Polk County, Missouri Biographies - M. W. EASLEY
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri
1889, published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 639, 640
Polk County Biographies Section

    M. W. Easley.   Any sketch in the history of Polk County, Mo.,
would be incomplete without mention of Mr. Easley, who is one of 
the oldest living settlers of that county.  He was born in Ray 
County, Tenn., in 1815, and grew to manhood in Grainger County,
of that State.  His parents, Warham and Catherine (Counts) Easley
were both natives of Tennessee.  The father was a farmer by 
occupation, was married in his native State, and reared his 
children there.  He was a soldier in the Black Hawk War, and was
twice a member of the State Legislature from Grainger County, Tenn.
He died in his native State at the age of eighty-seven years.  
To his marriage were born four children, M. W. Easley being third
in order of birth.  The latter came to Missouri in 1837, locating
in Polk County, and began clerking in a store in Springfield, 
where he remained until the next spring and then went to farming.  
At this time Indians were numerous and the town of Bolivar 
consisted of two or three houses. Mr. Easley entered land, and 
followed farming for five or six years.  In 1852 he engaged in 
mercantile pursuits at Oakland, and was postmaster for some years.  
He continued his mercantile pursuits for twenty-nine years, or 
until ten years ago, and in connection has always carried on farming. 
He has had goods hauled from St. Louis, Mo., on wagons, and has 
experienced all the hardships suffered by early settlers.  On 
account of being postmaster at Oakland he did not go to the war.  
He was a Whig previous to that time, but since then has been a 
Republican in his politics, his first presidential vote being for 
William H. Harrison. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity.  
Aside from his mercantile interest, of which he has made a complete 
success, he is the owner of more than 700 acres of land, and has 
given much to his children.  He was married in Polk County, Mo., 
to Miss Sophronia Akard, a native of Tennessee, born in 1829, and 
they had a family of three children: Warham, deceased; John, died
at the age of about twelve years; and James B., collector of 
revenue. Warham grew to manhood, married, and was the father of 
four children at the time of his death.  They were named as 
follows: Shelton W., Magnes T., Mary E., and Booker, who died 
in infancy.  Miller W. Easley, grandfather of our subject, was 
born in Virginia, and became an early pioneer of Tennessee, 
where he passed the remainder of his days.  The paternal grand-
mother was of the Lyons family.
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