Biographical Sketch of Rev. John H. Headlee, Washington County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Rev. John H. Headlee was born in Murray (now Marshall) County, Tenn., 
in 1820, and while growing up received a limited education in the 
schools.  By personal application he has acquired a good practical 
education.  When about fifteen years of age, he, with his parents, 
went to Greene County, Mo., and in 1841 he was licensed as a minister
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in that county.  He then began his
ministerial duties, his circuit extending over vast tracts of land,
and much of his study was obtained while jogging along on horseback.
Since his ordination he has been actively engaged in the good work.
Of the fourteen received in the conference at the same time, he is the
only one now in the field.  Toward the close of the war he went East, 
and spent about four years in Vermont, but after returning has since 
made this county his home.  He has always taken an active interest in
Bellevue Collegiate Institute, having held the position of financial
agent, of president, and as member of the board of curators, nearly
ever since the Institution was founded.  In 1848 he married Miss
Artemissa Baker, who bore him one son, Isaac B.  She only lived about
nineteen months.  In 1857 Mr. Headlee married Miss Carrie T. Dean, a
native of Vermont, who was a teacher in St. Francois County.  The 
result of this marriage was the birth of three children: John F.,
Jennie D. and Alice L.  Mr. Headlee has been active engaged in the 
cause of religion for forty-seven years, and in that time has accomp-
lished much good.  His parents, Daniel and Jane (Steele), were both
natives of North Carolina, the father of English and Irish, and the
mother of Irish extraction.  They were married in Middle Tennessee,
and came to Missouri in 1837, dying in Greene County.  He was a farmer
and lived to be sixty-eight years old.  The mother lived to be eighty
two.  Of their family of eight children, four sons and four daughters,
two of the boys became ministers of the gospel.

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