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| Interesting People |
| David L. Cadle, Constable (1797-1842) David was hired as an overseer on the Kentucky Road in Claiborne Co., TN 1818 to 1819. He and his family moved to northwest Missouri before 1825. The trip was probably done by flat boat coming down the Tennesee River to the Mississippi River. Then up the Mississippi to the Missouri River, then up the Missouri. He lived in Van Buren, Jackson Co., MO from 1828-1842. Van Buren was re-organized in 1836 and David served as it's first constable. Later, son Patterson and grandson James Dealy (son of Rispa Lynch Cadle and David Dealy Jr.) served as constables as well in Van Buren. The Lone Jack settlement was begun with Thomas McKnight, David L. Cadle, William Cox, and David Dealy. David was clerk of the Baptist Church at Lone Jack, but the records were burned during the Civil War. |
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| Patterson Cadle, Constable, Justice of the Peace and County Clerk (1816-1908) As well as serving as a constable in Van Buren, he served as County Clerk and Justice of the Peace for Gentry County, starting in 1850. In 1861, he became the first County Clerk of Worth Co., MO |
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| our gg-granduncle |
| Dr. James Elvis Cadle (1830-1890) A doctor in Chillicote, Livingston Co., MO, James was also a State Representative (MO) from 1872-1874. |
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| Zachariah Preston Cadle, Killed in action during the Civil War (1826-1864) Enlisted in Capt. Eads company as a private, age 37, on 15 Jun 1863 in Gallatin, MO. He wrote a letter to sister Sarah in Oregon from Holden, Johnson Co., MO, dated 21 May 1864, mentioning that 'if you like that country, I think I will try to come there next spring'. He was killed by bushwackers 12 Jun 1864 near Holden/Warrensburg, Johnson Co., MO |
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| Samantha Patience Cadle, well named PATIENCE, wife of a 49er (1828-1896) Abraham Cunningham Jr., 49er (1816-1896) Samantha's middle name must have been a portent. When she married Abraham in 1844, he was a widower with two children, she was only 16. Soon after, he heard about the gold in California and headed west, leaving Samantha with ALL the children! from Shasta County Diggings, 'Abraham Cunningham' by Dorothy Withrow, Jan 1978 pgs 6-8 " Abraham married Samantha Patience Cadle in Jackson Co., MO - she only 16. When Abraham heard of the gold in CA he went west. He travelled with Alexander Andrews by the Peter Lassen route - through Burney Valley and down the mouth of Deer Creek where Vina is located. Abraham carried his flint-lock called 'Old Scrap Iron'. In 1851 he sailed to the Isthmus of Panama, crossed it by native pack train, then went y boat to New Orleans. He took a steamboat to St. Louis, up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to home. He bought land in Worth Co., MO. In 1861 during the Civil War, he joined Company M, First Regiment of the Missouri State Militia Cavalry at Gallantin, and was given a medical discharge on Aug 11, 1864. The family travelled to Iowa, and in 1874 Abraham purchased a mill near Shingletown. The family chartered a railroad coach and came west as a group. When the coach was loaded there were 28 people - five families of Cunninghams...Samantha with her household goods and six unmarried children..." "Abraham was one of the first settlers of Worth Co., MO, when there were only 2 or 3 settlers beside him....He drove the first wagon to Shasta Co., efore everthing was brought in by pack mules..." part of his obituary All in all, a remarkable couple. Imagine the trek back across the Isthmus of Panama through the jungle(!) as well as the initial trip to California on foot.... |
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| Sarah Marena Arminta "Rena" Cadle (1833-1916) William Condra Black (1829-1875) Oregon Trail and Yamhill Co., OR Pioneers Sarah and William married 05 Jul 1849 in Van Buren Twp., Jackson Co., MO. They were into Yamhill Oregon before the letter written to them by her brother Preston in 1864. William Black has a land claim on record in Oregon , 1872. After his death, Sarah remained in the Pacific Northwest, residing in Gaston, Yamhill Co., OR then Whitman Co., WA then back to Yamhill Co., OR. Note: about the only way to get to Oregon at that time was by the Oregon Trail. This couple should be recognized by the Oregon Pioneer Certificate Program, as being residents of Oregon before 1870. |
| Pioneers: the CADLES |
| Bethena Harvey Cadle (1819-1910) Born in Tennessee, Bethena and husband Wm. McKnight were amongst the earliest settlers in Missouri. They were present in Jackson Co., MO during the "Mormon Wars" of Jackson County, and early settlers in Parker Co., TX (at a time when the Comanche were on the rampage). She brought herself and several of her young children through Texas and the Oklahoma Territory to Missouri by ox-cart after William died in Weatherford, just a couple of years before the Civil War.When she remarried, she and her second husband, Andrew Cox. and the family moved on to rough and ready California. She bore 12 children and lived to the age of 91. A tough lady and a true pioneer. |
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