Biographical Sketch of Mrs. Bettie (Logan) Shaneyfelt, Johnson County, Missouri, Warrensburg. >From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918. ********************************************************************** Mrs. Bettie (Logan) Shaneyfelt, wife of Nathan Shaneyfelt, a prominent citizen of Johnson county residing one-half mile north of Warrensburg, is one of the most beloved and respected women of this county, a des- cendent of an old colonial family, and a worthy representative of one of the first families of Missouri. Mrs. Shaneyfelt was born February 29, 1848, at the Logan homestead in Warren county, Missouri, on her father's farm located fifty miles west of St. Louis in the "Daniel Boone neighborhood." The Logans are an ancient and honorable family. More than once have entries been made in the historical annals of our country relative to the different distinguished members of the American branch of the Logan family. The name itself suggests Scottish origin and there is all probability and small doubt that the ancestors of Mrs. Shaneyfelt were the same as those of John Logan, a noted Scottish poet, son of George Logan, who was a prosperous farmer in East Lothian in the seventeenth century. To the American Logans belonged James A. Logan, who with Benjamin Franklin headed the group of scientists for whom Philadelphia was distinguished in the earliest colonial days, and John A. Logan, of Illinois, the Republican candidate for Vice-president, with James G. Blaine for President, in the election of 1884. The Logans were distantly related to Daniel Boone, the famous hunter of North Carolina, whose efforts opened Kentucky to the world. The father of Mrs. Shaneyfelt was a wealthy and influential landowner in Warren coun- ty, Missouri. Nathan Shaneyfelt was born February 14, 1842, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. He was a young man at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War and, in 1862, he enlisted with the Federal army and served throughout the remainder of the war, receiving no wounds or serious disablements. Mr. Shaneyfelt was in the thick of the battles of the Wilderness, engagements which took place in a desolate region south and east of the Rapidan, in the Wilderness itself, at Spottsyl- vania Court House, and at Cold Harbor, in the spring and summer of 1864. In the battle at Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864, it was said that ten thousand of the "boys in blue" fell in twenty minutes. Mr. Shaney- felt was in the army of Union soldiers at Petersburg, when General Burnside ordered the soldiers into the "crater," which became a gigantic grave for hundreds of brave fellows, and he was in at the close, when brave General Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. That meant the end of strife and after receiving his honorable discharge, Mr. Shaneyfelt came to Missouri in 1867 and locat- ed in the "Daniel Boone neighborhood." September 18, 1868, Nathan Shaneyfelt and Bettie Logan were united in marriage in Warren county, Missouri. The marriage ceremony was pronounced by Reverend James E. Welch, who was afterward a leading citizen and prominent Baptist minister of Warrensburg. To this union have been born seven children: Emma, born June 22, 1869; Abram, born July 8, 1870 and died at the age of six months; Lena H., born February 3, 1873, is now married and resides in Kansas City, Missouri; Mary Alice, born November 27, 1874, and died June 30, 1907; Robert E., of Warrensburg, Missouri, born July 18, 1876; Alberta, born December 30, 1879, wife of Edward Ridge, and they are residents of Warrensburg, Missouri; and Harriet Luella, born August 27, 1886, wife of Frank Anderson, a leading grocery man of Warrensburg, Missouri. The Shaneyfelts remained in Warren county eight years after their marriage and then they moved to Cooper county, in 1876. Thence they came to Johnson county, Missouri in 1881, and settled on a farm of forty acres located near Warrensburg, where they have resided continuously since. Thirty-six years ago, they paid nine hundred seventy dollars for their farm, but the land has trebled in value since that time. When they were married, Mr. and Mrs. Shaneyfelt purchased one hundred acres of land in Waren county and to do so went in debt for almost the entire amount and they paid ten percent interest on the borrowed money. They endured a multitude of privations and hardships, but Mr. Shaneyfelt was a soldier and Mrs. Shaneyfelt, a pioneer's daughter, and by constant industry and the practice of rigid economy, the countless vicissitudes of those early years have been overcome and they are now in comfortable circumstances. The world claims a knowledge of its men and women as its just due. The laws of nature and of nature's God have forbidden isolation. "No man liveth unto himself." Every individual on this broad earth influences and is influenced by some other individual. Then it is peculiarly fitting and proper that the lives of noble men and women, such as Mr. and Mrs. Shaneyfelt, should be commemorated in a work of this character, that their example, so worthy of emulation, may teach the way to honorable success. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. 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