ROUNTREE BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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ROUNTREE, Lafayette M. - b: 1840 Greene Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 741
residence: Davis Twp

Lafayette M. Rountree was born in Greene County, Missouri, April 18, 1840, his 
parents being J. M. and Martha J. (Miller) Rountree, the former originally from 
North Carolina and the latter from Tennessee. They were married in Missouri in 
1830. He is still living in Greene County but she died in 1872. Of twelve children 
Lafayette is the fifth and the eldest now alive. He stayed on his father's farm 
until of age, and soon after entered the county service of the Missouri State 
Militia. He was in the battles of Springfield, Wilson Creek, etc., being for some 
time in the sanguinary guerrilla warfare of Western Missouri. He entered the 
service as a private but soon rose to first duty sergeant and afterward to 
captain. He returned to Greene County and remained there until 1872, engaged in a 
store for two years, and was for some time deputy county clerk under his father, 
who was clerk. In 1872 he came to Henry County, and March 23, of the following 
year he married Mrs. Diana Armstrong, widow of William J. Armstrong, who died 
in 1869. Her maiden name was Diana Blevins and she is the sister of R. P. Blevins. 
She had four children left her at Mr. Armstrong's death: Luellen, Thomas J., 
Matilda A. and Robert J. Luellen married T. M. Long and died at the age of twenty-
two. Only one child survives to grace the home of Mr. Rountree and wife, James 
Lestie. They have lost two: Oscar, a boy of two years, and an infant. In 1877 Mr. 
Rountree came to his present farm which contains 120 acres. He is handling some 
cattle, having at present about eighty head, and 100 hogs. Mrs. Rountree is a 
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. R. has been a Mason for 
several years.

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