Biographical Sketch of William J. Heard, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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William J. Heard, farmer, of Franklin township, Laclede county, Mo.,
was born in Monroe county, Ind., in 1824, and grew to manhood in
Washington county, of the same state, where he enlisted for the Mexican
War.  He was discharged at Camp Bell Knob, on account of ill health,
and then returned to Washington county, Ind., where he remained until
1851, and then went to Harrison county, where he remained about a year.
From there he went to Clay county, Ill., and was in that county about 
six years when he moved to Laclede county, Mo.  He located on his 
present farm between Christmas and New Year's of 1858, and here he has
since remained, with the exception of the time in the United States
service in the late war.  He and James Talliaferro organized a company
out of their own neighborhood, and he was made first lieutenant and 
Mr. Talliaferro was made captain.  This was in July, 1861.  In August
of the same year they were attached to Col. Boyd's regiment at Rolla,
and then Mr. Heard resigned his lieutenantship and enlisted as a 
private in the Twenty-fourth Missouri, as a blacksmith; was detailed 
while at Rolla in March, 1862, and was discharged at St. Louis, in
March, 1863, because of an injury received in the foot while shoeing
a mule in March, 1862.  He remained in service until 1863, when his
foot was in suchy a bad condition that he was unfit for duty.  He then
went to Clay county, Ill., where his family was then living, they
having moved there in 1861, and remained there until 1865, when he
returned to the home place.  He found things there in a bad condition,
but his house and barn were not destroyed.  During that fall and 
winter he made 7,000 rails and put them into fence.  He had but twenty
acres under cultivation after the war, but now has 175 acres well
cultivated.  He was married July 28, 1844, to Miss S. Jamison, a 
native of Tennessee, born in 1825 and the daughter of George W. and 
Ellen (Reno) Jamison, natives of Tennessee.  Mr. and Mrs. Heard are
the parents of eleven children, eight now living: Mary Ellen, wife of
James Power; Martha J., wife of Frank Roupp; Elizabeth, wife of Alex.
Simpson; Giles H., William W., Frances C., Charles G. and John H.
Those deceased are Sarah A., who died leaving one child and husband,
both since deceased; Margaret C., who died when an infant; and Susan
A., who also died when an infant.  Mr. Heard is a member of the 
G. A. R., and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.

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