Biographical Sketch of David Headrick, 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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David Headrick.  Among the prominent features of Watkins Township 
stands the farming and stock dealing interests, which have developed
within the last few years in an extraordinary manner, and no one has
aided in developing this interest more than the gentleman whose name
heads this sketch.  He was born in North Carolina in 1825, and is the
son of Francis and Elizabeth (Smith) Headrick, and grandson of Francis
Headrick, who was a native of Pennsylvania, and served as fife major 
for six years and nine months in the Revolutionary War.  He died in
North Carolina, at the almost unheard of age, one hundred and five 
years.  The maternal grandfather of our subject, David Smith, was a
native of North Carolina, where he spent all his life.  Francis and
Elizabeth (Smith) Headrick were born in Davidson county, N. C., where
they passed their entire lives.  The fdather died in 1857, and the
mother ten years previous.  The father was of Pennsylvania Dutch
descent, was a Democrat in politics, a well to do farmer, and a member
of the Baptist Church.  David Headrick was the younger of two children,
a son and daughter, born to his parents.  The daughter, Margaret, 
married Mr. Leonard Beck, who now resides in North Carolina.  David 
Headrick was the only one of his father's family to leave the native
state.  His education was rather limited, and at the age of twenty-one
he began business for himself, in the gold mines in the winter and on
the farm in summer.  In March, 1847, he married Miss Mary B., daughter
of Philip and Mary Frank, who were natives of Pennsylvania, but who
immigrated to North Carolina at an early date.  The father died in 
that state, but the mother came to Dent county, where she also died.
Mrs. Headrick was born in Davidson county, N. C., and to her marriage
were born nine children, three sons and three daughters now living. 
In 1857 Mr. Headrick and family moved to Dent county, Mo., settling in
a shanty on his present farm when the same was covered with dense
woods.  He has now 320 acres of land, with about 160 cleared, all the 
result of his own efforts.  He is a successful farmer and stock raiser.
He has been postmaster at Celina since Grant's first term.  During the
war he served about three months in the Confederate army, with Capt.
Coleman, in Arkansas, in 1863, as forage master.  Politically he has 
been a Democrat all his life, and his first presidential vote was for 
Gen. Cass in 1848.  He has voted for every Democratic candidate since.
Mrs. Headrick has been a member of the German Reformed Church from
early girlhood, and they are classed among the best citizens of Dent
county.

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