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THOMAS MOTTLEY, dealer in groceries and provisions, Knight’s Station, is a native of Kentucky, born in Allen county, March 4, 1843. He immigrated with his parents to southwest Missouri in 1849, settling near Carthage, in Jasper county, where his father died in 1852. Our subject lived with his mother on the farm until 1857, when they returned to Kentucky. At the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted in Company F, Ninth Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and participated at the battle of Murfreesborough, Tenn., and several skirmishes. Subsequently he became a member of Company C, Seventy-sixth Regiment of Missouri State Militia, and was engaged in scouting service principally in southwest Missouri. He was severely injured by a fall from his horse during a night attack at Lebanon, Mo., and was mustered out at Springfield, Mo., in 1865, when he came to Jasper county. He was married Oct. 8, 1870, to Miss Anna Clark, a native of Ohio. She died July 10, 1871. He was again married Dec. 14, 1879, to Miss Sarah Head, a native of Johnson county, Mo. She died Jan. 16, 1880. He married his present wife, Mrs. N. J. D. Allen, a native of Madison county, Ill., Aug. 28, 1881. He came to his present place of residence in 1880, where he engaged at blacksmithing and wagon-work, having learned and worked at the business in his younger days. Engaged in the grocery and provision trade in 1882, and carries a good stock in his line for a country store, to which he has recently added medicines, wood and willow-ware, etc., and finds the business profitable. Is well-known and respected in his locality. He also owns a fruit farm of twenty acres on section 21, well stocked with good and choice fruits.