Biographical Sketch of John P. Bear, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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John P. Bear, P. O. Lexington, Missouri, was born in Rockingham county,
Virginia, June 8, 1834, and is the son of John and Elizabeth Bear.  In
his tenth year he moved with his parents to this county and settled on a
farm, where he was raised and educated.  Soon after he was grown, he and
his brother William took the management of their father's farm, he being
disabled by rheumatism.  By natural inclination he took up the carpenters
trade, and he still does his own work in that line.  In the fall of 1861,
he enlisted in the state guard for three months.  In 1862, he was taken
prisoner at home by the federals, just as he was starting south.  He made
a run for it, but they caught him, and sent him to St. Louis; held him 
one week, and then released him on a bond of one thousand dollars, to 
secure his loyalty.  He returned home and remained quiet until he was
drafted, when he fled to Nebraska, and continued there to the end of the
war, and then returned to his farm in this county.  On the 11th day of
November, 1864, he was married to Miss Mary Ann Gray, daughter of Rev.
F. R. Gray, and has six living children.  They are both members of the
Presbyterian church.  He is also a member of the Grange.

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