Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Aaron Teegarden b. 1816.

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.721


                       AARON TEEGARDEN.
Aaron Teegarden is a Virginian. He was born in Mason county, (now
West Virginia), on June 10, 1816. His father, Job Teegarden,
moved to the state of Ohio about the year 1826, and settled in
Knox county. Here our subject received the principal part of his
scholastic training, and after attaining his majority, came to
Ray county, Missouri. He was just beginning life for himself, and
was without means and a “stranger among strangers.” Nothing else
offering to be done, he hired out as a laborer, and engaged in
chopping wood and making rails, and doing anything that he could
find to do in order to make a living. Out of the wages of his
labor he saved money enough in about a year to enter forty acres
of land, and soon after he bought another tract of the same size.
To this farm he continued to add other purchases from time to
time, as his means would allow, until at the age of twenty-six
years, he was the owner of a good of one hundred and sixty acres
of valuable land. In the month of March, 1845, Mr. Teegarden was
married to Miss Nancy Cummings, daughter of Moses Cummings, Esq.,
of Ray county. They became the parents of seven children, all of
whom are now living, and five of them, two sons and three
daughters, are now married. Mrs. Teegarden died in the year 1874,
and Mr. Teegarden afterwards married Mrs. Philanda Shanks, a lady
whose husband had been killed in the civil war. Mr. Teegarden has
always taken much interest in politics, and great care and pains
to keep himself informed respecting events in the political
world. He is the owner of a fine, fertile farm of six hundred and
twenty acres of bottom land, in a high state of cultivation and
well improved. It is situated in sections three, nine and ten,
township fifty-three, range twenty-eight. Though he began life as
a poor, friendless youth, he is now the possessor of a
competency, and highly esteemed by all who know him.



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