Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Reuben Rod b. 1806.

Source: Excerpt from "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD of Clay, Ray, Carroll, Chariton and Linn Counties, MISSOURI.", 
Chapman Bros., 1893, Chicago, page 397, 398 regarding Rueben Roe, 1843.
 
.........."the son of Thomas and Jennie (Odell) Roe (this should be Jane, "Janie"), the former born in Madison 
County, Ky., in 1806, and the latter born in Tennessee in 1810.  The paternal grandparents of our subject (Rueben) 
were early pioneers of Kentucky, and Grandfather Roe dying when Thomas was a lad of six years, the latter (Thomas) 
was taken into the home of Mr. Burnside, and there he grew to manhood.
 
The orphan boy did not receive many advantages in his youth, and his education was mostly acquired by the light of 
the fire at night, when darkness had brought cessation from the exhausting labors of the day.  At the age of eighteen 
he came to Missouri, accompanied by his mother and sisters, who located with him in Ray County, and in order to 
supply whose wants he put forth the most strenuous exertions.  He was one of five children, whose names were James, 
Thomas, Betsey, Mary and Patsey, all now deceased.
 
To the original one hundred and sixty acres entered from the Government Mr. Roe added until he had about three 
hundred and twenty acres of fertile land.  In Ray County he married Jennie, the daughter of Isaac and Nancy Odell, 
natives of Tennessee, and pioneers of Ray County.  Seven children blessed the union, as follows: Mary, who 
married N. W. Samples, now deceased; James; William; Sarah, widow of the late Thomas H. Blaine; Rueben, the 
subject of this sketch; Thomas H.; and Jame, Mrs. J. E. Ellis.  The father of this family (Thomas)  died in 
April, 1890, and his wife passed away in September, 1891.  He was a sincere member of the Baptist Church, 
and generous in its support.  Politically, he adhered to the principles of the Democratic party, of which 
he was one of the earnes exponents."


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