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Title: Early Sibley Settlers
Description: Descriptions of Samuel Hudson, William Hudspeth, and Newton Scott, settlers of the Sibley, Missouri, area, and their families. Description of Hudson as a farmer, Civil War veteran, and former Jackson County judge, evidently still living in 1921. Description of Hudspeth as a farmer and co-organizer of "the first school in Sibley," with sons (one born in 1849) "living on the old farm place near Sibley" in 1921, evidently. Description of Scott as son of General Winfield Scott and father of Martha Scott, wife of Thomas Benton Hudspeth (grandson of William Hudspeth) "living on the old farm place near Sibley."
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Lewis Bissell
Description: Mention of Lewis Bissell as a military ensign or captain "stationed at Fort Osage 1808-1812," presumably the same as the one "resigned in 1817," and dying in 1868, the son of Major Russell Bissell, a Revolutionary War veteran.
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: David Dealy
Description: One paragraph about David Dealy, "an older settler in the [Jackson' county than any of the others," a settler near Fort Osage and then west of the Little Blue River, dying in 1878.
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Life at the Fort in Early Days
Description: Article about the lifestyle at Fort Osage, Missouri, established in 1808 in what became Jackson County, mentioning several historic figures, such as Lewis and Clark, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Irving, John Quincy Adams, Prince Maximilian, John J. Audubon, Daniel Boone, and others. It also describes the first settlers to the area at the Fort and also Sibley, Missouri.
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: James Audrain
Description: One paragraph about James Audrain, an early settler of Jackson County, "living for some time near Fort Osage, as early as 1811." Audrain " married a daughter of Gov. Samuel Welles of Kentucky in 1806. They moved to the Six Mile District near Fort Osage in 1810. Here he engaged in business with his brother, Francois."
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Sibley Ferrymen
Description: One paragraph about Amanda Harrelson Foster, the daughter of Sibley ferryman Joseph Harrelson, and her husband, Cole Foster, "attorney for the M. K. & T. Railroad for over twenty years." Description also of her brother, William Harrelson, another ferryman residing at 3609 Baltimore Avenue in 1921.
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

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