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- Alfred H. Elmore ALFRED H. ELMORE is of a sturdy race of farmers, has made agriculturehischief pursuit and nearly all his children are of the same moldandtendency. He has acquired a competency by his labors in Kansas andis nowliving retired at Rozel. He came out of Mason County, Illinois,andsettled in Barton County, Kansas, in 1898. Some time prior to hiscominghe had bought a quarter section of well improved land in thatcounty.This quarter had a good house, barn, wells and otherimprovements,including substantial fences. The two years he spent inBarton Countywere excellent crop years. His experience there causedhim to desire moreland, and in 1900 he sold his possessions and boughtthree quarters ofsection 27, township 21, range 19 in Grant Townshipof Pawnee County.This land had no improvements and he paid $5,000 forit, at the rate ofabout $10 an acre. Here he built a one-story,six-room frame house, barn36 by 36, shed on two sides, with mowcapacity thirty tons. Here heengaged in wheat raising as his chiefeffort and out of the proceeds wasable to purchase in 1905 a quarterof section 27, township 21, range 19,for which he paid $1,800. Thisland included a part of the present siteof Rozel.
At that time the country was all open and unfenced. The Village ofRozelcontained, besides the railroad station, only two dwelling housesand onestore. In this community Mr. Elmore has since confined hisefforts andfor the last two years has lived practically retired, hissons lookingafter the farm operation. In 1907 he bought the west halfof thenorthwest quarter of section 34, township 21, range 19. This wasalsounimproved, but in the meantime he has given it house, barn,sheds,granary and other facilities to make of it a first class farm.Besideshis extensive farm holdings Mr. Elmore is a stockholder in thePawneeCounty Fair Association. In politics he is a democrat, thoughnot anactive party man. He has served on the school board and asjustice of thepeace, and is affiliated with the Benevolent andProtective Order of Elksand, the Modern Woodmen of America. He himselfis a Methodist and Mrs.Elmore is active in the Baptist Church and theLadies Aid Society.
Mr. Elmore was born January 20, 1857. His grandfather, Peter Elmore,wasa Kentucky farmer and died about 1860, at the age of sixty-five.Hischildren were: Mary, who married Jim Cantrell; Joseph; Martha,whomarried Willis Skaggs; Mrs. John Walker; Julia, who married PeterSkaggs;John; William R.; and Clay. All of them lived in Green County,Kentucky,and all are now deceased except Clay.
John Elmore, father of Alfred H., was born in Green County, Kentucky.In1881 he moved to Mason County, Illinois, and spent the last threeyearsof his life at Rozel, Kansas, where he died in 1911, at the ageofseventy-four. He married Martha Rison, a daughter of Henson Rison,whocame out of Old Virginia in the early days and passed throughtheCumberland Gap to Kentucky. Martha Rison was about five years ofage whenthe family went into Kentucky. She died in Mason County,Illinois, in1915, at the age of eighty-three. Henson Rison married adaughter of DaveLawson, and their children were: Alfred, of GreenCounty, Kentucky;Cynthia, who married John Rafferty, of Green County:Adaline, who becamethe wife of Louis Cantrell; Mrs. Martha Elmore;Dave, who died at Peoria,Illinois; John, who died in Green County,Kentucky; and Jim, who isliving at Peoria, the only one of the familystill surviving.
The children of John and Martha Elmore were W. R., who died inLarueCounty, Kentucky, in 1917, at the age of sixty-one; Alfred H.;Alice,wife of J. R. Johnson, a piano salesman at Louisville, Kentucky;D. M., afarmer in Pawnee County; Julia, who died unmarried at MasonCity,Illinois, in 1913, at the age of forty-five: Laura, wife ofMilton Ruble,living near Jacksonville, Illinois; Mattie, wife ofCharles Ballew, afarmer at Mason City, Illinois; Josephine, who diedat Buffalo, Kentucky,in 1899, the wife of William Pearce; Victor, whodied at Conway Springs,Kansas, in 1902; and Newman, a farmer at MasonCity, Illinois.
Alfred H. Elmore was married September 10, 1874, to Mary Scott,adaughter of Ned and Lucy Jane (Cantrell) Scott. Her father was afarmerin Green County, Kentucky, and died in 1856. His brothers andsisterswere: Robert, who died in Green County; Hardin, who was killedbybushwhackers during the Civil war; Jim, who died in GreenCounty,Kentucky; Anna, who married Mr. Black; Polly, who married JimHedspeth.All of these lived in Green County, Kentucky, and all are nowdeceased.Ned Scott's wife was a daughter of Asa and Nancy (Lewis)Cantrell ofKentucky. Nancy Lewis was a daughter of Jim Lewis. Thechildren of AsaCantrell and wife were: Lewis, Jim, George, John,Achsa, who marriedWilliam Warren, Cynthia, who married Alfred Risen,and Isabel, all ofwhom lived in Green County, Kentucky, and are nowdeceased.
Mrs. Elmore, who was born July 29, 1855, had the following brothersandsisters: Elizabeth, who died in 1911, at the age of seventy, thewife ofJoshua Lewis, of Green County; Asa; William; Alexander; all ofthesebeing deceased except Asa and William, who are living in GreenCounty,Kentucky.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmore have taken all the more pleasure fromtheirprofitable enterprise as farmers because they have been the moreable toprovide for their children. The oldest of these is John, afarmer inWoodward County, Oklahoma. He married May Thompson, and ather death sheleft four children, Merle, Lyle, Clara and Viola. JohnElmore by hissecond marriage to Maude Woolsey, has one child, WillardWoolsey.Jefferson Elmore, who lives at Berry, Illinois, married AdaBabcock, andhas three children, Henry, Cecil and Lloyd. Melissa is thewife of ArchHall, of Pawnee County, and has two sons, Russell andAlfred. Mattie isthe wife of Dave Candilish, an employe of the TopekaOil Company atTopeka, Kansas. Everett, a farmer in Pawnee County,married Ethel Loganand has a son, Everett Jr. Frank is unmarried andis in the United StatesNavy, Great Lakes Station. Irwin, of PawneeCounty, married Jimmie Bushand has two sons, Giles and Joseph.
Transcribed from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, writtenandcompiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the KansasStateHistorical Society, Topeka. [Revised ed.] Chicago: LewisPublishing Co.,1919, c1918. 5 v. (xlviii, 2530 p., [155] leaves ofplates): ill., maps(some fold.), ports.; 27 cm.
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