Biographical Sketch of Andrew Estes, Camden County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Andrew Estes, a farmer of Adair township, Camden county, was born in 
that county in 1843, and is a son of John G. and Lucy (Dodson) Estes.
John G. Estes was born in Alabama in 1809.  He was a farmer by occupa-
tion, and when young moved to Missouri, where he met and married Lucy
Dodson, a native of North Carolina, who was born in 1816.  Of the ten
children born to them, five are now living, viz.: Mary G. Smith, Susan
Russell, Zilpha Foster, Penelope Gibson and Andrew Estes.  Elizabeth
Chitwood and Lucy Simpson (deceased) were married and reared families
before their deaths.  The paternal grandparents of our subject were
Andrew and Mary (Gibson) Estes, natives of South Carolina, who removed
from their native state to Tennessee, and in 1832 to Boone county, 
Mo., subsequently settling in Camden county.  The maternal grandparents
of Andrew Estes were James and Lucy (Davis) Dodson, who immigrated to
Missouri from Tennessee.  James Dodson was a physician, and Mrs. Dodson
was a relative of Jefferson Davis.  John G. Estes, father of our sub-
ject, died in 1862; his widow is still living in Camden county.  Andrew
Estes spent his early life in attending the common schools of his 
native county, and at the age of nineteen began life for himself as a
farmer of the same county.  July 4, 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate
army, Company A, Sixteenth Missouri Cavalry, under command of Colonel
Johnson and Capt. Charles Hawthorne.  He participated in the battles
of Springfield, Lexington, Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, and was taken
prisoner near Fayetteville, Ark., in 1863; he was confined at the 
latter place three weeks, and was then taken to Springfield, Mo., where
he remained until March, 1863, when he enlisted in the United States
army, Company D, Eleventh Missouri Cavalry, Col. William D. Woods, 
Capt. Holstein, and served until discharged in August, 1865.  In 1867
Mr. Estes married Mary Foster, who was born in Camden county, Mo., in
1847, and is the daughter of Williamson and Nancy (Brown) Foster,
natives of Kentucky, whose four living children are James, Thomas,
Leonard and Mary.  Jonas Brown, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Estes,
served in the War of 1812; his wife was Mary (Hart) Brown.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Estes are the parents of nine children, viz.: Elizabeth, Nancy P.,
Martha E., Jenora, John W., Lucy A., Ethel and Eltha (twins) and 
Andrew A.  Mr. Estes bought his present home in 1873; he owns 120 acres
of good bottom land, of which forty acres are under cultivation.  In
politics he is a Democrat.

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