Caldwell County MO Archives History .....MITCHELL FAMILIES IN HAMILTON AND THE TERRILL FAMILIES  
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THE MITCHELL FAMILIES IN HAMILTON AND THE TERRILL FAMILIES IN HAMILTON
	Narrator:  Mrs. Kay Culp, Hamilton

     Mrs. Culp was Ida Mitchell daughter of Strather M. Mitchell and Rebecca 
Terrill both of whom were of Daviess county before coming to this county in 
1868.  He was first a carpenter and then they ran the Hamilton Hotel.  He died 
1881 in Excelsior Springs where he had been a carpenter and ran the first 
hotel there.  Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell died 1900.  There were 5 children, S.S. 
Mitchell (Bud) of Excelsior Springs, Mrs. Sam Buster of Denver, Mrs. Culp , 
Chas. Mitchell (dead) and Tom Mitchell (dead).  Tom was quite a local 
character, good in minstrel shows.  He married a daughter of Steve Cox of this 
county and after his death, she became Mrs. Evans.  Charles has two children 
Goldie and Violet, the latter being the wife of Rev. Archie Bedford of New 
York state.
     John Mitchell a brother of Strather came down from Daviess county with 
his brother to Hamilton.  He had 5 children Mrs. Laura Logan (whose husband 
Wm. was an early blacksmith), Wood 3 of K.C. (now dead), Cassius, Robert, 
Alexander all of whom lived here in the 80s.  Strather and John had another 
brother who settled in Boone county and did exceptionally well.  The family 
came from Va.
     The Terrill family is also of Daviess county coming down into Caldwell 
after Rebecca married Mitchell.  Fountain Terrill father of Rebecca came to 
live with her and died 1891 after being run over by a horse.  He was a 
strong "Campbellite" and is in Highland.  His name was Fountain Terrill (named 
after a neighbor in Ky. where he was born 1806).  Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell's 
brother Ollie Terrill also died in Hamilton about 1899 and is buried here.  
The Terrill family in antebellum days had slaves and plenty of everything both 
in Daviess county and in Kentucky, but the war deprived them of their property 
and they were in struggling circumstances when they lived here in town.
     The Terrills who married into the Mitchell family are kin to the Terrills 
who were among the earlier settlers of the Breckenridge country, even before 
the town was begun.
     Interview  1933.


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