Caldwell County MO Archives History .....HENRY DOLL FAMILY  
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	THE HENRY DOLL FAMILY OF HAMILTON
	Narrator:  Charles Doll, 63, Hamilton

     Charles Doll, ex-treasurer of Caldwell county, moved with his parents to 
Hamilton 62 years ago, when he was one year old.  They first lived in Hamilton 
in a house north of the old Swarts house on Kingston street, then lived on a 
rented farm near town, then bought the old Doll home on the west outskirts of 
town (then, but now included in the Grigsby addition) where the old couple 
lived till her death.  Mr. Henry Doll was a Civil War veteran, and for many 
years before his death kept the list of the old Union soldiers buried in the 
two Hamilton cemeteries and saw to their decoration with flags on Memorial day.
     Henry Doll and family moved here from Daviess county where the Doll 
family of which he was one were pioneers.  They had come from Ohio (Henry was 
a mere lad) and the family had come to Ohio from Pa.  Henry's mother lived in 
Hamilton with her son for a while, and Charles recalls that she spoke a broken 
English, indicating a Pennsylvania Dutch origin.  Charles said the tradition 
was that the word DOLL was not always spelled that way, but that it was German 
in the earlier colonists in this country.
     Henry Doll's mother was Mrs. Susan Doll born in Pennsylvania 1812, came 
to Daviess county 1842 and was the wife of Daniel Doll a forty-niner, who 
never came back.  He left a number of children and a home place.  She lived on 
that 63 years and is buried in the cemetery on the Dan Doll farm north east of 
Kidder.  Henry Doll was a brother of Lewis Doll, who married a daughter of J. 
McClelland, north of town.
     Henry Doll had three children, Mrs. Mollie Davis of Hamilton, Mrs. Tom 
Livick, and Chas. Doll, the narrator.
     Henry Doll married Elizabeth or Betty McCrary, of the numerous McCrary 
families in Daviess county.  Her mother was Mrs. Lucinda Peeler who was born 
1824 and was married the first time at the age of 15.  She died 1897.  Her 
first husband was Wm. McCrary whom she wedded 1839.  She had nine McCrary 
children - 3 girls and 6 boys.  2 girls and 4 McCrary boys survived her.  
There was Jane McCrary Scoville, wife of Frank Scoville, Betty Doll; for the 
boys, while the boys included Merritt McCrary.  Mrs. Peeler was buried by her 
first husband's people in the well known McCrary cemetery, just over the 
county line in Daviess county.
     Mrs. Davis, daughter of Mr. Henry Doll reminds us that her father was one 
of the earlier owners of a merry-go-round, and used to follow up the fairs, 
picnics and Fourth of July celebrations with his outfit, consisting of an old 
white horse and a fiddler who sat in the middle of the platform, playing old 
tunes.
     Interviews  1934.


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