Biographical Sketch of Dixon F. Gourley, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
**********************************************************************

Hon. Dixon F. Gourley, member of the Legislature from Wright County, 
and minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in East
Tennessee in 1849, and is the son of S. H. and Deliza (Carrell) Gourley.
The paternal grandfather was a tiller of the soil, and lived in Tenn.
He entered the Confederate army at the age of sixty-three, and died in
Tennessee after peace was declared.  The Gourley family were square
built, long lived people.  The maternal grandmother, who was a native
of North Carolina, died at the age of eighty-nine years.  S. H. Gourley,
who was born in Tennessee about 1828, was married in that State, and
there carried on mercantile pursuits until about 1856, when he came to
Missouri and located in Phelps County.  He is now residing in Laclede
County.  His wife died in 1882, and was the mother of eleven children, 
eight of whom are now living: S. H. Gourley enlisted for the Mexican
War, but peace was declared before he entered the service.  Hon. Dixon
F. Gourley grew to years of maturity on a farm in Phelps County, Mo.,
and received his education in Springdale Academy of that county.  He
was married in Maries County to Miss Hester A. Matlock, a native of
Crawford County, Mo., and this union resulted in the birth of these
children: Mary E., Adam, Etta, Dixon E., Rebecca O., Elbert W. and 
Nancy R.  Those deceased were George, an infant, and Emil, who also 
died in infancy.  Mr. Gourley came to Wright County in 1884, and has 
been an active preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church for eighteen 
years in Phelps, Maries, Stoddard, Laclede and Wright Counties.  He was
elected to represent Wright County in the Legislature in November, 1888
on the Union Labor ticket.  Mr. Gourley owns 430 acres of land, with
fifty-five acres in Laclede County.

====================================================================
     USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing
         free information on the Internet, data may be used by
         non-commercial entities, as long as this message
         remains on all copied material. These electronic
         pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit
         or for presentation by other persons or organizations.

         Persons or organizations desiring to use this material
         for purposes other than stated above must obtain the
         written consent of the file contributor.

         This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb
         Archives by: Joe Miller <mio@netins.net>
		      Penny (Eisenbarger) Harrell <Incog3678@aol.com>

====================================================================