Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Smallwood, Cal N. 1854 - 
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Author: Ed Blair

 Cal N. Smallwood, of Olathe, was born in Monroe county, Indiana, February 2, 
1854, and is a Johnson county pioneer. He came to Johnson county when he was a 
small boy, and has a distinct recollection of the early days in Lexington 
township, where he attended the pioneer schools and grew to manhood. He is a 
son of Alexander and Cassinda (Zike) Smallwood, the former a native of North 
Carolina, born December 9, 1828, and the latter a native of Indiana, born in 
Monroe county, October 8, 1830. They were the parents of eight children as 
follows: Enoch, born in 1852, in Monroe county, Indiana; Nathan, born in 1856; 
Elijah, born in 1857; Rebecca Nichols, born in 1860, lives in St. Joseph, Mo.; 
Ella, born in 1862, died in Johnson county, Kansas; Alexander, born in 1864; 
Ellsworth, born in 1869, deceased, and William, born in 1869, also deceased. 
The Smallwood family came to Kansas in 1865, when Cal N. was a little past ten 
years of age. They settled in Lexington township, and lived on a rented farm, 
owned by Charles Pellett on Kill creek, for the first season. The following 
year, the father bought 120 acres of Indian land from Thomas Bone. This was 
raw, unbroken prairie land and the father built a house, and broke some of the 
prairie the first year, and proceeded to improve the place and soon made of it 
a very fine farm, and, under a high state of cultivation. When the Smallwood 
family settled in Lexington township, there were a great many Indians still in 
that vicinity, and in the winter of 1867-8, forty or fifty Shawnee Indians 
camped near their place on Kill creek, before going to their southern 
reservation. Mr. Smallwood says that he made many trips to De Soto with a 
small grist of corn, which he carried on horseback to the mill there to be 
ground into meal, and he recalls with much delight the excellent fishing to be 
found in the early days in the streams of Lexington township. He says the 
Indians were failures as farmers in Lexington township, but that the squaws 
raised small patches of corn, while the Indians traded ponies and hunted. Cal 
N. Smallwood was married in 1883 to Miss Jennie Russell, of Olathe township, 
and a member of one of the Johnson county pioneer families. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Smallwood have been born the following children: Viola, married J. C. 
Ferguson, Kansas City, Mo.; James Earl, married Lee Barton, of Texas, and they 
reside in Oklahoma; May, married Jesse McDonald, Olathe; Iva Pearl, married 
Charles Abell, Olathe, and John, born in 1898, resides in Olathe. Mr. 
Smallwood knew many of the very first settlers of Lexington township, among 
whom might be mentioned James Hawkins, Penner, Louis Hammer, Charles and 
Walter Pellett, Tom and Will Reed, and many others whose courage, foresight 
and endurance made Johnson county what it is today.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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