James S. and John McLeod From the History of Pike County, Missouri , Mills & Company, Des Moines, IA 1883, page 620
James S. McLeod, farmer, post office Clarksville, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on the 8th day of December, 1811. When about nine years of age he came to Missouri with his father, in 1820. His father Wm. McLeod, was born May 26, 1789; was married in Bourbon County, Kentucky, to Mary Stark, daughter of James Stark.They reared a family of nine children, who lived to be men and women grown, three boys and six girls, seven of whom still survive. This aged couple lived together nearly sixty-three years. The mother died in 1873; the father in 1876.
James S., our subject, was raised on his father's farm and is still living within half a mile of where he first stopped in the woods. He has worked at the carpenter's trade for many years. He has had one daughter, Fanny Isabelle. Mr. McLeod joined the Baptist Church over fifty years ago, and is the only remaining original member of that organization.His first wife was a member of the same church.
Mr. McLeod has been justice of the peace some fifteen months, being appointed to serve out an unexpired term by the resignation of Wm. Boggess. In 1846 he was elected clerk, and again in 1850; he served in all some nine years.
John McLeod, a farmer of Calumet twnshp. was born on a farm near Clarksville, June 24, 1836; and is the son of James S. and Sallie (Kelley) McLeod, old pioneers of Pike County, who came from Kentucky in 1820.They settled in Calumet township, where the subject of this sketch was born and raised.
John lived with his parents until becomming of age; he being raised a farmer, chose that pursuit for life. During the late war he was a Union man and served as fourth sergeant for several months in a company of Missouri State Militia.
On November 17, 1864 he married Nancy Jane Scott of Illinois, who died in Calumet twnshp, November 23, 1873. By this union three children were born, Lucinda A., James S. and Sallie L. He was married a second time to Mrs. Mary Louisa Scott, on April 26, 1877.
He is a member of the Dover Baptist Church and his wife of the Corinth Presbyterian Church. In 1876 John along with Joseph W. Mackey, made a business trip to Natchez and New Orleans taking to those markets horses and large mules.
John B. M'Leod From the Portrait and Biographical Record of MARION, RALLS AND PIKE COUNTIES MISSOURI,C.O. Owen & CO., Chicago, 1895, pages 427-428 / Transcribed by by Robin Mosier
John B. M'Leod has been engaged in the cultivation of his present farm since October,1886, when he purchased the Nelson Lovelace place. The homestead, which comprises four hundred and thirty-five acres, is located on section 28, Township 59, Range6, Marion County, MO, and is one of the best to be found in this refion. Commencing his career as a poor boy without capital, our subject deserves great commendation for his achievements, for he owes to himself alone the competency which he now enjoys.
The paternal grandfather of our subject was of Scotch ancestry and owned a large estate and slaves in Frederick County, VA, where his death occured. His children were as follows: William, Thornton, George, John, Lorenzo, Nancy, Susan, Betsey, Polly and Rebecca. John was a practicing physician at Newtown, VA.; Elisha and William died in the old Dominion; Nancy married a Mr. Smith of WV; Betsey became the wife of Jacob Newcomer, a hatter by trade and a resident of Newtown. Our subject's father, Lorenzo McLeod, was born in Virginia and on reaching a suitable age married Anna B., daughter of John B. Tilden, a native of Pennsylvania. He removed from that state to VA, where he engaged in practice as a physician and also preached in the Methodist church. During the war of the Revolution he served with the rank of First Lieutenant. After his marriage Mr. McLeod became the owner of his father-in-law's estate and remained thereon until a few years prior to his death, when he sold it to his eldest son and removed to the adjacent villiage of Newtown. For over forty years he was a faithful member of the Methodist church. Of his nine children, William T. died on the old Virginia homestead; Rebecca (Mrs. Henry Victor) is living in Lynchburg, VA; John B. is he of whom we write; Mary C. became the wife of David Horner and resides in Lynchburg; Richard S., died in VA; Etha married Frank Montgomery, since deceased; Robert T., still living in the state of his nativity, served through the war in Company. A, First Virginia Cavalry, in Stonewall Jackson's Division, and was in the battle of Spottsylvania and other leading engagements; Martha V. is the wife of William Chipley of Virginia; Lorenzo died in childhood; Edwin C. is also a resident of Virginia.
John B. McLeod was born Feruary 27, 1834, and obtained a good education in the schools of Newtown, VA, for some time having the advantages afforded by the academy there. In 1857 he emigrated to Marion County, MO, and for two years engaged in farming, on shares, the homestead of the widow of one John Carson. February 1, 1859, he married the daughter of the house, Caroline, whose mother's maiden name was Sarah Stevens. The young couple began housekeeping on what was known as the Clement White Farm and remained there for a year, then removing to a farm in the same locality, which he also rented and where they lived for two years. Then for two years prior to its being sold our subject rented Mrs. Carson's farm and in the spring of 1865 purchased the place, which contained over two hundred acres and is now in possession of John Mallory. Here he remained until 1886, raising and dealing in live-stock extensively and sometimes shipping the same. For nine years he has lived on the farm where he is at present and has met with good success in his undertakings. In May, 1892, his two- story brick house was destroyed by a tornado and nearly all of its contents were broken or rendered useless; with the exception of one of his children all of his family were in the house at the time and, wonderful as it appears, no one was injured. The tornado confined itself to a narrow strip of land and this was the only house destroyed.
