Biographical Sketch of Joshua Cole, Jefferson County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Joshua Cole, farmer and resident of Valle Township, was born in Wash-
ington County, Mo., in 1843; being the son of Joshua and Jane (Turley)
Cole, natives of Bullitt County, Ky., born in 1799 and 1806, respec-
tively.  At the age of nineteen Mr. Cole came with his father to what
is now Washington, being one of the early settlers of that part of the
State.  After his marriage he settled in Washington County, but after-
ward removed to St. Francois County, where he lived for perhaps thirty 
years.  He died in 1878; a farmer, tanner and shoemaker by trade, he
was an honest, upright citizen.  Both parents were members of the Bap-
tist Church.  The mother died in 1880.  She came to Missouri with her
parents, Lot and Cassandra Turley.  Joshua was reared at home, secured
a fair common school education, and served about nine months in the
latter part of the late rebellion in Company C of Col. Green's regiment
of Confederate troops.  He operated in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and
Mississippi.  In 1866 he married Miss Ann Long, a native of Jefferson
County, born in 1848, and the daughter of Thomas and Mary Jane Long.
Mr. Long was born in St. Francois County, but his parents moved there
from Kentucky at a very early day.  He served three years in the Con-
federate army under Gen. Price.  Mrs. Long was of French extraction.
Of the eight children born to our subject and wife, seven are now liv-
ing: Nancy Jane, born in 1867, wife of Joseph Satterwhite; John M.,
born in 1868; Bruce, born in 1871; Rolla A., born in 1873; Emma B.,
born in 1876; Luther J. (deceased); Lewis Everett, born in 1881; and
Newton L., born in 1883.  Soon after his marriage Mr. Cole settled on
his present farm nine miles south of De Soto, where he has 240 acres,
about 100 acres of which are under cultivation.  He is a member of the
A. O. U. W. and a Democrat in politics.  Mrs. Cole is an active member
of the Baptist Church.

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