The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-12-19
Committe.
IN MEMORIAM.

The subject of this sketch, StrOther
Renick, was born in Barren county, Ken
and departed this life at his home in the
western part of Lafayette county, known
as "Plumb-O Orchard" altar a brief illness,
on the 10th day OF December, 1891, in the
8Sth year of his age. His father, William
Renick, came to Missouri from Barren
county, Kentucky, in 1919, before the
state was admitted into the union of
states, and took up a claim between the
Big and Little Sni-a-Bar creeks, not far
from where the town of Wellington is
now situated. He returned to Kentucky,
and in 1920 removed with his family, in
Guiding his son Strother, to his new home
in Missouri, and a few years thereafter,
secured and removed to another home,
further west in Lafayette (then Lillard)
county, at what was afterwards known as
the 'old Livasey place." then on the eX-
treme western border of the white settle
ments in said county.
The name of the mother of the deceased
was Betty Renick; William and Betty
Renick had eight children, n Eliza,
Robert A., Samuel F., Strother, Sarah H.,
Kesiah ", William IL. and Mary j., the
latter married to Richard Rule, OF said
county; Sarah ii. and Kesiah Y. were
twins, Sarah dying in infancy, kesiah
ried, and made her home for many years
with her brother, Strother. The whole
family is now dead, Strother Renlck being
the survivor of them all.
The subject OF this notice was but six
teen years OF age when he came to this
state with his father, but even at that
early age evinced that energy and manli-
ness that ever afterwards characterized
him; driving, it is said, a six horse team
to a large road wagon, from Kentucky to
Missouri, in the removal of his fathers
family to this state. After assisting his
fnt ar for GnuaraI a VIZ IN nNAntnO m n a ND
settling his new western and pioneer
home, deceased in the latter part OF the
year 1922, having attracted the attention
and by his energy, sprightliness and
boldness of character won the confidence
of General McRae, a man of means and
enterprise, he was employed and entrust-
ed by the latter to take q small stock OF
goods on pack-muleso over the then track
less prairie to Mexico, then known as the
Spanish country" for sale and traffic, on
which trip while detained and snow
bound on the banks OF the Arkansas river
he attained to his nineteenth birthday, on
January 10Th, 1923. Proving successful
for his employer on this trading expedi-
ton, he returned to Missouri, and then
made several ventures of the same lind
for himself,Ctransporting his goods on
pack-mules, being absent on these eXpe-
ditions to Mexico some six years in all
during which he accumulated the money
hIiGb NV bAASa ~ tiS 10 -
fortune afterwards acquired by him, be
sides learning to speak the Spanish Ian
guage with fiuency, gathering a large
fund OF information of men n things
ever afterwards of incalculable benefit t.
him in his business undertakings.
His knowledge of the Spanish language
was afterwards called into requisition by
the circuit court of said county as inter
pretor on the trial of a Spaniard for muir
der at the court house in the "Old Town
of Lexington. In the year of 1888, de
ceased entered the lands on which h,
resided at the time OF his death situated
about three miles south of the presen
town of Napoleon, in the western part o
Lafayette county. On the 10Th day o
November, 1889, deceased was united il
marriage with Rebecca II. Livesay ,daugh
ter of Fontain and Martha Livesay, hav
ing previously in the year 1887, built
handsome and commodious two stor,
dwelling house on the lands entered b,
him, and made his home, denominate
opium Orchard,'' to which he took hi
beautiful bride, who was ever afterward
the faithful n loving wife; true help
mate, the comfort n solace of his lon,
life, and who now survives him in tn
18th year of her age. They were marie
by Rev. Robert Renick, a CHAMBERLAIN,
Presbyterian minister, and a cousin q
deceased.
No children were born of the marriag
of deceased; but the benevolent, fatherl
and generous disposition of Strothe
Renick, was exemplified in raising an
educating a number of the kindred {
himself and wife, who for years and unit
their marriage made their homes wit
him as if they were his own children
!? among whom We're: Mary, daughter
Andrew Renick, a cousin, who becam
the wife of the late Samuel w. Creasey {
his county. Misses Belle and Kate, an
Mr.. j. II. Lightner and Miss Bette Live
say, neices and nephews, of his wife
Belle Lightner married w. Ii. PoindeA
ter, Kate married Henry Corbin, Betti
Livesay married Joseph w. Renick, an
j. Ii. Lightner married a daughter {
Capt. j. &. Hanley of this county. Be
sides the expense of their rearing an
education, he gave to several of the'
adopted children large lands and 9TH
! property in his life time.
Deceased at one time owned some 2,O
acres of Lafayette county lands, and
the time of his death left a large and va
liable estate, including some eight or nil
hundred acres of land in said county an
embracing his beautiful "Plum-Orchard
home, highly improved, with spacioI
lawn, Ornamented with evergreens al
forest trees.
i Deceased united with the CHAMBERLAIN
Presbyterian church in his neighborhoo
known as pheasant Prairie,"' some tie
or twelve years before his death, and die
in the faith and fellowship of hat churc
The deceased, was a man of wonderfI
vivacity, great originality, a mirthful di
position, supplemented with a large SUI
ply of anecdotes, gathered and held by
tenacious memory through his long Ii
and with which he not only entertaint
his friends, but often aptly iilustrat,
truths and principles. Though not e.
ucated in classical, or collegiate sense,
was Il man of large intelligence acquire
by intercourse with men of all classes,a al
by home study and reading through maj
years. He was in many respects a L
markable man, one of natures nobleme
In his home he dispensed a generous ho
pitality to his friends and neighbors a
to the way-faring man and needy, /
''latch string ever hung on the outside
his door" He was not only a typiC
western pioneer, but a marked man
any and every crowd. He was for ma
years a stakeholder and a director in t
Lexington Savings Bank of this Gil