Mrs. Caroline McLeod died May 8, 1865, leaving two children: lorenzo C., still at home; Etha B., wife of John Battson, a drygoods merchant of Quincy, Illinois.; the first-born child Willie, died in infancy. November 20, 1866, Mr. McLeod married Martha Carson, a niece of his first wife and daughter of Simon and Ann (Painter) Carson. Their children are as follows: Lulu V., who is at home; Hugh, Robert, Anna T., John J., Grace E., Valley V., Mabel C. and Eleanor. Hugh was married March 28, 1894, to Anna, daughter of Smith and Mary (Johnson) Scott, and resides on a portion of the home farm; Robert married Miss Mary Scott December 27, 1893, his wife's parents being John W. an Sarah (Godman) Scott, and his home is now in Fabius Township.
For over thirty years Mr. McLeod has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and for over two decades has been a trustee of the congregation at Pleasant Grove. In his political convictions he is a stanch Democrat.
Willaim Henry McLoed and James S. McLoed From A History of Northeast Missouri, Edited by Walter Williams. The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York 1913.
William Henry McLoed is a farmer whose forefathers were of the pioneers of Pike county and whose settlement was made in the vicinity of Dover in 1821. He is a son of James S. McLoed and a grandson of William L. McLoed, the founder and head of this numerous family in Pike county.
James S. McLoed was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in December, 1811, and the farm of Maxwell Nunn of Calumet district is the farm upon which he grew to manhood and where his father first settled. To William L. McLoed is due the credit for striking the first blows which converted this beauty spot of nature into a productive little community, and there he has resided until his death in 1876, when he was eighty-five years old. Hwe was born in Virginia, was liberally educated, and was first a Whig and later a Republican. He was a staunch upholder of the union in the Rebellion of 1861-5, and was in every way a forceful and popular citizen in his time. He was justice of the peace for some years; he was an able conversationalist and as a public speaker was considered something of an orator. He was a member of the Primitve Baptist church. He married Sallie Stark, a sister of Judge James Ovid Stark, who is mentioned at length in this volume. His wife died in 1874 or thereabouts, the mother of seven children. Susan, the eldest, married Dr. William W. Wise; Sallie became the wife of Rev. Timothy Rogers, a minister of the Primitive Baptist church; William L.; Jane, who married Richard Venable; Eliza died as the wife of Frank Shepard; Mary, who married Lee Haney; and Emily married George Page; James S., the father of William Henry of this review; and George.
James S. McLoed came to his majority under the influence of an intellectual home, and recieved training in the studies common and practical in his day. He manifested a studious disposition all through his active life, and passed for a man well equiped in an educational way, as a result of his careful and continuous studies. His knowledge of land surveys was expert and his information as to legal forms and requirements was known to be good. He was a notary public and his office was ever a popular one for the execution of and preperation of legal documents relating to contracts, tranfers of real estate, and other matters affecting his county.
In his vigorous days he did carpenter work, and he always carried on his farming. He was a supporter of the Union during the war and found his political home in the ranks of the Democratic party. Like his father, he was a "Hardshell" or "Ironside" Baptist, and was noted for his conscientious reguard for the right in all things. He was a quiet and gentle man and breathed the spirit of peace and counseled harmony between men and communities. He died in 1885, his wife having passed away in 1857. She was Miss Sallie Kelly in her maiden days, a daughter of Vincent Kelly and Susan (Moore) Kelly who settled in Pike county from Kentucky. Mrs. McLoed was born in Januaery, 1811, and her children were Susanna, who married Judge John A. Mackey and died in 1865 without issue; John, who spent his life in Pike county and died in 1893, leaving a family; Lucinda, who married Marion Mackey, died in 1875, leaving four children; William H. of this review; and Benjamin F., farmer of Pike county, who married Rebecca A. Scott.
William Henry McLoed is living in the neighborhood of his children, where he was born in 1841. His education came to him cheifly through the country schools. At the time of the Rebellion he was enrolled with the Home Guard and in 1867 he withdrew from the parental home and located where he is now to be found, on a portion of the John W. Griffey farm. This tract of 240 acres reflects the care and cultivation he has bestowed upon it with unremitting zeal, in the preservation of its virgin forest, the beautiful groves into which its landscape has been fashioned by master hands, and in the general thrift which abounds and is evident in every corner of his domain.
Mr. McLoed has sought and held no office. He is a Democrat in politics and his religion is Universalism. He first married Miss Sarah Stark, a daughter of James and Catherine Schooler Stark. Mrs. McLoed died Jannuary 19, 1880, without issue, and on January 3, 1884, Mr. McLoed married Miss Mollie Poyser, a daughter of Adam Poyser, who came to Missouri from Ohio, with his wife, who was Catherine Grubb prior to her marriage. The Poyser children were William, George, Charles, Ann, Lou, Sallie and Mollie. Mrs. McLoed was born in 1858, and she and her husband are the parents of two sons,- Ora Henry and James Adam, both of whom are yet in the parental circle.
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