My Genealogy Hound

William H. Sheeks, an old pioneer farmer, is a native of Wayne County, Ky., and was born March 8, 1822. Soon after the fall of 1828 he came to Randolph County, Mo., and there was reared to maturity. He was married the day before Christmas, in 1840, and the February following located in Macon County, Mo., where he remained until October, 1849, the time of his removal to Kirksville. After some time as a liquor dealer in the latter city he was elected as county sheriff, and served four years. A year before the last mentioned date he entered on eighty acres of land, which now includes 240 acres, and which became his home in 1862. By his marriage to Mary Fletcher, a native of Grayson County, Ky., and who was born January 27, 1821, he has had four sons and seven daughters, seven of whom were reared to maturity and five of whom survive. William, our subject, is a member of the F. & A. M. His mother, Rosa, was born in May, 1796, and afterward became the wife of Joshua Phipps, by whom she had one son and one daughter. That gentleman died before the war, and the mother lived with her son until her death in August, 1885. Mr. Sheek’s estate shows the thorough hand of an experienced farmer.