Biographical Sketch of John Claypool, Walnut Grove Township, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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John Claypool is a son of Jeremiah and Rebecca Claypool, and was born
in Warren County, Kentucky, October 18, 1822.  His father was a native
of Kentucky, and emigrated to Polk County, Missouri in 1839, where he
still resides.  John's mother was from Ireland, and died when he was
but a boy.  He received his education in the common schools of Polk
County, and after his school days were over he began farming as the
business of life.  He had moved with his parents to Polk County in 
1839, and continued there till he came to Greene, and located where he
now resides in 1851.  He owns a fine farm of 160 acres two and a half
miles northwest of Walnut Grove.  When the war came on in 1861, Mr.
Claypool enlisted for Union defense, under Col. Phelps at Rolla, and
served till mustered out in 1862.  During his term, he participated in
the battle of Pea Ridge and other fights and skirmishes.  Mr. Claypool
was married in May, 1851, to Miss Rebecca M., daughter of James Chris-
tian, a prominent farmer of Polk County.  Mrs. Claypool's mother was a
Ross, and she died in Tennessee.  Mr. Claypool and wife have had a 
family of ten children, five sons and four daughters of whom are living
at this writing, named as follows: Robert B., Elmira J., Susan A., 
Esther M., James E., Jeremiah M., Harriet Geneva, John P., and David E.
Anna E., born April 21, 1856 died when but three months old.  Mr. Clay-
pool belongs to the Baptist Church, and his wife to the Cumberland 
Presbyterians, and no family ranks higher with their neighbors than 
does that of John Claypool.

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