Biographical Sketch of Lewis F. Tatum, Greene County, Missouri, Center 
Township

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

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Mr. Tatum is the son of Rev. William and Phoebe (Barham) Tatum.  His
father was a native of North Carolina, and died in Greene County, Mo.,
in 1856.  His maternal grandfather, James Barham, was a native of Vir-
ginia, and a soldier of the Revolution.  He too, died in this county, 
aged 103 years.  Lewis F. was born in Logan County, Ky., Nov. 4, 1812,
where he grew up and resided till his removal to this county in 1836.
He settled on the Leeper prairie fourteen miles from Springfield,
there being no house at that time between his and that town.  In 1842,
he moved to the farm where he now resides, and has steadily followed
the vocation of farming.  Though he was three hundred dollars in debt
when he first came to the county, he is now out of debt, and owns a 
good farm of 160 acres in Center township, all made by his own industry
and economy.  At the outbreak of the war, he joined Capt. Campbell's
company of Confederate State Guards, and although fifty years of age,
he served out his term of enlistment, and was in the battle of Dry
Springs and Wilson's Creek, and at the latter had his horse killed 
under him.  Mr. Tatum was married December 22, 1855, to Miss Sarah
Robinson, daughter of Littleberry Robinson, of Logan County, Kentucky.
Her grandfather, like his, was also a Revolutionary soldier.  Mr. and
Mrs. Tatum had eight children, four of whom, Cornelia B., Phoebe C.,
Jemima E. and Henry T., still survive.  They had two sons in the Con-
federate army, Columbus, who was killed at Glasgow, and John who died
in Arkansas.  Mr. Tatum is remarkably active for a man of his age.  He
has been a Freemason for 16 years, and was a charter member of Bois
D'Arc lodge.  He also belongs to the Baptist Church, and is a worthy
and honorable citizen, respected by his neighbors and loved and honored
by his family.

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