Biographical Sketch of Shadrach B. Hancock, Washington County, Missouri

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

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Shadrach B. Hancock, a pioneer resident of Washington County, and a 
well known farmer of Walton Township, is a son of Lewis and Sarah
(Bradshaw) Hancock, Virginians by birth, the former born in 1792, and
the latter in 1798.  When young they removed to Kentucky, where they
subsequently married and passed the remainder of their lives.  They
were consistent members of the Methodist Church South.  The father 
was a farmer by occupation, and served as a soldier in the War of 
1812.  He died when in his ninety-second year, and his wife at the 
age of seventy-six.  She was the mother of seven sons and eleven
daughters, and her mother bore eighteen children; Mr. Hancock's mother
had a family of nineteen children, and upon his death he had 168 
descendants.  Shadrach B. Hancock was born in Mercer County, Ky., in
1822, and was reared as a farmer, but in youth acquired only a limited
education, though after reaching manhood he attended school a suffic-
ient period to enable him to teach.  In 1848 he came to Missouri,
locating in this county, where he became well known as a teacher,
having conducted twenty-one schools.  In 1849 he married Miss Mary E.
Steward, also of Kentucky birth, born in 1830, who was brought the 
same year to this county.  They have two children: Sarah C. and William
L.  Mr. and Mrs. Hancock have been residents of this township for up-
wards of forty years.  They are members of the Christian Church, in
which he has been elder thirty-five years.  For eight years he has 
served as justice of the peace, and for thirty years has been a member
of the school board of his district.  Politically, he is a Democrat.
He owns 636 acres of land, the greater part acquired by his own efforts
on which are three lead mines that have been successfully worked.

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