NOEL BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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NOEL, John - b: 1812 Westmoreland Co, PA
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 617
residence: Deepwater Twp

John Noel, farmer and stock raiser, section 14, owes his nativity to 
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he was born November 26, 1812, 
being the son of Joseph and Margaret (Griffin) Noel, natives of Maryland. John 
grew to manhood in the county of his birth, his youth being spent on the farm. 
After his sixteenth year he learned the stone and brick mason's trade, at which 
he worked for about sixteen years. In 1835, moving to Iowa, he located in Scott 
County, and was one of its pioneers, residing there upwards of thirty years, 
engaged in farming and working at his trade. He sold this property in 1865, and in 
the fall of 1866, came to Missouri, and settled in Henry County. He moved on the 
place where he now resides in the spring of 1867. Mr. Noel was married in Scott 
County, Iowa, January 9, 1846, to Miss Rachel Goldsmith. a daughter of Benjamin 
Goldsmith. She is a native of Preble County, Ohio, but was reared in Scott County, 
Iowa. They have six children: Mary A. (wife of A. McLaughlin), Benjamin F., Lucy E., 
Margaret C., George A., and Jacob V. They have lost five children. Mr. Noel has 180 
acres of cultivated land in his home place, upon which are good buildings and an 
orchard of 300 bearing fruit trees. He and his wife are members of the Catholic 
Church.

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