Biographical Sketch of James B. Ancell, Scott County, Missouri

>From "History of Southeast Missouri", Biographical Appendix, 
Biographies of Scott County, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1888.

                              James B. Ancell

      James B. Ancell, a substantial farmer residing on a fine
      hill-farm of 240 acres, near Kelso, Mo., was born in Kentucky,
      in 1813. He is the son of Henry and Nancy (Beesley) Ancell,
      who were born and reared in Virginia. Several years after his
      marriage Hanry Ancell removed his family in wagons to
      Kentucky, where he resided, working at the brick mason's
      trade, until his death, which occurred when the subject of
      this sketch was a small boy. Besides the latter, there were
      six children: Washington, Thornton, Pascal E., John, Henry and
      Harriet, all of whom are dead. James B. came to Southeast
      Missouri in 1830, from Todd County, Ky., and located on land
      which he entered from the Government, near his present home.
      He afterward entered the farm on which he now resides. Here
      his mother died in 1856. In 1859 he married Frances Adaline
      Clark, a native of Cape Girardeau County, born in 1825, and a
      daughter of John and Sarah Clark, natives of Kentucky, who
      came to Missouri before their marriage and located in Cape
      Girardeau County. After their marriage they still remained in
      Cape Girardeau County, and reared a large family, consisting
      of ten girls and one boy. The girls all lived to maturity and
      married. Mr. and Mrs. Ancell are the parents of five children:
      Emma (wife of Walter Goddard), Sarah M. (wife of S. McFerron),
      Mary J. (at home), James P. and Mattie J. (both also at home).
      Mr. Ancell, his wife and two children are devoted members of
      the Baptist Church. Emma belongs to the Methodist Episcopal
      Church South.

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