Biographical Sketch of Benjamin W. Earnest, 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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Benjamin W. Earnest, a progressive farmer of Camden county, Mo., was
born in Morgan county, of the same state, in 1854, and is a son of Amos
and Mary (Wilson) Earnest, who were born in Tennessee in 1812 and 1818,
and died in Morgan county, Mo., whither they had moved in 1839, in 1870
and 1869, respectively.  The father was a farmer and blacksmith, and 
after leaving his native state resided for a time in Indiana.  Their
children are as follows: Addie (Cooper), Isaac, Jerusha J. (Allender),
B. W. and John M.  Benjamin W. Earnest resided in Morgan county until
seventeen years of age, then engaged in farming for himself.  He has 
been a resident of Camden county since 1882, and owns a tract of land
consisting of 450 acres, with about 80 acres under cultivation.  He is
a Republican in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for
Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876.  He and family attend the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South.  His wife, whose maiden name was Mollie Roe, and
whom he married in 1881, was born in Cooper county, Mo., in 1862, and
is the mother of two children: Maggie and Henry.  Her parents, Samuel
and Zerilda (Lee) Roe, were born in Maryland and Missouri, respective-
ly.  The father was taken to Cooper county, Mo., when about five years 
of age (1821) and there he was engaged in farming and blacksmithing.
He was justice of the peace of the county for fifteen years, and has 
been postmaster of Proctor, Mo., for the past six years.  The following
are their children: Lizzie (Greene), Samuel, Kelly, William, Mollie
(Earnest) and James.

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