Macon-Randolph County MO Archives Biographies.....Bagby, James H. September 20, 1834 - 
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Source: History of Randolph and Macon Counties, Missouri
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                            JAMES H. BAGBY
         Mr. BAGBY, ..., was left an orphan when but nine years of age, his 
mother having died in 1838, and his father in 1847.  His parents were William 
and Virginia (HARRISON) BAGBY, his father a carpenter by trade, and originally 
from Kentucky, and his mother of the well-known HARRISON family, and formerly 
of Virginia, but by way of Kentucky to this State.  Their home was near 
Roanoke, in Randolph county, where James H. was born, September 20, 1834.  
They had but one other child, William H., now a well-to-do farmer of this 
county.  However, after the mother's death, the father married Miss Nancy H., 
a daughter of Samuel C. DAVIS, of Randolph county, by whom he had two other 
children, Robert J., and Virginia C., now Mrs. J. H. MATHIS, of Callao.  The 
mother of these two children, after their father's death, married James D. 
BURTON, but she is now also deceased.  After his father's death, James went to 
work for William R. FERGERSON, of this county, with whom he remained until he 
was 19 years of age.....  he was called upon by Rev. Samuel C. DAVIS, one of 
the best men and ablest ministers..., to construct and rebuild the latter's 
mill.  Young BAGBY undertook this difficult and responsible task without 
hesitation and performed it with such success and so satisfactorily to Mr. 
DAVIS that the latter gave him a third interest in the mill for his work.  Mr. 
BAGBY ran the mill for a number of years, and subsequently became full owner 
of it....  Mr. BAGBY also bought a part of the old DAVIS homestead from Rev. 
Mr. DAVIS, the taking the former's note of word in payment.....  Mr. BAGBY 
married Miss Nancy H. FERGUSON, a daughter of William I. FERGUSON, who reared 
Mr. BAGBY.  Mr. and Mrs. BAGBY have four children:  Lou, Orpha, Thomas N. and 
Kate, all at home.

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