Biographical Sketch of G. W. Strickland, Johnson County, Missouri

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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G. W. Strickland was born in 1865, in Johnson county, Missouri, the son
of E. C. and Harriet (Melton) Strickland, the former, a native of Ohio
and the latter of New York.  E. C. Strickland was a successful farmer 
and stockman.  He came to Missouri and settled in Johnson county prior
to the time of the Civil War.  The boyhood days of G. W. Strickland 
were spent in this county, when deer and wild turkeys were to be found
in the forests and cattle and hogs were allowed unlimited range over 
the wide, fenceless prairie.  His school teacher at the Lowland school
was Walter Crouch and the pioneer preacher, to whom he often listened 
as a youth, was Reverend Hedrick.  Mr. Strickland has frequently atten-
ded the old fashioned camp meetings and he recalls how the young 
fellows would bring their "best girls" behind them on horseback.  The
young people of his time were not without amusements.  Dances were 
always a source of much pleasure and entertainment.  They were free to
all who wished to come and were attended by the young folks from all 
parts of the county.  As a young man, G. W. Strickland worked as a hir-
ed farm laborer for sixteen dollars a month.  In 1886, G. W. Strickland
and Manda Rumley, daughter of John Rumley, were united in marriage.  To
Mr. and Mrs. Strickland have been born three children, two girls and 
one boy, two ofwhom are now living: Mrs. Sylvia Crowder, Sweetsprings,
Missouri; Sadie, who died at the age of seventeen years, eleven months
and two days; and Lyman, who resides at home with his parents and is
associated in the business of farming and stock raising with his father.
After his marriage, Mr. Strickland rented land for several years and 
then purchased forty acre of land in Johnson county, upon which place 
he built an old fashioned log house, which was their home for many 
years and in which all their children were born.  He early began rais-
ing Poland China hogs and in the course of time prospered and with his
savings was enabled to purchase, after six years time, forty acres more
land.  Since that time, Mr. Strickland has gradually increased his 
holdings and is now the owner of one hundred sixty acres of choice 
stock land, most of the farm being in grass.  This year, 1917, he has
forty acres of his place in corn and fifteen acres in sugarcane.  For
twenty years G. W. Strickland has been engaged in the manufacture of
molasses, often times making more than two thousand gallons of syrup.
He, himself, plants annually three to fifteen acres in cane and he 
makes molasses for his neighbors, who haul their cane to his well 
equipped mill and evaporator.  There will be forty tons of hay produced
on the Strickland farm this year of 1917.  Mr. Stricland keeps four 
mares on the farm and at present owns a fine Belgian stallion.  Lyman,
the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Strickland, takes a keen interest and
pride in the work of the farm.  He is a bright, progressive, alert,
young man and is perfectly contented with country life, differing 
greatly from many of the young citizens of Johnson county.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Strickland are highly respected and valued in their community and
they are numbered among the county's best citizens.

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