Caldwell County MO Archives History .....EARLY DAYS NEAR BRAYMER IN DAVIS TOWNSHIP 
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EARLY DAYS NEAR BRAYMER IN DAVIS TOWNSHIP
	Narrator:  Mrs. H.B. Cooper, Braymer

     Mrs. Cooper is the daughter of Mrs. Mary Jane Eichler who is one of the 
oldest residents in Caldwell county.  At any rate she is the oldest in point 
of residence.  Mrs. Cooper's talk is about her mother.  She was born 1841 at 
Mirabile when that town was hardly on the map, and with the exception of two 
years, she has spent her long life in Caldwell county.  When she was 4 years 
old, she with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Oster moved about three miles 
south east of what is now Braymer, her father buying twenty acres of land for 
12 cents an acre.  She often recalls the first pair of shoes she ever had.  
They were made from a piece of stout jeans which a neighbor woman had woven.  
Her father cut soles from the leather of a hide of a cow which had lately died 
and sewed them to the jeans.  Prior to that first pair, she like many pioneer 
children wore moccasins.  There were plenty of deer and wolves to provide 
skins in those early days in these parts.
     In the early 60s, her first husband Franklin Cox, died leaving her with 
two small children.  In the late 60s, she and late Judge Eichler, who came to 
own hundreds of acres of land in the county, were married.  He was a power in 
the early days of founding Braymer in the middle eighties.  Before that , he 
had been instrumental in establishing the post office at the hamlet of Elk 
Grove, the home community of the Eichlers.  The original Oster family and some 
of their descendants were buried in the Oster graveyard near Braymer.
     Interview  Fall 1934.


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