Biographical Sketch of Tyree Glenn Newbill, Greene County, Missouri

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

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Father of the subject of the preceding sketch, was born in Franklin
County, Virginia, May 17, 18??.  He was married December 1st, 1846,
to Nancy A. Johnson, only daughter of James M. and Elizabeth Johnson,
and in the following year removed to Southwest Missouri, locating on
the farm now owned by Dr. H. H. Lea, in the northeast corner of the
territory now known as Webster County.  Three years afterward he re-
moved to Greene County, where he purchased the fine farm of Samuel
McClelland, two and one half miles west of Springfield.  Here he en-
gaged largely in agriculture and stock raising, and was one of the
foremost men in the county in the importation and breeding of the
different kinds of fine stock.  In the spring of 1854 he took a drove 
of cattle and wagon train across the plains to the Golden State, re-
turning home by way of Panama and New York in the following autumn.
As will be seen elsewhere in this work, he was twice elected president
of the Southwest District Agricultural and Mechanical Association for
the two years prior to the war, at which time that association stood
in the front ranks of similar institutions of the kind in the West.
He was also prominently connected with the association as a member of 
the board of directors from its inception up to that time.  In the
political campaign of 1860 he was a staunch supporter of Douglas, but
in the late war he took the side of the Lost Cause.  In the early part
of the winter of 1860 he went to Bell County, Texas, to close up his
stock business there, after which he was never nearer his home in
Greene County than when confined for a few weeks as a prisoner of war
in the old McDowell College, St. Louis, in the summer of 1863.  After
his release he again went South to engage in cotton speculation, where 
it is supposed he lost his life in the month of December, 1864, the 
date of his last letter to his family, as nothing was ever learned of
his whereabouts afterwards.  His wife and six children are living,
five in Greene and one in Bates County.

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