Biographical Sketch of William Halliburton, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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William Halliburton, probate judge, was born in Humphreys (now Benton)
County, Tenn., September 15, 1823, and is a son of Samuel and Sarah
(Barker) Halliburton, both natives of Wake County, North Carolina, who
were married in Tennessee where they spent many years in the pursuit
of agriculture.  In 1839 the parents moved to Missouri, and two years 
later located in Crawford County, whence, in 1844, they moved to Ark-
ansas, where the father died after a residence of two years; the mother
spent her last days with her son, William, in Dent County, MO., dying
in 1863, in the seventy-second year of her age.  The youngest but one 
in a family of nine children, William Halliburton received but a limit-
ed education, and remained with his father until twenty-one years of
age.  He was subsequently employed on a farm, and while in Dent County,
MO., in 1846, married Roxana Wilson, a native of Christian County, KY.,
and four years later they moved to Steelville, where they kept a hotel.
Mrs. Halliburton died in 1850, leaving two children and in 1851 Mr.
Halliburton married Lucy Anderson, a native of Crawford County, who 
became the mother of three children.  In 1857 he returned to Dent Co.,
and engaged in the grocery business and the following year was elected
county clerk of Dent County, which position he held until 1861, when he
enlisted in the Seventh Missouri Cavalry, State Guards, being appointed
second assistant general division inspector.  In the spring of 1862 he
was commissioned and sent back to Missouri to raise troops for Gen.
Price, and in July, 1863, was assigned the position of first lieutenant
of Company C, Free Mason's Battalion.  He was relieved at Evening Shade,
Ark., where he was captured and taken to St. Louis, Camp Chase, John-
son's Island, Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, Morris Island and Fort 
Pulaski.  After the war he joined his family in Crawford County, Mo.,
where he has served four years as deputy sheriff and six years as dep-
uty collector.  He was elected probate judge in 1886, being a Democrat
in politics.  Mr. and Mrs. Halliburton are members of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church.

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