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- Burial: in Salem Cemetery near Jacksonville, Randolph County, Missouri
William Dillard Halliburton dealt heavily in real estate inMontgomeryCounty, Tennessee, buying and selling land at a neat profit.He wasevidently a 'natural born trader.' He wrote several letters to his brother Simeon, who had movedtoMissouri, which were extant in 1946 according to Charles A.Drinkard. In1844, William D. sent a query as to the prospects forwheat in Missouri,stating: "If the prospect is good I expect to besent to buy wheat inthat part of the world." In the same letter hecommented on the economyof the 1840's in Tennessee. He wrote, " I havenothing of greatimportance to communicate more than money is scarce,times is hard, baconand corn is plenty." He was enumerated on the 1830 census as a resident ofMontgomeryCounty, Tennessee. He made plans to move to Missouri severaldifferenttimes, and finally did move in 1850. He settled in RandolphCounty,northeast of the present town of Cairo, Missouri, and becameone of thesubstantial farmers of the county. He was subsequentlylisted on thecensuses as a resident of Randolph County,, Missouri. William D's wife Nancy, lived only a few years after movingtoMissouri. He returned to Tennessee and married Elizabeth Davis,widow ofAsa H. Jett, a former neighbor in Montgomery County.Elizabeth's youngestdaughter, Emily, accompanied her to Missouri. William Dillard Halliburton recorded the name and date of birth ofeachof his children in his Family Bible. He wrote with a touch ofparentalpride in 1844, stating "we have the likelyst child in thefamily."
Source for the above is Rutherford, W.K. and A.C.(Zimmerman),Genealogical History of the HALLIBURTON Family, 1983.
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1804 - 1883 (78 years)
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