Biographical Sketch of Zenas Marion Rountree, Greene County, Missouri,
Campbell Township

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

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'Squire Rountree is the son of Joseph and Nancy (Nichols) Rountree, and
was born June 8, 1812 in Orange County, North Carolina.  He remained 
with his parents until April, 1832, when he came to Greene county, Mo.,
and settled on a farm three miles southwest of Springfield, on Wilson's
Creek, and there followed shoe-making, which trade he had learned in
North Carolina.  He moved into Springfield in 1834, and started the 
first shoe shop in the town.  He followed his trade until 1835, and 
then entered the store of Fulbright & Carter, as clerk, and next sold
goods for D. D. Berry.  On the 24th of August, 1837 he married Eliza-
beth Massey, who was but fifteen years of age at the time.  After his
marriage he entered lands in different parts of the country, and made
his home and reared his family upon Grand prairie.  They were blest
with eleven children, five boys and six girls, two of the girls are
dead.  In 1861 Mr. Rountree, commonly and familiarly called "Uncle
Buck" moved to St. Louis, and was there appointed by Sample Orr, as 
first clerk of the register of land's office, at Jefferson City.  He
retained that position until 1862, when he returned to Greene County.
Mr. Rountree was elected justice of the peace in 1857 and served until
1861.  He was again elected in 1878.  In 1880, he was elected city
recorder, and served for one year.  He is at present a justice of the
peace in this township.  His father died in 1874 and in 1876 "Uncle
Buck" moved upon the old homestead where he now lives.  No man in the
county is more respected than he, and he has promise of many years yet
to live.

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