Biographical Sketch of Levi Noland, Johnson County, Missouri,
Post Oak Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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Levi Noland, an aged resident of Post Oak township, was born in Madison
county, Kentucky, August 9, 1838, a son of Jackson Noland, also a nat-
ive of Madison county, Kentucky, whose father, William Noland, was born
in Virginia and was a pioneer settler of Kentucky at a time when the
Indians were still contesting with the incoming white settlers for 
supremacy, and wild game and buffalo abounded in the state.  His mother
Lucy (Jones) Noland, was also born in Madison county, Kentucky.  Seven
children were born to Jackson and Lucy Noland of whom Levi is the old-
est.  Three of the children are still living in Kentucky.  During the
days of Levi Noland's boyhood, his father's home was among the cane-
brakes bordering the Mississippi river in Madison county, Kentucky. The
year's produce of the farm would be loaded on flatboats and floated 
down the Mississippi to New Orleans from which point his father and
others would walk back to the Kentucky home.  Levi Noland was reared a
farmer, but learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for many
years.  After his marriage in 1857, he engaged in farming until 1879,
when he came to Henry county, Missouri and located in the town of Ladue
where he followed his trade as carpenter for eleven years.  From there 
he removed to St. Joseph and worked for one year at his trade.  He then
moved to the town of Kinsmore ten miles southwest of St. Joseph, where
he followed his trade and became postmaster.  He conducted a general 
store and filled the office of postmaster for five years and then lived
on a farm for several years on account of his wife's failing health.
One of his children had settled in Johnson county and he and his wife
came here to be near them.  They first lived on a farm near Knob Noster
and in 1911 moved to their present location in Post Oak township. 
During the spring of 1917, Mr. Noland spent some time in Colorado, 
visiting his son.  Mr. Noland was married to Miss Julia Williams of
Kentucky on December 25, 1857.  To this marriage were born the follow-
ing children: Lucy, the deceased wife of John Cox; Sarah Frances, who
was reared to maturity, married, and died in 1912, leaving eight child-
ren; Josephine, who is married and now resides in St. Joseph, mother
of eight children; Elizabeth, died in infancy; Jackson, died at the age
of two years; Mrs. Nancy Jane Smith, who lives on a farm five miles
northwest of Knob Noster; John William, on the home place in Johnson
county; Lee, lives at Akron, Colorado; Nellie and Julia Ann, twins, who
died in infancy; and Frances and Margaret, who died in infancy.  The
mother of these children was born April 6, 1840 in Kentucky and was a
daughter of one of the old Kentucky pioneers who lived to the age of
ninety-six years.  She died in April, 1910.  Mr. Noland has fifty-two
grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.  He and Mrs. Noland
lived together happily fifty-two years during all this time there was
never a cross or angry word passed between them.  In the eventide of 
his long, busy, now lonely life, this is a matter of great satisfaction
and consolation to him.  Mr. Noland is a member of the Baptist church
and all during his life he has striven earnestly to live according to
the precepts of the Great Teacher.

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