeen
men; that was full crew. But very
few know at this time what a keel
boat is, or how it is propelled up a
river. The mode of getting 8. keel-boat
upstream was by a cordel or a"warp"
MIR. Editor, as there are many of
your readers who do not know
what warp" is, | will explain /: |
The hands will take rope in skiff
and row up the river as far as they
think the rope will reach, they will !
then let the rope "play out" in the |
river till it reaches the boat, when the
men on board secure the linesand pull |
the boat up to the ssif. Sometimes
they have to lay three or four "warps"
in going around a bluff, 1t Was a
slow way of travelling, but was the
most rapid means Of transit on the
river at that time. All the freight
that came from New Orleans or out
of the Ohio was brought in keel-boats.
We came in sight OF st. Louis Sunday
but we did not get up TO the
city until after nightfall we had to
cordel up the sandbar that was known
as HangmsD's Island a
huge pile of driftwood had lodged
there-thOusands of cords, perhaps
and great many persons made their
living selling this wood in the city.
st. Louis was a small place at that
time, and there was a great trouble
among the keel-boatmen. Those of
he Lower Mississippi and the Ohio
we're bitter enemies, and a parade,
by free and fierce fight,
would be the daily program as long
Is they remained in town. They were ,
,alled the "Mikes" and the "Jakes :"
he Mikes" were for Mike Fink.
stayed in st: Louis until the I
pring of 1924, and then came up to
ghat is now called Old Franklin.
That was live place then nearly all !
he Santa Fe traders purchased their q
outfits there. We came up the Mis-
QUIZ river to Franklin on a keel. boat !
'wned by Mr.. Towles, of ST. Louis,
nd were three weeks on the way. / =
emained about one year; returned i
o st. Louis AMI finished my trade as
inner and coppersmith. | left St. a
louis, about 1881, for what is now d
(ew Franklin, three miles north of =
Soonville. l remained there till a
bout 1888, when [ married a Miss IL
largaret Beard ia st. Louis. Re-
urned to Frenklin, went to house n
seping, stayed there about a year
nd moved over to BoonviIle, where I il
ave been ever since. m
/ have had q good many bad fires il