Capt. Alexander C. Kissee, Taney County,MO Pioneer ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File transcribed and contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by "Bonnie Muench" Here is Effie S "Cardwell". Davidson's latest history lesson. She's 98, born in Kissee Mills, taught school at the old Helphrey school and keeps in contact with Edith Kissee and some of the other pioneers. Kissee Mills, Missouri Capt. Alexander C. Kissee Capt. Kissee fought in the civil war, and when it was over he was looking for a new place to homestead. He came back to Taney County and homesteaded a large track of land on Beaver Creek. It was said that he had fathered 24 children, some say 27, but there was only 13 that I knew. He started a grist mill to grind wheat and flour, importing the stone burr from France. He planted a large orchard, and built a very large beautiful home there. There was a unusual cold artesian well on the property, which he built a distillery over. There was a board walk over to the distillery, but he did not allow drinking on the property. The sprits were sold for home consumption only. He started a school, store/post office, cemetery, and others followed to start a small thriving village of Kissee Mills. One of his son's Benjamin married Minnie Cardwell, Effie's sister and one of his daughters Gladys married her brother-in-law Burr Davidson.