Barton County, Missouri Biographies-Jonathan Wesley HENDRICKS

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 902, 903

Jonathan Wesley Hendricks, collector of Ozark Township, is a native of
Adams County, Ill., born in 1848, being a son of John and Elizabeth
(Gilkey) Hendricks, who were born in Missouri and Kentucky, respectively,
were married in Illinois, and in 1866 removed to Crawford County, Kan.,
and in 1877 to Barton County, Mo., where the mother died in March, 1887.
Both parents were members of the Church of God, and he is still living 
and engaged in farming.  His father, William Hendricks, was of German
descent, and was one of the early settlers of Southeast Missouri but
died in Illinois.  Franklin Gilkey, the grandfather, was a Kentuckian,
and also died in Illinois.  Jonathan W. Hendricks, our subject, is the
eldest of four children, and received a common school education in the
State of Illinois.  He removed with his parents to Kansas, and was
married there in 1875 to Sarah E. Elliott, a daughter of Isaac and Eliza
Elliott, who were Kentuckyians and died in Kansas in 1886 and Indiana in 
1865, respectively.  Mrs. Hendricks was born in Indiana, and she and Mr.
Hendricks are the parents of two daughters.  In 1877 the family came to 
Barton County, Mo., and the next year located on their present farm,
which consists of eighty acres.  Mr. Hendricks is a Republican politically,
and cast his first presidential vote for Grant, in 1872.  In 1889 he was
elected township collector for two years, and is at the present time a
member of the Farmers' Alliance.  He and wife are consistent members of
the Church of God.  His sisters are Mrs. Mary Boulware, Mrs. Nancy Frame
and Mrs. Alice Venable, of Pike County, Mo.

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