COSTLEY BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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COSTLEY, Eugene W. - b: 1857 St. Charles Co, MO
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 765
residence: Urich, Bogard Twp

Eugene W. Costley, a well known representative citizen of Urich, is a native 
Missourian. He was born in 1857 in St. Charles County, a son of John C. and 
Elizabeth (Stone) Costley. The mother was a second cousin of the late Senator 
William J. Stone. She and her husband are both now deceased and their remains 
are interred in Darden Creek Cemetery, St. Charles County, Missouri. They were 
the parents of the following children: Edward C., deceased; William M., lives in St. 
Louis, Missouri; Eugene W., the subject of this sketch; John D., deceased; Katurah, 
Howell, Missouri. When E. W. Costley was a child his parents removed to St. Louis, 
where he attended the public schools until he was sixteen years of age. He then 
attended the University of Missouri for three years. After leaving college he 
returned to St. Louis, where he was engaged in the boot and shoe business for a 
time. On account of failing health he went to Natchez, Mississippi. Later he went 
to St. Paul, Minnesota, and from there to Texas, then to Holden, Missouri, and 
shortly afterward, during the seventies, he went to Clinton, where he was 
engaged in the boot and shoe business for a number of years. He also served as 
deputy sheriff of Henry County under Sheriff A. B. Hopkins. In 1882 he settled in 
White Oak township, where he bought a farm and engaged in general farming and 
stock raising, to which he has devoted his attention ever since. He owns seventy-
five acres of land in Bogard township, eighty acres in White Oak and fifty-seven 
acres adjoining the town of Urich, where he makes his home. Mr. Costley was 
married in 1882 to Miss Millie A. Moler, a daughter of Charles H. and Phoebe 
(Hendricks) Moler, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Henry County. 
Charles H. Moler was an early settler in Bogard township and entered Government 
land here. His wife was a daughter of Asa Hendricks, who was one of the very 
early pioneers of this section. Mrs. Costley died in 1898, aged forty years, 
leaving the following children: Wade, who was born November 14, 1882, and is 
now at Dallas, Texas, in the employ of the United States Government as a 
constructor, he married Lula May Newcomb and they have four children, Harry H., 
Eugene, Laura May and Wade H., Jr. The second and youngest child born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Costley is Hoyland L., born February 20, 1887. She was educated in Stevens 
College, Columbia, Missouri, and now resides in Kansas City, Missouri. Wade was 
educated in the public schools of Henry County and the Central College at Fayette, 
Missouri. Mr. Costley is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the 
Knights and Ladies of Security. 

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