Dade County, Missouri Biographies-William N. POE

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889
Published by Goodspeed, Pg. 836

William N. Poe, farmer, of Washington Township, and judge of the Dade 
County Court from the Eastern District, was born in Benton County, Ark., 
in 1846.  His parents were John and Matilda Ann (Ferguson) Poe, he of Dutch
Descent, and probably of North Carolina, and she of Tennessee.  About 
1845 they removed to Benton County, and, when William N. was about nine 
months old, removed to Dade County, finally settling on a small improvement
of the farm where our subject now lives, and where they were burned out in
1862.  In February, 1863, Mr. Poe died, at the age of sixty-three, his 
wife afterward marrying John B. Evans, dying, in 1879, at the age of 
fifty-two.  Both were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  
Mr. Poe was married three times, the first two wives living but a short 
time.  He had two children by his second wife.  The subject of this sketch 
is the second of a family of eight children, all the sons and two daughters
living.  He attended school but very little, and, after the death of his 
father, the family returned to the farm, on which our subject has since 
lived.  He is now the owner of 140 acres of good farm land. In March, 1869,
he married Louisa, daughter of William and Isabelle Cecil, of North 
Carolina, who came, in 1841, to Johnson County, where the mother died in 
July, 1888. The father, who served in the Federal army, and who was 
constable for some years, is still living.  William N. has four children: 
John William, Albert, Arthur and David Lee.  In 1888 he was elected county 
judge by a good majority.  He is a Republican, having voted for Grant in 
1868, and every Republican candidate since; is a member of South Greenfield
Lodge No. 292, I. O. O. F., having served one year as vice-grand.  He and 
his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for nearly twenty 
years he has served as steward.

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