Caldwell County MO Archives History .....CLAYPOOL FAMILY IN HAMILTON  
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THE CLAYPOOL FAMILY IN HAMILTON TOWNSHIP 1854
	Narrators:  Mrs. Mollie Wines and others

     The Claypool family was at one time a very numerous and active one in 
Hamilton but at present the name is gone, and only two representatives are 
known to the interviewer.  Walter Whitt and his sister Mrs. Mollie Wines, 
children of Mrs. Belle Claypool Whitt.
     Perry R. Claypool and family moved into Hamilton township 1854 from 
Bowling Green Ky and the tradition is that they came earlier from Va.  When 
the town of Hamilton was organized 1856-7 the Claypools were in the middle of 
business, for Perry had the first permanent blacksmith shop, there had been a 
blacksmith here a short time, but he soon left.  The site was the present site 
of the Clark blacksmith shop - an old time site for this work.  It is just off 
Main street to the east.
     When A.G. Davis and wife tired of the first hotel in Hamilton about 1859, 
Mr. and Mrs. Claypool bought the business and ran it for over a decade.  They 
were good hosts and the Claypool Hotel is often mentioned by old timers.  They 
had several girls and so they usually ran it without outside help.  It was on 
the same block as the blacksmith shop, and has been described elsewhere in 
this series.
     Mr. and Mrs. Claypool were active members of the Christian church here 
and were charter members in its organization in 1874, Mr. Claypool being a 
preaching elder there.  Mrs. Claypool, called "Grandma Claypool" by the older 
folks now.  Her maiden name was Mary Ann Burnett, pronounced with the accent 
on the first syllable.  She was born in Ky.  He died Sept 2 1879 after a long 
illness and she died 1904 at the home of her daughter Mrs. Joseph Sheehan near 
town.  When he died, they buried him in the old Rohrbaugh cemetery where they 
had already buried a daughter, Mrs. Mollie Green.  When Mrs. Claypool died, 
they buried her in the new cemetery at Hamilton and moved the other dead.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Claypool lie in unmarked graves in the east end of this cemetery.
     The children of this pioneer couple who grew up to maturity are Mrs. 
Mollie Green, Mrs. Joseph Sheehan, Mrs. John Whitt who lived for years in the 
district south of town, Mrs. W.H. Dillon of Iowa, Mrs. Louisa Hager of 
Washington state, Mrs. Chas. Woodering of Gallatin, John Claypool who married 
a sister of James Collins a butcher of fifty years ago.
     Interview  1933.


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