HELPHREY BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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HELPHREY, Levi - b: 1868 Taney Co, MO
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 877
residence: Tebo Twp

Levi Helphrey, a farmer and stockman of Tebo township, is a native of Taney 
County, Missouri, and was born December 5, 1868. He is the son of David M. and 
Isabelle (Wyatt) Helphrey. David M. Helphrey, the father, was born in Ohio and 
accompanied his parents to Iowa when but a boy. He removed to Taney County, 
Missouri, in 1868, and there became a live stock trader and dealer. He made a 
practice of gathering a herd of mules, driving them to the cotton-growing regions 
of the South, disposing of them to the planters and then driving back herds of 
Southern cattle which he had purchased. In 1874 he drove a herd of cattle to 
Johnson County, Missouri, and traded the cattle for land in Post Oak township. In 
1875 he settled on this land and was engaged in farming and stock raising until 
1912, when he retired to a home in Windsor Later he settled in Leeton, where he 
is now residing. David Helphrey was born in 1836. His wife, Isabelle, was born in 
1842. They were parents of eleven children, of whom eight were reared to 
maturity and are now living. By a former marriage, David M. Helphrey was father 
of one child. Levi Helphrey was reared to become a tiller of the soil. After his 
marriage he rented land for a time and in 1897, his father gave him a tract of 
180 acres in section 7, Tebo township. He sold this land in 1913 and purchased 
his present nicely improved farm of 160 acres. This farm is a very good one and 
each year, with favorable seasons, produces good crops. On August 17, 1893, Levi 
Helphrey and Miss Ina M. Smith were united in marriage. To this marriage have 
been born a family of thirteen children, three of whom died in infancy. The others 
are: Rolla, Flossie, Mamie (deceased), David, Carlos, Walton, Joseph, Ralph, Clyde, 
and Louisa. The mother of this family was born September 22, 1871, in Cooper 
County, Missouri, the daughter of Thomas and Mary R. (Weedin) Smith who are now 
living at Rockville, Bates County, Missouri. In politics, Mr. Helphrey is a 
Democrat, and he is fraternally a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.

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