The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-09-11
THE OLD MEMS CLUB.
Lafayette County Pioneers Met at
Odessa Last Saturday.

The Old Mems Club of Lafayette county
met at Odessa last Saturday. Rev. w. b.
Mcfarland presided. A good number of
the pioneers were present, and the follow
ing new members were elected:
James A. Emison.
Menoah Beamer.
Ephraim Wagner.
Emsley M. Harrelson.
8. r. Shore.
Charles Trip!ett.
George w. Sumner
Alexander Thompson.
Asa B. Hatch.
Jonathan Stantield.
william Harris.
Louis II. Rose.
Green D.. Satterfield.
Gross Kesterson.
Charles McGIrl.
John III. Kelly.
Wayne 8. Bishop.
Jesse Dollarhide.
John O'Cannon.
Michael Sullivan.
George d. Duvall.
James Y. Harris.
John Worley.
Samuel w. Burnsides.
David Alcorn.
Alban Stewart.
Thomas A. Murray.
Henry A. Campbell.
Casper Wagner.
Richard Brown.
Edward D.. Rawlings.
Michael Fitzgerald.
William B. Roberts.
Cornelius j. Miller.
James Johnson.
G. p. Reid.
Joseph Warder.
Prof. J. A. Lee delivered the address of
welcome.
The following memorials were read and
adopted:
col. H. @. cHILEs.
We your ittee, would present this
last testimonial o. our dead brother, Col.
Henry @. Chiles, d was tae fifth child
and fourth son Of William and Nancy
Sterling, KY, on July 9Th, A. D., 1918.
He was descended OF an old Virginia
family, and his grandfather Walter c.
ChiIes, was an officer In the troops fur
nished by that state for the army of the
Revolution. He was raised on q farm but
in his young manhood engaged in the
mercantile business in Paris, KY, where
he wooed and won his first wife, Maris
Wilson. On the death of his wife he re-
moved to Estille county, KY, and was
joined by his father in the management
Of Estille Springs, a somewhat famous
watering place. In the fifties he bought
a farm and returned to the business Of
farming and stock raising and shipping
devoting his time after the watering sea
son was over principally to the latter
making Cincinnati his market. In 1856
he was engaged as manager of the cele'
brated Blue Lick Springs, of Kentucky
where he met the lady whom in the fol
lowing year he made his second wife, Mrs
Ruth Fearing, of Helena Ark. On MAY
LIST, 1858, he married Mrs. Fearing anC
moved straight way to Lafayette county
Mayhem, on which he lived until q few
years before his death. Declining year
and strength not permitting him to lon
ger actively engage in farming, a few
years G he moved to Mayhem, where b,
was living at the time oLhis death.
He was originally a whig,. as his nam'
Indicates, he being named By his father
who was q great admirer of Mr.. Clay ,afte
that great Kentuckian. He wasea unior
man during the civil war, but belonge
to the conservative wing, and after thu
war closed he cast his fortunes with thu
democratic party, with which he contin
ued to act until the Populist party wa
formed, OF which he became an ACTIVE
u was CiCCtCt
to represent this county in the Legislature
at the November election, 1862, and served
with great ability. He was very promi
nent in the Grange movement 10 thii
county and acted IS its president for some
time, and when the farmers allianct
movement sprang up in this county, In
measure supercedinS tho Grange, he tool
an active part, in fact he was G man en-
dowed with fine mental ability muct
above the average of his fellows, but with
his superior ability he was magnansmous
not selfish, always ready to give counsel
which was often sought by his friends, o.
whom he had many. He became a mem.
ber OF the Christian church duriag his
stay at Paris, KY, and was an active
working Christian, and possessing a fine
voice was very efficient in the musica
part of the church worship. Liz many
others he became estranged from the
church during the war but several years
ago he resumed his former relations, and
his work till the n His second wife
died in December, 1866, and In September
1858, he married Eavinia c., widow CT the
late David A. Graves, who with his former
children survives him. We would tender
our heartfelt sympathy in their bereave'
ment.
BY his first marriage he had two chill
dren, VIM. H, G prominent attorney oil
Lexington, Mo-, and George p, a Delta,
Colorado, farmer. By his second mar
riage, Walter u, who lives near Mayhem,
Campbell, who lives in MAYHEM. While
we sympathize aud mourp the loss of oul
brother, we are constrained to say that
we believe our loss is his gain.
EARKIN NoRFLEET,
j. r. CoLvERT,