Caldwell County MO Archives History .....COSHOW FAMILY IN KINGSTON TOWNSHIP 1865 
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THE COSHOW FAMILY IN KINGSTON TOWNSHIP 1865
	Narrator:  George Coshow, 69

     Mr. Coshow is at present a blacksmith in Hamilton, having learned his 
trade of Smiley, an earlier blacksmith at Mirabile, and of Gywnn who was at 
Mirabile and Hamilton in the 70s and 80s.  It took him about three years 
before he "went on his own hook" as a blacksmith.
     He is the son of Robert Coshow, who was born in Kentucky and Sarah 
Henkins (or Hankins) born in Tennessee.  They lived a while in Illinois in a 
logging country, where Robert hauled many a log with his ox team.  They came 
to Missouri by that same ox team in 1865 and rented a farm near Kingston, it 
was called the Hall place south west of that town and is now the George 
Waggoner farm.  There in 1866, George Coshow was born.  The story of Robert is 
a typical story of a renter.  He moved from place to place.  This farm was on 
the established old road to Kingston from the southwest.  When George was 
almost two years old, they moved to Kingston, where his father was an odd jobs 
man, but his best job was as a rail splitter, rail maker, he made rails for 
people who wanted rails cut from their own woods at one dollar per hundred.  
These were used for rail fences, the only kind used for farm fences then.  
Then the family moved to the Dillon district east of Kingston where the 
children went to school at the Dillon district school under Sarah Helvey of 
Cameron, in the 70s.  This was near the well known Salem mill of the earliest 
Caldwell county history. 
     Mr. Coshow's sister married James Ritchie of that neighborhood, a member 
of the Mormon family of early days, now resident of Lamoni, Iowa.
     Interview  August 1935.


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