Sketch of John Wells, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Carty Wells, of Stafford County, VA., settled in Kentucky about 1797.
He had two sons and five daughters, and four of the daughters married
four brothers.  The names of only four of the children can be ascer-
tained now, viz:  Hayden, John, Sally and Margaret.  Hayden died in
Kentucky, and left a large family.  John was married in Prince Will-
iam County, VA., to Anna Brady and settled in Shelby County, KY., in
1810, and in St. Charles County, MO., in 1827.  He settled at a place
called Williamsburg, where he was appointed postmaster, and died in
1837.  His children were: Carty Jr., Joseph B., James, John C., 
Thomas F., Jeptha D., Helen B., Euphemia and Jane S.  Carty, Jr.,
studied law and became prominent in that profession.  He was circuit
and county clerk of Warren County, became a member of the State Sen-
ate, and was Circuit Judge for a number of years.  He removed to 
Lincoln County in 1839, and died in 1860.  His wife was Mahala Oglesby
of Kentucky, by whom he had nine children, viz: Mary F., Euphemia,
Anna, Catharine, Richard H., James, Alfred C., Joseph D., and Thomas L.
Mary F. married Judge Samuel F. Murray, of Pike County.  Euphemia marr-
ied William W. McCoy.  Anna married William A. Bevan.  Catharine marr-
ied Thomas Hammond.  Richard married twice, and removed to Texas. James
was a physician, and lived in Osage County, MO.  Alfred C. married a
Miss Sharp, and lives in St. Louis.  Joseph D. married a Miss Guthrie.
Thomas L. never married.  Joseph, brother of Judge Carty Wells, was 
also a prominent attorney, and was a member of the Constitutional Con-
vention in 1845.  He removed to California, and entered into the prac-
tice of law in San Francisco, in partnership with Judge Crockett.  He
subsequently returned to Missouri, and died at Troy, Lincoln County, in
1858.  He never married.  James Wells married Catharine Johnson, daugh-
ter of Charles Johnson, who bought Colonel Nathan Boone's place on
Femme Osage Creek.  John C. Wells was a physician. He married Catharine
Carter, and lived in Troy.  Thomas F. married Martha Shelton.  Joseph
D. studied law, and died about the time he began to practice.  Helen B.
married Richard H. Woolfolk, of Kentucky.  Euphemia married John Snet-
hen, of Montgomery County.  Jane S. married Solomon Jenkins, who was an
architect, and planned the lunatic and deaf and dumb asylums and West-
minister College, located at Fulton, Missouri.	

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