Biographical Sketch of Adrian M. Wall, Johnson County, Missouri,
Chilhowee Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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Adrian M. Wall, a late prosperous and progressive farmer and stockman
of Johnson county, was a member of one of the best and most prominent
pioneer families of this section of Missouri.  He was a native of North
Carolina.  Mr. Wall was born in 1839 and in the same year came with his
parents to Missouri, and they settled on a large farm in Chilhowee 
township.  He was a son of Dr. Robert Z. R. and Mary Jane (Cobington)
Wall, a biography of whom appears elsewhere in this volume.  In 1864,
Adrian M. Wall and Matilda C. Hunt were united in marriage.  Mrs. Wall
is the daughter of John B. Hunt.  To Adrian M. and Matilda C. (Hunt)
Wall were born ten children, nine of whom are now living: Charles O.,
Alberta, Canada; John R., Blairstown, Missouri; Oliver W., Blairstown,
Missouri; Edgar H., Blairstown, Missouri; Mrs. Maude Atkins, Blairs-
town, Missouri; Robert A., Blairstown, Missouri; Addison M., Blairs-
town, Missouri; Rufus A. and Benjamin F., both of whom are unmarried
and at home with their widowed mother on the home place.  Mr. Wall died
in 1902.  He was a leading worker and valued deacon of the Presbyterian
church, a good honest, kind hearted, Christian gentleman, a citizen of
Johnson county whose loss has been long deeply felt and mourned.  Mrs.
Wall relates that after their marrige, Mr. Wall and she lived in a log
cabin, having only one room, for one year and then they moved to 
another log house, which was not much larger or more comfortable and 
this was their home for several years until Mr. Wall built a new home,
which seemed a mansion with its four large rooms.  In 1885, they pur-
chased the McCarty place and on this farm, Mr. Wall spent the remainder
of his life, engaged in farming and stock raising.  He acquired five
hundred acres of land, but lost much of it going security for irrespon-
sible people.  In the early days, Mr. Wall was a well known and adept
hunter and there were many days that all the meat that the family had
was the wild game, which he brought home from one of his hunting exped-
itions.  Mrs. Wall vividly recalls seeing herds of deer as she stood in
the doorway of their primitive, rude log cabin.  In spite of the priva-
tions and hardships of pioneer life, and she has experienced them all,
Mrs. Wall says that those were the happiest days of her life.  She is a
bright, intelligent lady, one of Johnson county's noblest pioneer 
mothers and worthy of the highest regard and esteem.

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