Biographical Sketch of Major Silas 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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Major Silas Headrick, proprietor of Salem Hotel, of Salem, Mo., and 
son of Christopher C. and Margaret (Billings) Headrick, was born in
Davidson county, N. C., in 1831.  His parents were natives of Davidson
county, N. C., born in 1799 and 1801, respectively.  Christopher C.
Headrick moved to Haywood county, Tenn., in 1834, and the following
year moved to Dent county, Mo., and located in Watkins township, the
farm now being owned by his son Silas.  He died here in 1868.  His wife
died in 1873. They were the parents of four children, three now living:
James, Franklin and Silas.  The last named was but four years of age
when his parents came to Dent county, Mo., they among the first white
settlers of the county, which was full of Indians and wild animals.
Silas assisted his father on the farm until thirty-eight years of age,
and in 1861 he enlisted in Capt. Frank's regiment, Missouri State
Militia, and in the spring of 1862 he enlisted in the regular service
under Col. Coleman.  After his regiment was disorganized he joined Col.
Pindall's battalion of sharp-shooters, and was in service until in 
1865, when he surrendered at Shreveport, La.  He was in the battles of
Wilson's Creek, Lexington, Pleasant Hill, La., and Jenkins' Ferry, Ark.
He was captured at West Plains and retained one month, and was the 
first prisoner exchanged during the war.  He enlisted as a private, was
promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, and later to major of his
regiment.  After the war he returned to Dent county, where in 1866 he
married Mrs. Nancy Plank, nee Plank, daughter of Benedict Plank, and
a native of Tennessee, born in 1837.  To Mr. and Mrs. Headrick were 
born seven children: Frederick, May, wife of Alex. Putman; James, 
Jeremiah, Riley, Annie and Myrtle.  Mrs. Headrick had one child by her
former marriage, who was named America, and who became the wife of
Isaac Dunham.  Mr. Headrick followed agricultural pursuits until 1874,
when he was elected collector of Dent county, and was re-elected in 
1876.  For the past five years he has been merchandising in various 
places in the county, and in the fall of 1888 he sold his stock of 
goods at Victor Mills, and leased the Salem Hotel at Salem, taking 
possession December 3, 1888.  He keeps a first class house in every
respect, and looks well after the comfort of his guests.  He is a
Democrat in politics, a member of the A.O.U.W., Select Knights of same,
and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church.

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