Biographical Sketch of John B. Fox, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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John B. Fox, farmer and stock raiser of Watkins Township, was born in
Haywood county, West Tenn., in 1838, and was brought by his parents to
what is now Dent County, where the father died about 1844.  About three
years later the family removed to what is now Texas county, near Lick-
ing, where the son was reared to manhood, with very limited educational
advantages.  He was one of four sons and three daughters, who were 
reared by his widowed mother.  She was born in South Carolina, has been
a member of the Methodist church for a great many years, and is now
eighty-five years of age.  Her father, Lewis Campbell, first moved to
Tennessee, and later to Texas county, Mo., where he died.  He was of
Irish descent.  William Fox, father of our subject, was probably born
in Tennessee, and his father, Enoch Fox, was of Dutch descent, and he
and two brothers were in the War of 1812.  John B. Fox was married in
1861 to Miss Julia A., daughter of William and Rachel Ratleff, natives
of Pike county, Ky., born in 1811 and 1819, respectively.  They came to
Texas county, Mo., in 1858, and during the war went to Nebraska, where
he remained one year.  He then went to Bourbon County, Kas., where the
father died in 1868, and the mother in 1874.  Mrs. Fox was born in Pike
county, Ky., and to her union with the subject of this sketch were born
eleven children, four sons and three daughters now living.  He lived 
for about three years during the war in Phelps county, Mo., then re-
turned to Texas county, and in 1867 to Dent county, where since 1868,
he has resided on his present farm.  He has 560 acres now in the woods,
and 280 acres improved.  He served about six months, in 1862, in the
Confederate Army, Company A, First Missouri Cavalry, in Missouri and
Arkansas, and was in several skirmishes.  He was captured in Shannon
county, January 1, 1863, and imprisoned at Rolla for one month, when he
was paroled under bond, and returned home.  He is a Democrat in poli-
tics, casting his first presidential vote for Breckenridge in 1860.  He
is a member of the I.O.O.F., Spring Creek, No. 416, also a member of 
the Grange, and a member of the Agricultural Wheel, both of Victor
Mills Lodge.  Mrs. Fox is a member of the Christian Church.

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