Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Everitt, Henry Smith 1845 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

HENRY SMITH EVERITT

AMONG the first settlers of Barton County the name of Henry Smith Everitt, of
"Evergreen Farm," eight miles west of Great Bend, should be enrolled, because he
selected this for a residence place in September, 1874. He was born near
Magnolia, Lasalle County, Illinois, on January 3, 1845, and until his eighteenth
year assisted his father on the farm and attended the public schools of the
neighborhood. In 1864 he enlisted for a term of three years as a private in
Company H, 104th Illinois Infantry, and after a trying service of one year and
six months was discharged at the termination of the civil war. During that time
he passed through the Atlanta campaign and followed Sherman on his March to the
Sea, and has preserved an interesting diary of the movements, marches,
skirmishes and happenings of his command during several weeks of that period,
and cherishes it as a sacred relic of the times. After his discharge he returned
to his former home and resumed farming until coming to Barton County in 1874;
when he bought three hundred and twenty acres from the Santa Fe Railway Company,
and paid five dollars per acre, on eleven years' time. In 1909 he purchased an
additional adjoining forty acres at $50 per acre and at this time owns and farms
three hundred and sixty acres. The whole is improved and in a high state of
cultivation, and the residence, barn, and other buildings are ample for a farm
of its size. Tree culture seems to have been an important feature when this
place was first settled, and Mr. Everitt is now enjoying the fruits of his labor
in a magnificent park which surrounds the home.

[photo] Home and Family of Henry S. Everitt

   In February, 1869, Henry S. Everitt and Miss Elizabeth Ann Lewis, both of La
Salle County, Illinois, were united in marriage at the bride's home in that
county. Six children were born, but only two survive. Three were taken in
infancy, and a daughter, Elizabeth Rebecca, wife of David Ewing, on June 29,
1911. William Everitt, who married Miss Myrtle Lloyd, resides on the northeast
quarter of the same section, and George Nathan Everitt, who married Miss Anna
Christiansen, resides in Comanche County, Kansas.

   Mrs. Elizabeth A. Everitt, the mother and wife, departed this life on
February 24, 1906, and is buried in the Everitt cemetery, near the residence.



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