WELLS BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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WELLS, John A. - b: 1820 Cumberland Co, KY
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 697
residence: Bogard Twp

John A. Wells. The subject of this sketch resides on section 17, where he owns a 
fine farm of 280 acres, 180 of which are in cultivation and well improved. He is 
senior member of the firm of J. A. Wells & Son, merchants at Urich and Gunn City, 
and they carry a large stock of general merchandise and are enjoying an excellent 
trade at each place. Mr. Wells was born April 9, 1820, in Cumberland County, 
Kentucky, his parents being Joel and Martha (Allen) Wells, the former a native of 
Kentucky, and the latter of North Carolina. John A., the oldest in a family of ten 
children, was reared on his father's farm in Kentucky, and received his education 
in the subscription school. Upon arriving at manhood he became interested in 
farming, which he followed in Kentucky until 1851, when he removed to Henry 
County, Missouri. In 1859 he came to his present home. Mr. W. was in the Enrolled 
Missouri Militia and Home Guards during the late war. In 1866 he was elected 
county assessor of Henry County, and held the office for two years, and has also 
held the position of township clerk and assessor. December 13, 1849, he married 
Miss Molly A. Reed, a native of Kentucky. They are members of the Christian 
Church. They have one child, Thomas W., who was born in Christian County, 
Kentucky, September 16, 1850. One child died in infancy.

WELLS, Thomas J. - b: 1837 Barren Co, KY
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 601
residence: Windsor Twp

Thomas J. Wells, farmer and stock raiser, was born November 2, 1837, in Barren 
County, Kentucky, where he received a good English education. His father, 
Ahasuerus Wells, who was born in 1797, in Kentucky, married in 1818, Miss 
Nancy Fisher, who was born March 3, 1800, in the same state. They had eight 
children, of whom only two are living: John Burgess, and Thomas J. Mr. Wells died 
in 1837. Mrs. W. was married again in 1842, to William Courts, of Kentucky. By 
this union there were two sons (twins), William and Walter. Walter died in 1844, 
and William is now a resident of Pettis County. In 1843, they emigrated from 
Kentucky to Carroll County, Missouri, where Mr. Courts engaged in farming, 
remaining for one year. Then he removed to Cole County of the same state, but 
after one year came to Henry County, and was for two years occupied in tilling 
the soil. He died in 1847. About a year later his widow married James Black, of 
Polk County, Missouri. She died in 1863 at the age of sixty-three years, and Mr. 
Black died in 1877, aged one hundred and one years. He was one of the last of the 
veterans of 1776. It was in honor of him that Fort Black, of Revolutionary 
memory received its name, he being a colonel in the federal army of that period. 
T. J. Wells was married January 12, 1860, to Miss Nancy E. Richards, of Hickory 
County, Missouri. By this union there were eleven children, seven daughters and 
four sons: Julia A., Kittie E., Nancy A., Johnnie W., Ben. E., Minnie E., Felix H., 
Maggie H., Lulia A., Ettie E., and Thomas J. Jr. Five of these are dead. Kittie E. died 
August 18, 1863; Johnnie W. died June 18, 1866; Julia A. died May 13, 1877; 
Thomas J. died October 3, 1881, and Ettie E. died November 3, 1881. Mr. Wells 
came to Windsor, Henry County, Missouri, March 2, 1879, and there embarked in 
farming, since which time he has steadily pursued that branch of industry. 
Himself and wife are identified with the Baptist Church of Windsor. His political 
preferences are Democratic.

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