Grundy-Daviess County MO Archives Biographies.....Splawn, Isaac March 7, 1812 - October 20, 1893
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Author: History of Grundy Co., Mo.  Birdsall & Dean (1882), p. 668

Isaac Splawn was born in Bedford Co., Tennessee, March 7, 1812; a son of John 
and Eleanor Splawn, nee Leighton, both natives of South Carolina, but who came 
to Missouri in 1816, and became the first settlers in Carroll County, their 
nearest neighbor, except a brother, being forty miles distant.  Here our 
subject was reared from the time he was four years of age till he was 
eighteen, then, in 1830, his parents come to Daviess County, and died there, 
his father March 1, 1837, and his mother September 4, 1843.  He was married, 
August 31, 1835, to Miss Isabel Atkinson, who was born July 18, 1812, in Ray 
County, Missouri, and was a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Atkinson, nee 
McCarroll.  They were natives of Tennessee, but came to Missouri at a very 
early day. Her father died January 24, 1837, and her mother March 21, 1843.  
Five children have been the issue of Mr. and Mrs. Splawn's marriage, all 
living; viz., John W, born September 6, 1836, now living in Harrison County; 
Joseph Watson, born March 10, 1839, now at home; Bethena A., born November 15, 
1840, wife of Lewis F. Shores; Mary E., born January 17, 1843; and Martha W., 
born April 12, 1845.  Mrs. Splawn died August 28, 1850, after a protracted 
illness of five years.  She was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and passed to her reward mourned by a large circle of friends and 
relatives.  Mr. Splawn continued to live in Daviess County till the year 1855, 
then moved to Grundy County and located near where he now lives.  This was 
then a sparsely settled neighborhood, and here he brought his family of small 
children and Beththena, the eldest daughter, took charge of the family till 
she was married, October 20, 1872.  Mr. Splawn owns two-hundred and eighty 
acres of land, well improved and stocked.  During his younger days he was 
known as the best marksman, with his flint-lock rifle, in Grundy County, and 
today owns the old gun with which he helped drive out the Mormons; few with 
our more improved guns can compete with him at target practice.  He is well 
and favorably known by a large circle of frineds in Grundy and adjoining 
counties and everyone has a kind word to say of "Uncle Isaac" and his pleasant 
family.  There is, also, in the family a young man, Monroe Riggs by name, a 
nephew, whom he has reared since he was two years of age and who is now in his 
twenty-seventh year; also John M. White, whom he has reared since four years 
of age.  Mr. Splawn is a staunch Republican and glories in the name.  Mr. 
Shores, his son-in-law, served for three years as a member of Company K, Third 
Missouri Calvary.

Additional Comments:
Isaac Splawn's father John Splawn (wife Eleanor Leighton) was a brother to 
Isaac(wives Elizabeth Wood, Mary Cline), Mayberry, (wife Jane Leighton) and 
Stephen Splawn (wife Sarah) of Daviess Co., Mo.  All were early settlers in 
Ray and Daviess Cos., Mo. 

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