Clay County MO Archives News.....The Old Men of Clay County September 30, 1870
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Liberty Weekly Tribune September 30, 1870
OLD MEN OF CLAY COUNTY
Liberty Weekly Tribune; Date: 1870 Sep 30

  We request every citizen in Clay county, over sixty years of age, to send us 
his name, age, place and date of birth, disfranchised or not, and any prominent 
circumstances connected with his life.

ALEXANDER BRECKENRIDGE DUNCAN.
  I was born January 13th, 1807, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, 4 miles due south 
of Paris; moved with my father in 1825 to Missouri, and have been a citizen of 
Clay county ever since.  Have been a member of the Christian Church 32 years, 
have been elder at Smithville Church for 26 years; my family are all member of 
the Christian Church.  I served in the Heatherly War, and in the Blackhawk War 
under Col. Shubael Allen.  I served as Justice of the Peace 6 years, and have 
paid taxes in Clay county 42 years.  My grandfather was captain in the 
revolutionary war, and I had 5 uncles in the war of 1812.  I have always been a 
Whig and am disfranchised for doing nothing but what they made me do – that 
was, giving a two thousand dollar bond.                  ALEXANDER B.  DUNCAN. 
 
REV. JOHN S. MAJOR
  I was born in Culpepper county, Va., the 26th of March, 1788.  In 1799 my 
father moved to Franklin county, KY., where he resided until 1850, when I moved 
to Clay county and settled on the farm on which I now reside.  I have been a 
minister of the gospel for more than a half century.  I was a Maj. Q.M. under 
Gen. Harrison in the war of 1812.  I always voted with the Whig party and have 
not attempted to vote since the war.                            JOHN S. MAJOR

A.L. DARBY
  I was born in Caswell county, North Carolina, on the 28th day of February, 
1808.  Both of my grand-fathers served under Gen. Washington in the 
Revolutionary war.  I emigrated to Clay county, Mo., in the spring of 1830, 
therefore have been in Clay county upawards of forty years, and have voted the 
Democratic ticket all my life, but am now disfranchised, they said for the want 
of time to hear me after, keeping me until twelve o’clock at night, telling me 
all the time it should be fixed so I could vote.                    A.L. DARBY

TILMAN H. WEST.
  I was born in Logan county, Ky., May 8th, 1810.  My father, James West, was 
born in Chatham county, N.C., and came with his parents to Kentucky, in the 
fall of 1790, then aged 18 years, and improved and settled a place on Red 
River, Logan county, where he died in 1844.  My mother was born and raised in 
Pendleton District, S.C.  I removed to Missouri in the spring of 1847;  have 
lived in Pleasant Hill, Mo., Randolph, clay county, at Kansas city, Mo., and 
now and for the last eleven years at Harlem.  I voted the Whig ticket while it 
was a party.  I voted for Fillmore in 1856, and Bell and Everett in 1860.  I 
have not applied for registration nor do I expect to under the present 
dispensation of political affairs.                              TILMAN H. WEST.



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