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Below is a sample of a family biography
included in the Portrait and Biographical Record of Northern Missouri and published by
C. O. Owen & Co., in 1895.
These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing
ancestors or filling in the details in a family tree. Family biographies often
include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.
Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place
of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including
maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if
married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service,
church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often
ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical
record.
ALONZO S. CHENEY, one of the enterprising farmers of Township 59, Range 7,
Marion County, has given his energies and industry to agriculture since his
boyhood, and is therefore thoroughly practical and well informed on everything
pertaining to the best methods of conducting a farm. At the present time he is
managing seventy-seven acres which are under a high state of cultivation.
Our subject was born in Erie County, Pa., July 30, 1842. He is the son of Luke
and Polly (Beardsley) Cheney, natives respectively of Vermont and
Pennsylvania. They were united in marriage in the Keystone State, and engaged
in farming there until 1843, the date of their advent into Rock Island County,
Ill. There Mr. Cheney engaged in working at the cooper's trade, of which he
had a fair knowledge, and also conducted a drug store. Later he went to
Clinton County, Iowa, where he established himself in the drug trade and lived
for seven years. He departed this life in 1870, while his good wife died in
1855.
To Luke and Polly Cheney there were born seven children, namely: Caroline,
Alonzo, Iola, Phebe, Eugene, Albert, and Mary. After the death of our
subject's mother Luke Cheney was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Nottingham, of
Iowa, and to them was born a son, Loren. Alonzo of this sketch left home at
the age of fifteen years and began to make his own way in the world. He worked
at farming for one year, then went to Vicksburg, Miss., where he spent a
twelve-month. On his return to this County he worked out by the month until
his marriage, March 30, 1862. The lady he chose for his wife was Miss Malvina
Darr, a native of Kentucky, who was brought to Marion County by her parents,
Clinton and Matilda (Clubb) Darr, when two years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Darr
were likewise Kentuckians, and both died in Marion County, Mo.
After his marriage our subject farmed rented land in Lewis County for one
year, then returned to this locality and occupied several different places
until having saved a sufficient sum of money to enable him to become the owner
of a farm. This desire was consummated in 1867, for that year he bought
thirty-eight and one-half acres, included in his present place. He prospered
as the years passed by, and is now the owner of seventy-seven acres, finely
improved.
To Mr. and Mrs. Cheney there have been born four children, namely: Capitola
was born January 13, 1863, and is now the wife of Thomas J. Beckett, residing
near Hester, in Marion County, Mo.; Emmett was born December 17, 1866, and now
lives in Arkansas; Relleu was born January 8, 1869, married Susan Leach, and
is farming in this township; Odilla was born November 24, 1870. The family
have all been well educated and trained by their excellent mother to occupy
good and useful positions in life.
Mr. Cheney, socially, is a member of Faher Lodge, No. 24, A. O. U. W. of
Palmyra. In politics he is a believer in and supporter of Democratic
principles, although in no sense of the term an office-seeker.
This family biography is of a Marion County
family and is one of 553
biographies included in the Portrait and Biographical Record of Northern
Missouri published
in 1895. For the complete description, click here:
Marion County, Missouri History, Genealogy,
and Maps
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