Biographical Sketch of J. S. Thurston, Dallas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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J. S. Thurston, a dealer in harness and saddlery, or Urbana, Dallas
County, was born in Benton County, MO., in 1857, and is a son of 
William S. and Matilda V. (Phillips) Thurston.  William S. Thurston
was born in Kentucky in 1832, and the following year was taken by his
parents, William S. and Polly Ann (Stanley) Thurston, to Benton, now
Pettis County, MO.  He went to Iowa in 1860, and in 1861 enlisted in
the Missouri State Militia, and served one year.  He returned to 
Benton County, MO., in 1866, and in 1871 located in Dallas County.
He is a farmer and stock raiser, and the father of thirteen children,
of whom the following are still living:  J.S., Maggie A., Sally, 
Robert, John C. and Nancy A.  The paternal grandfather of our subject
was born in Kentucky in 1793, and died in 1839; he did honorable ser-
vice in the War of 1812, for which his widow received a pension.  Mrs.
Matilda Thurston was born in Wisconsin in 1836, and was a daughter of
Hiram Phillips, a farmer and stock dealer of that State:  she died in
1882.  J. S. Thurston spent his early life in Iowa and Missouri, re-
moving from Iowa to Missouri in 1864 or 1865, and settling in Dallas
County in 1868.  On November 26, 1878, he married Miss Emma Lindsey,
a native of Hickory County, MO., who was born in 1858, and is a
daughter of Lycurgus and Lucy (Toby) Lindsey, the former born in 
Kentucky in 1829, and the latter in Indiana in 1837.  Lycurgus Thurs-
ton is a farmer, and in 1861 he enlisted in and served as captain of
the Home Guards at Preston, MO.  Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey are the parents
of seven children, of whom five are living, viz.:  Josephine, Emma,
Matilda, Laura and Eugene.  Amos Lindsey, father of Lycurgus, was born
in Kentucky in 1787, and died in 1877; he married Polly Madison, an
own cousin of President James Adams.  Mr. and Mrs. Thurston are the
parents of three children, viz.:  William Lycurgus, Shepherd Oscar and
Thomas Fulton.  Mr. Thurston owns fifty acres of land, as well as a
house, two lots and two acres of land in Urbana.  Politically he is a
Republican.  He has served as deputy sheriff of Dallas County two years.
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