Daviess County MO Archives History .....DAVID SERGEANT FAMILY IN DAVIESS COUNTY 1866 
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THE DAVID SERGEANT FAMILY IN DAVIESS COUNTY 1866
	Narrator:  Elmer Sergeant, 69

     Elmer Sergeant is the son of old David Sergeant who came to Daviess 
county 1866 and Elmer was born that year.  He bought a farm north of Hamilton 
at pretty cheap prices compared to Ills. where he had lived.  His wife was 
Caroline B. Haskett whom he had married 1857.  He was born 1836 in New Jersey 
and died Feb 17 1896 exactly on his sixtieth birthday.  There was something 
peculiar about his death.  His brother, Campbell Sergeant, of Loomis Nebr. had 
come here on a visit to David, just came in the day before he died, and they 
had sat up long into the night and talked about old times back in N.J.  David 
died early the next day.  He had had one leg amputated for cancer and he was 
never well after that.  He was buried in the Bowman cemetery north of town 
where three of his children were already buried.  He had 10 children.
     Elmer Sergeant, the narrator, went to school at Sell school house in 
Daviess county over the line, in the early 70s to John Swisher, later a 
Hamilton produce dealer, to the Kelsey school (now Prairie View) to Oliver 
Kelsey, who was a farmer-teacher of the 70s, and later to Brush Hill (now 
called Advance) to Miss Kendall of the Kendall family south of town.
     Another child of David Sergeant was Jennie who married John Watkinson as 
his second wife, and Minnie who married Jack Neal, an early rural mail 
carrier.  The Neal family also were pioneers in Daviess county.
     Interview  1934.


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