CHITWOOD BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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CHITWOOD, H. C. - b: 1840 Henry Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 699
residence: Big Creek

H. C. Chitwood, farmer and stock raiser, section 16, is a native of Henry County, 
Missouri; having been born here October 23, 1840. Daniel Chitwood, his father, 
originally from Scott County, Tennessee, was born February 24, 1808, and grew 
to manhood in his native county, and was there married to Sally Pruett, a 
Kentuckian by birth. In 1829 the family removed to Missouri and located where 
the town of Lexington now is, but after residing there a short time came to Henry 
County, in 1833. He entered land for two years and improved the farm which the 
subject of this sketch now occupies. In 1830 Mr. Chitwood went overland to 
California, and after spending one year in the gold mines returned by the way of 
the Isthmus and New Orleans. They had a family of eight children, all of whom 
grew to maturity and married, but only four of them are living at this time, H. C. 
being the fifth child. His youth was spent on the farm in this county, and he 
enlisted in the Confederate army in 1862 in Colonel Lewis' regiment, 
participating in the battle of Prairie Grove, where he was taken prisoner. Upon 
being paroled he returned home, having served about six months. Mr. Chitwood 
was married January 24, 1861, to Miss Jane Hicks, a native of Moniteau County, 
but who was reared and educated in Henry County. She was a daughter of Abner 
Hicks. There were eight children by this marriage: Thomas H, Willard A., Charles 
F., Viola A., Melissa A., Nancy E., Lavina and Willie. Mr. C. has a farm of 273 acres, 
with a good new residence and other improvements on the place. He and his wife 
are members of the M. E. Church South.

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