Caldwell County MO Archives History .....HENRY S. PARTIN FAMILY OF HAMILTON  
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THE HENRY S. PARTIN FAMILY OF HAMILTON IN THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES
	Narrators:  Will Partin, Rock Springs and Others

     Henry S. Partin and family must have come into the county rather early, 
but just how early is a conjecture, since there is no descendant accessible to 
state.  He married a niece of A.G. Davis, Mollie Davis, and they were here in 
the forties.  He was located in the village of Mirabile before Hamilton 
started (1856) where the Davis family settled.  His name appears in an old law 
suit of 1863, on a carpenter's contract matter.  He is said to have come from 
South Carolina to Missouri, and not to have been kin to the William Partin 
family who came in from Tenn. in the early sixties.  To be sure, they were a 
bit entangled by marriage, for Henry married a Davis girl, and William married 
a Penney girl whose sister married A.G. Davis.  This made them feel warm 
toward each other.  The narrator says that the general idea that prevailed in 
Hamilton that Henry and William were brothers or at least cousins, probably 
arose from the above connection or from the fact that they were partners in a 
store for a while.
     The Henry Partin family lived for years in a story and a half frame that 
stood on the corner directly south of the present McLaughlin-Lovenspike home.  
In that house, they had several deaths, and for years afterwards, the house 
had a reputation of bringing death to occupants, and even was called haunted 
by some occupants.  There was an infant daughter Tennie aged 5 months 
(according to a broken stone in the Henry Partin lot in the old Rohrbaugh 
cemetery west of town).  There were three deaths all within 14 months, between 
1878 and 1880, all of tuberculosis.  The first was the mother, Mrs. Mollie 
(Mary) Davis Partin, the second the father Henry S. Partin, the third Thomas 
Partin, a popular young man.  The last of the family to die here in Hamilton 
was the youngest child, Purle who died 1890 also of consumption, who died at 
the home of a married sister Mrs. N.B. Bell south west of town, where she had 
lived after the death of her parents when she was four years old.  Another 
sister was Tressa, a well known school teacher, who married the Rev. Glenn 
Lewis of the Kingston Lewis family, a preacher in M.E. church.
     Mr. Henry Partin was an early carpenter of Mirabile and Hamilton 
communities and the whole family was popular here.  He was one of the builders 
of the old north side high school brick here in Hamilton.
     The family bought a lot in the old Rohrbaugh cemetery in west Hamilton 
and there the above dead lie, with no stones to mark their final resting 
places in the neglected old grave yard.
     Interviews  1935.


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