McCALMON BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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McCALMON, William S. - b: 1865 Wayne Co, OH
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 745
residence: Bogard Twp

William S. McCalmon, a leading citizen of Bogard township, is a native of Ohio. He 
was born in Wayne County, February 26, 1865, a son of James C. and Mary E. 
(Schultz) McCalmon. The father was born near Akron, Ohio, and the mother was a 
native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The mother died in 1902, and the father lives 
in Bogard township on the old homestead, where he settled in 1873. He was born 
September 4, 1831. James C., and Mary E. (Schultz) McCalmon were the parents of 
the following children; William S., the subject of this sketch; Rebecca, married 
A. J. Crawford and lives at Colfax, Iowa; Nellie, died in infancy. William S. 
McCalmon came to Henry County with his parents in 1873, when he was about 
eight years of age. They settled in Bogard township, and here young McCalmon 
was reared and educated. He received a good common school education and has 
always been devoted to farming and stock raising. He remained on the home farm 
until he was twenty-eight years old, when he engaged in farming for himself. He 
now owns and operates a well improved and productive farm of one hundred 
twenty acres, which is situated three miles west of Blairstown. Mr. McCalmon 
has placed all the improvements on this place within the last fifteen years and it 
is one of the neat and well appearing farms of Bogard township. He is engaged in 
general farming and is one of the successful and progressive stock raisers of 
Henry County. He is a carpenter by trade, although he has never followed that line 
of work extensively with the exception of doing mechanical work of that 
character for himself. On October 12, 1892, William S. McCalmon and Hattie 
Tharp were united in marriage. She is a daughter of H. T. and Florina (Haynes) 
Tharp, natives of Tipton, Indiana. The mother was born in 1852 and died in 
Johnson County in 1892, and her remains are interred in the cemetery at Quick 
City, Missouri. The father now lives in Florida. To H. T. and Florina (Haynes) Tharp 
were born the following children: Mrs. Cora Pitts, Lamed, Oklahoma; William, Los 
Angeles, California; Hattie, wife of William S. McCalmon; Mrs. Lillie Hendricks; 
Freewater, Oregon; Jack, Phoenix, Arizona; Mrs. Effie Wolfe, Spokane, Washington, 
and Mrs. Leona Peacock, Coconut Grove, Florida. By a former marriage of Mrs. 
Tharp to W. H. Keen, one daughter was born, Gracie Belle, who married D. T. Hisey, 
Altona, Kansas. To William S. and Hattie (Tharp) McCalmon, were born the 
following children: Charles Albert, Raymond H., Helen Willis. Charles Albert, who 
was a teacher, is now a private in the National Army and at this writing (August 
7, 1918) he is stationed at Camp Dodge. Raymond H. married Eula Streight May 22, 
1918, and is a farmer in Bogard township. Mr. McCalmon is a progressive and 
substantial citizen and the McCalmons are one of the representative families of 
Henry County. 

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