Ray County, Missouri Biographies - John C. Shrum (b. 1846)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.724

JOHN C. SHRUM. 

John C. Shrum. This gentleman was born in Caldwell county, Missouri, on the 6th day
of April, 1846, and received his education and grew up there. In the spring of 1872,
he bought a new prairie farm, in sight of his birth place, just across the county line,
in Ray. This place he fenced and improved by building a comfortable house. He has, in
all, two hundred acres of excellent farming land, all under fence, except twenty acres
of woodland. Eighty acres of this place are in Ray, the remainder in Caldwell county.
Its products are corn, oats, and grass. Mr. Shrum is engaged, quite extensively, in
raising cattle. He has been a life-long farmer and stock-raiser. The father of our
subject, Mr. John L. Shrum, came to this county, at a very early day, from North
Carolina. He subsequently spent about four years in Illinois, and on his return from
that state to Missouri, brought with him a reaping machine, said to have been the first
introduced in Ray county. During the late civil war, Mr. Shrum was enrolled in the
state militia, but was not in active service at any time. He was married, on the 18th
day of August, 1867, to Miss Caroline McBee, a native of Ray county, and daughter of
James and Elizabeth McBee. They are the parents of six children, five of whom are now
living: Carrie E., John L., Ida May, Samuel L., Dennis N. (now dead), and Mary C.
Mrs. Shrum is a worthy member of the M. E. Church. Mr. Shrum is an enterprising
successful farmer, and good citizen.


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