Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Jesse D. Rowland (b. 1816)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.634-635

Jesse D. Rowland

Jesse D. Rowland is the son of D. and Rachel Rowland, and was born in the territory of Indiana,
September 6, 1816. While an infant his parents removed with him to MIssouri, and located in
Saline county, where they lived for three years, and then came to Ray county and settled on a
farm (section three, township fifty-two, range twenty-nien, where our subject resided until his
marriage. He was married March 1, 1839, to Miss Mary P. Lyman, by Hiram Warner, of the Christian
Church. Mrs. Rowland in the daughter of Asa and Sarah Lyman, natives of the state of New Hampshire,
who immigrated to Missouri in the year 1840. She was born February 7, 1818. The issued of this
union was twelve children, three of whom are now dead. Their names and dates of birth follow, viz:
Lyman H., born October 2, 1841; Rhoda, born March 3, 1843; George R., born January 16, 1845;
Willard J., born December 18, 1846; Clarissa J., born January 24, 1849; Mary E., born November 25,
1851; Jesse D., born October 2, 1852; Rachel, born October 17, 1854; Asa D., born July 7, 1860,
Maria L., April 10, 1840, and died in 1869; Milly M., born May 12, 1857, died May, 1876; Thomas E.
, born April 28, 1859, died August 23, 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland united with the old school
Baptist Church in the year 1838 and he is, also, a member of the Albany Grange, P. of H. Mr.
Rowland has been a life-long farmer and now owns an excellent fram, well improved and stocked with
good breeds of live stock. His business in very prosperous and he enjoys the confidence and respect
of all who know him.


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