RANEY BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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RANEY, T. H. - b: 1882 Springfield Twp, Henry Co, MO
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 631
residence: Honey Creek Twp

T. H. Raney, postmaster and general merchant at Garland, Missouri, is a native son 
of Henry County. He was born in Springfield township, five miles south of Calhoun 
in 1882, and is a son of A. G. and Martha M. (Goff) Raney. A. G. Raney, the father, is 
a native of Kentucky, and was brought to Missouri by his parents when he was 
two years old. He was reared and educated in this State and settled in Henry 
County, prior to the Civil War. He and his wife now reside on their old home place 
in Springfield township. A. G. and Martha M. (Goff) Raney are the parents of the 
following children: Robert Arthur, a grocer at Fairmount Park, Kansas City, 
Missouri; T. H., the subject of this sketch; Albert D., a farmer in Springfield 
township. T. H. Raney was educated in the public schools of Springfield township. 
He remained at home until he was twenty-four years of age, when he engaged in 
farming, which he followed for four years. In 1909 he purchased the J. T. 
Cheatham store at Garland, Missouri, and since that time he has been 
successfully engaged in the mercantile business here. He carries a very complete 
line of groceries, dry goods, shoes and hardware, and in fact, everything usually 
found in a modern department store, only his is known as a general store. The 
difference between a department store and a general store seems to be that the 
former is located in the city, while the latter is found in the country. Mr. Raney 
has built up a large trade in the village of Garland, and the rich surrounding 
country tributary to that trading point. He is a capable business man and a 
progressive merchant, and the success that has come to him is well merited. Mr. 
Raney was married March 15, 1905, to Miss May Louise McAllister, daughter of 
James and Sarah Young McAllister of Springfield township, Henry County. Mrs. 
Raney's mother is a native of Missouri, and her father was born in Indiana; he 
came to Missouri about fifty years ago, shortly after the close of the Civil War, 
and now resides in Henry County, about seven miles south of Windsor. Mrs. Raney 
is one of the following children born to her parents: Ed; Elsie; Mrs. Archie 
Ferguson, Windsor, Missouri; William, Windsor, Missouri; Mary Louise, wife of T. 
H. Raney, the subject of this sketch; Maud, married Mark Dewey, Gridley, Kansas; 
Herman, now in the Aviation Corps of the United States Army, and D. Roy, a 
student in the University of Missouri. 

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