Biographical Sketch of Coffee Carroll Haggard, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Coffee Carroll Haggard is a successful farmer residing near Northview,
Post office, Mo.  He was born in Roane county, Tenn., June 16, 1819, 
and is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Haggard, who were 
also Tennesseeans.  The former served in the War of 1812, and through-
out life made his home in his native state, where he reared his family.
Coffee C. Haggard remained with his father until grown, and was married
in his native State, January 6, 1839, to Lucinda Emory, a native of
Roane county, but in 1849 took up his residence in what is now Webster
county, where he is still residing.  The farm he purchased was very
slightly improved, but is now under cultivation and otherwise well
improved.  It consists of 160 acres, with eighty under cultivation, and
he has forty acres at Northview, on which is a nice residence, where he
makes his home.  August 8, 1862, he enlisted in the Eighth Missouri
Cavalry, and served until the close of the war, and was a participant
in the fights at Little Rock, Cotton Plant and numerous skirmishes, and
filled the following offices, in the order in which they are named:
Duty sergeant and commissary sergeant.  He was mustered out at Little
Rock, and discharged at St. Louis, in August, 1865.  He and wife are
the parents of two children: William Carroll, who is married and re-
sides near his father, and Amanda, who is the wife of Henry Bumgarner.
On the 24th of September, 1888, Mrs. Haggard died, having been a faith-
ful wife for over forty-nine years, and a kind, watchful mother.  Mr.
Haggard is one of the oldest and most highly esteemed citizens of
Webster county, and is favorably known throughout this part of the
state.  Not to know Uncle Coffee Haggard would be equivalent to not
knowing the country.  Wherever he is known his word is as good as his
bond; no one would think of asking him for security, even if he should
give his note, of which very few, if any, are in existence.  Being one
of the early pioneers, his residence here ante-dates the county itself,
the territory now comprising Webster being then embraced in Greene
county.  To his less favored neighbors he is ever charitable and 
neighborly, none going away from his door empty handed when knowlingly
in want.

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