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Patentee: DANIEL MEREDITH

Title Transfer

Issue Date: 81111849 Land Office: Clinton Cancelled: No

U.S. Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No

Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)

Survey

State: MISSOURI Acres: 40

Metes/Bounds: No

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la/ Uporiledin tlle <;!)!~A.L_L.9.ND OFFICE of lite United Slain, a CertijlcaU oftM REGISTER OF THE

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prloilege1, immtmilies, and appurtenarice1 of wAat1~ nature, t1uireunto belonging, unto tlu 1aid

lEU 11'.ffti-ti!I l!l!tf}tt~Oft ~UJ/.n--+ PRESIDENT OF THE UNIT.ED STATES OF AMERICA, Aa1't cauaed these z~=~TENT, and

tAe SE.IJL of tlae GENER.AL L.llND OFFICE to be Aet·etmfo a.ffi:ml. d' .,/ ~under my hand, at the CITY OF WASHINCTONv.!;44 duy of ~r

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Mineral Reservations: No Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal

(12 Stat. 392)

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Acres: 160 Metes/Bounds: No

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according to th4 official plat of the Survey of tld 1aid Landi, nhlrned to tM General Land Office by f.Ae SURVEYOR GEN.KRA.L,

whU:h 1aid tract ha/ bun purcha.ed by the said J~,.-, c-/&~;t

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"Early Pioneers of Camden County, Missouri." Missouri Pioneers 21 (December 1973 ).

CAMDEN COUNTY - EARLY PIONEERS

By the end of the year 1831 there were thirteen families on the Dry Auglaize and its tributaries, but most of them were south of what is now included in Camden county.

Settlers on the Wet Auglaize at the beginning of 1832, so far as their names can be learned, were William PIBORN, Jacob Piborn, Ned Piborn, Eli CORNWELL and Adamson Cornwell. Morrell HOLDEN and G. W. HUDDLESTON also came at a very early day, but whether prior to the year named, cannot be ascertained ••••

The Events of 1832 -

The year 1832 was the most momentous in the settlement of Camden County. The frontier of civilization advanced, at one stride, as it were, from the Gasconade to the Niangua, the intervening territory being bought for the first time directly under the sway of civil authority.

The settlements of that memorable year were principally on the Wet Auglaize and many descendants of pioneers who then located along its shores have been and are highly respected and influen­tial citizens of the county.

Among the first immigrants was James DODSON, who settled near the subsequent site of Glaize City. His son, Dr. J. N. B. Dodson, was one of the founders of Linn Creek and also of Glaize City. Another son, Dr. William Dodson, was a noted physician and clergyman, and Benjamin D. Dodson, a third son, was one of the county's most successful business men and best citizens. A daughter, Mrs. Lucy A. ESTES, still lives near the old home. She

.remembers many incidents of early pioneer life. Daniel Cvf( David MEREDITH, who came the same year, has children still living

in that locality, one of whom, J.l.'lrs. John GLOVER, is the oldest native born inhabitant of Camden county, having been born near Toronto, Nov. 25, 1832. Her brother, Mathias Meredith, who lives~ near the Miller county line, is some years her senior, and remembers "'32 quite distinctly.

John and Charles LAUGHLIN settled near by, and members of the family now reside on the Niangua, in the vicinity of Ha Ha Tonka.

Other settlers on the ·wet Auglaize in that year were Laban IVEY, William MA.LONE, John DEAN, Israel LIGHT and Ben j amin WISEIVTAN. ~

Waynesville, 25 miles away, was the nearest trading point, and was also the county seat after Pulaski was organized ••••

On the Dry Auglaize a family named PETTIJOHN, Thomas PARRISH, Daniel RAINWATERS, Joseph BERGER, Abe BERGER, James AIKMAN (afterwards sheriff of Pulaski county), Ned HOWERTON, William YANDELL, Mack McCLELLEN and John KLEIN took up their residence about the same time.

There were a number of others on both the Auglaizes of whom no definite data is obtainable 1 but most of them remained but a short time, and could hardly be classed as settlers.

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A man n·amed POLLARD lived ·in Linn Creek valley near where the second school house, (since so.ld), was built, between upper and lower towno

William CAPPS settled on the Niangua, near the Allison ford, in 1832 or earlier, and died soon aftero His wi4ow remained on his clearing or claim for some years, raising a few hogs and sheep and such other stock as she was ableoo•o . ·. · ·

William BOYCE is said to have located on the Little Niangua in 1832, but probably the first farm opened on that stream was the one now owned by George Jo MOULDE~. It was settled by a man named WALMSLEY, .who was attracted to the spot by the waters of a copious spring, one of the finest in the countyo~o••

It is thought by some that CAPPS and WALMSLEY immigrated as early as 1829 or 1830, but o~ this riothing can be kno0n with certainty.

Josiah DeJARNETT made . an imp~ovement on the Niangua, · four miles about its mouth, in i832. He was the first sher~ff of Kinderhook County. ·

Other .very early settlers were' . two . men named CLINTON and CUMMINS, who occupied the Moulder place, afterwards known as Cave . Pump, also on the Niangua, and i·Jilliam MONTGOMERY, on the Little Niangua. ·

Louis ODER lived on the Osage river, above the mouth of the Niangua at that time, but whether or not he settled in that year ·or earlier is uncertain. He was a mechanic, working, as the county settled up, in the t~pacities of carpenter, boat-b~ilder and milly,rright, and also farm~ng a little.

A man named RICHARDSON had a little cabin and a little clearing on the river bank, opposite where Linn Creek was, afterwards built.

As the settlements of the ~uglaize were under the jurisdiction of Crawford county and those .on the Niangua belonged mostly to Benton, the two localities had but little·. in common, until inter­marriage, trade and the navigation of the Osage river drew them. togetherooooo .

Beginninqs of Development -

The colonies on the Wet and Dry Auglaize extende d gradually, first up and down those creeks, then to the smaller streams, and lastly and more slowly to the prairies and uplands.

Probably the first school house was built on the ' farm of Da ni e l ~ MEREDITH, in 18330 There was also a subscription school on the Wet Auglaize, not long afterwards in a tobacco barn, but this was probably in Miller county. The first school on the Dry Auglaize, was on David FULBRIGHT'S place, in Laclede county.

In 1833 or 1834 Sampson WILSON established a smail store near the mouth of the Dry Auglaizeo This was the first commercial enter­prise in the present county of Camden, and although very limited, was a great convenience to the scantily and scattered Population.

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