Caldwell County MO Archives History .....MANN FAMILY, FIRST SETTLERS IN CALDWELL COUNTY  
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	THE MANN FAMILY, FIRST SETTLERS IN CALDWELL COUNTY IN KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
	Narrator:  William Hemry, 86

     It is strange that a person, still in fine mind and memory, is yet alive 
who knew the first permanent settler in Caldwell county.
     William (Bill) Hemry knew Jesse M. Mann who was the first settler who 
came in the boundaries of Caldwell county and stayed here.  To be sure, Jesse 
Mann, father of Jesse M. Mann, had come earlier, by a few months, in spring of 
1831, but he went back to Ray county in the summer of 1832, when the Black 
Hawk War scare was on and never returned.  He lived one half mile N.E. of the 
Kingston public square.  He was born in Prince George Co. Va. 1765, married 
Nancy White of Ga. 1800, and had 14 children, some of whom came with him.  
They first moved to Tenn., then to Howard co. Mo. then to Ray co. 1820, then 
to Caldwell co. 1831, then back to Ray 1832 where he died 1845 and is buried 
in Ray county.  This family data came from the Aubrey family.
     His son Jesse M. Mann, whom the narrator knew personally many years, 
settled on Log creek half mile east of the future Kingston.  He did not mind 
the pioneer surroundings, for his father had trained his children to rough it, 
by frequent moves, always into backwoods country.  It was the kind of life 
they knew.
     It was while old Jesse Mann was yet in Caldwell county that his daughter 
Judith (or Julia as sometimes written) was married to Hardin Stone, a well 
known pioneer of Daviess co, where he and family were early millers.  
This "Aunt" Judith Sann? Stone died at her home in Gallatin 1900.  She was 
born in Tennessee, where her father, Jesse Mann, was living on his western 
trek.  It is a typical story of how people moved slowly into the west.  She 
often told people who are yet alive of her marriage in the backwoods of 
Caldwell co., the first marriage in its bounds; she spoke of her white jaconet 
dress which her father had got, she believed from Lexington.
     Jesse M. Mann, her brother, did not stay so very long in his Kingston 
township homestead, for we find him as one of the prosperous farmers near 
Polo, in Lincoln township in the seventies, and that is where William Hemry 
knew the family, for that was the Hemry township.  Mr. Hemry tells a story 
about Jesse M. Mann.  It was the grasshopper year 1875, when crops were pretty 
rotten, and it looked as if feed would be high.  Mr. Mann saw a chance to make 
some money.  So he bought up all the corn he could get to put it in granaries 
and cribs and sell it high.  But it all spoiled and he lost heavily by his 
deal.
     Mr. Jesse M. Mann married Elizabeth Linville, a family well known in 
south Caldwell county and Ray county.  She was a sister of Thomas and Dave 
Linville, old settlers in Ray.  They had a daughter , Eveline, who married 
Thomas J. Aubrey, who died in Texas in the Civil War, and the Aubrey family 
came back to the Mann community near Polo, where their son Ben Aubrey became a 
successful banker.  Jesse M. Mann died 1881 and his wife some years later.  Of 
course, Jesse M. Mann had whiskers, after the style of his time, and his wife, 
as Mr. Hemry recalls, wore her hair on the top of her head and parted, and 
waved.
     Interview  1934.

Interviewer's note - The old millstone from the Hardin Stone mill rests in 
Hamilton on the grounds of Hamilton Library.  Photos of Jesse M. Mann and wife 
are to be seen in old copies of 1875 atlas of Caldwell county.


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